Amazing Chili Chocolate Mousse

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 3 1/2 ounces dark chocolate bars, chopped or broken in small pieces
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1/4 cup water, divided (2 tbsp for chocolate, 2 tbsp for egg mixture)
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 large egg yolks
• 1/8 teaspoon ground chipotle chile pepper
• very tiny pinch salt
• 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream (as cold as possible)

Recipe

• 1 melt chocolate, butter and 2tbsp water in a double-boiler. (i actually did this in a metal bowl over lightly simmering pan of water). make sure the water isn't boiling hard - chocolate melts remarkably quickly and you don't want to rush this process or you'll lose the shiny texture. while melting it, continuously stir the chocolate.
• 2 again, in a double-boiler, whisk the egg yolks and sugar. the eggs should get cooked just a tad. 2-3 minutes, maybe. again, don't let the water get too hot. make sure you don't scramble the eggs.
• 3 add the egg mixture to the chocolate mixture and allow to cool slightly below room temperature (you can achieve this by setting it on top of a bowl of ice for a few minutes).
• 4 whip the heavy cream so that you get soft peaks. basically, you want the peaks to stay, but not too sharply (otherwise the texture isn't as "sexy").
• 5 add ground chipotle and salt to the chocolate/egg mixture and fold in the whipped cream.
• 6 fill into ramekins or similar container.
• 7 chill overnight or at least 3-4 hours.