EmailThe Basics: How to Make Chocolate Mousse
From the store to the kitchen to the table: We outline the steps that get you from raw ingredients to your dinner tonight, free of measurements and complicated techniques. It’s a method you’ll remember and whip out whenever you like. It is the most basic way to make the thing you’re making.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
- • a medium saucepan
- • a heatproof mixing bowl
- • two additional large mixing bowls
- • a whisk or electric mixer
- • something to serve the mousse in, e.g., small bowls, flute glasses, ramekins, juice glasses, or teacups
- • five squares of good-quality semisweet or bittersweet chocolate (there is no additional sugar in this dessert, so choose a chocolate you would eat on its own)
- • a half pint (1 cup) of very cold whipping cream
- • three egg whites with no trace of yolk (here’s a tip on how to separate eggs)
