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
INSTRUCTIONS:
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.
Am not sure, but isnt marshmallows made of geletin? That would make it a red dot product 🙁
Would china grass make a suitable alternative?
it was utterly delic!!!
just 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 🙂
I 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!
My first visit to you blog. I love what I see and read. Lovely recipes and beautiful photography.
Hi, 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
hey semsem. clearly you have more practise than me making this eggless chocolate mousse 😀 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.
nice eggless vegetarian recipes
Lovely and yummy…eggless too!!would love to try sometime!!
oh god I made it this weekend and was just going to blog abt it when I saw this post 🙂
yummy it was and as she says wasnt least bit hesitant to give it to my 3 yrs old
Wow great job that u managed to do it in ur tight schedule !!! they looks so perfect yummy!!!