You know how sometimes you meet someone and instantly you feel like you’ve known them your entire life. LeAnn Rice is one of those people. From the time I first met her several months ago, I’ve felt like we had an instant connection. So when I got the chance to read her cookbook when it came out last week, I felt like I was having a chat with an old friend. I always say we Southerners express our love for one another by cooking for each other? Well, LeAnn and I are kindred spirits in that belief. Her new book, The Loving Kitchen, is about sharing the recipes that she uses to welcome in and love on her neighbors, family, and community. She’s the delightful and inspiring voice behind the blog, LeAnn Cooks.
The book is filled with amazing recipes. From her Chicken and Harvest Vegetable Soup and Sunday Pork Roast to her Hummingbird Cupcakes and Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars, it really has something for everyone. And if the amazing food doesn’t get you, LeAnn’s approachable narrative and inspiration stories will. She’s a wonderful person with a mouthwatering book – I just know it will be a welcome addition in your home.
The amazing folks at Nelson Books/Thomas Nelson are giving away 3 copies to lucky Southern Bite readers! Scroll to the bottom of the post for entry details.
I’ve dogeared so many pages in this book it’s crazy. There’s just so much good food. In trying to find a recipe to share here on Southern Bite, I wanted it to be easy and not require a bunch of ingredients. This Chocolate Mouse fits the bill perfectly. Requiring only four ingredients you can have DELICIOUS Chocolate Mousse in no time. There a no eggs in this recipe and there aren’t any fancy techniques or double boilers either. If you can whip cream, you can make this Chocolate Mousse. But this recipe doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of all that is in the amazing book. Try this recipe and get your copy today!
Recipe Card
Chocolate Mousse
Ingredients
- 2 cups heavy cream, divided
- 1 cup dark chocolate chips
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
Instructions
- Heat 1/2 cup of the heavy cream in a microwave-safe cup and microwave on high for 1 minute or until very hot to the touch. Put the chocolate chips in a large bowl and pour the hot cream over the chips. Set aside for 5 minutes.
- Pour the remaining 1 1/2 cups heavy cream into a large bowl. Add vanilla and confectioner's sugar and beat with a hand mixer or in a stand mixer until stiff peaks form.
- Stir the chocolate cream mixture until you have a smooth and creamy mixture and set aside to cool for 20 minute4s. Now do your best not to eat the entire bowl with a spoon. It will be tempting, but don't do it. (Okay, maybe a little lick... just not the entire bowl.)
- Gently fold one quarter of the whipped cream into the chocolate mixture. Add another quarter or the whipped cream and fold into the chocolate. Add the remaining whipped cream and fold until combined.
- At this point you can put the mixture into a piping bag and pipe into chocolate shells or spoon the mixture into individual pudding cups or wine glasses. Cover and chill. Garnish with berries, whipped cream, chocolate curls, etc.
- Now you can lick the bowl!
* If nutritional values are provided, they are an estimate and will vary depending on the brands used. The values do not include optional ingredients or when ingredients are added to taste. If calorie count and other nutritional values are important to you, I recommend grabbing your favorite brands and plugging those ingredients into an online nutritional calculator.
Jan
What percentage of cocoa do you use for the chocolate chips. It looks delicious, but without a lot of added sugar, I just wanted to make sure how dark of a chip would be best. Thanks so much for the recipe!
The dark chips I found were about 53%.
Alice
This looks so fr———-king good, and I love chocolate. I can’t wait to make it
Ha! Enjoy!
Eva
Hi there,
I’m going to make this chocolate mousse recipe for a ladies night I’m wondering if I can make it 1 to 2 days before and leave it in the fridge. Thanks and looks delicious!
Hi Eva, the night before should be fine but anymore and I think it would start to separate.
Kirsten
I made this and I’ve never made a mousse before. When you said “stiff peaks” I thought the cream and sugar would get firmer and I ended up whipping it too much and it became liquid. I had to make a second batch. So to all you 1st timers like me you just want FLUFFY peaks of cream, and then stop any more whipping and it’s ruined.
Eva
Hi Kirsten, Could it be put in the fridge 1 or 2 days ahead of time or do you think it would separate? Thanks!
Carol
Can you tell me how many servings this makes?
Hi Carol! The recipe says it makes 6 to 8 servings, but it really depends on the serving size.
Joanne
Is it too late to enter to win the cookbook? It looks like an outstanding book and I would love to win one.
Thanks for all your great recipes and for the giveaway.,
Deirdre Campbell
Cool! Thanks for sharing!
jennifer
Would love to win a new cookbook. I am always looking for new things to cook.
Ginger Hackney
Will definitely make this – good for low carb dessert! Would really love to win this great cookbook too.
Dana Y.
I would love to win a copy! Yum!!!
Mippy/Sabrina
The mousse looks deliiiicious! I ordered your book and it’s on it’s way so if I win I will share this copy with one of my lucky friends. 😉
Annette
That mousse looks and sounds delicious. I love easy recipes like that.
Vickie
I wish I had a bowl of your yummy looking chocolate mousse right NOW! Looks delicious..can’t wait to make it..and, this is a great cookbook and giveaway..thanks for the chance to win.
Thanks, Vickie! It’s so easy!
Kelly J
This recipe looks heavenly!
Bettie Martin
This recipe looks delicious. Thanks for the opportunity to win a copy of this cookbook!
April V
Your recipe looks HEAVENLY & I would love to have this cookbook!
