I love healthy vegan alternatives to classic chocolate mousse, like my 3-Ingredient Butternut Squash Chocolate Mousse or Chocolate Avocado Mousse. When I was a kid, I was making the French mousse au chocolat recipe all the time. Chocolate mousse recipes are a great way of hiding healthy ingredients, such as butternut squash, avocado, or, like in this one, tofu. A tofu mousse is a dairy-free chocolate mousse made from a block of silken tofu into a creamy smooth chocolate dessert! It’s naturally Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Egg-free, and vegan approved.
Ingredient Selection Tips
All you need to make a tofu mousse are a high-speed blender or food processor and a few ingredients below:
Silken Tofu – Read the section below about the difference between firm tofu and silken tofu. You must use silken tofu to make tasty chocolate mousse from tofu. Dark Chocolate – use good quality vegan dark chocolate made for baking with about 60% cocoa for best sweetness balance. Of course, if you want to decrease the sugar, or you love ultra-dark chocolate mousse, then use 70% or 85%-cocoa dark chocolate. Maple Syrup or any liquid sweetener you love. Unsweetened Cocoa Powder – optional. Add only to thicken up the mousse or increase its cocoa flavor. Vanilla Extract – This boosts the chocolate flavors, so I highly recommend it, even if it’s optional!
How To Make Silken Tofu Mousse
The key to making a tasty chocolate mousse out of tofu is to bring ingredients at room temperature. I recommend using silken tofu that doesn’t need refrigeration for this recipe, so you can store it at room temperature. Otherwise, bring the tofu block out of the fridge 1 hour before baking. You shouldn’t use ultra-cold tofu because the melted chocolate firms up and hardens too fast if in contact with cold ingredients. The mousse recipe will fail if your tofu is too cold.
Vegan Tofu Chocolate Mousse Toppings
This tofu mousse is delicious on its own or topped with some of the below ingredients:
Coconut whipped cream or Vegan Whipped Cream Coconut yogurt Berries Sliced almonds Shredded coconut Chocolate flakes
Mousse Flavor Boosters
You can always make your chocolate mousse better by adding some of the flavorsome ingredients below into the blender:
1/2 teaspoon of peppermint extract 1 teaspoon of sea salt 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon of stevia drops to boost sweetness without adding sugar.
Below, I listed the answers to the most frequent questions about this vegan chocolate mousse.
More Healthy Vegan Dessert Recipes
Below I listed some more delicious and easy vegan dessert recipes for you to try.
