Chocolate Mousse

My friend asked me if I could make chocolate mousse. I know that I've made them when I prepared the Sarawak Layered Cake Charlotte years ago. This mousse recipe I contain gelatin powder.

Remember this?

So, while I browsed through some recipe books and some on the internet, I found a lot of  recipes that used meringue, and no gelatin powder. I decided to make a little experiment by combining in a little bit of this and that.

Chocolate Mousse

150 g Chocolate - dark chocolate, bittersweet - cut into small pieces
200ml whipping cream
50g castor sugar
2 egg yolks
2 egg white

1. Melt chocolate in double boiler. Leave it cool to room temperature. Use the high quality chocolate for a tastier result.
2. Whipped cream with 10g of sugar until peak.
3. Beat egg yolk in another bowl with another 10g of sugar until foamed.
4. Whisked egg white in another bowl with the remaining sugar.
5. Using a spatula, fold in egg yolk into the chocolate. Then, fold in whipped cream followed by egg white.
6. Spoon the chocolate mixture into ramekins.
7. Keep refrigerated overnight.
8. Serve mousse with whipped cream. You may decorate with chocolate powder, chocolate rice or serve it plain.

Savoury Bread Pudding

My mom said that savoury bread pudding reminds her to her deceased sister. My aunt was really good with cooking and I guess a lot of people kinda miss her cooking. I decided to try making the savoury bread pudding. How difficult can it be to prepare a bread pudding? I googled and studied some recipes and came out with this. I never remember the taste of my aunt's bread pudding, but I do remember there's minced beef and garnished with chilies and some leaves I don't recall from my childhood.

Savoury Bread Pudding

3 nos. potato, cut into small cube
400gm minced beef
1 no. onion, large
2 clove garlic
2-3 tbsp curry powder
1 loaf bread
400ml fresh milk or condensed milk
3 eggs,large
salt to taste
vegetable oil
butter
2 chillies, cut brunois for garnish
celery leaf, sliced
fried shallot

• Preheat oven to 175 degrees Celsius. Grease rectangle/square cake pan with butter/ oven proof dish.
• Blend onion and garlic.Heat a little bit oil in the frying pan and add in blended ingredients. Add in curry powder and fry until fragrant.
• Add in minced meat and potato. Season with some salt. Set aside.
• Beat milk and eggs in a bowl. 
• Soak bread into the milk batter and make a layer in the cake pan. 
• Spread some curry minced beef filling on the bread. Repeat the process with another layer of bread just like preparing a lasagna. 
• Sprinkle some red chillies, celery leaf (or coriander if you prefer) on top. 
• Bake for 25 to 30 minutes. 
• Garnish with some fried shallot before serving.

Caramelized Bread Pudding

Bread pudding is one of the simplest treat I know. When I was making bread pudding, I've always love to sprinkle some raisins and cinnamon in them. The combination was good. My mom loved that too. I've always omitted brushing the butter on bread. I like it that way. How do you like your bread pudding?

I'm not really sure what I was doing. But I was making some caramelized sugar when I was supposed to prepare a bread pudding. So, I decided to pour some caramelized sugar on top of the pudding just before I popped them into the oven.

Caramelized Bread Pudding

150 ml Cream

150 Milk

1# Egg

1 tsp Vanilla Essence

20g Raisins

20 g Castor Sugar

5 slice Bread

generous amount of Cinnamon Powder

Caramelized Sugar

Vanilla Ice Cream - to garnish

1. Arrange 1/2 bread on mold. Sprinkle raisins and Cinnamon powder.

2. Make another layer of bread on top. Sprinkle more raisins and Cinnamon powder.

3. Mix together cream, milk, sugar, egg and vanilla essence.

4. Pour in batter on top of bread and soak the bread well.

5. Pour the caramelized sugar on top.

6. Bake 180 degrees Celsius at 25 minutes.

7. Serve them warm topped with some vanilla ice cream.