Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse


Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse
This is a chocolate cream with chopped candied grapefruit peel and caramelized nuts added to give bit of crunch. The small pot of cream is topped with an Irish coffee mousse (flavours of coffee, fresh cream, sugar and whisky).
247K 1 10 4.1
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Last modified on: March 11th 2011

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47 min.12 min.59 min.
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Stage 1 - 5 min.
Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse
In a pan pour 250 ml whole milk, 250 ml cream and ½ vanilla pod.

Bring to the boil. Remove from heat, cover and leave to stand about 10 minutes.

Stage 2 - 5 min.
Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse
Meanwhile, break 200 g dark chocolate, then with a large broad-bladed knife, chop roughly.

The aim is to get chocolate pieces as small as possible so that they melt quickly in hot milk.

Stage 3 - 3 min.
Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse
In a bowl, put 3 egg yolks and 50 g caster sugar, beat briefly with a whisk.

Stage 4 - 2 min.
Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse
Pour hot milk onto mix while stirring.

Stage 5 - 3 min.
Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse
Clean pan, and pour mix back in through a strainer.

Stage 6 - 7 min.
Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse
Put pan on medium heat and cook as for custard (crème anglaise).

Stage 7 - 2 min.
Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse
As soon as it's cooked, add chocolate.

Stage 8 - 2 min.
Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse
Stir until all chocolate is melted and makes the chocolate cream (taste it, it's already delicious).

Cover and leave to cool.

Stage 9 - 5 min.
Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse
Cut 50 g Candied grapefruit peel into very small pieces.

Stage 10 - 10 min.
Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse
Prepare Irish coffee mousse: into a gourmet whip pour 50 ml Sugar syrup, 50 ml cold coffee, 125 ml liquid cream and 25 ml whisky. You will note that cream volume = volume of syrup + whisky + coffee.

Stage 11 - 5 min.
Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse
A short time before serving, prepare small pots: half fill with chocolate cream.

Add a layer of nuts and candied peel.

Stage 12 - 5 min.
Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse
Fill almost to the top with chocolate cream.

Stage 13 - 5 min.
Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse
And top with a layer of Irish coffee mousse.

Stage 14
Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse
Serve without waiting, otherwise nuts and grapefruit peel will lose their crunch.

Add a stip of candied grapefruit peel, and for example finger biscuits.
Remarks
If you don't have a gourmet whisk, make a classic chantilly cream with double or whipping cream (not pouring cream) that you mix with coffee+whisky+syrup, and then whip as usual. You can also use a simple chantilly.

You can replace Whisky by Bailey's, the mousse will be a bit less alcoholic.

If you will think that there are not enough photos of preparing mousse, you're right. I have forgot to take them when preparing recipe. I'll do it next time, I promise...
Keeping
Several days in the fridge, covered by a plastic film.
Source
Home made, but this recipe is warmly dedicated to my friend Conor from Dublin, who taught me how to make Irish Coffee in AltaMira a long time ago.
Nutritional information
Whole recipe
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
3,098 Kcal or 12,971 Kj42 gr249 gr215 gr
155 %16 %24 %33 %
Per 100 g
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
256 Kcal or 1,072 Kj3 gr21 gr18 gr
13 %1 %2 %3 %
Per person
Energetic valueProteins CarbohydratesFats
516 Kcal or 2,160 Kj7 gr42 gr36 gr
26 %3 %4 %5 %
% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).
Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Egg, Nuts
How much will it cost?
  • For 6 people : 5.88 €
  • Per person : 0.98 €

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  • Oh my goodness J.H This recipe sounds heavenly:) I hope you don't mind but I just had to add the link to a post I did for Irish Coffee Day back in January. Delectable!
    Posted by Louise may 1st 2009 at 14:06 (n° 1)
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