Posts tagged chocolate mousse

French Silk Chocolate Pie

french silk pie

For our Christmas dinner this year, Katrina and I decided to make a French Silk Pie for dessert. I’ve never heard of French Silk Pie before so she had to explain it to me.  Essentially, it’s a chocolate mousse cake… inside of a pie!

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Chocolate Ginger Cupcakes

chocolate ginger cupcakes topped with chocolate mousse

The first thing I had ever baked with Katrina were Raspberry Coconut Cupcakes topped with cream cheese frosting, toasted coconut, and raspberries.  It was one of the first weekends we had spent together in Chicago and was a memorable experience for me.  Katrina is typically the baking queen in this household, but this weekend I pulled out her favorite cupcake book and made one that she has never had before.  My baking performance was respectable, and the Chocolate Ginger Cupcakes with Dark Chocolate Mousse were lip smacking delicious.

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