Ultimate White Chocolate Mousse With Chocolate Phyllo And Raspberry Sauce

Serves: 4

Ashlynn O'Reilly

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

53

Spice

47

Sweetness

51

Sourness

39

mins

Prep time (avg)

5.3

Difficulty

Ingredients:

450 g

Butter

Directions:

1

Melt the chocolate in a double boiler

2

Reserve at room temperature

3

In a saucepan, add 4 ounces heavy cream and 1-ounce butter, heat until butter is melted

4

Reserve

5

In a mixing bowl, add the egg yolks and whisk in the heavy cream and butter mixture, whisk until blended well

6

Then pour back into saucepan

7

Place on a low heat, heat until it thickens, be careful not to boil and not to curdle the yolks (making a creme anglaise)

8

Let cool

9

Place the chocolate into a mixer with a paddle blade, add the creme anglaise, add the warm heavy cream, whip until cool

10

Fold in the soft peak cream until smooth (about 15 seconds)

11

Place in a tightly covered plastic container, refrigerate overnight

12

Serve with crispy phyllo and raspberry sauce

13

; In food processor, combine the raspberries, sugar, and lemon juice

14

Process to blend

15

Strain through a fine mesh sieve to remove seeds

16

Transfer to a sealed container

17

The sauce may be refrigerated for 2 to 3 days, or frozen up to a month

18

; Preheat oven to 350 degrees

19

In a saucepan melt the butter

20

Remove from the heat and stir in cocoa powder

21

Take a sheet of phyllo pastry dough and brush with butter/cocoa mixture

22

Then sprinkle with granulated sugar and add another sheet of phyllo on top

23

Continue to layer the phyllo and brush with butter/cocoa mixture until 5 layers have been assembled

24

Place the phyllo layers between 2 pieces of parchment, then sandwich the paper/phyllo between 2 sheet pans

25

Place in oven and bake for 9 minutes or until crisp

26

May take longer in a conventional oven

27

Remove from the oven and let cool

28

Then remove the parchment paper and break up the phyllo into abstract pieces

29

On 4 plates, layer the mousse the phyllo then mousse, etc

30

Until 3 layers are complete

31

Then drizzle the raspberry sauce around the mousse and garnish mint and fresh raspberrries