Ramsay's 4-minute Chocolate Mousse

...and even if it takes you 5 or 10 minutes, it's still a super delicious quick treat to impress your guests at anytime!

 

 

step 1Ingredients

Here's the recipe in British English,
and then followed with an American translation.

Ingredients

British instructions:

• 100g dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids) broken up into pieces -
• 300ml double cream
• 50g caster sugar
• 1 large egg white
• chocolate shavings, to garnish
• 2 tbsp Amaretto or other liqueur (optional)

American instructions:

• 4oz bar of high-quality dark chocolate. 
• You'll use 7 of the 8 squares, and the 8th square you can shave for garnish (or munch on to keep your cravings at a minimum while whipping this up)
• 10oz heavy whipping cream
• 1/4 cup extra-fine granulated sugar (not powdered sugar!), or just grind up regular granulated sugar in a food processor or coffee grinder. Caster sugar is just really fine sugar. DO NOT USE POWDERED SUGAR
• 1 large egg white
• chocolate shavings, to garnish
• 2 tbsp Amaretto or other liqueur (optional)

step 2Cream + Chocolate

• Break the chocolate into small pieces and set aside.
• In a small saucepan, heat half of the cream until it begins to boil

Note: this happens faster if you preheat the saucepan before adding the cream

• Turn off the heat, add the chocolate pieces to the cream and stir until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth.
• Pour the mixture into a bowl set over a large bowl of iced water and add the rest of the cream and Amaretto, if using.
• Using a hand-held electric whisk, beat the mixture to soft peaks. 
• Remove the bowl from the iced water.

step 3Egg white + Sugar

• Separate egg white into a bowl

• Whisk the egg white with a hand-held electric beater until stiff peak.
  
  
• Add the sugar, a tablespoon at a time, and continue whisking to a soft meringue.

step 4Fold together and Devour

• Carefully fold the meringue through the chocolate mixture

• Then spoon or pipe into chilled serving glasses.
  
  
• Top with chocolate shavings or cookies or mint sprigs!
  
  
  
  
• Try not to eat the whole thing at once or you'll definitely be down after lunch for a 'nanna nap' and even worse still......you may require a trip to the local outpatients!!!

Tools

• Hand-held electric mixer
• Bowl inside another bowl filled with ice water
• Scale to measure ingredients
  
  
  
• Thanks to Scoochmaroo for the delicious photos and instructions!
  [Article taken from - http://www.instructables.com/member/scoochmaroo/]
  
  
• See Gordon Ramsay's original chocolate-mousse-recipe here
  courtesy of channel4.com
  
  .....and if you can't wait 4 minutes....try Nigella's instant mousse!!!
  
• Nigella's INSTANT chocolate MOUSSE!!!
  
  
  
  

   See more delectables from 'scoochmaroo' here: Instructables.com Chocolate Pie!