D-Vine

Today I finally started baking again!  On the menu: Chocolate Mousse in Cookie Bowls

First, we have the cookie bowls.

My partner in crime, Hanna, and her mad skillz with a rolling pin.

As always, roll out the dough!  In order to make the bowls, you want to roll it out kind of thick (1/4-1/2 inch).

Test "cookies" 

 And then you drape and mold them over the bottoms of a muffin pan! (Creative, right?!)

They should look kind of like this.  The original recipe uses fluted muffin pans, which make very classy looking bowls, but a regular muffin pan works, too.

 Cover a dozen or so muffin bottoms (and don't forget to spray the pan so that the cookies won't stick because that would be terribly unfortunate.).

Before the Oven

 Pop them in the oven for about 10 minutes. (@ 350 degrees)

After the oven

 Very, very, very carefully, remove the bowls from the tins.  The easiest way we discovered to do this was to run a knife along the bottom (the lip) of the bowls and then gently left them up.

They come out beautifully!!!

 And set them on a rack to cool :]

Cue Ray Charles: "You are so beautiful to me . . . etc"

While they're cooling, on to the Chocolate Mousse! (you can find the actual recipe for the chocolate mousse in one of my links over on the side- biggirlssmallkitchen.com.)

Basically, this is chocolate chips, water, butter, eggs, sugar, an salt.  Together,  they have it all.

 At this point, it smells delicious and looks very chocolatey.

Before the fridge/freezer.

 So, we didn't chill it for quite long enough so it was more like a chocolatey soup than mousse.  But it was still wonderful!!

And this is where the real test of your skills comes in to play.

 And you combine the two in perfect harmony.

They look wonderous . . . angels designed for these two to be together.

 And the bakers saw the chocolate mousse, that it was a thing of greatness.

Sprinkle a little powdered sugar on top, and you have the equivalent of pure gold.  You could also do  fresh raspberries or a sprig of peppermint and that would pretty much be perfection, but we didn't have any because we're poor college students without a vehicle to call our own.

After sprinkling the powdered sugar, prepare yourself for the most amazing dessert ever and enjoy! (Don't forget to breathe during the process.)