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quatre_vingts in vegancooking

fluffy mousse

Jun 24, 2006 22:01

Is there any way to make fluffy vegan mousse using more common, basic ingredients like tofu, agar, flax goo, etc? I know there's Hip Whip and the aseptic Soyatoo that mimics whipping cream, but those things are kinda pricey/hard to find. It seems all of the "mousse" recipes I find (silken tofu + melted chocolate) are really more like pudding, too ( Read more... )

desserts-puddings, desserts-mousse

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webtar June 25 2006, 03:39:01 UTC

If you have a good hand mixer you can really fluff up the silken tofu/melted chocolate chip recipe into something wonderful. It just takes 5 or so minutes of fluffing.

o rly quatre_vingts June 25 2006, 03:47:26 UTC

Thanks, that's good to know. Say I make some tonight and keep it in the fridge; will it stay fluffed for the next few days?

Re: o rly webtar June 25 2006, 04:03:55 UTC

I remember mine being pretty fluffy for a day, it never lasted longer than that though!

Re: o rly zaftigvegan June 25 2006, 04:09:21 UTC

the non-vegan whipped cream mousses never lasted longer than a day, either.
:)

i love my kitchenaide standmixer now, so much, because it can do this whipping thing like my hand mixer never could. it is a goddess. :)

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grignoter June 25 2006, 13:54:17 UTC

My chocolate mousse is pretty much just choc and silken tofu, and it's never failed me yet!

I make it by melting dark choc in a bowl over boiling water with some soya cream and a good dollop of golden syrup - that makes the chocolate a bit more goopy and less solid in the first place! I find mixing it well (until it bubbles) in a blender leaves it at perfect mousse consistency - might be a bit harder if you're mixing by hand though?

quatre_vingts June 26 2006, 19:00:04 UTC

What's soya cream? Like thicker soymilk? (I've seen so many different references to "soy(a) cream that I'm never sure what the person's referring to!)

grignoter June 26 2006, 19:24:10 UTC

It's like thicker soya milk, but the stuff I use is marketed as cream. I assume it's just got more soya beans and less water in!

This website shows something like what I buy in the supermarket:
http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/cgi-local/frameset/detail/661778.html
Although I'm pretty sure mine says Soya Cream on not Soya Dream, but I think it might be the same thing.

Probably the recipe would work with soya milk if you didn't use too much.