Easy Chocolate Mousse with Chocolate Cups
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.
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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
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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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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.
The recipe has been updated Marilee!
the printable recipe doesn’t list whipped topping in the ingredients
All fixed up Sheila!
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
haha. OMG. That is awesome! I love your addition of the crushed cookie 🙂
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!