This is an amazing looking and a very easy to make party favorite dessert. It uses the minimum ingredients possible and still manages to taste like heaven. You can always use some creative touches to decorate it and have some fun.
Chocolate Whipped Cream
Ingredients:
- 1 cup whipping cream(35% fat content)
- ¼ cup semi-sweet baking chocolate
Tips:
- Use ingredients at room temperature.
- All the bowls and utensils used must be dry.
- Before whisking put the pedals of the mixer in the freezer to get great whip cream peaks.
- Bain marie : a container holding hot water into which a pan is placed for slow cooking.
Directions:
1. Warm the whipping cream or heavy cream over a bain-marie and add coarsely chopped chocolate to the cream.
2. Stir with the spatula or whisk the mixture slowly until the lumps are gone.
3. Take the mixture off the heat and let it cool to room temperature.
4. Then, cover the bowl with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours or, till the time, the mixture becomes thick.
5. Take the mixture out of the refrigerator and whisk it with a hand mixer like a regular whip cream for a minute or so till it holds its peaks.
6. You can add a little icing sugar to the mixture while whisking to increase the sweetness and stiffness.
Vanilla Whipped Cream
Ingredients:
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 1/3 cup icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Tips:
1. Use ingredients right out of refrigerator.
2. Put the bowl and the paddles of the mixer you are going to use for whisking or beating the whipping cream in the freezer. It will help to attain the peaks fast.
Directions:
1. Beat the cream while slowly increasing the speed.
2. After almost 1 minute of beating the cream add the icing sugar and vanilla extract.
3. Then, beat the cream on high speed till you attain stiff peaks that can hold.
- Put the vanilla whipped cream and chocolate whipped cream in two separate piping bags and put them in the refrigerator for 2-3 mins, not more than that.
- Get your dessert glasses ready.
- Pipe the chocolate and vanilla whipped creams alternately in the glasses and top it with some chocolate chips or fruits or nuts.
- Cover them with a plastic wrap and refrigerate for an hour or two.
- Once ready take off the plastic wrap and serve.
