Mousse au Chocolat

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A spoon of chocolate mousse
Chocolate mousse and white chocolate mousse

Mousse au chocolat [ mus o ʃɔkɔ'la ] ( French for “chocolate foam ”) is a classic French dessert made from dark chocolate , egg , sugar and butter .

To prepare it, the egg yolks are beaten with sugar and dark chocolate or block chocolate is melted with butter. The chocolate-butter mixture is pulled into the egg yolk mixture and finally egg whites are folded in. After a few hours of cooling, the mousse can be served.

The dessert can be varied by using whipped cream , other types of chocolate such as dark or white chocolate and by adding spirits such as rum , cognac , orange liqueur or coffee .

Mousse au chocolat was first mentioned in writing in a cookbook by Menon in 1755 .

Web links

Commons : Mousse au Chocolat  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Mousse au Chocolat  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
  • Anja Deuerling: The physics and chemistry of "Mousse au Chocolat" , written term paper for the first state examination for a teaching post at secondary schools, Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Chair of Physics and its Didactics (PDF file)

Individual evidence

  1. Les Soupers de la Cour ou l'art de travailler toutes sortes d'aliments pour servir les meilleures tables, p. 302