Easy Eggless Chocolate Mousse - Nigella Lawson Recipe
I barely had time to do this month's Sweet Punch - Easy Eggless Chocolate Mousse - a Nigella Lawson recipe. We are packing to go off on our big vacation of the year, the house hunt just got over and we are shifting first week of December, having moved to a new role, work is also not that laid back anymore - so a lot of stuff happening all at the same time!
Still, I couldn't pass over this easy chocolate mousse recipe because even before this month's challenge was shared, I had bookmarked to try this, along with the Chocolate Pistachio Fudge which I managed to make sometime back.
The secret to this recipe is marshmallows. The gelatine in this eliminates the need to use eggs and also the lengthy setting time that's common for classic mousse recipes.
Eggless Easy Chocolate Mousse Recipe
Source: How to be a Domestic Goddess
Serves: 4-6
Ingredients:
Mini marshamallows - 150 g (I used regular ones)
Butter - 50 g, softened
Chocolate - 250 g (I used 60% dark chocolate, and it was super intense), roughly broken into pieces
Hot water - 60 ml
Cream - 250 ml
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
How I Made It:
1. In a heavy-bottom saucepan, melt the marshmallows, butter, chocolate and water together, stirring every now and then. Note that the marshmallows take a while to meld down so I cut each further into 4 pieces. I'd recommend you do the same if using regular marshmallows.
2. Meanwhile, whip the cream with vanilla until thick.
3. Fold it into the cooling chocolate mixture until you have a smooth mixture.
4. Pour into individual ramekins / small serving bowls and let it set in the fridge for about 1 hour.
I halved the recipe and got exactly 2 portions of intense, chocolate-y mousse that was silky and had a wonderful texture. Using semi-sweet chocolate is more advisable since the flavour is intense otherwise.
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Wow sounds and looks easy and tasty.With marshmallows can imagine how delicious it would have been.
ReplyDeleteBtw just posted the poha roti/vada that I tried from here :)
The mousse looks fabulous. It's too tempting :)
ReplyDeleteI love the addition of the marshmellows. I love nigella's recipes and for the last weeks every thursay BBC 2 has been sending her new cooking programma which i watch and love.
ReplyDeletefirst time here chocolate mousse looks delicious
ReplyDeleteSomeone is becoming both a superwoman at work and a domestic goddess at home! You go girl! I want to celebrate your victory with some of that mousse above - send me some please!
ReplyDeleteCool recipe,egg less! I love white chocolate mouse very much,will bookmark this to try it out in future!
ReplyDeleteLooks and sounds delicious Nags. I just did NLs chocolate fudge for Diwali, this time with walnuts. Was YUM!!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with all the new things happening.
ReplyDeleteAnd mousse with marshamallows. true decadence.
Hi Nags,
ReplyDeleteCongrats n best wishes for all new things, perfect treat to celebrate with :)
I made this Nigella mousse for Christmas dessert when the children were younger - it was yummy! Great post - I love your blog! :)
ReplyDeleteWow great job that u managed to do it in ur tight schedule !!! they looks so perfect yummy!!!
ReplyDeleteoh god I made it this weekend and was just going to blog abt it when I saw this post :)
ReplyDeleteyummy it was and as she says wasnt least bit hesitant to give it to my 3 yrs old
Lovely and yummy...eggless too!!would love to try sometime!!
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ReplyDeleteHi, my name is salma,and i was looking for an easy recipe for chocolate mousse ,one that have no raw eggs in, and I found you had done nigella's . Now I did this like 3times. First one was great..but the next two was not satsifectory.. The marshmallows took ages to melt and it end like a lumpy goo in Part of Pan with liquid stuff at other. So I strained it and mixed it with the whipped cream..it was good but not like first time..so I wondered if the marshmallow kind was wrong? May be you can shed some light on this dilemma.thanks
ReplyDeletehey semsem. clearly you have more practise than me making this eggless chocolate mousse :D i made it just this once. the marshmallows did take ages to melt but the mousse came out well for me. probably one thing you could try is keeping the fire in sim. uniform heat may help cook it better.
ReplyDeleteI have seen NIgella Lawson's video of this and had book marked it for sometime. I wasn't sure if it would taste good with the marshmallows. Now that you have made it, it gives me confidence to try. thanks!
ReplyDeleteMy first visit to you blog. I love what I see and read. Lovely recipes and beautiful photography.
it was utterly delic!!!
ReplyDeletejust one ques...can i do a white choc version by just replacing dark with white choc for a striped mousse in transparent glasses???
That's a fantastic idea!! will look so pretty too :)
ReplyDeleteAm not sure, but isnt marshmallows made of geletin? That would make it a red dot product :(
ReplyDeleteWould china grass make a suitable alternative?
the marshmallows i got were vegetarian. you can also add china grass to make puddings eggless. just adapt this recipe of mine and add some cocoa powder. http://www.cookingandme.com/2011/08/eggless-condensed-milk-china-grass-agar.html
ReplyDeleteOne question, what do you mean by cream? Is whipping cream okay? Please let me know.
ReplyDeleteI used regular cream but I am sure whipping cream is just fine.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great recipe. I've literally just put them in the fridge!! I decided to blitz the marshmallows in my food processor till they were of a fine crumble consitency and this worked wonders to get them melted and fairly quickly. There were a few small globules of marshmallow but I passed the melted mix through a seive. Very impressed wiht this recipe. Thanks Nags!!
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