Mousse made easy!
Today I’m continuing my series of Valentine’s Day desserts with these adorable little chocolate mousse cups.
This chocolate mousse is a great way to impress your sweetheart, because it looks really fancy and complicated, but it’s actually amazingly easy to make. The secret is instant chocolate pudding mix, which you can just blend with cream and confectioner’s sugar to make a light, fluffy mousse in literally minutes.
This easy mousse would be delicious all by itself, but to make it really special, you serve it in little chocolate dessert cups. These also look like a lot of work, but they’re actually incredibly simple if you just use little silicone baking molds (like reusable cupcake liners). You can paint the melted chocolate right onto these, let them chill, and have perfect little molded cups to serve your mousse.
Pipe the mousse into these little cups, top it with a few sprinkles, and you have a romantic chocolate confection that looks like you spent hours instead of minutes.
Easy Chocolate Mousse with Chocolate Cups
CHOCOLATE CUPS:
- Chocolate dessert cups look like they are hard but these are super simple! Simply melt baking chocolate or chocolate chips in a small bowl in the microwave, heating in intervals of 30 seconds.
- Once fully melted use a pastry brush and paint the insides of a silicone baking mold. Place in the refrigerator and allow to harden for about 10 mins. Pull out and paint the cups again. When done place in the freezer for at least an hour to allow for a solid sturdy bowl. I used these silicone-baking molds.
CHOCOLATE MOUSSE:
DIRECTIONS:
- Either using a stand mixer or hand mixer, mix and beat together heavy cream, sugar, and pudding mix for about 2-3 minutes. Stir in whipped topping. Mousse should be light and fluffy.
- Using your favorite dessert decorator, fill chocolate cups and top with sprinkles.
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Easy Mousse with Chocolate Cups
Ingredients
- CHOCOLATE MOUSSE:
- Ingredients:
- 2 cup Heavy Cream
- ¼ cup Confectioners' Sugar
- 1 cup
whipped topping - 3.9 oz Chocolate Fudge Instant Pudding Mix dry
- Chocolate bowls
- Sprinkles
Instructions
- CHOCOLATE CUPS:
- Chocolate dessert cups look like they are hard but these are super simple! Simply melt baking chocolate or chocolate chips in a small bowl in the microwave, heating in intervals of 30 seconds.
- Once fully melted use a pastry brush and paint the insides of a silicone baking mold. Place in the refrigerator and allow to harden for about 10 mins. Pull out and paint the cups again. When done place in the freezer for at least an hour to allow for a solid sturdy bowl. I used these silicone-baking molds.
DIRECTIONS:
- Either using a stand mixer or hand mixer, mix and beat together heavy cream, sugar, and pudding mix for about 2-3 minutes. Stir in whipped topping. Mousse should be light and fluffy.
- Using your favorite dessert decorator, fill chocolate cups and top with sprinkles.
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Barbara says
How many cups does it make?
Corey says
Hi Barbara,
For the actual cups themselves, that will just depend on how many chocolate chips you use for melting and how think you do the layer of chocolate. As for the Mousse, I had enough to make about 10 very full cups. So you could stretch it our to 12 I am use 🙂
Barbara says
Thank you for answering so quickly.
SkinnyMe says
This February chocolate recipe is making me drool. Chocolate mousse sounds like just what I need after this busy week. Thank you for sharing.
Katy says
Can you make these ahead of time and refrigerate or is it best to fill day of? Thanks!
Corey says
You could do it ahead of time Katy. 🙂
Katy says
Thanks!
Samantha Gallatin says
Hi, I want to make this recipe for my English class, and I was wondering how much chocolate the cups need for 12 servings? It’s very crucial I know this.
Corey says
It really depends on how think you make the bowls. A normal bag of chocolate chips should get you enough for 12 servings. It is always better to have extra incase a bowl breaks 🙂
Samantha Gallatin says
Also, how long can these be out for before they melt? Would an hour be too long at the latest or maybe an hour and a half? Thank you so much for your help.
Corey says
As long as you are in air conditioning, and hour should be fine. Or you could freeze them also before bring them out.
Samantha Gallatin says
It turned out great, thank you!
Sami says
Is it possible to use paper cups in place of the molds when making the chocolate cups? Do you have any tips to ensure the chocolate doesn’t stick to the paper cups?
Toni Moore says
I was wondering the same thing! Can we use paper cupcake holders?
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dorothy says
Is the recipe correct when it says 2.5 tblspns of the pudding mix? doesn’t seem like much
Rachel says
Hi there. Thanks for this decadent quick and easy dessert. I made 2 tweeks to it. First I substituted 1/4 cup of cream for Bailey’s Irish Cream. Then I drizzled melted chocolate around the sides of glasses. Awesome. Thanks
Marilee says
I too have a question about the scant amount of chocolate pudding. Is it a mistake?
Also, I make chocolate cups with the foil lined paper cups. Peel away the foil once chocolate is frozen. Definitely make extra incase of breakage – just put the broken cups back into the melted chocolate to melt again.
Thanks for the recipe. The Jello-O instant mousse, which was perfect, was discontinued.
Corey says
The recipe has been updated Marilee!
Sheila says
the printable recipe doesn’t list whipped topping in the ingredients
Corey says
All fixed up Sheila!
Kimberly says
Hi. I made this recipe for thanksgiving. And had people offering to do dishes for a month for the last mousse cup!!!!! A hit !!! The only thing I added was a layer of crushed chocolate cookie in a middle layer, and shaved chocolate to top it. For the cups I used white and dark special chocolate. A simple recipe with awesome results!!!!!! Thank you for your knowledge and for sharing
Corey says
haha. OMG. That is awesome! I love your addition of the crushed cookie 🙂
T. Whitehead says
Super easy recipe! Made it with both the Chocolate Fudge and the Pistachio Instant Pudding. Both were fantastic and a big hit with family! Suggest sprinkling the top of the pistachio mousse with a bit of crushed pistachios in order to get a full pistachio flavor. Used shaved chocolate for the other. I used Wilton tip 1M to pipe into chocolate cups. Turned out beautiful. I am going to try the lemon next and then the Carmel! Great desserts for any occasion!