White Chocolate Orange Mousse Food

ORANGE CHOCOLATE MOUSSE

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine the first six ingredients until blended. Cook and stir over medium-low heat for 15 minutes or until the mixture is thickened and reaches at least 160°. Remove from the heat; stir in melted chocolate until smooth., Pour into dessert dishes. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours or until serving. Garnish with whipped cream and orange peel if desired.

CHOCOLATE ORANGE MOUSSE

Steps:

• Combine the 2 chocolates, orange liqueur, 1/4 cup water, and the vanilla in a heat-proof bowl. Set it over a pan of simmering water just until the chocolate melts. Cool completely to room temperature. Whisk in the orange zest and butter until combined.
• Place the egg yolks and 1/2 cup of the sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on high speed for 4 minutes, or until very thick and pale yellow. With the mixer on low speed, add the chocolate mixture. Transfer to a large bowl.
• Place 1 cup of egg whites (save or discard the rest), the salt, and 1 tablespoon of the sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Beat on high speed until firm but not dry. Whisk 1/4 of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture; then fold the rest in carefully with a rubber spatula.
• Without cleaning the bowl or whisk, whip the heavy cream and the remaining tablespoon of sugar until firm. Fold the whipped cream into the chocolate mixture. Pour the mousse into individual dishes or an 8-cup serving bowl. Chill and decorate with whipped cream and oranges. Serve with extra whipped cream on the side.
• Whip the cream in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. When it starts to thicken, add the sugar and vanilla and continue to whip until the cream forms stiff peaks. Don't overbeat, or you'll end up with butter!

WHITE CHOCOLATE ORANGE MOUSSE

Steps:

• Pour milk into medium bowl. Add pudding mix. Beat with wire whisk 1 minute. Gently stir in whipped topping and orange zest. Spoon into dessert dishes.
• Refrigerate until ready to serve.

WHITE CHOCOLATE MOUSSE

Steps:

• Two days before you plan to serve the dessert, in a small saucepan, heat the cream over medium heat just until it boils. Immediately turn off the heat. Place the chocolate in a medium bowl. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate and whisk until melted and smooth. Strain into another bowl, cover, and refrigerate overnight.
• The next day, remove the mixture from the refrigerator and, using a mixer fitted with a whisk attachment or a hand mixer, whip it into fluffy, soft peaks. Return to the refrigerator.
• In a clean dry bowl, whip the egg whites until soft peaks form, then add the sugar and continue whipping until glossy and stiff, about 30 seconds more. Fold into the white chocolate mixture, and then spoon the mixture (or pipe through a pastry bag) into glasses or chocolate bags.
• Melt chocolate over hot water. Using a thin small clear 4-sided cellophane bag cut the top off to desired height. Un-crease the bag so it stands up and open. Using a paintbrush, coat the inside of the bag well with chocolate. Put in the freezer to set up until very hard, about 30 minutes. Cut the bag a little and pull it away from the chocolate. Store chilled until ready to serve. To serve, fill it with white chocolate mousse then lay it on a plate on its side so it looks like it's spilling over. Garnish it with a cascade of mixed berries and a mint sprig. You can fill it with truffles, too.
• Notes about the recipe: Ganache is a word that we've been seeing on more and more dessert menus. It has a rich, fancy, very French sound, but ganache is essentially just a combination of chocolate and water or cream. Depending on the proportions, the mixture can be used in a variety of ways: as a glaze, a filling, or a candy center, to name just the ways we use it in this book. With enough cream added, it becomes whip-able, and that's the foundation of this white-chocolate mousse. White chocolate is devastatingly popular, but it's also not exactly chocolate. It's mostly cocoa butter, extracted from cocoa beans and enhanced with sugar and vanilla. White chocolate is not the same thing as the "confectionery coating" or "white coating" you see in the market; real white chocolate contains cocoa butter. Note that you'll need two days for making this dessert.