Lynda Redman
Always lookin for a new book full of yummy recipes
barbara n
I subscribe to Leanne’s blog and love all her recipes! Would love to add this cookbook to my collection!
David Bell
Looks great
Terri
I’ve already put both cookbooks on my wish list! I really enjoy the tone and variety of both blogs, so I know I will enjoy the cookbooks. Would love to win one…
keshakeke
This recipe looks delicious! I can’t wait to try it!
Judy
A delicious looking dessert!!
Elizabeth
I can’t wait to make this chocolate mousse.. I love anything chocolate. Love your blog and have made so many of your recipes with good results. Thanks for a great giveeway.
Martha Aron
YUMMMM
Leslie Stover
This looks like a wonderful cookbook. Thanks for the chance to win!
Debbie Caraballo
Would love to have this cookbook! The recipe you shared looks soooo good, and beautiful presentation. Thanks for the chance to win!
Becky (central oregon)
I need some fresh ideas before the het gets to much here…
Margaret Jebe
LeAnn’s new book looks like an amazing addition to my collection! Always looking for the latest books! Still loving my copy of your book, Stacey!!!
Angela Woodie
Southern Bite is the best.
Cheryl Sanders
I’m not a huge fan of so much chocolate but this looks so good! I would love to win a copy of this cookbook 🙂
Thank you Stacey! Southern Bite is AWESOME!!!
Charlotte
Would love to win the cookbook! I’m sure I would love it like I do Southern Bite and Southern Plate!!
Melissa
That mousse looks divine! Definitely bookmarking this!
Joanne
I am definitely making this Mousse recipe for my boys!
Linda C. Seal
I tell ya, I am a southern cook born, bread, raised in the South. I was told yesterday by my son’s girlfriend “Ms. Linda I do not know what you do to your cooking and how you season it but I love everything you make.” I just smiled and said that it comes from my mamma , my grandmas, aunts and some uncles too. It is simply Southern cooking and that is alright by me. This cookbook looks amazing and I am such a lover of chocolate. Cannot wait to make this!
Cathy Perez
Can’t wait to make this Chocolate Mousse recipe, love your blog.
J. Watts
I enjoy your blog so much.
Would love to win this cookbook, too.
God Bless you and your family!
Theresa
Looks wonderful and I would LOVE to win that cookbook. I absolutely have a cookbook addiction!!
H m
I spent most of this weekend cooking & would love even more recipes to put in the rotation for the summer. Chocolate mousse is on the list for this weekend!
Tina
Beautiful cookbook! The Chocolate Mousse looks delicious!
Tracey Pullum
The chocolate Mousse looks great, and not really full of a lot of sugar. My husband and I both enjoy the Southern Bite Cookbook, and The Loving Kitchen looks very nice as well.
Ashton Christie
If it has to do with food I’m there. especially recipes and cookbooks. At this point in my life I would need to be rich and live a 1000 years to cook all the recipes I have saved!!
Enjoy your blog and recipes keep up the good work!
Sylvia
I LOVE Cookbooks and enjoy cooking more at age 78, than I did when we were raining our children, and I credit the Food Channels for my new found inspiration.. The shows are great, and I enjoy watching the home cooks compete as much as I enjoy the pros.
Annie
Despite being a girl from Australia, I am having a love affair with Southern Food which I have introduced to friends and family whom I have also converted. Just love it!
Margaret
I do love cookbooks. Being an Alabama cook, I just know I would love this one.
Denise
I believe that you can truly never own enough cookbooks. I’d love to win this to add to my collection of awesome cookbooks. Food connects us all, regardless of where we live, age, gender etc,. and I love sitting around talking to total strangers about the best thing they’ve ever eaten. By the time we part ways, I’ve usually made a friend through talking about food. 🙂 By the way, the mousse looks fabulous, but do you have a white chocolate version?
Ashley
This looks absolutely amazing & delicious!!!! 🙂
MARSHA G
I would love to win a new cookbook it would be so awesome to go through and read. I read cookbooks like people read novels
Cindy B
Look delicious, I love chocolate!
Sabrina
Love Southern Bite.com, love chocolate mousse, love getting new cookbooks!!!
Karen Ostrom
I’m so glad I double checked I can’t believe I wasn’t following you on pinterest, but got that corrected, love your blog and all of your recipes and of course I would I’m a southern girl
karen miller
This looks great! I want to make it for my family tonite.
IveA
Looks YUMMY!!!, but I can’t ate chocolaty. Pity :'(
Donna Amick
I would love a copy of the cookbook and I also enjoy your recipes. Thank you.
Rosalie
Would love to win, but don’t do Facebook, Pintrest, Twitter….so guess I’m out of luck. Too Bad.
Judy
It looks yummy! Would love to win a copy!
The Better Baker
This short-ingredient easy recipe is right up my alley! Love how you piped it into jars too…very nice. Making soon. Thanks for a great giveaway.
Kim
I am new to your site but I love all of the simple recipes you have for amazing food. Food is what brings my family together. I am always on the look out for something different. Thank you for sharing.
karen cotton
Joy is in my kitchen with lots of smiles when cooking with SOUTHERN BITE. :)My family loves SOUTHERN. BITE
Earlene
I read a sample of her book on my kindle yesterday. Very interesting and loving book! I would love to win a copy, maybe I would pass it on and share the joy!!m Just maybe!LOL!!! I love your website, I just found last week and I am a new subsciber! Thank you!!