Description
A no-bake dessert featuring a chocolate cookie crust topped with a light cherry mousse and garnished with fresh cherries and chocolate.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1½ cups chocolate cookie crumbs
- 6 tablespoons melted butter
- 1½ cups heavy whipping cream
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup cherry purée
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon gelatin powder
- 3 tablespoons cold water
- ½ cup dark chocolate, melted
- Fresh cherries, for topping
- Chocolate ganache or chocolate syrup
Instructions
- Mix cookie crumbs with melted butter until evenly combined. Press firmly into a lined loaf pan to form the crust. Chill for 15 minutes.
- Bloom gelatin in cold water for 5 minutes, then gently warm until dissolved.
- Whip heavy cream with powdered sugar until soft peaks form.
- Gently fold cherry purée and vanilla into whipped cream.
- Slowly fold in dissolved gelatin until fully incorporated.
- Pour mousse mixture over the chilled crust and smooth the top.
- Refrigerate for at least 4 hours or until fully set.
- Remove from pan and drizzle with melted dark chocolate or ganache.
- Pipe small dollops of chocolate cream on top and garnish with fresh cherries.
- Slice and serve chilled.
Notes
- Use fresh cherries for the purée for the best flavor.
- Chill the mixing bowl and beaters before whipping the cream.
- Let the cake set fully before slicing for clean cuts.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: No-Bake
- Cuisine: International
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 390
- Sugar: 25g
- Sodium: 120mg
- Fat: 28g
- Saturated Fat: 16g
- Unsaturated Fat: 10g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 35g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 5g
- Cholesterol: 70mg
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