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Chocolate Mousse

Make everyone’s favorite dessert with less of the sugar and more of the flavor.  We added a bit of brown sugar (use muscovado if you can find it) but the chocolate itself is a dark sweet sugar-free chocolate version.

Yield: 10 portions

Ingredients:

  • 2 pieces eggs, beaten
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon powdered gelatin
  • 45 ml water, heated
  • 100 grams sugar free dark sweet chocolate, chopped and melted over hot water
  • 1 teaspoon coffee
  • 3/4 cup heavy cream, frozen and whipped

Procedures:

  1. Beat eggs with sugar over a double boiler.
  2. Let gelatin bloom in 1/2 cup of hot water then add to rest of water.
  3. Stir in gelatin mixture to eggs.
  4. Carefully fold in melted chocolate and coffee. Stir to mix in chocolate.
  5. Add cream and fold everything together.
  6. Pour into ramekin molds and chill.

Nutrition Facts Per Serving:

  • Calories (kcal) 129
  • Carbohydrates (g) 9
  • Protein (g) 3
  • Fat (g) 9

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