Marian Burross Chocolate Mousse Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cream the sugar and butter in a bowl. Add the flour, baking powder, salt and eggs and beat well.
• Spoon the batter into a springform pan of 8, 9 or 10 inches. Place the plum halves skin side up on top of the batter. Sprinkle lightly with sugar and lemon juice, depending on the sweetness of the fruit. Sprinkle with about 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, depending on how much you like cinnamon.
• Bake 1 hour, approximately. Remove and cool; refrigerate or freeze if desired. Or cool to lukewarm and serve plain or with whipped cream. (To serve a torte that was frozen, defrost and reheat it briefly at 300 degrees.)

Steps:

• In top of double boiler over hot water, melt the chocolate with the water and the sugar. Remove and cool.
• Add the yolks, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add the vanilla bean.
• Beat the whites until stiff. Fold into chocolate mixture. Spoon into six or eight individual pots, souffle dishes or ramekins. Refrigerate.
• To serve, top with whipped cream.

Steps:

• Place all the ingredients for the mousse in a food processor, and blend completely, about 2 minutes, scraping down the sides once or twice. Place in bowl, cover and chill while making the sauce.
• Wash raspberries; measure out 1 cup, and set aside. Place remaining berries, orange juice, lemon juice and sugar in food processor, and blend until smooth.
• Stir in the whole berries. Into each of four parfait glasses or small glass bowls, spoon about an inch of the mousse. Top with a couple of spoonfuls of raspberry sauce; repeat until the rim is reached, topping with raspberry sauce.

Steps:

• Beat the yolks and sugar together until light. Mix in liqueur.
• Meanwhile melt chocolate over hot water and whip the cream. Mix a little of cream into yolk mixture.
• Then mix in the chocolate until it is smooth. Fold in whipped cream and spoon into individual serving dishes. Chill.

Steps:

• Heat oil in a heavy-bottomed pot.
• Heat broth in separate pot.
• Saute onion in the oil until it takes on a little color.
• Add rice to the onion and stir until well coated.
• Add the wine and stir; let the wine cook away, about 2 minutes.
• Add about a cup of simmering chicken broth to the rice and cook over high heat, stirring often, until broth has been absorbed. Repeat procedure, this time adding all the mushrooms as well as the broth. While stirring, continue adding broth as it is absorbed into the rice. You may need more or less than four cups to achieve a creamy consistency while the center of the rice is still firm.
• When rice is done and there is still enough broth left in the rice to make it slightly runny, stir in the cheese. Season with salt and pepper and serve.

Steps:

• Blend the eggs with the butter in food processor, or mash to blend thoroughly. Spread the egg-butter mixture in a small serving bowl.
• Mix onion with sour cream and spoon over egg mixture. Refrigerate overnight.
• To serve, top with caviar and pass with Melba toast.

Steps:

• Following package directions for the amount of water to use, bring water to boil in covered pot.
• Stir in couscous; remove from heat; cover and let sit 3 to 5 minutes, until water is absorbed.

Steps:

• To assemble: Crush a few of the cookies into the holes in bottom of flowerpots. Divide the creme anglaise among the flowerpots and spoon in. Place two crushed cookies on top of creme anglaise in each pot and top with mocha mousse, mounding it high.
• Decorate with chocolate flowers attached to small sticks, or with real flowers.

Steps:

• Beat yolks in top of double boiler with 1 1/2 cups sugar, vanilla, salt and brandy, over simmering water, until mixture is thick. Remove from water and set aside.
• Melt chocolates over hot water or over direct heat, carefully. Remove; beat in butter a little at a time. Gradually beat chocolate into yolks until mixture is smooth. Beat in coffee.
• Beat whites until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in 3 tablespoons sugar until stiff peaks form. Beat one cup of whites into chocolate mixture to thin it. Then fold in remaining whites until well blended.
• Whip cream until stiff and fold into chocolate mixture. Pour into prepared crust and chill overnight in refrigerator.
• Or spoon mixture into 16 individual souffle dishes, each holding less than 1/8 cup.

Steps:

• Place the chocolate in a large bowl and set aside.
• In a saucepan over medium heat, combine the cream and vanilla bean, and bring just to a boil. Remove from the heat immediately. Discard the vanilla bean and pour the cream over the chocolate, stirring to dissolve the chocolate pieces.
• Refrigerate the chocolate cream for one hour, or until the mixture is completely chilled, stirring occasionally.
• Beat the chocolate cream until it holds a peak. Refrigerate again for half an hour, or until ready to use.