Thickening up a Mousse

[VieveMS]

I attempted to make Tenina's Raspberry, Lime & White Chocolate Mousse today and I suspect it is nowhere near thick enough.  I haven't really made mousse before so I don't know if it will thicken up overnight or not.

The recipe calls for 3 tsp powdered gelatine but my local supermarket only had the gelatine leaves.  After doing some googling, I ended up using 5 1/2 sheets of gelatine but I'm still not sure if that was enough.  The other change I made was I substituted lemon for lime as that is all I had on hand.

Assuming that it will not thicken up overnight, can anyone suggest a way of thickening it up?  Should i add a bit more gelatine?  I want to take it to a BBQ tomorrow (lunchtime).

Thanks in advance.

[fundj&e]

i am not sure of this recipe, i dont have the book. how much cream did u use and was it pure cream

[VieveMS]

500g whipping cream (I used thickened cream).

I am hoping that I am asking this question prematurely - I just took another quick look and it does appear to be thickening up a little.  Fingers crossed by morning it will be OK. 

[fundj&e]

it will be ok  if u used thickened cream, i am sure it has some sort of gelatine in it 2

check b4 u go to bed 

[VieveMS]

Phew.. left the mousse in the fridge overnight and it seems to have thickened up nicely.  Doing a happy dance now 

Thanks for your help Uni.  I learnt something new as I didn't know thickened cream had gelatine (or something similar) in it but now that I think about it it does make sense.

[fundj&e]

double  phew from me VMS 

[cookie1]

I'm glad that worked out.