Chocolate Mousse

Name: Chocolate Mousse
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients: 8 , large eggs, room temperature; 2 tablespoons, sugar; 12 ounces (340 grams), bittersweet chocolate chips; 1/4 cup, water; 1 1/2 cups, heavy cream, chilled; 4 teaspoons, sugar; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2020

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Puddings, Custards, Gelatins, & Souffles

Holiday

Thanksgiving

Fluffy. Rich. And ... easy?

SERVES6 to 8

TIME35 minutes, plus 6 hours chilling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We were after an airy, light, sweet, and chocolaty mousse that wasn't overly complicated to make. To get rich dark-chocolate flavor, we melted a hefty 12 ounces of bittersweet chocolate chips with water (rather than cream or butter, which d...

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