Forget love, we’d rather fall in chocolate mousse and since we take our pleasures seriously, we decided to indulge in a recipe of raspberry and dark chocolate mousse. Desserts are like feel good songs and if they are packed with health benefits, they definitely make us dance like this recipe of raspberry and dark chocolate mousse which is undoubtedly the perfect Monday treat one could ask for.Ingredients for chocolate brownie base:
Eggs 4 no
Castor sugar 300 gm
Flour 100 gm
Cocoa powder 50 gm
Butter unsalted (melted) 200 gm
Dark chocolate 320 gm
Raspberry jelly inserts
Raspberry puree 200 gm
Castor sugar 20 gm
Gelatin leaf 2 no
Ingredients for raspberry chocolate mousse:
Dark chocolate 300 gm
Caster sugar 150 gm
Whole eggs 1 no
Egg yolks 3 no
Gelatin leaf 14 gm
Raspberry puree 350 gm
Whipped cream 450 gm
Crunchy pearls 120 gm
Ingredients for red colour spray:
Cocoa butter 500 gm
White chocolate 500 gm
Red cocoa colour 50 ml
Method:
To make the brownie base. Melt butter and chocolate in a bowl and keep aside. Beat sugar with eggs till it dissolves and then mix in the melted chocolate and butter. Add flour and cocoa powder, bake at 170⁰C for 10 to 12 minutes.To make the raspberry jelly inserts, soak the gelatin in cold water. In a saucepan, heat raspberry puree and sugar. Now mix the gelatin well and set it in a flat pan. To make the mousse, soak the gelatin in cold water.
In a heavy sauce pan heat raspberry puree and add the soaked gelatin in it, pour in the dark chocolate, mix it well and keep aside. In a kitchen aid mixing bowl take whole eggs and egg yolk, Cook sugar with 50 ml water until it reaches 116⁰C, start beating eggs and pour cooked sugar slowly to make pate bombe.
Now add the chocolate mix and the egg mixture together. Once done fold in the whipped cream. To assemble. Take a silicon berry shaped mould. Fill half of the berry mould with mousse then in the middle put the jelly, cover with mousse then put crunchy pearls and cover with mousse followed by the brownie base.