Mocca Mousse is a delicious chocolaty and creamy dessert with a chocolaty crunchy base. It is an ever loving and a variant dessert with a combination flavor of chocolate and coffee enriched with cream and custard. Its main highlight is having a crunchy chocolaty base of cornflakes and nuts.
INGREDIENTS FOR PREPARATION
- Cornflakes: 3/4 cup
- Cashew nuts chopped: 1/4 cup
- Dark / cooking chocolate: 100 g
- Butter: 40 g
- Milk: 1/2 cup
- Custard powder: 1&1/2 tbs
- Instant coffee powder: 1&1/2 tsp
- Sugar: 1/2 cup
- China grass: 5 g
- Fresh cream: 1 cup
- Powdered sugar: 6 tbs
- Vanilla essence: 1/2 tsp
- First we can prepare the crunchy base.
- Mix cashew pieces and cornflakes together in a bowl.
- Melt butter and 40 g of chocolate by double boiling method.
- Pour this over cornflakes-cashew mixture and mix well.
- Pour this to a pie dish, give a firm press and refrigerate to get set.
- Now we can prepare mousse.
- Soak chinagrass in half glass of water for 5-10 minutes and melt it.
- Mix milk, custard powder, instant coffee powder, half cup sugar and remaining chocolate in a thick-bottomed saucepan and cook by continuous stirring till it forms custard.
- Add hot melted chinagrass to this mixture by filtering it.
- Mix well and allow it to cool.
- By the time we can prepare cream mixture.
- Take a bowl and add 1 cup fresh cream, 6 tbs powdered sugar and 1/2 tsp of vanilla essence.
- Place this bowl over a tray with ice and beat well to get a fluffy cream.
- Mix this cream mixture with custard and pour it over the crunchy base in the pie dish.
- Allow it to set in refrigerator and decorate it with chocolate curls or cream.
