Stress! And some more... You read about the stories of Marie Antoinette and how the teenagers in my class only remembered her for her faux statement of "Let them eat cake!" Well ,now its payback time!!! They paid me back! Hence,the overdose of chocolate!
After Marie Antoinette and all her shenanigans...it was time to talk about how Poland became a democracy....Yes grade 9,Social Science!!!!Solidarity...
Solidarity is more than just a word here...
It was a complete movement ...
That helped place democracy in Poland...
And after spending more than 12 classes on that ,I get "Solidarity is a group of sailors." in a test...
I mean What the f@#%#@^#$& !!!
Argh!
Hence the double dose of chocolate!
Something firm under the soft and silky chocolate mousse!
Pure and blissfully simple chocolate mousse...
Made with dark chocolate, whipping cream and whipped egg whites...
Something to take away the pain...
The pain of those emotional speeches of and about Lech Walesa and the awe on the face of the (now that I know) almost recalcitrant children...
Awww...
What a waste...
So we let this land on our waists...
A wee bit of sweetness,a touch of the bitter...and the almost there quinelle( a pretty shape made with two spoons) of chocolate mousse on the tiny square or the soft One bowl eggless chocolate cake with water ...
Thank god for small mercies!
Thank god for dinner parties!
To serve 8 people...
for the
Chocolate Mousse Cake-Real Chocolate and Real Mousse and Melt in your mouth "Mousse"ness! and a compensation...
you need
One 1/2 cake http://baketitude.blogspot.in/2013/05/one-bowl-eggless-chocolate-cake-and.html
250 mils non dairy whipped cream
250 gms dark chocolate
5 egg whites
a few drops of lemon juice
3-4 tbsp icing sugar -if needed
Start with the half cake...
Sliced and placed on the serving platter...
That's the cream and the chopped chocolate...Yes,with the meat cleaver...actually it sliced through the chocolate like a dream...its 40C on an average day these days...
Bring the cream to an almost boil...I do it on a double boiler...and tip in the chocolate after you take it off the heat.Stir to blend well and then pop in the freezer to super chill for a few hours.In the mean while let the egg whites sit out...
Add a few drops of lemon juice... And begin to whip ...till they quadruple in size and more.
After a few hours..the chocolate cream...
And the stiff peaks in the egg whites...This is what will give the form to the mousse...so make sure they are STIFF!
Like wise,whip the chocolate cream...to about a a little more than what it was...it should be SMOOOOOTH!
Now fold in the whites...
And check if the mousse needs sweetening...ideally whip the sugar into the egg white...but this is not an ideal world...there fore the fact that solidarity is made of a group of sailors!
Pour over the ring mold...if you don't have a ring mold...use a glass bowl to set your mousse or...just use glasses!
About a small bowl full as leftovers...And set in the fridge...
A Little bit of the chocolate fudge sauce I had in my fridge, I warmed and poured over.Spread sprinkles...
And served...
No pictures of the slices ...as there were no leftovers...
So the remaining half of the cake and the left over chocolate mousse were used for the pics...
After doing the dishes...Midnight desserts...
So aside from the teaching of social sciences and baking ,I am also a midnight dish washer!
Glass washer...
But chocolate always makes it worth your while...
Mwaah!
So what are you baking today???
