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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Irish >> Irish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. First, make the base. | 2. Preheat oven to 350F; spray a 10-inch springform pan with nonstick cooking spray (like Pam) and set aside. | 3. In a saucepan over low heat, melt chocolate and butter; stir frequently. | 4. Remove from heat and stir in sugar, then stir in eggs, flour and baking powder; combine well until smooth. | 5. Spread in prepared springform pan and bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until just set; mine was perfect after 20 minutes. | 6. Set pan aside for base to cool. | 7. Next, make mousse. | 8. In a small saucepan, stir together gelatin, 1/2 cup sugar, 4 egg yolks (you'll need the whites too, see below) and the freshly squeezed juice. | 9. Cook over medium heat, constantly whisking, until slightly thickened, about 4 or 5 minutes. | 10. This mixture thickens more on cooling, so remove from heat just as it starts to thicken. | 11. Stir in zest. | 12. Pour mixture into a bowl (the pan retains too much heat) and place bowl in refrigerator just until mixture starts to set; this takes about 15 minutes or so. | 13. Meanwhile, beat reserved egg whites and second amount of sugar (1/2 cup) until mixture has stiff peaks. | 14. In another mixing bowl, beat whipping cream until stiff. | 15. Fold whipped cream gently into gelatin mixture (or fold gelatin mixture into whipped cream, I don't think it makes a difference), then fold this mixture into the stiffly beaten egg whites; be gentle but be thorough. | 16. Spread mousse over the cooled base. | 17. Cover and refrigerate for several hours until set, or overnight. | 18. To serve, place on round serving platter, run a knife around pan, between mousse and pan just to make sure it's not sticking (it shouldn't stick, though) and then remove the springform pan's side. | 19. Garnish as desired; raw lime slices look nice, as does rosettes of stiffly beaten whipped cream. | 20. It also looks good just plain. | 21. Lemon lovers can replace the juice and zest of the limes with freshly squeezed lemon juice and lemon zest. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	1/2	cup		684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
chocolate	3	ounces	unsweetened	401.436	30.7881	10.290999999999999	40.5689
sugar	1 1/4	cups		1007.475	251.995	0.0	0.0
egg	3			214.5	1.08	18.84	14.265
purpose flour	2/3	cup		-	-	-	-
baking powder	1/4	teaspoon		0.6095	0.3185	0.0	0.0
gelatin	1	packet	unflavored	-	-	-	-
sugar	1/2	cup		1007.475	251.995	0.0	0.0
egg	4		separated	214.5	1.08	18.84	14.265
lime juice	1/2	cup	squeezed	30.25	10.1882	0.5082	0.0847
lime zest	2	teaspoons	grated	-	-	-	-
sugar	1/2	cup		1007.475	251.995	0.0	0.0
whipping cream	1/2	cup		175.2	1.776	1.3019999999999998	18.546

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.