Rich and creamy Dairy-Free Chocolate Mousse is made with antioxidant rich dark chocolate. Even better? It’s made with only 5 ingredients. This recipe calls for dark chocolate, coconut milk, eggs, coconut sugar, and water. That’s it! I like to make this dessert during the summer months since it does not require an oven, but it’s a fabulous dessert all year round!
Summer is moving along for us over here. The boys made over $300 at their lemonade stand last weekend during the Mapleton Hill rummage sale. They ran the stand with 2 other friends and baked tons of cookies from scratch for their little business. I was so proud of them. Maybe at their next stand they’ll sell this high-protein, dairy-free chocolate mousse! I would love that.
Dairy-Free Chocolate Mousse
Ingredients
- ¼ cup water
- ¼ cup coconut sugar
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 4 large eggs, separated
- ½ cup cream from full fat coconut milk
Instructions
- In a medium pot heat water and coconut sugar to boiling
- Remove pan from stove and cool coconut sugar mixture for 8 minutes
- Add chocolate, stirring until melted
- In a separate bowl, beat egg yolks until pale yellow
- In another medium bowl beat egg whites to stiff peaks
- Stir egg yolks into chocolate mixture in pot
- Stir egg whites into chocolate-yolk mixture until well combined, then stir in coconut cream
- Spoon mousse into jars
- Place in refrigerator overnight to set
- Garnish with chocolate if desired
- Serve
Coconut cream is the semi-solid substance found on the top of a can of coconut milk. To ensure that you get a thick and solid coconut cream place a can of coconut in the refrigerator overnight, then scoop the cream off the top. Save the liquid at the bottom of the can for another use if you wish.
If you are on an egg-free diet, check out my Egg-Free Recipes page, as well as my Vegan Mocha Mousse recipe.
Here are some of my other paleo chocolate dessert recipes!
Luke says
Do the yolks cook from the heat in the chocolate mixture?
Elana says
Luke, probably not :-)
Christina says
Can you use regular sugar instead of coconut sugar?
Elana says
Christina, thanks for your comment! I haven’t cooked with white sugar since the 1990s so not sure :-)
Tracey says
Thank you so much for this DELICIOUS dairy-free mousse!!
Absolutely love it! And your directions are so direct and easy to follow!!
Elana says
Tracey, thanks so much for letting me know this is DELICIOUS!
Katie Turner says
Question: why add the egg yolk to the chocolate??
Also, why coconut sugar-water??
I’m asking because I’ve seen regular mousse recipes, where no sugar water was added, and they discarded the yolks
Thank you!
Elana says
Katie, the yolks make this super thick and rich :-)
Jessica T says
I’m wondering if this mousse would work in a chocolate mousse cake. When would you let it set; before or after you’ve put it in the cake layers?
Also, how much mousse does this recipe make?
Elana says
Jessica, thanks for your comment! I haven’t tried that so not sure. Here’s a link to a recipe that you might like:
https://elanaspantry.com/paleo-chocolate-pie/
It’s a pie, not cake, but easy to make and so delicious!
Elana