{"id":364,"date":"2012-08-22T21:39:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2016-09-07T21:05:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T01:05:20","slug":"chocolate-avocado-mousse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate (avocado) mousse?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I turned two avocados into chocolate mousse today. Astonishingly, this is seemingly remarkable achievement actually pales alongside the subsequent event: namely, sneaking a spoonful of it into my fruit-averse oldest child. She didn’t complain until she learned she had been tricked into eating avocado.<\/p>\n

I don’t normally engage in this sort of culinary subterfuge so I decided it was karmic-ally within bounds.<\/p>\n

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Look at that: glossy surface, rich chocolate color – it’s a looker.<\/p>\n

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Which just goes to show, the ugly duckling is still turns out to be pretty tasty. Wait, was that supposed to be the fable’s ending? Never mind.<\/p>\n

RECIPE: Chocolate (Avocado) Mousse<\/p>\n

Materials
\n– 2 ripe avocados (squeeze to check softness – too hard and the texture suffers)
\n– 1\/4 cup cocoa powder
\n– 1\/4 tsp salt
\n– sweetener<\/p>\n

A note about sweetener: I tried to get away with 2 Tbs of agave, but no luck. I eventually ended up with an additional 4 single-serve packets of Splenda following complaints that the lack of sweetener insufficiently masked an avocado aftertaste. Other recipes suggest honey or just sugar (I’m on a low carb run so it’s Splenda for me.) Adjust to taste.<\/p>\n

Place all ingredients in a food processor and set to “emasculate”. You can stop when the contents reach the sexily smooth consistency common to all properly decadent desserts.<\/p>\n

I liked it right off, but am chilling it overnight to see both how the consistency changes, and if a cooler temp will further improve the mouth feel. Future tweaks include the addition of some vanilla and probably the addition of fresh whipped cream before serving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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