Recipe #19: chocolate mousse

 Another dessert! Another mousse! What the heck!

If you tried and enjoyed Recipe #18, and if you like chocolate, you’ll love this rubbishy spin on chocolate mousse.

Ingredients:


There’s that vintage Consumers Distributing mini mixer again! I sure hope you have something like it.

Directions:

Add a few spoonfuls of ricotta cheese, a couple of generous spoonfuls of icing sugar, 1-2 modest spoonfuls of cocoa powder, and a dash of vanilla extract to the bowl of your mini mixer:




Then mix on “high” speed for about a minute. Here’s an action shot showing the mini mixer in its full glory:


Taste your mixture. Mine needed more icing sugar:


Mix another minute or so, scraping down the sides as necessary, and taste every so often, adding more of whatever is needed as you go.

When it’s as tasty as you want it, refrigerate it for a while. An hour or two is fine. Wasn’t that easy?

It may not look like much, but it tastes terrific!



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