Baileys Chocolate Mousse

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 large eggs
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 cups whipping cream
• 1/4 cup baileys irish cream
• 12 ounces semisweet chocolate (good quality) or 12 ounces bittersweet chocolate (good quality)

Recipe

• 1 whisk the eggs and sugar together in a metal bowl (i use my kitchen-aid bowl). and set it over a pan of simmering water.
• 2 whisk the mixture until it reaches a temperature of 160 degrees (use an instant read or candy thermometer), it should take approximately 5 minutes. whisk the entire time, being careful not to have scrambled eggs.
• 3 remove bowl from the pan of simmering water and place on your mixer and beat with the whisk attachment at medium – high speed until it is cool to your touch(on the outside of the bowl) and very thick. this should take approximately 10 minutes.
• 4 while beating the egg and sugar mixture, melt your chocolate and cool to lukewarm.
• 5 in a separate bowl, combine the whipping cream and baileys together and beat until stiff peaks form.
• 6 pour the melted chocolate over the egg and sugar mixture and fold in until blended. then fold in the whipped cream mixture. i will add a small amount of the cream mixture and blend it in (this will lighten up the mixture a bit) and then fold in the remaining until only streaks of remain.
• 7 place in a bowl, cover with saran wrap and chill till set, overnight.
• 8 once set, it can be spread over a cake layer to be used as filling. make sure you pipe a dam of your buttercream around the outer edges of the layers to prevent the mousse from being pushed out.
• 9 this is also excellent served as just a mousse dessert.