Strawberry-Chocolate Mousse Parfait
"Chocolate and strawberries are a heavenly combination!!"
- Ready In:
- 4hrs 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 1 pint basket ripe strawberry, washed, stemmed and halved
- 3 tablespoons orange-flavored liqueur or 3 tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
- 3 tablespoons water
- 2 1⁄2 tablespoons sugar, divided
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate piece
- 1 1⁄2 cups whipping cream, divided
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
- mint sprig, for garnish (optional)
directions
- In a bowl, toss strawberries and liqueur; cover and refrigerate.
- To make chocolate mousse: In a small saucepan, mix water with 2 tablespoons of the sugar. Bring to boil; reduce heat and simmer 1 minute.
- Place chocolate pieces in container of electric blender.
- Immediately add hot sugar mixture.
- Blend until chocolate is melted and smooth.
- In medium bowl, whip 3/4 cup of the cream to form stiff peaks. With rubber spatula, fold chocolate into cream to blend thoroughly. Cover and refrigerate until firm, at least 2 hours or up to 3 days.
- Just before serving, whip the remaining 3/4 cup cream to form soft peaks.
- Beat in the remaining 1/2 tablespoon sugar and the vanilla.
- In four 10 to 12 ounce stemmed wine glasses or in dessert bowls, layer mousse, whipped cream and strawberries, dividing equally.
- Garnish with mint sprigs.
- (Chilling time is included in the cooking time.).
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Zuleika L.
Edinburgh
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I am a proud mother of three healthy boys aged 15,11 and 5. I'm originally from the tiny island of Bermuda and have been living in Edinburgh since July 2005.
I've been collecting recipes since I was about 14 or 15 and been cooking and baking since then as well.
I love all kinds of crafts also. In my spare time if I'm not in the kitchen; I crochet, make jewelry, bead, knit, sew, cross stitch, do plastic canvas and quilt. I have a short attention span, so I have plenty of different craft choices when I get bored of doing something. Oh, and I also like to read, listen to music, fiddle with any electronic gadget, collect dvd's and watch them, and I'm an internetaholic! :-) I keep a craft blog at http://hobbyzu.blogspot.com and I sell my crocheted items and patterns at http://hobbyzu.com. I keep pretty busy and being self employed gives me more time to explore cooking! :-)
I'm mostly interested in cook books featuring regular old home cooking and favorites. When I moved to the UK I had to get rid of my cookbook collection. I did keep all my Bermudian cookbooks, charity cookbooks and 'The Foods of Israel Today' and Better Homes and Gardens 'Hometown Favorites'.
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I am most passionate when it comes to my family and caring for them. Getting to feed them is an added bonus! Lucky for me, my boys are steadily growing pigs with bottomless pits for stomachs! lol :-)
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