Baileys Chocolate Mousse
photo by Carol426
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 4 large eggs
- 1⁄3 cup sugar
- 1 1⁄2 cups whipping cream
- 1⁄4 cup Baileys Irish Cream
- 12 ounces semisweet chocolate (good quality) or 12 ounces bittersweet chocolate (good quality)
directions
- Whisk the eggs and sugar together in a metal bowl (I use my kitchen-aid bowl). And set it over a pan of simmering water.
- Whisk the mixture until it reaches a temperature of 160 degrees (use an instant read or candy thermometer), it should take approximately 5 minutes. Whisk the entire time, being careful not to have scrambled eggs.
- Remove bowl from the pan of simmering water and place on your mixer and beat with the whisk attachment at medium – high speed until it is cool to your touch(on the outside of the bowl) and very thick. This should take approximately 10 minutes.
- While beating the egg and sugar mixture, melt your chocolate and cool to lukewarm.
- In a separate bowl, combine the whipping cream and Baileys together and beat until stiff peaks form.
- Pour the melted chocolate over the egg and sugar mixture and fold in until blended. Then fold in the whipped cream mixture. I will add a small amount of the cream mixture and blend it in (this will lighten up the mixture a bit) and then fold in the remaining until only streaks of white remain.
- Place in a bowl, cover with saran wrap and chill till set, overnight.
- Once set, it can be spread over a cake layer to be used as filling. Make sure you pipe a dam of your buttercream around the outer edges of the layers to prevent the mousse from being pushed out.
- This is also excellent served as just a mousse dessert.
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I am newly married, and adjusting to the wifey way. I am just starting my own kitchen, and slowly purchasing wonderful utensils and appliances so I can add to my cooking knowledge. My DH is a willing participant to my cooking, and will eat anything I place in front of him, even if I mess it up.
In our house, we have a weird mix of food cultures. My DH is a southern boy, born and bred in Virginia State, while I am a good ol canadian girl raised in toronto. It has allowed us to bring together both values, tradition and food cultures to make a great mix!