Frozen Chocolate Mousse Hearts, Rose Syrup and Candied Pistachios is the ultimate in love desserts, if appropriate……..
This could be a story of love and devotion to my Valentine, but it’s not. It was decided a long time ago that I would just share my friends husbands because it is conceivably possible that I would just kill one of my own.
This sharing works quite well because I do not want a husband full time, but if the mood takes me, I head off to one of my friends houses to give their husbands a nice big cake, some biscuits ice cream or brownies. It is for the best, as with the amount of baking I do, a heart attack would be on the cards for anyone that lives with me.
Please don’t worry that Skater ( teenager) lives with me. He once told me, when he was very little, he wished for once he didn’t have to go to bed ‘with that smell in the house’. That smell was trays of brownies baking away, ready to be sold to cafes ( in order to be able to buy him all the toy cars he was so attached to!) Give this mousse a try, it is one of the things that I make that even Skater will eat. Keep a loaf in the freezer ready to be sliced at will.
Frozen Chocolate Mousse Hearts, Rose Syrup and Candied Pistachios
Ingredients
Method
- Prepare individual heart silicon moulds or use a small loaf tin, or even a 20- 23 cm (8-10 inch) cake tin or heart mould. A removable base is best but if the tin is well lined with paper it will slide out easily.
- Melt the chocolate gently in a bowl over a double boiler ( or for 1-1/2 minutes in a microwave till just melted. Set aside without letting it get cold
- Meanwhile beat the cream till soft and firm and set aside in the fridge).
- In a clean bowl of a mixer, add the eggs, sugar and rose water and beat till very white and light and moussey. ( it will almost look like whipped cream). Now this is the important bit mix it together like this.
- Put 1/4 of the egg mix into the still warm chocolate and fold gently but rapidly till incorporated. Add half of the rest of the egg mix folding through, and then the remainder and fold through, gently but firmly until the mouse looks like a nice smooth dark mixture.
- Now for the cream . Add 1/4 of the cream to the chocolate mixing straight away,(folding lightly and quickly why?, because the cream is cold and the mousse is blood temp). When the first cream is mixed in, put 1/2 of the remainder and repeat, following with the last bit, all the while folding. Finished.!
- Spoon into your mould. Wrap or cover and freeze, overnight. This mouse can be eaten just chilled if you like
- Put the nuts into a bowl. Mix the egg white till just broken up, don't beat. Mix the whites into the nuts, making sure that all the nuts are damp (if you need you can add a bit more egg white- but be sparing)
- Sprinkle the sugar over the nuts and toss to coat. Put onto a paper lined baking tray and roast for 10 minutes at 170 deg or until golden. Cool
- Put the water, rose water sugar and lemon into a small saucepan and bring to the boil
- Simmer for a couple of moments or until reduced by about a 1/3. Pour into a container and cool
- Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a double boiler or in the microwave for 1 minute Spread onto a paper lined baking sheet spreading with a palette knife. Don't spread too thin, as when you cut shapes it will break when you lift it. When nearly dry cut shapes with your heart or other cutter and then let it dry completely, before separating from the bits. Leave on a lined tray or container in the fridge.
- Unmould your individual mousses by running a warm cloth around the outside of your mould, then a small pointed knife to loosen and turn out onto a plate. Or slice from a loaf tin.
- Decorate with nuts, syrup, chocolate and Turkish delight.
- Eat this mousse frozen or set from the fridge. Can be kept for weeks in the freezer. Just hack a bit off every time you need a chocolate fix
Frozen Chocolate Mousse Hearts an be made with milk chocolate or white chocolate……. make layers!
Happy Valentines Day- if appropriate!
A wonderful Valentine’s Day dessert! Divine.
Cheers,
Rosa
Lucky you getting to share all those husbands! I dont know if I could keep this in my freezer, I would have eaten it before it even got there!
Oh well, I get to share the best part of them…. the part that says oh yum THANK YOU, thanks for dropping by!
The first line of your post nearly made me choke on my tea!
Your chocolate heart really looks divine!!! I love the rose syrup, sounds so beautiful.
You get to “share” their husbands? 😉
This is an incredibly pretty valentine’s day treat, Tania! 🙂
OMG! what a pretty treat for a Valentine!! Fabulous recipe too! It would be great if you can share this with my ongoing-”Valentine’s Day Event”(till Feb 20th)
‘with that smell in the house’ – he didn’t realise at that time how lucky he was, or should I say spoilt.
This mousse looks great, and very well presented
Wow … an interesting Valentine treat for a first-time visitor to ponder. Since you are prone to feed the neighbors with delights, maybe it’s good that your land and my land are far apart … thus I appreciate your sense of humor. Oh … and thanks for visiting my space recently.
These not only are beautiful and appealing, but they sound delicious as well. I love the idea of the rose syrup and candied pistachios with chocolate.
Haha I’ve often said that I need a food husband too – Mr NQN can’t eat enough of the cakes I make! These are very pretty! 🙂
Yes,snap Lorraine, maybe I can lend you my food husband
Hi Flavours of the sun, thanks
Hello Frank, pity you live so far afield I could share around the goodies
Thanks for your comment Three cookies
Hi teena, loved your heart shaped biccies too
What a fantastic recipe. It looks gorgeous. You have plated it up so well. And it is so beautiful looking. I don’t know how you’re not beating off potential husbands with all the amazing and creative cooking that you do. Are all the single men out there fools???
Oh you are too nice!
I don’t do Valentines but I would do the hearts every day of the year…well, nearly! Love the middle eastern twist with rosewater and pistachios!
Love your comments, thanks
This looks incredible delicious and has many of my favorite ingredients!! Thanks for linking up at my v-day blog hop 🙂
Beautiful Tania! I find the addition of rose to the sweet mousse so intriguing; what a lovely and grownup combination of flavours. Sounds like you have the best of all worlds with the husband sharing. Happy Valentine’s Day!
I always love the mini desserts. These frozen sweet hearts look lovely.
Yum! I love chocolate mousse!
Hi Anne, thanks for your comment. I love it too
So pretty and so cute! I am loving the rose water in this as well! Enjoy Valentines Day!
I love the fact you can just slice of a piece as needed!
Could be like that scene from the movie- was it Bridesmaids? where we lovingly prepare it……and then just eat it ourselves!!!!!!
Sharing with you is such a delight… but I do think it is just as well you no longer live in the next street… the poor man would not stand a chance.
He will want to know though where is his Valentines Heart? when are you dropping it round? Other wise who eat it?
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I wish I had some of this in my freezer right now! What a great dessert for Valentines’ Day.