Chocolate-coffee mousse

Time: 1 hour

Portion: 6

Difficulty: medium

Ingredients:

- dark chocolate (70% cocoa) 100g

- egg 3 units

- 50 g sugar

- 35% cream 125 ml

- butter 30 gr

- cardamom 2 boxes

- instant coffee 2 tsp

- ground cinnamon 1 tsp

- Step 1

Chop the chocolate and melt in the microwave in pulses of 10 seconds, stirring the mixture each time.

- Step 2

Remove the seeds from the cardamom and grind in a mortar.

Mix the cardamom, coffee and cinnamon. Pour over 50 ml of boiling water, stir and leave to cool.

- Step 3.

Whisk the yolks with half the sugar until light and fluffy.

Add the melted chocolate and filtered coffee, mix until smooth.

- Step 4.

Whisk the cream and remaining sugar to stiff peaks.

- Step 5.

In another bowl, whisk the whites to stiff peaks.

- Step 6

Add a couple of spoonfuls of the whipped whites to the chocolate mixture and stir with a spatula.

Continue adding the whites and stirring the mixture.

- Step 7.

Add the whipped cream and mix gently.

Divide the mousse into moulds, cover with clingfilm and place in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.