When you are a chef and live in the Hass avocado-growing country, you easily become an expert at cooking with avocado even making avocado dessert. In fact, avocados are not only for savory recipes and I have shown many times that you can bake delicious avocado desserts like my avocado chocolate cookies, avocado ice cream, or avocado brownies. Chocolate mousse is a great way of hiding healthy ingredients, like in my 3-Ingredient Butternut Squash Chocolate Mousse or Tofu Mousse.
Why You Will Love This Chocolate Avocado Mousse
Ingredients For Avocado Chocolate Mousse Recipe
All you need is to make a silky smooth avocado mousse in a blender, or food processor and a few wholesome ingredients.
Rich and creamy Silky smooth and airy Healthy and packed with Omega-3 fatty acids from avocado. Vegan and gluten-free Quick and easy dessert, ready in less than an hour. Packed with omega-3 and antioxidants for raw cocoa powder. Low-carb keto friendly using sugar-free sweeteners and chocolate.
Ripe Avocado. Simply press the avocado. If it is firm, it is unripe. It must be soft but not mushy, and if you remove the top cap of the avocado, the little part of the flesh showing must be flashy green, not brown or black. Plant-Based Milk – Feel free to use any dairy-free milk you love, the fatter the milk is the creamier, and the less airy, the mousse will be. To keep the mousse airy and light use unsweetened almond milk or oat milk. For a chocolate avocado pudding use canned coconut milk or coconut cream. Unsweetened Cocoa Powder. This adds a robust chocolate flavor to your avocado mousse and texture. It thickens the mouse. Melted Dark Chocolate Chips – I am using 70% cocoa chocolate chips, it has a strong chocolate flavor, but it’s still sweet so you don’t have to add too much sweetener to sweeten the mousse. Maple Syrup or date syrup or 3-4 soaked pitted dates. Any of the three sweeteners work well as refined sugar-free sweeteners in this mousse. But, if you choose dates, add 1-2 tablespoons extra almond milk or the mousse will be a bit more firm like chocolate pudding. Vanilla Extract for flavor and to cover the taste of the avocado flavor even more Sea Salt – that pinch of salt enhances the chocolate flavor, don’t skip it!
How To Make A Vegan Chocolate Avocado Mousse
Expert Tips To Make Vegan Chocolate Mousse With Avocado
Use ripe avocado without brown spots on the flesh. The brown spots or filaments in a ripe avocado taste bitter and add a gritty texture to the avocado dessert. You must use a green ripe avocado inside without any dark bits. You can discard any brown spot on the flesh, but often, the bitterness of the avocado has already spread to the rest of the vegetable. Refrigerate the mousse for no more than 1 hour for an airy texture. Like in my tofu chocolate mousse, this avocado mousse is made with melted dark chocolate. The longer it stays in the fridge, the harder and firmer it becomes. After more than an hour, the mousse is packed and hard. Blend again with a splash of almond milk to thin it out and bring it back to its airy, fluffy mousse texture. Adjust sweetener based on the strength of the chocolate chips. If you are using semi-sweet chocolate chips, they contain more sugar. Therefore, you need to decrease maple syrup. But, if you use strong chocolate like 85% cocoa, the mousse won’t be very sweet and quite bitter. Add or remove some of the sweeteners accordingly. Add the chocolate mousse toppings just before serving. Serve the mousse with coconut whipped cream or Vegan Whipped Cream, fresh raspberries, or shaved vegan chocolate bars. But, add these toppings just before serving for the best flavors.
