Salted Chocolate and orange mousse

[ElleG]

Serves 4

This is an adapted recipe  from my favourite (for the moment) cookbook My Petite Kitchen Cookbook by Eleanor Ozich. I make small servings and when covered they stay fresh for a couple of days. For the last month I have been buying 10 small avocados for $4 at the markets. So lots of mousse and now have an avocado freezer stash.

Ingredients:
100ml coconut cream or dairy cream
40g or 1/3 cup raw cacao powder
Flesh of 2 - 3 small avocados, chopped (or 1 large)
8 to 10 dried dates, soaked in boiling water for 20 to 30 mins then drained well
Zest and juice of 1 orange
1 teas vanilla extract
Pinch of sea salt

Shredded coconut to serve

Preparation:
Place all ingredients into TM bowl and blitz on speed 7 for 10 secs. Scrape down sides and continue to blitz in small bursts until completely blended and silky smooth.

Place in small 150 ml cups. Sprinkle with coconut and more zest if desired. Place in fridge for an hour before serving.
This is the nicest avo mousse I have tried, the orange and dates and cream give it a really rich mouth feel, and no hint of avo. Sorry, no photos - I will have to learn how to post them!

[judydawn]

 I had ingredients on hand for this one Elle so have just whipped it up, substituting some ingredients.

Used cocoa powder instead of cacao, coconut milk powder to make the coconut cream (rather than opening a new tin for such a small amount) and athough my avocado was a large one, by the time I removed some brown bits, I decided it wasn't a large one anymore so I just reduced the amount of the other ingredients when mixing all together.  Just 20 g cocoa powder which was quite sufficient for me, I don't like anything that tastes too strong with cocoa. I used the same amount of dates as mine weren't large.

I'd cleaned the bowl, had them all ready to go into the fridge when I realised I hadn't added the cocoa powder so back into my  bowl with the cocoa.  Mind you the first mixture tasted great, would be nice served over fresh fruit salad instead of cream or ice-cream.

Pictures of both, taste test to follow although both tasted lovely straight from the bowl.  I used 4 x 1/4 cup ramekins. Thanks for the recipe Elle.

[EmeraldSue]

Gee Judy, there are no flies on you
This sounds really nice

[judydawn]

Sometimes something comes along and you just have to do it immediately Sue.  I was wondering what to do with that avocado

[cookie1]

Thank you both. I love salted sweet things. I had a lovely salted caramel ice cream today.

[Bedlam]

Thanks. Ellieg and Judy, looks like a good one.

[judydawn]

I've just had 1 for dessert tonight and really enjoyed it.

[ElleG]

Good to hear you enjoyed it JD. I will make some tomorrow as I have 5 avos that need using.

Meant to say, if anyone makes this, taste before taking out of the bowl. If not sweet enough, add more dates or honey or maple syrup. We don't need any other sweetener but, for the sweet tooth amongst us,  it  may need a little more sweetness.

[Kimmyh]

Sounds like a great dessert.

[ElleG]

Finally used up some more avocados and made another lot. This time substituted the coconut cream for my homemade Greek yogurt. Think I enjoyed this as a base the most.  Its an adaptable recipe and I always have yogurt in the fridge.