I saw this kit on the Williams-Sonoma website and was hoping to recreate the dessert, making it from scratch instead. I did an internet search for mousse recipes and found one that (I thought) looked good. I bought all of the ingredients...
...and washed all my champagne flutes...
I started with the dark chocolate, bottom layer. It worked perfectly! I was so proud. Since the mousse has to set, I knew this would be a semi-long process, but I thought it would be worthwhile. After the dark chocolate layer set, I moved on the milk chocolate. I followed the directions exactly, and the result was something more like chocolate soup...no good. So I threw it out and made a second batch. I made sure to pay even closer attention to the recipe...but I still ended up with chocolate soup!
At that point it was late, and I ran out of milk chocolate, and I was sad, so I called it a night. The next morning I went out for more chocolate (and consequently then found an additional hidden bag of milk chocolate in the back of my fridge), and made my third attempt. This time I adjusted the recipe to what I thought it should be, and it worked perfectly! As it turns out, the recipe I had found on the blog was incorrectly typed up. Not cool.
It was already getting kind of late and I still had to get ready for the party, so I sped through the white chocolate layer. I don't think the chocolate melted properly so the texture of that mousse layer wasn't what I wanted, but it tasted fine, so I went with it.
In my mad dash to get the dessert finished and dressed and out the door, I forgot to take pictures of the final result. But we can just pretend it looked just like the Williams-Sonoma ones....
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