Chocolate Mousse Pie Recipe

Chocolate Mousse Pie

For Crust:

3 cups chocolate wafer crumbs

1 stick unsalted butter, melted

Use food processor to take cookies and turn them into crumbs. Mix crumbs with butter and then line the bottom of your spring-form pan with the crust. Set aside.

For Mousse:

1 pound semisweet chocolate

2 eggs

4 egg yolks

2 cups whipping cream

6 tblspns powdered sugar

pinch vanilla

4 egg whites whipped and beaten

Melt chocolate on stove top. Once fully melted take off the stove and stir in 2 eggs. Then stir in the 4 egg yolks. Be sure to stir continuously for a few minutes to make sure eggs are incorporated. Set Aside. Then in a separate bowl combine cream, sugar and vanilla. Whip until this becomes whipped cream and set aside. In a third bowl whip up with your beaters the 4 egg whites until small peaks form. Now with all three items ready slowly add half the whipping cream and half the whipped egg whites to the chocolate mixture. Fold these items in. Once incorporated add the rest of the whipping cream and the rest of the whipped egg whites to the chocolate mixture. Once fully incorporated you have just finished your mousse. Take your mousse and pour it a top of your crust and then place plastic wrap over the top of the pie once fully assembled. Place chocolate mousse pie in fridge for at least 6 hours, but preferably over night.

*Note this recipe comes to us from my extremely talented sister in law, Mariann. Thanks Mariann we love this recipe…it is so delicious!!!!!

**If you would like to be a bit creative feel free to mix it up with the chocolate. When I made this last I used ½ pound chocolate truffles from Trader Joes and ½ pound semi-sweet chocolate chips. I melted these together and used that for the chocolate part of the recipe and it was so good. Just an idea! Jules J