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| Chocolate Crumb Crust: 1 9oz. pkg. chocolate wafers, finely crushed 6 T. butter (or margarine), melted Preheat oven to 325. Butter a 9" springform pan. Mix crumbs and butter; press evenly into bottom and partway up sides of pan. Bake for 6 minutes. Cool. Mousse: 1/2 whipping cream 9 oz. white chocolate, chopped 2 T. creme de cacao 1 t. vanilla 1/2 C sugar 1/4 C water 4 large egg whites, at room temperature 1 1/2 C whipping cream | |
| - Bring 1/2 C whipping cream just to a boil over med-high heat. Reduce temp. to low and add white chocolate. Stir until smooth. Pour chocolate/cream mixture into a large bowl and add creme de cacao and vanilla. Cool completely. - Bring sugar and 1/4 C water to boil over medium heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Boil til reaches 238 degrees (about 5 minutes). - While sugar/water is heating, beat egg whites until they reach soft peaks. - GRADUALLY, and in a thin stream, add boiling syrup to egg whites, beating until they reach stiff peaks. Cool. - Fold white chocolate mixtures into egg whites in 2 parts. - Beat 1 1/2 C whipping cream to soft peaks. Gently fold into chocolate mixture. - Pour into crust and freeze at least 5 hours. Serving suggestions: Top with fresh fruit (raspberries, strawberries). How I serve it: I take a pkg each of frozen strawberries and frozen raspberries, blend them in a blender (adding a bit of powdered sugar to sweeten), then add 1-2 T. of Grand Marnier. I strain this mixture to remove seeds. I swirl this on the serving plate, put a slice of the cake on top, and top with shaven chocolate (milk, dark, and white). I first served this (with the raspberry/strawbery sauce) on Valentine's Day a few years ago... it was a HUGE hit! Ken Shirriff's note: I made 2/3 of this with bittersweet chocolate and 1/3 with white chocolate and made layers. Unfortunately, this uses a lot of bowls :-) | |
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