Dessert Recipes - Brandied Cherry Chocolate Mousse Recipe

Ingredients 

• 1 cup pitted, dark sweet cherries, drained (reserve juice)

• 14 cup brandy or cherry juice

• 3 blocks (3 oz) Hershey's Baking Chocolate

• 1/3 cup cherry juice

• 1 cup sugar 3 egg yolks, well beaten

• 2 cups whipping cream, sweetened and whipped

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Method:

1. Cut cherries into quarters. Pour brandy over cherries and marinate several hours. (If using cherry juice, no need to marinate.)

2. Melt baking chocolate with 1/3 cup cherry juice in saucepan, stirring constantly over medium-low heat. Add sugar; cook until dissolved.

3. Gradually stir hot mixture into egg yolks. Return to saucepan and cook until mixture boils. Cool. Drain cherries and stir brandy or 1/4 cup juice into chocolate mixture.

4. Carefully fold chocolate mixture into whipped cream. Fold in cherries and pour into oiled 1 1/2-quart bowl. Cover; freeze overnight.

5. At serving time, remove from freezer; let stand 10 minutes. Loosen with spatula and un-mold. Cut 10-12 wedges and serve.