Name of Item: Chocolate Mousse Pie with
Grand Marnier Sauce
Yield: 12
Portion Size: 1/12 pie plus 2 oz. sauce
Actual
Ingredients
Weight
Measure
For Crust: Chocolate graham
crumbs
2 cups
Melted butter
½ cup
For Filling: Semi-sweet chocolate
Forecasted Yield:
Weight
Measure
1#
Eggs, large
2 ea
Egg yolk
4 ea
Whipping cream
1 pint
Powdered sugar
6 Tbsp
Egg whites, room temp
4 ea
For Sauce:
Milk, 2%
1.5 pints
Cornstarch
1 oz
Sugar
6 oz
Whipping Cream
6 oz
Eggs, large
1 ea
Grand Marnier Liqueur
¼ cup
Pre-Preparation
1. For crust, combine crumbs and melted butter. Press on bottom of a 10-inch spring form pan.
Refrigerate.
2. For filling, soften chocolate on top of double boiler over simmering water. Let cool to Luke
warm (90 degrees F). Add whole eggs and mix well. Add yolks and mix till blended
3. Mix cream with powdered sugar and whip till soft peaks. Beat egg whites until stiff but not
dry. Stir a little of the cream and egg whites into the chocolate mixture to lighten. Fold in
the remaining cream and whites until completely incorporated.
4. Pour into crust and chill for at least 6 hours. For sauce, bring milk and cream to boil. Whip
sugar, cornstarch and egg together in bowl. Whip approx. 12 oz. of hot milk mixture to
sugar mixture and pour back into milk mixture. Turn off heat and mix well. Cool. Add
Grand Marnier.
TO ORDER/PORTION
1. Release spring form pan. Cut pie into 12 pieces.
2. Plate 2-oz. sauce. Place pie on sauce and design with chocolate sauce.