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Chocolate Mousse Pie with Chocolate Crumb Crust

Recipe for Chocolate Mousse pie made with silken tofu. This pie is excellent and contains no dairy in the filling. You can skip the crust if you wish and just put the filling in stem glasses or ramekins.

Yield: Makes 8 - 12 servings

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Ingredients

Crust Ingredients
25 chocolate wafers (Nabisco brand)
6 tablespoons unsalted butter or margarine

Pie Ingredients
1(16-ounce) package Azumaya Silken Tofu (drained)
12 ounces good quality semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate cut into small pieces
2 to 4 tablespoons sifted powdered sugar if desired
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

1 Whipped cream or non-dairy whipped topping Chocolate shavings or curls

Instructions

Crust
Put chocolate wafers in a food processor and blend until fine.
Melt butter.
Mix butter and crumbs in a small bowl.
Press mixture into bottom and sides of a 9" x !/2" tart pan with a removable bottom.
Chill for 30 minutes

Pie
Microwave chocolate in microwavable bowl on MEDIUM-HIGH (50%) for 1 to 3 minutes, stirring occasionally until melted and smooth.

Puree tofu in food processor; add melted chocolate and powdered sugar; process until completely blended, scraping sides down. Add vanilla; blend well.

Turn mixture into crust.

Chill 1 hour or until set. Garnish with whipped cream and shavings. Let stand at room temperature for 15 minutes, uncovered, before serving (to enhance the flavor).

Standard Mousse Notes
A standard chocolate mousse requires cooking the egg yolks and chocolate mixture, then beating the egg whites separately and folding them into the cooled mixture. This version requires a minimum of 3 hours to chill. All in all, considerably more effort than this quick tofu method.

Nutritional information

Nutrition Comparison Chart

1 Serving of the tofu mousse (without crust or whipping creme) compared to one serving of a standard mouse.
	Mousse (Tofu)	Mousse
Calories	210	340
fat	13.5 grams	21.5 grams
saturated fat	7 grams	13 grams
cholesterol	0	162 mg
carbohydrate	26 grams	23
protein	4.5 grams	5.8 grams
sodium	0	102 mg
sugars	18 grams	32.5 grams
dietary fiber	3.75 grams	3.5d grams

A traditional chocolate mousse is made with eggs, butter, sugar and chocolate. In order to compare the two products equally we are only comparing the "filling" of the Mousse Pie with the standard Mousse.

Posted: 10/3/2011 5:24:00 PM

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