Comments on: Smooth Criminal Chocolate Mousse Tarts

By: Angeline

Angeline — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 20:01:27 +0000

The recipe works if you use date paste instead of rehydrated, dried dates. Sarah, you should update the recipe to call for 1/4 cup date paste instead of whole dates. Date paste is very affordable and plentiful in Middle Eastern or SWANA grocery stores. It’s meant for baking!

By: Sarah Britton

Sarah Britton — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 12:27:08 +0000

In reply to Leah S. Thanks for the feedback! Always looking to improve and perhaps I'll give this one another go!

By: Leah S

Leah S — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 17:04:39 +0000

I agree with others who have said this is a miss. It is nothing like chocolate mousse as the recipe is written. It’s really avocado pudding with a bit of cocoa and sweetener. I was making for Thanksgiving and had to look up another recipe. I was able to fix it by added 9 oz of dairy free semi-sweet and dark chocolate (melted first), almost a whole can of coconut milk and quite a bit extra cocoa powder and about 2 tsp vanilla. I don’t think this recipe, as is, should be advertised as chocolate mousse. Normally I love your recipes though!

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By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:01:13 +0000

In reply to Sally. I also had a terrible time with this recipe. My chocolate mousse was brown but the taste was terrible. It was so overwhelmingly avocado-y but with these weird hints of chocolate mixed with sweet. I don't know what happened as I tried to make the recipe exactly as you printed it. This is my first major fail with your posts as usually I find them divine.

By: Sally

Sally — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 11:18:38 +0000

In reply to LouAnn. I had the same result unfortunately. Perhaps blitzing the dates and sweetener first would make a difference and extra cacao power. This is the first time I've had a failed attempt. I've made many of of your recipes and loved them Sarah. It would be great to have some feedback if you ever check back in on old posts, I've been curious about this dish for a while!

By: LouAnn

LouAnn — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 05:14:52 +0000

Love your blog and recipes but had to tell you – this recipe is totally off! I thought upon reading that 4 avocados to 2 tbsp of raw cacao was wrong so I bumped it to 4. Still way off. I kept adding cacao powder until I could at least get the mousse color to turn chocolate brown – I think I got all the way to 8 but it’s still not great. I went a checked the quantities of your yummy raw choc milkshake miracle and you have 2 tbsp of cacao to 1 avocado. I cross checked against Cherie Soria’s (famous raw chef) choc mousse and she’s got 6 tbsp cacao to 1 avocado. With the dates and agave I wasn’t sure where else to adjust but bottom line… I think you’ve got a typo or two in there. Would love for you to check and repost. I was hoping for a great Xmas dessert and got a huge fail by the crowd. I see so many positive comments so I’m wondering what’s off. Maybe the size of your avocados are different than my large California haas avocados ??? Thx!!