Strawberry Mousse w/ Chocolate Lace

So today being Sunday and slightly warm, I truly felt like having strawberry cheesecake. Went to the store with my mom got all the ingredients - well thought I had gotten all the ingredients. Got home only to find that I never got the damn digestive biscuits for the crust.

And so this is what I ended up with :

Strawberry mousse with chocolate lace

All You Need: 

• 400g Strawberries           
• 200ml Water
• 115g Caster Sugar
• 2 sachets Unflavored Gelatin 
• 500ml Fresh Cream
• 3 Squares Cooking Chocolate 
• 5 Squares White Cooking Chocolate

Servings: 1 large Bowl + 5 individual dish

Preparing Time: ~ 20mins

Cooling Time: ~1hr

How to?
→ Heat water, sugar and gelatin until dissolved then leave to cool at room temperature.

→Meanwhile, blend up most strawberries in the blender with a soup spoon of water.












→ Combine strawberry sauce and the gelatin mix in a separate bowl.

→ Whip up the fresh cream for ~3 mins with an electric whisk or ~15 mins by hand.
→ Fold in strawberry sauce w/ gelatin into the whipped cream.

→ Add in 2 large sliced strawberries.

→Pour into desired dish and leave to refrigerate for ~ 1hr.

→ Decorate as you please. ")

Chilling in the refrigerator 

How I Made The Chocolate Lace:

Chocolate & White Chocolate Lace

• Melt the tiny squares of cooking chocolate in separate  bowls in the microwave @ top temperature for ~45 seconds. Stirring vigorously once its out. Or as according to your packaging instructions.
• Dip a bread knife into your chocolate bowl and hover over your baking sheet making lovely swirls or whatever shape you want. 
• Repeat with white chocolate. 
• Leave to dry for 2 minutes. 
• If you don't have any fancy baking paper, use tinfoil. End result will be the same. ") 
• Once it's completely dry & hardened you can just pick it up or fold the sheet in half to break it up into odd shapes. :) 

How I Decorated The Main Bowl:

• Slice up a large Strawberry in half (vertically), then with a smooth knife (like the one in the strawberry photo) cut out an under layer from the flat side.
• Do this repeatedly until you reach the bumpy curved side of the strawberry.
• Cut up the bumpy curved side into little triangular shapes or squares or something. 
• Then decorate in the sequence big small big. 
• Finally cut one large strawberry (horizontally). Use the side without the pointy tip. 
• Carved a hole in the middle of it. 
• Place it in the middle of the dish and fill with the chocolate lace.

 How I Decorated The Individual Glasses: 

• Cut up 2 strawberries into cubes or triangles. 
• Add 3 cubes into each glass.
• Add 3 pieces of the chocolate lace vertically to the mousse, surrounding the 3 pieces of  strawberry cubes.
• Sprinkle tine broken chocolate lace onto the top.

Did I leave something out? Got any other questions?  Just ask! 

Have a wonderful week everyone! :)

My version of strawberry mousse with chocolate lace