WHITE CHOCOLATE-ORANGE MOUSSE

Steps:

• Finely grate all the zest off the oranges using a cheese or other fine grater, and avoiding the white pith.
• Place the brown sugar in a small bowl, and stir in the grated zest. Set aside.
• Open a tin of coconut milk into a mixing bowl and whisk until smooth. Measure off 10 fluid oz. in a measuring cup, then empty into a small saucepan and bring to just under boiling point. Remove from heat.
• Stir the sugar, zest and coconut essence into the hot milk, stirring well until the sugar has dissolved.
• Separate the eggs, putting the egg whites in a large enough bowl for whipping them later.
• Put the egg yolks in the top of a double boiler OR in a heatproof mixing bowl (such as stainless steel).
• Beat the egg yolks until pale and frothy, then beat in the sugar-coconut-zest mixture gradually, combining everything thoroughly.
• Melt the chocolate in a bowl in a microwave at low heat (consult your microwave manual if uncertain). Otherwise, melt a small knob of butter in a pot, then add the broken-up chocolate chunks, and stir until melted, over low heat. Don't use water as the chocolate might seize. Remove from hob.
• Add hot water from an electric kettle to bottom part of double boiler and put in the top part with the coconut milk mixture.
• If using a heatproof mixing bowl, set this mixture over a pot of hot water. Put over fairly low heat.
• Heat the mixture to under simmering point, stirring all the while with a whisk, for 5 - 6 minutes. Test with the back of a spoon: the mixture is ready when it coats the back of a spoon. Don't let mixture boil, as the egg yolks will cook!
• Remove the whole shebang from the heat, and gradually whisk in the melted chocolate. Stir in the Grand Marnier.
• Now lift the bowl or pot from the hot water, and set aside to cool completely.
• When cool, add the pinch of salt to the egg whites, and beat until they form stiff peaks.
• Carefully fold egg whites into the chocolate-coconut-orange mixture. (You will probably have to pour the cooled mixture in another, larger bowl to do this).
• Spoon the mousse into a glass serving dish (or use individual glasses) and chill at least 2 hours before serving.
• (Optional: to serve, toast unsweetened dessicated coconut in a pan until golden, and sprinkle over the mousse).

WHITE CHOCOLATE MOUSSE

Steps:

• Beat egg yolks in small bowl with electric mixer on high speed about 3 minutes or until thick and lemon colored. Gradually beat in sugar.
• Heat 1 cup whipping cream in 2-quart saucepan over medium heat just until hot. Gradually stir at least half of the cream into egg yolk mixture, then stir back into hot cream in saucepan. Cook over low heat about 5 minutes, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens (do not boil).
• Stir in baking chips until melted. Cover and refrigerate about 2 hours, stirring occasionally, just until chilled.
• Beat 1 1/2 cups whipping cream in chilled medium bowl with electric mixer on high speed until stiff. Fold refrigerated mixture into whipped cream. Spoon mixture into parfait or wine glasses. Garnish with chocolate curls. Store covered in refrigerator.

WHITE CHOCOLATE ORANGE MOUSSE CAKE

Steps:

• Grease strips of wax paper and line them on the sides of 8 1/2-inch springform pan.
• Mix together, crumbs, sugar, margarine and rind and press onto the bottom of the prepared pan; chill.
• Melt chocolate over hot water using a double boiler or by melting in the microwave.
• Cool to room temperature.
• Sprinkle gelatin over orange mixture in saucepan.
• Let stand 5 minutes so it can become soft.
• Stir mixture over low heat until gelatin is dissolved.
• Fold chocolate into whipped cream.
• Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form; fold into chocolate mixture.
• Gradually stir in gelatin mixture until it is well incorporated.
• Pour mixture over crust.
• Chill for 3 hours or until set.
• Garnish with candied orange peel if you wish.
• Garnish: Cut rind from oranges into thin strips removing white pith.
• Boil rind in 1 cup water for 3 minutes.
• Strain and throw away water.
• Bring 1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water to boil.
• Add rind and boil for 5 minutes; strain.