Quick and Easy Chocolate Mousse

Submitted by Snowbunny Andorra

"Grown-up dessert to impress at dinner parties. The bitter chocolate adds richness and decadence to the light airy mixture. Mmmmm!"

 

• Ready In: 10mins
• Ingredients: 5
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 170 g good quality bitter chocolate
• 4 egg whites
• 1 fluid ounce brandy
• 75 g caster sugar
• 200 ml double cream

directions

1. Warm the brandy.
2. Melt the chocolate in a glass bowl over a pan of simmering water, taking care not to let it overheat.
3. Mix the brandy into the chocolate to prevent chocolate separating.
4. Whisk the egg whites to soft peaks.
5. Pour the chocolate onto egg whites and fold together gently.
6. Whip the cream to soft peaks and add to chocolate mixture.
7. Divide between four serving glasses and chill.
8. Garnish with red berries and dust with icing sugar to serve.