White Chocolate Pumpkin Mousse Tarte Food

PUMPKIN WHITE CHOCOLATE MOUSSE

Steps:

• Melt 4 ounces white chocolate in medium-sized saucepan over medium heat. Once melted, fold in pumpkin puree, sugar, and spices. Heat until pumpkin is completed heated through*.
• Put in another bowl to cool 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, whip cream until stiff peaks form.
• Fold in approximately 1/4 the whipped cream, folding in until white is mostly gone. Repeat until all whipped cream has been folded in.
• Remaining 2 ounces of white chocolate can be melted just before serving and drizzled over individual servings.
• Chill for 1 hour or longer.

PUMPKIN WHITE CHOCOLATE MOUSSE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• To make the crust, start by toasting the macadamia nuts. Place the nuts on a baking sheet. Toast in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes, until slightly golden and fragrant.
• Place the nuts in a food processor and pulse until small crumbs remain. Pour them into a large bowl.
• Add in the graham crumbs, sugar, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir in the melted butter until all of the mixture is moistened. Press the crust into an 8-inch pie plate and stick it in the refrigerator.
• While the crust is in the fridge, beat the heavy cream in the bowl of your electric mixer until stiff peaks form. Transfer it to another bowl.
• In the electric mixer, beat the pumpkin and cream cheese together until combined. Beat in the sugar and vanilla extract. Beat in the melted white chocolate. Using a spatula, fold the heavy cream into the pumpkin mixture. Fold a few times until combined - I suggest actually folding it in and not straight up stirring.
• Scrape the mixture into the refrigerated pie crust and smooth it out on top. Refrigerate or freeze for 6 hours, or even overnight. If freezing, you may need to let it sit out for 20ish minutes before serving. Before serving, top with white chocolate curls and a sprinkle of cinnamon!
• To make the white chocolate curls, I take a bar of white chocolate and run a vegetable peeled down the edges!
• Note: I like to keep this in the fridge or even the freezer for serving. It is so so good when it's very cold! You can also serve it with whipped cream, or even top it with whipped cream instead of white chocolate. Or do both!

WHITE CHOCOLATE PUMPKIN MOUSSE

Steps:

• Heat chocolate in a medium heatproof bowl in a microwave on high 30 seconds. Stir, then heat 15 seconds more. Repeat until chocolate is melted and smooth.
• Mix pumpkin, vanilla, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg in another medium heatproof bowl. Heat in microwave on high until warm to the touch, about 1 minute.
• Add a large spoonful of pumpkin mixture to chocolate and whisk to combine. Add one-third of remaining pumpkin mixture to chocolate and whisk to combine. Repeat two more times until pumpkin mixture is incorporated and smooth. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a large bowl-mixture should be cool to the touch; if it's still warm, let sit 5 minutes.
• Using an electric mixer on high speed, whip cream in a large bowl until soft peaks form. Add one-quarter of cream to pumpkin mixture and stir to combine. Gently fold in remaining cream. Serve immediately or chill until ready to use.

MOUSSE TARTS

Steps:

• In a microwave, melt white chocolate; stir until smooth. Cool for 1 minute, stirring several times. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, beat cream until stiff peaks form; set aside. , In another small bowl, combine the milk, vanilla and melted chocolate. Add half of the whipped cream; beat on low speed just until combined. Fold in remaining whipped cream. Spoon into tart shells. Garnish with raspberries and mint.

WHITE CHOCOLATE MOUSSE TARTS

Steps:

• In a microwave, melt chocolate; stir until smooth. Transfer to a large bowl; whisk in milk and vanilla. Fold in whipped cream. Spoon into tart shells. Garnish with fruit if desired. Chill until serving.

CHOCOLATE-PUMPKIN TART

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a food processor, pulse cookies and sugar until finely ground. Add butter; pulse until crumbs are moistened. Using the bottom of a dry measuring cup, press crumbs into bottom (but not sides) of a 9-inch removable-bottom tart pan. Place tart pan on a rimmed baking sheet; bake until set, about 12 minutes.
• Pour chocolate onto warm crust; spread with a spatula. Freeze until chocolate is firm, about 5 minutes. Brush sides of tart pan with butter; set aside.
• In a bowl, whisk together pumpkin, egg, cream, sugar, maple syrup, pumpkin-pie spice, and salt. Pour filling into prepared crust; bake on a rimmed baking sheet until set, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool 1 hour at room temperature; refrigerate 1 hour (or up to 1 day).
• Unmold tart (if sides stick, gently loosen with a knife). With two thin metal spatulas, transfer to a platter.

WHITE CHOCOLATE PUMPKIN MOUSSE TARTE

Steps:

• White Chocolate Pumpkins: In bowl over pan of hot water, melt 4 oz white chocolate. Spread 1/2 onto paper-lined baking sheet; spread rest on unlined baking sheet to 1/8-inch thickness. Refrigerate until firm. Using pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter, cut out shapes from lined pan. Paint stem with green food colouring. Paint edges of pumpkin with orange food colouring. Refrigerate until dry, 2 hours. With second pan, use knife to scrape cholocate away from you into shards. (note: I skipped this and just melted 2oz choc into cooked pumpkin mixture) 1. CRUST: In food processer, whirl cookies to make 3c crumbs. Add butter; whirl until moistened. Press onto bottom and up sides of 9 X 1.5 inch round tart pan. Bake in centre of 350F (180C) oven until firm to the touch - 10 minutes. Let cool on rack. 2. FILLING: In small bowl; sprinkle gelatin over rum; set aside. In large bowl, beat eggs with brown sugar until pale; beat in pumpkin puree and spices. Transfer to saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until candy thermometer registers 160F, about 6 minutes. Remove from heat. 3. Add gelatin mixture; stir until melted. Add 2 oz white chocolate; stir until melted. Scrape into large bowl; refrigerate, stirring occasionally, until slightly colder than room temperature, but not set. About 1.5 hours. In bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Beat in granulated sugar, 1 Tbsp at a time, until stiff glossy peaks form. 4. In separate bowl, whip cream; fold into pumpkin mixture. Fold in eggwhites in thirds. Scrape into crust. Swirl top decoratively. Refrigerate until set, about 4 hours. 5. GARNISH: In bowl, whip cream. Using piping bag fitted with 1/4 inch star tip, place tip at crust edge; pipe in 1 inch swags, lifting tip at end of swag, around edge. Garnish with White Chocolate Pumpkins and Shards. (or just serve w/ extra whipped cream)