Easy 3 ingredient chocolate mousse

Easy 3 ingredient chocolate mousse requires just

semisweet chocolate, heavy whipping cream, and gelatin

Here's the perfect recipe if you want to make chocolate mousse that doesn't use raw egg whites!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup semisweet chocolate
• 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1 teaspoon gelatin + 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon cold water
• 2/3 cup cold heavy whipping cream to fold into chocolate mixture

Step 1:

I don't have a picture of this but mix 1 teaspoon gelatin with 1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon of cold water in a glass cup. Set aside and let it swell for 5-10 minutes.

Melt 1 cup semisweet chocolate with 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream over a double boiler.

Make sure the water in your double boiler isn't too hot. The cream just needs to be warm to melt the chocolate.

This is what the chocolate and heavy whipping cream mixture should look like as it starts to melt.

My daughter came home while I was making this and she insisted on pulling up a chair to help. Now you know that this recipe is so easy that a 3 1/2 year old can make it. :o)

Step 2:

Heat up the gelatin - I put the glass cup of gelatin into the warm water from my double boiler. The heat from the water melts the gelatin and turns it back into a liquid.

Mix the gelatin into the chocolate and heavy whipping cream mixture.

Set aside to let it cool.

Step 3:

Whip 2/3 cup cold heavy whipping cream in a bowl.

Whip until soft peaks form.

Step 4:

Add chocolate to the whipped cream.

Step 5:

Incorporate the chocolate into the whipped cream. I use one of the beaters from my hand mixer and mix everything in a figure 8 pattern.

This is what the mixture should look like when it's been fully incorporated.

Step 6:

Spoon the chocolate mousse into cups and chill in the refrigerator.

I also put the mousse into small mason jars - perfect for travel to a friend's house.

Bonus - scrape out the bowl and lick all the spoons when you're done!