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Mini Raspberry Mousse Chocolate Cups and a #chocolateparty

Mini chocolate cups filled with creamy raspberry mousse. An elegant low carb dessert recipe for any occasion.

Low Carb Mini Raspberry Mousse Chocolate Cups

It’s no secret that I love chocolate.  I think I’ve made it abundantly clear here on All Day I Dream About Food. I’d venture a guess that close to half of the recipes on this blog feature chocolate in some form or another.  And it would not be stretching the truth to say that I regularly send my thanks up to the food gods that chocolate, real chocolate, is low carb.  Because I would be a very unhappy woman if chocolate couldn’t be a part of my life.  Chocolate is happiness.

But you know who really loves chocolate?  Like, is totally obsessed with chocolate?  My friend Roxana from Roxana’s Home Baking. Yeah, she loves chocolate like no one else I know.  It’s a common bond between us.  I won’t go so far as to say that she loves chocolate more than I do, but it’s pretty amazing how much she loves chocolate.  And now she’s hosting a chocolate party and inviting you to be a part of it.  In honour of the occasion, she’s taken chocolate recipes from each of her favourite bloggers and recreated them herself. She made my Brownie Cheesecake and even stayed true to the low carb sweeteners (yay Rox!).  And she’s gathered some fantastic prizes for you to win.

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Low Carb Mini Raspberry Mousse Chocolate Cups
I also thought I’d make another chocolate treat to share, in honour of Roxana’s Chocolate Party.  These sweet little guys took some creative problem solving for me.  The raspberry mousse was the easy part.  But simply melting some high % cacao chocolate for the cups wasn’t going to cut it.  It was too runny when warm and wouldn’t stick to the sides of my chocolate molds.  So my solution was two-fold. One was to add a bit of cocoa powder to thicken the melted chocolate, making it easier to “paint” up the sides of the cups.  The second was to use mini parchment paper muffin cups as the molds.  These are some of my favourite muffin papers because they are incredibly non-stick, making it incredibly easy to peel them off muffins.  I hoped they would come away from hardened chocolate cups as easily. And thankfully, after 30 minutes in the freezer, they peeled off so nicely I will be able to reuse them again!
Low Carb Mini Raspberry Mousse Chocolate Cups
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Low Carb Mini Raspberry Mousse Chocolate Cups

 

Low Carb Mini Raspberry Mousse Chocolate Cups
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Mini Raspberry Mousse Chocolate Cups
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Chill Time
2 hrs 30 mins
Total Time
3 hrs 5 mins
 
Mini chocolate cups filled with creamy raspberry mousse. An elegant low carb dessert for any occasion.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Dessert
Servings: 12 mini cups
Calories: 126 kcal
Ingredients
Chocolate Cups:
Raspberry Mousse:
  • 1 cup frozen raspberries
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 tsp gelatin
  • 1 cup whipping cream
  • 1/3 cup powdered Swerve Sweetener or other powdered erythritol
  • 1/2 tsp raspberry extract or Raspberry Emulsion
Instructions
  1. For the chocolate cups, melt chocolate over low heat in a small saucepan. Stir in cocoa powder until smooth.
  2. Line a mini muffin pan with 12 mini parchment baking cups. Divide melted chocolate into prepared muffin cups, then gently spread the chocolate up the sides with the back of a spoon. Try to coat the sides as thickly and evenly as possible.
  3. Place in freezer until solid, about 30 minutes.
  4. For the mousse, combine berries and water in medium saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a gentle simmer and cook until berries are soft.
  5. Place a fine-mesh sieve over a bowl and add berries and liquid to sieve. Press on berries to extract as much liquid as possible. Return juices to saucepan.
  6. Add lemon juice and gelatin and heat on low until gelatin dissolves. Let cool to lukewarm but don't let it jellify.

  7. In a large bow, beat whipping cream, Swerve and raspberry extract or emulsion until it forms stiff peaks.

  8. Fold in cooled berry/gelatin mixture, then pipe or spoon into chocolate cups. Refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours.
Recipe Notes

Serves 12. Each serving has 5g of carbs and 2g of fiber. Total NET CARBS = 3g.

Other nutritional info: 126 Calories; 12g Fat (80.8% calories from fat); 2g Protein; 5g Carbohydrate; 2g Dietary Fiber; 27mg Cholesterol; 10mg Sodium.

Nutrition Facts
Mini Raspberry Mousse Chocolate Cups
Amount Per Serving (1 g)
Calories 126 Calories from Fat 108
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 12g 18%
Cholesterol 27mg 9%
Sodium 10mg 0%
Total Carbohydrates 5g 2%
Dietary Fiber 2g 8%
Protein 2g 4%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Please note that I am not a medical or nutritional professional. I am simply recounting and sharing my own experiences on this blog. Nothing I express here should be taken as medical advice and you should consult with your doctor before starting any diet or exercise program.I provide nutritional information for my recipes simply as a courtesy to my readers. It is calculated using MacGourmet software and I remove erythritol from the final carb count and net carb count, as it does not affect my own blood glucose levels. I do my best to be as accurate as possible but you should independently calculate nutritional information on your own before relying on them.I expressly disclaim any and all liability of any kind with respect to any act or omission wholly or in part in reliance on anything contained in this website.

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Comments

  2. Soooo pretty! How on earth do you stop at one?!

    BTW, do you have a favorite chocolate? And is there anything to keep in mind if using frozen raspberries? Or is that not a good option? (I have a bag in the freezer as I type.)

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    • Frozen raspberries are just fine…but strangely, they contain more carbs I haven’t been able to figure that one out!

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      • I wonder if its a measurement issue – 1 cup of frozen raspberries may actually contain more fruit than fresh? That seems logical if they are measured thawed. FWIW, the bag I have says 16 gm per cup/4 gm fiber, which is pretty close to fresh – though they seem to magically lose 4 gm of fiber during freezing … maybe freezing makes the fiber more nutrionally available as carbohydrate? If you ever have a chat with a food scientist, I’d love to know what she/he says!

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  9. question, is the (3.5 oz high % cacao chocolate, chopped) sweetened or unsweetened chocolate?
    Thank you, these look devine!

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  13. These look like the perfect bite, and I love the combination of chocolate and raspberries. I may have to wait for the weather to get a little cooler here before trying these, but then again, there are worse things in life than having to lick melted chocolate off your fingers. 🙂

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    • That surprises me! I make stuff like this all the time with the paper chef parchment cups and they practically fall out. Maybe try the Paperchef brand?

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  18. Hi Carolyn
    These look fabulous – I’m going to be making them for a baby shower this weekend. Question…I keep reading the instructions over and over again and I’m not sure I understand. After you put the raspberries in the sieve, squeeze out the liquid and put the juices back in the pan, what do you do with the leftover raspberries that are in the sieve? Thanks!

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    • You discard the solids. Or actually, I usually spoon a bit of them into my mouth. It’s mostly just raspberry seeds but I still like it.

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  19. Hi could I make these into small chocolates by putting the mousse into small blobs on a sheet and freezing them , then dipping in melted chocolate?

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