White Chocolate Mousse

This delicious, creamy white chocolate mousse is so easy to make and an absolute winner. You can set it as a cheesecake, pipe it into containers or straight onto your serving plate - it's so versatile.

With a smooth creamy base it goes well with many different sauces and garnishes to create a variety of different desserts.

Ingredients:

• 95ml fresh cream
• 170g (6 oz) white chocolate
• 250g (8 1/2 oz) cream cheese
• 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
• 190ml fresh cream

Method:

• Bring the first measure of cream to the boil.
• As soon as it starts to boil, turn off the heat and whisk in the white chocolate until completely smooth.
• Cool until it doesn't feel warm, but hasn't completely set hard.
• Beat the cream cheese until smooth, then gradually add in the chocolate mixture.
• Beat the remaining cream and vanilla essence to soft peaks.
• Fold into the cream cheese and chocolate mix.
• Pour or pipe into desired containers. 
• Chill to serve.

To see how to make the chocolate decorations used on this cake, see https://youtu.be/66WHzP0RnqE