Our Chocolate Mousse Cups recipe is an easy dessert recipe!
This Mini Chocolate Mousse Cups is a 3 ingredient dessert is perfect for kids snacks and Valentine's Day dessert!
How to Make Chocolate Mousse Cups
This is such an easy Mini Chocolate Mousse Cups Recipe, and we embellished it with red and pink Valentine's Day sprinkles to make it a Quick Valentine's Day dessert idea this time around!
However, you can make this sweet treat without the sprinkles, or use regular rainbow colored sprinkles and make it any time of year!
I love coming up with simple dessert ideas that be made quickly and easily with things you usually already have in the fridge, like our ever popular Easy M&Ms Sugar Cookie Bars! There is just something to be said for being able to make a quick sweet treat when the craving strikes!
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How to Make Mini Chocolate Mousse Cups
Here are the ingredients you need to gather to get started making this Mini Chocolate Mousse Cups Recipe:
- 1 cup chocolate chips, milk chocolate OR semi sweet
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream divided
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
Optional: Valentine sprinkles and candy hearts
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Directions for making this Mini Chocolate Mousse Cups Recipe
Place chocolate chips and ½ cup of whipping cream into a microwave safe bowl. Microwave at 100% powder for 60 seconds. Remove from microwave and stir until chocolate is completely melted.
Add vanilla and mix well. Set aside.
Add remaining 1-½ cups whipping cream and beat until stiff peaks form. Reserve ½ cup of whipped cream.
Pour chocolate into the whipped cream and mix well until evenly distributed.
Place chocolate mousse into a piping bag fitted with a large star tip and pipe into serving dishes.
Place the bit of reserved whipped cream into a small piping bag fitted with a star tip and pipe a small amount on the top of each serving of mousse.
Add your Valentine's day red and pink sprinkles and a little candy heart.
Refrigerate this simple dessert idea for 1 hour and serve or cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
How many servings does this 3 Ingredient Chocolate Mousse Cups Recipe make?
This Chocolate Mousse Cups Recipe makes 4 cups of prepared mousse, which equates to about 8, half cup servings.
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3 Ingredient Chocolate Mousse Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup chocolate chips milk chocolate OR semi sweet
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream divided
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Valentine sprinkles and candy hearts
Instructions
- Place chocolate chips and ½ cup of whipping cream into a microwave safe bowl. Microwave at 100% powder for 60 seconds. Remove from microwave and stir until chocolate is completely melted.
- Add vanilla and mix well. Set aside.
- Add remaining 1-½ cups whipping cream and beat until stiff peaks form. Reserve ½ cup of whipped cream.
- Pour chocolate into the whipped cream and mix well until evenly distributed.
- Place chocolate mousse into a piping bag fitted with a large star tip and pipe into serving dishes.
- Place reserved whipped cream into a small piping bag fitted with a star tip and pipe a small amount on the top of each serving of mousse.
- Add sprinkles and a little candy heart.
- Refrigerate for 1 hour and serve or cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Liz says
This was the easiest chocolate mousse I've ever made! Plus, it's so delicious!!!
Judi Price says
are we using semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips?
Jennifer says
You can use milk chocolate OR semi sweet. You can even use dark chocolate if you like, but I find that it is too rich for my taste.