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Try out this year's Chocolate Challenge winner's recipe for decadent mousse with shortbread crust
Top off your dessert with as much or as little marmalade as you like
Congratulations to Vancouver’s Lauren Arsenault, whose recipe for Chocolate Rooibos Mousse with Orange Marmalade & Cookie Crumb earned her first place in the recent Gourmet Warehouse 2012 Chocolate Challenge.
Ingredients
Mousse
Chocolate Génoise
Chocolate Shortbread (for Crumb)
Rooibos Simple Syrup
Orange Marmalade
Chantilly
Instructions
1. Mousse: Infuse cream over low heat with tea and honey (about 10 minutes). Cool until warm. Melt chocolate in top of double boiler. Let cool until warm. Gently combine cream and chocolate and let cool to room temperature. Gently fold whipped cream in thirds into the ganache.
2. Chocolate Génoise: Warm eggs and sugar in top of a double boiler. Whip until ribbon stage. Sift cake flour and cocoa together. Fold dry ingredients into wet in stages until fully incorporated. Fold in melted butter.
3. Chocolate Shortbread (Crumb): Cream together sugar, butter and salt. Sift cocoa and flour together and combine with the butter mixture. Roll out and bake at 350°F for about 12 minutes. Break into crumbs.
4. Rooibos Simple Syrup: Combine ingredients in a pot and simmer until sugar is dissolved and tea is fully infused (about 10 minutes). Leave tea bags in syrup until ready to use.
5. Orange Marmalade: Combine ingredients in a pot and boil for about 20 minutes or until pith is not bitter. Purée half the marmalade; reserve the rest.
6. Chantilly:
Serves 8.
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