Chocolate Mousse (L'Academie de Cuisine)

By KDCooks

From Culinary Skills Lab - Sweets II/Custards - 11/14/11

Ingredients

• 8 oz. chocolate (semisweet)
• 2 eggs
• 2 yolks
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 cup heavy cream

Preparation

Step 1

Melt chocolate over double boiler/steam, cool slightly.

Warm eggs over boiling water (helps loosen making it easier to whip).

Beat eggs and sugar in a mixer to a ribbon (when you pull whisk thru batter/sauce and it lays ribbon across it).

Fold in melted chocolate. (bottom up, bottom up, bottom up, scrap down)

In separate mixing bowl, whip cream to soft peaks.

Fold a in alittle of egg/chocolate mixture into whip cream. Fold in the rest of the whipped cream into egg mixture.

Chill overnight.