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Chocolate Mousse Tart – High Protein, Gluten Free, No added Sugar
INGREDIENTS
PREP TIME | COOK TIME | YIELD |
0:10 minutes | 0:10 minutes | 6 serves |
- 1 egg whisked
- 2 cups of desiccated coconut blended into powder
- 5 dates finely chopped and blended
- 1 tbs of coconut oil
- 2 tbs of flaxseed meal
Ingredients for Biscuit Base
Ingredients for Chocolate Mousse
- 2 handfuls of dates
- 90 gm of chocolate whey protein powder
- 3 tbs of hard coconut milk
- 2 eggs whites
- 1 Avocado (must be soft)
- 1/2 cup of hot water
- 2 heaped tbs of organic cocoa powder
- 6 Strawberries (halved)
- 1 tsp of vanilla essence
- 1 tsp of cinnamon
- 3 egg yolks
METHOD
Method for Biscuit Base:
- Pre-heat oven to 160 dg
- Crack egg into bowl and whisk
- Blend 2 cups of desiccated coconut into a fine powder and add to bowl
- Add melted coconut oil
- Finely chop dates then blend into smaller pieces and add to mixture
- Mix well, mixture should be pliable and a doughy type consistancy
- If dough is to dry and not pliable, add another egg to mixture
- Line a baking tray with baking paper
- Flatten out the dough into the tray and up the sides of the tray
- Bake in oven for approximately 10 minutes or until a biscuit type
- consistency
Method for Mousse
- While biscuit base is baking you can make the mousse.
- Soak dates in 1/2 cup of hot or boiling water
- Drain most of water out and add dates to blender.
- Blend until dates are a paste type consistency
- Add to blender avocado, whey protein, coconut milk, organic cocoa
- powder, vanilla essence and cinnamon.
- Blend well, mixture should become a thick, chocolatey consistency.
- Add egg whites to a bowl and beat with a beater until you get a thick,
- white, fluffy consistency
- Add chocolate mousse mixture and fold into egg whites
- Pour chocolate mousse into biscuit base
- Add strawberry halves on top of mousse
- Place in fridge to set for a few hours before serving
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