It`s time for a recipe! Chocolate Orange mousse, an easy recipe my Dad makes (no idea where he got it from though).
Ingredients: 1 tin Evaporated Milk (approx 410g), 1 Orange or Tangerine Jelly (the goopy cubes, not crystals), approx 75g of dark chocolate (not cooking chocolate - something better)
Well in adavnce of making the mousse, take a large mixing bowl and put it in the freezer to cool down. Also put the tin of Evaporated Milk in the fridge to cool down - apparently keeping this cool is vital to the sucess of the mousse!
Once you are ready to begin, take a small bowl and put the Jelly and Chocolate into it along with a tiny bit of water. Put this in the microwave until the jelly and chocolate are melted (mix well).
In the meantime, put the chilled Evaporated Milk into the chilled and whick until it is very light and fluffy - it should approximtaely triple or quadruple in volume. Overwhisking can result in it reducing in size, probably because it begins to get too warm.
Finally take the Jelly/Chocolate mix and just as it begins to thicken up but is still runny enough to pour, quickly whick it into the already whicked Evaporated Milk. This is the tricky bit as if you do it too sson the warm mix will deflate the fluffy Evaporated Milk. Too late and it will go lumpy and/or not pour into the Evaporated Milk.
Finally refrigerate the entire lot until it has set.
The one thing I have learnt from this recipe is that I need to enable bullet points within my blog posts...
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