Healthy dessert recipe: Low carb chocolate mousse

Ingredients

• 6 broken up oz unsweetened chocolate.

• 2 Eggs.

• 2 Tablespoons cocoa powder.

• 1 Cup erythritol or any powdered sweetner.

• 1 to 1½ cup worth of sugar substitute, to taste.

• 1 Tablespoon rum, brandy.

• 1 Teaspoon espresso powder.

• 1 Cup heavy cream.

• 1 Teaspoon vanilla.

• Pinch of salt.

Method

• Cover the chocolate with boiling water in a large bowl.

• Put egg yolk in smaller bowl and the white part of the egg in a bowl which is to be used as a mixer.

• Whisk the yolks with powdered sweetener, erythritol and the salt. Whisk until it is smooth and takes a light lemon color.

• Pour the water off the chocolate. Make sure you save half a cup aside. Add rum and whisk cocoa and the espresso powder into the chocolate, followed by the liquids. Then add egg yolk mixture to it.

• Beat the egg white with cream of tartar until it forms soft peaks. Whisk one-third of it into chocolate mixture, and fold the rest.

• Whip cream and vanilla with small amount of powdered sweetner in the same mixer bowl. Then fold into the chocolate mixture. Make sure its half at a time.

• Put it in cups or bowls Sand cover it and allow it to chill for a minimum of an hour before serving it.

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