Chocolate mousse with port wine plums

Name: Chocolate mousse with port wine plums
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 7 TABLESPOONS Milk; 180 g Dark chocolate; 350 g Whipped cream; 500 g Plums / plum plums (alternatively from the glass); 150 ml Port wine (alternatively cherry juice); 1 TABLESPOON Sugar; 1 package Vanilla sugar; 1 Cinnamon stick; 1 heaped tablespoon of cornflour

AUTHOR
Pat Ware

DIFFICULTY
very easy

RATING

COOK TIME
40 mins

TOTAL TIME
40 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 8

7 TABLESPOONS Milk
180 g Dark chocolate
350 g Whipped cream
500 g Plums / plum plums (alternatively from the glass)
150 ml Port wine (alternatively cherry juice)
1 TABLESPOON Sugar
1 package Vanilla sugar
1 Cinnamon stick
1 heaped tablespoon of cornflour

Directions

1
Warm the milk in a pot. Roughly chop the chocolate and melt in a hot water bath. Leave the chocolate on the water bath and let the milk slowly soak in while stirring constantly. Let it cool down.
2
Whip the cream until stiff. Carefully fold into the chocolate. Cover the mousse and chill for about 3 hours.
3
For the compote, wash, halve and stone the plums. Bring 200 ml water, port wine, sugar, vanilla sugar and cinnamon stick to the boil in a pot. Stir starch with 3 tbsp. water until smooth. Stir into the port wine mixture and bring to the boil again while stirring.
4
Add plums, bring to the boil and simmer for 2-3 minutes. Pour into a bowl and let it cool down.
5
Shape the mousse into balls with a large ice-cream scoop or form cams with two tablespoons. Arrange some plum compote with the mousse. Add the rest of the compote.