Easy Chocolate Mousse for Beginner

Make 4 servings

Preparation time: 5 mins

Cooking time:  10 mins


Ingredients

Whipping cream 35%                          1 Cup
Milk chocolate (over 75% choco)        100 g
Vanilla extract                                      1tsp
Icing sugar                                           2 Tbsp


Methods

1) Chilled bowl and whisk for 15 minutes to ease beating cream.

2) Chopped chocolate into small pieces.

3) Filled water half full in a small pot, and boiled, placed a bowl on the pot, sitting right on the edge.

4) Put chocolate in bowl, stirred until smooth and melted. Set aside.

5) Using chilled bowl and whisk, beat cream until soft peak.

6) Added in vanilla and sugar, beat until stiff peak.

7) Folded in 1/4 of the cream into chocolate mixture, fold mixture from the bottom to the surface, repeated until blended in.

8) Folded back chocolate mixture in to rest of the cream using same folding technique.

9) Once mixture is well combined, serve immediately or refrigerate for later use.

Black forest fudge cake

 

Make two 4" round cake                                               Preparation time: 10 mins

                                                                                     Baking time: 30 mins

Ingredients

250g eating milk chocolate, chopped

125g butter, chopped

2/3 C icing sugar

2/3C self-rising flour

4 Eggs

Methods

1) Preheat oven to 180C, sprayed baking pan with oil, cut and placed baking paper on baking pan. (* traced the edge of the pan on baking paper with a pen, cut paper extending 5 cm above sides)

2) Boiled a pot of water, placed a glass/ ceramic bowl in the pot.

3) Put chopped chocolate and butter in bowl, using spatula to stir ingredients till melted.

 (* Be extra careful not have the chocolate mixture contact with water, and do not have glass bowl touching the bottom of the pot; the concept here is to use the heat/ stream to melt the chocolate and butter, NOT to boil them)

4) In a big bowl, put sugar, flour and beaten eggs, mixed well with electrical mixer or whisk.

5) Once mixture is well mixed, slowly poured chocolate mixture into big bowl, using electrical mixer in low speed to mix mixture for 3 minutes, (Do not over-mix, you may see some bubbles when mixing, we do not want to over-mix which would destroy the bubbles and the structure of the cake)

6)Poured mixture into pan until skewer comes out clear when inserted.

7) Melted chocolate and made whatever shapes to want to decorate your cake when it is cool!

Caesar Salad

Made for 2 servings

Ingredients

Romaine Lettuce                       1 head 

Bacon strips                             2 slices

White/ Whole wheat bread       1 slice

Parmesan cheese                      1 Tbsp  (personal preference)

Caesar salad dressing               4 Tbsp  (personal preference)

Cooking oil                              2 tsp

Pepper                                     dash

Direction

1) Preheat oven to 350F

2) Cover cookie sheet or baking pan with tin foil; spray oil.

3) Place bacon strips on pan and bake for 10 minutes or until crispy. Flip bacon strips every  5 minute.

4) Cut bread into small cubes or desirable size, place bread cube on baking sheet.

5) In a small bowl, add dash pepper and cooking oil, mix well.

6) Brush oil mixture on the surface of bread cubes using oil brush.

7) Baked  at 350F until golden brown, flip/ turn croutons every couple minutes.

8) Wash and cut romaine lettuce in to small or desirable size. Set aside to drain off water

9) Once bacon strips is cool down, cut into bite size.

10) Mix in bacon bite, croutons with lettuce, sparkle parmesan cheese on top and add in salad dressing to taste.