grandma's cookbook . . . Easy Chocolate Mousse on National Mousse Day

 

Today is National Mousse Day, so even though I have shared this recipe before, since it is mousse day, I thought I'd share it again . . . and what could be more delicious than chocolate mousse?!!! It can be complicated and a bit tricky to make chocolate mousse, so I found an easy delicious  recipe for mousse from Betty Crocker - I have made this before and it is easy and tasty - a great way to celebrate National Mousse Day!

So, on this National Mousse Day, let's also look at a few fun mousse facts and also some chocolate facts . . . did you know . . . 

• The invention of electric mixers led to the widespread popularity of mousse — it is assumed that the first mixer with an electric motor was invented by Rufus Eastman in 1885.
• Fish mousse, paired with bread and butter, used to be a much sought-after meal in America — although it has lost its popularity in recent times, fish mousse is still served as a party dip, by esteemed mousse aficionados.
• Aventura Mall in Miami set a Guinness World Record for the largest chocolate mousse, by preparing a mousse weighing about 496 pounds.
• Eggs and cream when beaten to perfection form air bubbles that give mousse its light and airy texture.
• Mousse can be frozen to make ice cream, as well as served hot.
• Mayans named chocolate ‘food for the gods,’ and it was served as a drink alongside human sacrificial blood.
• 400 chocolate beans are needed to make just one pound of chocolate.
• Chocolate beans grow in pod-like structures, quite similar to cotton, so chocolate is kind of a vegetable — albeit by a stretch.

You will learn more about chocolate and National Mousse Day at this link and this link - enjoy!