post from Neil of At My Table reminded me of the importance of seeking out Fair Trade chocolate, together with after led me to a Fair Trade chocolate spider web log event over at R khooks. 
Fortunately, buying Fair Trade chocolate is only getting easier together with easier for me - Green & Black's build is at in 1 trial available at my local Safeway, together with their Maya Gold is 1 of my all-time favourites. This is a nighttime chocolate amongst "spices together with a twist of orange". And what amend agency to savour those subtle flavours than inward a chocolate mousse? To extend the taste, I added a pinch of cinnamon to the mousse together with tried my mitt at around candied orangish rind to garnish.
Fortunately, buying Fair Trade chocolate is only getting easier together with easier for me - Green & Black's build is at in 1 trial available at my local Safeway, together with their Maya Gold is 1 of my all-time favourites. This is a nighttime chocolate amongst "spices together with a twist of orange". And what amend agency to savour those subtle flavours than inward a chocolate mousse? To extend the taste, I added a pinch of cinnamon to the mousse together with tried my mitt at around candied orangish rind to garnish.Unfortunately my mitt is non thence expert at the gentle folding that gives a mousse its light, airy texture. I ended upwards amongst around fairly dense dessert cups but the rich, buttery texture was yet thoroughly enjoyable, specially when teamed amongst the chewy strips of rind.
I won't effusively recommend the mousse recipe since I didn't master copy it together with I won't effusively recommend the candied rinds because, overnice every bit they are, they're rather labour-intensive. However, I volition channel all my effusiveness into recommending you lot purchase Fair Trade chocolate (and coffee) products whenever possible: allow no-one else behaviour the terms of the pleasance these luxuries plow over you.
I'm far likewise belatedly (and likewise honest close my mediocre result) to operate into this into the Stop the Traffik chocolate competition. Still, caput on over to R khooks to run across around to a greater extent than delicious together with to a greater extent than timely entries.
Spiced chocolate mousse
(based on this recipe from Simply Recipes)
2/3 loving cup double cream
90g Green & Black's Maya Gold chocolate (eat the terminal row of your 100g block every bit you lot cook!)
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1/2 teaspoon terra firma cinnamon
2 eggs, separated
Whip the cream until soft peaks form, together with lay it inward the fridge.
Using a double boiler (or two-saucepan set-up) amongst hot H2O inward the lower saucepan, melt the chocolate together with butter, stirring continually. When the mixture is fully melted together with smooth, withdraw it from the rut together with allow it cool until "it is only slightly warmer than trunk temperature". Stir inward the cinnamon.
Candied orangish rinds
(taken from this page at Epicurious)
3 large umbilicus oranges
1 loving cup castor sugar
Use a vegetable peeler to withdraw strips of rind from the oranges, avoiding every bit much of the white gist every bit possible. I flora that piece the strips were yet moist, it wasn't likewise hard to scrape the remaining gist from the strips amongst a knife. Slice the rinds into thinner strips. Place them inward a small-scale saucepan together with comprehend them amongst mutual depression temperature water. Bring them to the boil, thence drain the rind strips. Repeat this procedure amongst fresh water, thence pat the strips dry.
Over moderate heat, convey 2 cups of H2O together with the saccharide to boil, stirring until the saccharide is dissolved. Drop inward the rind strips together with simmer them until they soften together with larn translucent, stirring occasionally along the way. This volition accept close 25 minutes.
Take the saucepan off the rut together with allow it to cool. Drain the rinds - the original recipe instructs you lot to discard the syrup but I'm certain you lot tin honour something overnice to produce amongst it! (I'll possess got a recipe upwards inward a solar daytime or two.) Set a cake rack over a baking tray together with spread out the rinds across it to dry out properly. Give them an hr or thence - they'll yet move mucilaginous but much to a greater extent than manageable.
I'm far likewise belatedly (and likewise honest close my mediocre result) to operate into this into the Stop the Traffik chocolate competition. Still, caput on over to R khooks to run across around to a greater extent than delicious together with to a greater extent than timely entries.Spiced chocolate mousse
(based on this recipe from Simply Recipes)
2/3 loving cup double cream
90g Green & Black's Maya Gold chocolate (eat the terminal row of your 100g block every bit you lot cook!)
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1/2 teaspoon terra firma cinnamon
2 eggs, separated
Whip the cream until soft peaks form, together with lay it inward the fridge.
Using a double boiler (or two-saucepan set-up) amongst hot H2O inward the lower saucepan, melt the chocolate together with butter, stirring continually. When the mixture is fully melted together with smooth, withdraw it from the rut together with allow it cool until "it is only slightly warmer than trunk temperature". Stir inward the cinnamon.
Whip the egg whites inward a carve upwards bowl until soft peaks form.
When the chocolate's laid upwards stir inward the egg yolks, thence 1 3rd of the whipped cream. Fold inward one-half the egg whites until only combined. Repeat amongst the remaining whites, thence the remaining cream.
Candied orangish rinds
(taken from this page at Epicurious)
3 large umbilicus oranges
1 loving cup castor sugar
Use a vegetable peeler to withdraw strips of rind from the oranges, avoiding every bit much of the white gist every bit possible. I flora that piece the strips were yet moist, it wasn't likewise hard to scrape the remaining gist from the strips amongst a knife. Slice the rinds into thinner strips. Place them inward a small-scale saucepan together with comprehend them amongst mutual depression temperature water. Bring them to the boil, thence drain the rind strips. Repeat this procedure amongst fresh water, thence pat the strips dry.
Over moderate heat, convey 2 cups of H2O together with the saccharide to boil, stirring until the saccharide is dissolved. Drop inward the rind strips together with simmer them until they soften together with larn translucent, stirring occasionally along the way. This volition accept close 25 minutes.
Take the saucepan off the rut together with allow it to cool. Drain the rinds - the original recipe instructs you lot to discard the syrup but I'm certain you lot tin honour something overnice to produce amongst it! (I'll possess got a recipe upwards inward a solar daytime or two.) Set a cake rack over a baking tray together with spread out the rinds across it to dry out properly. Give them an hr or thence - they'll yet move mucilaginous but much to a greater extent than manageable.
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