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A decadent chocolate mousse tart topped with chocolate shavings sits on a wooden board next to a small bowl of extra shavings and a jar of chocolate sauce on a marble surface. A fork rests beside the tart.
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An Easy Chocolate Mousse Tart

Author Sarah Mir

Ingredients

Crust

  • 25 Oreos + 4 Tbsp Butter
  • OR
  • 1 ½ cups Oreo Baking Crumbs and 5 tbsp of butter

Filling

  • 150 g chocolate of your choice no chips please!
  • 2 cups whipping/heavy cream
  • 2 tsp coffee

Instructions

For the Crust

  • If using the whole cookie then pulverize them to a crumb, add in melted butter and press into your pie plate or tart tin.
  • If using the Oreo crumbs then simply stir the ingredients together and press in.
  • For a crunchy crust bake at 350 for 8 minutes, for a softer one leave as is. I do find that the soft one works on in a pie plate but not in a tart pan.

For the Filling

  • Chop the chocolate into pieces.
  • Heat the cream in a saucepan until its scalding hot.
  • Take it off the heat and stir in the chocolate pieces and coffee until smooth.
  • Transfer to a mixing bowl, cover and leave in the fridge for four hours or longer. It has to be cold to be able to whip up!
  • Whip until soft peaks form. Taste – depending on the chocolate you use you may want to tweak it by adding vanilla extract, more sugar, etc.
  • Pile it into the crust and refrigerate until set – overnight is best.
  • Garnish with chocolate curls, a caramel drizzle, your favourite candies, fudge sauce etc.

Notes

Note: I usually buy 2 100gram bars of chocolate, 1.5 bar goes into the mousse and the remainder gets turned into chocolate curls by my trusty vegetable peeler.
I like using a combination of milk (100g) and dark (50g). If you use mostly dark then you will definitely need to sweeten it!