Chocolate Mousse Pie

Total Time: 1 min Preparation Time: 1 min

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 25 chocolate wafer cookies, crushed (1 1/3 cups)
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 4 eggs, separated
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup brandy
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 5 unsweetened chocolate squares
• 1 square semisweet chocolate
• 6 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1/4 cup cold strong coffee
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 3/4 cup heavy cream
• cordial cherries

Recipe

• 1 lightly butter an 8 or 9" springform pan. line sides with 3" x 8" strips of wax paper, butter paper.
• 2 combine cookie crumbs and melted butter ina small bowl. press mixture onto bottom and 1" up side of pan. chill.
• 3 combine egg yoks, 3/4 c sugar, brandy, vanilla and salt intop of double boiler. place over simmering water; beat with hand mixer at high speed until thick and pale yellow, about 8 minutes. turn into a large bowl.
• 4 melt unsweetened and semisweet chocolate in bowl over simmering water. remove bowl from water, beat in softened butter, 1 t at a time. gradually beat chocolate mixture into egg yolk mixture until smooth. mixture will thicken slightly. stir in coffee: reserve.
• 5 beat egg whites inlarge bowl with electric mixer until foamy . gradually beat in the remaining 2t sugar until meringue forms soft peaks. stir a small amount of the meringue into the chocolate mixture to thin. gradually fold in the remaining meringue until no streaks of remain.
• 6 beat heavy cream in a small bowl until stiff; fold into chocolate mixture. pour into prepared pan. chill over night. with a sharp knife loosen wax paper from pan; release spring and remove side of pan; remove wax paper. garnish with cordial cheeries.
• 7 cordial cherries.
• 8 soak 13 maraschino cheeries with stems in 1/4 c brandy in a small bowl, place in freezer. when cherries are frozen remove from brandy and wipe with paper toweling. melt 4 squares semisweet chocolate; quickly dip frozen cherries into chocolate holding by the stem and swirling until completely covered. the chocolate will harden almost immediately. refrigerate.