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- From: "Carole A. Resnick" <ak399@cleveland.freenet.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Chocolate Mousse Pie
- Date: 23 Feb 1994 07:18:15 -0500
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
- Message-ID: <2kfhi7$mbk@s.ms.uky.edu>
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- -Begin Recipe Export- QuikBook version 0.96 Beta A
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- Title: Chocolate Mousse Pie
- Keywords: Pie, Cake
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- CRUST
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- 3 cups chocolate wafer crumbs
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
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- FILLING
- 1 pound semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate
- 2 eggs
- 4 egg yolks
- 2 cups whipping cream
- 6 Tbsp. powdered sugar
- 4 egg whites, room temperature
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- CHOCOLATE LEAVES
- 8 ounces semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate
- 1 Tbsp. vegetable shortening
- Camellia or other waxy leaves
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- 2 cups whipping cream
- sugar
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- For Crust: Combine crumbs and butter. Press on bottom and
- completely up sides of a 10-inch springform pan. Refrigerate 30
- minutes (or chill in freezer).
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- For Filling: Soften chocolate in top of double boiler over
- simmering water. Let cool to lukewarm. Add whole eggs and mix
- well. Add egg yolks and mix until thoroughly blended.
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- Whip cream with powdered sugar until soft peaks form. Beat egg
- whites until stiff but not dry. Stir a little of the cream and
- whites into the chocolate mixture. Fold in remaining cream and
- whites until completely incorporated. Turn into crust and chill
- at least 6 hours or preferably overnight.
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- For leaves: Melt chocolate and shortening in the top of a double
- boiler. Using spoon, generously coat underside of leaves, Chill
- or freeze until firm.
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- Whip remaining 2 cups of cream with sugar to taste until quite
- stiff.
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- Loosen crust on all sides using sharp knife; remove springform.
- Spread all but 1/2 cup cream over top of mousse. Pipe remaining
- cream in rosettes in center of pie.
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- Separate chocolate from leaves, starting at stem end of leaf.
- Arrange in overlapping pattern around rosettes.
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- -End Recipe Export-
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