I'm having two friends over for dinner tomorrow night and am making a mint-chocolate mousse for dessert. Do you think it would make any difference (besides convenience for me) if I use pre-prepared whipped cream (Cool Whip) as the base instead of whipping the cream myself with a beater?
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I think it would taste richer & more gourmet-ish with the real whipped cream. If you don't care about that or you already have it, then just use the fake-y stuff.
'Kay. Well, I took your advice.
First, I had to go buy a new mixer today because, I discovered/remembered last night, I gave mine away a couple years ago. I'm not much for the beating recipes.
I beat up the whipping cream (until it formed "stiff peaks," whatever that means; I just kept going until it looked like Cool Whip).
Also, after visiting two liquor stores last night only to find no one local stocks creme de menthe in smaller than a litre bottles, I bought a pint of Kaluha instead.
So just now I made mocha mousse, wiped up the spattered cream from all over my newly clean kitchen, put it in the freezer, and licked the spatula and bowl.
And, um?
YUMMY!!!
Coolwhip woulda made it a hundred times sweeter, and not nearly as fun. (Although who knows what it'll be like in four ours when it's done setting. And, beaters make more mess that I care for.)
Thanks for the tip.
I hope it turned out good in the 4 hour wait. I think Kaluha sounds WAY yummier than creme de menthe too.
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