Super Easy Chocolate Mousse

Ingredients:

2 cups Heavy Cream

1/4 cup Cocoa Powder

1 Tb Vanilla

1-2 Tb Stevia*

1/4 or so Flour

dash of salt

Squeeze of Agave Nectar (1-2 Tbs. usually)

I totally stumbled on this by accident. I don't even remember what I was trying to make at the time this was discovered. I think I was working on a pudding base, but hadn't introduced heat yet, anyway...

Mix heavy cream with vanilla, Stevia, Agave and dash of salt, I usually use a whisk to blend ingredients in this recipe. Add cocoa and check taste, modify to your preference for sweetness, or chocolate intensity. Then, here comes the really cool part. This is almost as good as blowing soap bubbles outside when it's below freezing, trust me, it's really that cool. I don't know what it is that does this, but when you mix white flour with the above liquid concoction, at just the right combination the flour makes the chocolate creamy goodness stiffen up into a lovely moussey cloud like confection. It's amazing. Here's how you do it, take your 1/4 cup of flour and add it gradually by sprinkling it over the top of your mixture whisking it in periodically. When you have the right mix it will thicken and you can stop, or add more if you want it thicker. It will thicken a bit more as it stands. Remember, cooking is an art, recipes are guidelines and screwing up is perfectly normal, you can always scrap it all and start again. Nobody will ever know.

Serving- You can eat it just as it is, or serve with fresh fruit, use it as a chocolate cream pie filling... The options are virtually endless. We LUV it, and it's wicked easy. I brought it to a potluck party one evening, big old bowlful of it and a bowl of fresh strawberries, served family style. Grab a strawberry, dip and oh the yum. It was a big hit.

*Stevia- I usually use a bulk brand of Stevia called, NuStevia by NuNaturals. This is not bulked up with fillers. If you are using a more commercially available brand like the Truvia packets, you will probably need around 10-16 packets depending on your sweetness preference.