Chocolate mousse with marinated berries

A dessert where silky chocolate mousse is paired with honey- and lemon-flavored berries. A sweet and refreshing finale to Teresa Välimäki’s anniversary menu.

Ingredients

6 servings

 

  • 200 g dark chocolate
  • 50 g butter
  • 2 eggs
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 dl sugar
  • 2 dl heavy cream

Berries:

  • 200 g frozen berries
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 0.5 tsp cardamom

Additionally:

  • 50 g dark chocolate
  • 12 pretzel sticks
  • 1 tbsp freeze-dried strawberries or raspberries

Instructions

Melt butter in a pan, add chocolate pieces, stir until smooth. Separate eggs. Stir yolks into cooled chocolate mixture. Whip whites with salt, add sugar gradually until stiff. Whip cream. Fold both into chocolate mixture. Divide mousse into serving dishes, chill.

Heat honey, lemon juice, and cardamom in a small pan. Remove from heat, stir in frozen berries, let marinate at least 1 hour.

Melt 50 g chocolate, dip half of each pretzel stick, place on parchment, sprinkle with freeze-dried berries. Chill.

Serve mousse topped with marinated berries and decorated with chocolate-dipped pretzels.

Thank you for the recipe Teresa Välimäki

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