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This Was My Favorite Dessert in NYC. Here’s How to Make It at Home | Bake Time | NYT Cooking

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The silky chocolate mousse from Penny, a restaurant in Manhattan’s East Village, is bliss on a plate. Vaughn adapted the recipe for home kitchens, so you can make it no matter where you are.

This dessert is perfect for February’s Monthly Bake, because what’s sexier than mousse? The recipe comes from the chef Joshua Pinsky of Penny, and its sister restaurant, Claud. More of an aerated chocolate custard than a traditional mousse, this treat is silky and luxurious, thanks to a small yet integral amount of olive oil. It’s topped with candied hazelnuts for a bit of crunch and more sweetness.

With just a few ingredients, you’ve got yourself an easy showstopper to woo your friends and lovers for Valentine’s Day.

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35 Comments

  1. Name I don't recognize recreates NYC item claimed to be the best. $10 says "NYC’s Best" means "Lower Manhattan's Most Expensive". Am I right?

  2. Vaughn you are so charming and gorgeous and wonderful and you seem like you make wherever you go nicer. Thank you for making life sweeter.

  3. Perfect mousse recipe and texture. Definitely giving this one a try. Love my Bake Time emails ♥️♥️♥️

  4. This is not a mousse recipe, it's just a chocolate cremeux or a chocolate creme anglaise, which could eventually be transformed into a mousse if you were to add a meringue or some whipped heavy cream to it to add in some air. There's no air in the recipe whatsoever, so for me it's not a mousse.

  5. I'd LOVE to see your take on standard staging designs for realty listings. Because FFS, they are so boring, misunderstand Scandinavian design into something utterly lifeless, and the lack of colour! I once saw a listing that I thought was photographed in black and white. Until I saw the magazines on the coffee table. It was all millennial grey, so disturbing.

  6. Vaughn👏🏼👏🏼❤️ 1: Leather pants and Chocolate🔥🔥 2: great haircut and beard trim🥰 3: may I have a shot of Cointreau and an espresso with that.. Holy Trinity🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️

  7. So at minute 15:50 back in the restaurant they are squirting some kind of liquid over the finished mousse. Did I miss where the video explained what that is?

  8. Ingredients
    FOR THE MOUSSE:
    2 large egg yolks, at room temperature
    1 cup/240 grams heavy whipping cream
    ½ cup/125 grams whole milk
    ¼ cup/85 grams corn syrup
    7 ounces/200 grams bittersweet chocolate (65 to 75 percent), coarsely chopped
    ¼ cup/56 grams unsalted butter, cubed, at room temperature
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    ½ teaspoon kosher salt (such as Diamond Crystal) or ¼ teaspoon fine salt
    1 ½ tablespoons olive oil

  9. This reminds me of the chocolate mousse that they used to serve in the first French restaurant that I ever worked in Boston, in 1975.

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