Ten-minute chocolate mousse

I started at a new bible study group last night. I'd gone along to another one a couple of times, without thinking through the fact that they were congregation specific and I hadn't settled on a congregation yet. But now I have so I switched groups. Anyway, so I arrived and was in the kitchen doing what I could to help this one guy work on a stir fry. The guy who lived there and had started the stir fry was on the phone out on the balcony to Hong Kong doing business, so this other guy had taken over and was just going through the cupboards adding things. Then a third guy I'd never met arrives and comes flying around into the kitchen, rattles around in the cupboards looking for a saucepan, then starts busting up blocks of dark chocolate into it. I'm thinking 'ooh, ooh, what's going on here?!' and he tells me he's making "ten-minute chocolate mousse". So I decided to watch and learn. This is what he did (and this is double the recipe - I'd suggest that for the sake of your arteries you undouble it). Into the saucepan he put:

400 gms dark chocolate (and he used Cabbury's Old Gold)

300 gms marshmallows

100 gms butter

100 ml of water

Then while he was waiting for some stove space he started beating up 600 ml of cream.

So what you do is melt the four things above over low heat, or over a bowl of water. Then you let it cool for a few minutes, before adding the cream. It works best to add a little of the cream first and mix it well, because the cold meeting the hot can cause solidification - but it doesn't matter if it does, because it just "adds to it, like lumps of chocolate", according to this guy. Then stir in the rest of the cream and whack it in the fridge. It sets quite quickly because of the marshmallows.

And there you have it.

Chocolate mousse is not particularly my dessert of choice, and I don't think I've ever made it. But maybe it's yours. And I was informed that what's great about this one is you can eat it when you're pregnant because it doesn't contain raw eggs (this guy knows his stuff!). I asked for a "small" serving and I got three-quarters of a mug full, and couldn't finish it because it's wickedly rich (as the list of ingredients might indicate). Then to go with it I was handed a cup of tea (which I sort of needed to wash it down). And all this about 9:30 pm. I went home bouncing off the walls and wondering if I'd ever go to sleep!

Apparently this guy does dessert every week, just because he likes to (we were talking about serving in church and gifts and so forth during the study, and we decided he has the "dessert gift"). I might have to implement some dietary modifications if I am going to be eating like that every week!