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Vegetarian Chocolate Mousse with cream cheese
After making the linked classic chocolate mousse recipe for years, I eventually wanted to create a vegetarian version. That meant one big challenge: replacing the eggs while still getting that dreamy, airy texture. After lots of experimenting, I found not just one, but two brilliant methods—and both result in a truly delicious, but different mousse! The first method is surprising (and a little quirky): use the liquid from canned chickpeas to make vegetarian chocolate mousse

James
Sep 18, 20253 min read


Vegetarian Chocolate Mousse with chickpeas foam
After making classic chocolate mousse for a few years, I had to make it vegetarian for some dinner guests. Meaning to exchange the egg for something else. Over the years we found two ways to do this and still get an amazing chocolate mousse. The first one is to exchange the egg with the water of canned chickpeas! Yes you heard it right! If you whisk the water that is present in canned chickpeas, it will foam. This foam will still smell a bit like chickpeas, but if you add en

James
Sep 17, 20253 min read
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