Friday Food & Recipe Linky: Chocolate Mousse with Pear Chips

Passover is just around the corner and we’re thrilled to share a perfect dessert recipe for your family’s celebration.

Leah Schapira’€™s new cookbook, Fresh & Easy Kosher Cooking, features a plethora of easy kosher recipes, ideal for all home cooks, proving that you don’€™t have to Jewish or even kosher to appreciate and enjoy great food easily prepared.  The pear chips provide a great sweet spring taste with the chocolate mousse; we may be trying the pear chips just to have pear chips!

Chocolate Mousse with Pear Chips (Parve) – from Fresh & Easy Kosher Cooking by Leah Schapira

Chocolate Mousse
Ingredients:
8 eggs, separated
12 oz bittersweet chocolate (not baking)
1 tsp instant coffee granules, dissolved in 3 tbsp boiling water
¼ cup sweet red wine

Directions:

• In a mixer, whip the egg whites until stiff peaks form.
• Over a double boiler, melt the chocolate with the coffee.
• Beat egg yolks, with a fork and quickly add to double boiler, mixing well.
• Add the red wine. Remove from heat.
• Fold in the egg whites until combined.
• Place in individual cups for serving. Refrigerate.

Pear Chips
Ingredients:
2 firm pears
1 cup sugar

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Thinly slice the pears and lightly coat each side with sugar.
• Place the pear slices in a single layer on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 15-20
• minutes.
• Turn the pears over and bake for an additional 15-20 minutes.
• Turn off the oven and leave the pears in the oven to cool and dry.

Before serving, garnish mousse with chocolate shavings and caramelized pear chips.

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