odzer's blog

What do you do when you have some cream rotting away in the fridge and a pile of chocolate? You make chocolate mousse. Its a simple enough dessert and all you need to do is whisk, mix and refridgerate. So I made two or three nice tall glasses full of chocolate mousse and they are doing well in the fridge. One of the great things about this dessert is that you can make individual servings and if you are having a dinner party or something you can simply serve them after dinner to your guests neatly.

I wanted to add some nice dark Indian rum to the dessert as well but I guess that would be some time later. I added a lot of chocolate and the in actuality the colour of this mousse is far darker than what you see in the photo. Chocolate mousse makes a good combination with strawberries and cherries. If you can lay your hand on such fruit its excellent. Its also good with a bit of whipped cream.

I liked the texture and next time I am going to try to whisk the cream even a bit more and add some butter. Although I skipped the butter part this time. I think the butter would make it even smoother.

I like Chocolate, it is one of the few things that actually calm me down mood wise. I am especially partial to Chocolate Cake especially with Walnuts. However Walnuts have become very expensive due to a TV swami making claims that they are good for your heart. Which they might as well be but why did he have to tell it to all and sundry! Any way so today I was very hungry when I came home after my evening grocery shopping and I had a rather early dinner around 6:45 pm (I usually eat dinner in Summers around 7:45 pm) so I needed a snack with my last cup of tea. I baked this Chocolate cake for that very purpose. It came out quite nice I must say though I could have done with a bit less flour but since the weather is warm now, very moist cakes tend to go bad without refrigeration soon and I do not like to refrigerate my cakes. Not bad at all!