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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).

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Last modified on: March 11^th 2011

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For 12 people, you will need:

1 400 g dark chocolate
2 500 ml whole milk
3 500 ml cream
4 1 vanilla pod
5 6 egg yolks
6 100 g caster sugar
7 100 g Candied grapefruit peel
8 100 ml Sugar syrup
9 100 ml cold coffee
10 250 ml liquid cream
11 50 ml whisky
12 200 g Caramelised walnuts
Total weight: 2,423 grams

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Chocolate cream with a crunch, irish coffee mousse

In a pan pour 500 ml whole milk, 500 ml cream and 1 vanilla pod.

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

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Meanwhile, break 400 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.

In a bowl, put 6 egg yolks and 100 g caster sugar, beat briefly with a whisk.

Stage 4 - 2 min.

Pour hot milk onto mix while stirring.

Stage 5 - 3 min.

Clean pan, and pour mix back in through a strainer.

Stage 6 - 7 min.

Put pan on medium heat and cook as for custard (crème anglaise).

Stage 7 - 2 min.

As soon as it's cooked, add chocolate.

Stage 8 - 2 min.

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.

Cut 100 g Candied grapefruit peel into very small pieces.

Stage 10 - 10 min.

Prepare Irish coffee mousse: into a gourmet whip pour 100 ml Sugar syrup, 100 ml cold coffee, 250 ml liquid cream and 50 ml whisky. You will note that cream volume = volume of syrup + whisky + coffee.

Stage 11 - 5 min.

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.

Fill almost to the top with chocolate cream.

Stage 13 - 5 min.

And top with a layer of Irish coffee mousse.

Stage 14

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 value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
11,004 Kcal or 46,072 Kj	110 gr	2,024 gr	504 gr
550 %	42 %	191 %	76 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
454 Kcal or 1,901 Kj	5 gr	84 gr	21 gr
23 %	2 %	8 %	3 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
917 Kcal or 3,839 Kj	9 gr	169 gr	42 gr
46 %	4 %	16 %	6 %

% 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 12 people : 11.76 €
Per person : 0.98 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Whole milk: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Celeriac and sesame soup, Real custard sauce (crème anglaise), Mousse with two chocolates, Elsa's Comtoise galette, Quiche filling mixture, ... All
	Cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Potato purée , Potato and cheese pie, Purée of Jerusalem artichokes with foie gras, Eggs Arsène, "BN style" chocolate-filled biscuits, ... All
	Dark chocolate: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Paris flan filling, Brownies, Italian hot chocolate , Chocolate mousse with hazelnuts, How to make chocolate chips, ... All
	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Broccoli savoury custard, Tarte Normande, Creamy artichokes, Lemon and lime cakes, Asparagus "en petit pois", ... All

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The 1 comment already posted on this recipe

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 1^st 2009 at 14:06 n° 1

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