I promised another Daring Baker’s post soon!
The April 2011 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Evelyne of the blog Cheap Ethnic Eatz. Evelyne chose to challenge everyone to make a maple mousse in an edible container. Prizes are being awarded to the most creative edible container and filling, so vote on your favorite from April 27th to May 27th at http://thedaringkitchen.com!
I’m late for the contest, but I’m posting anyway, because these were delicious, and relatively easy, too! The maple flavor was prevalent but not overwhelming, and the texture of the mousse was divine.
I made the maple mousse (recipe here) and put it in an almond pizzelle bowl. I tasted the two of them together, and decided that both were pretty sweet and needed something salty to balance the flavor. I remembered the candied pecans that I have made before. The Official Taste Tester can’t eat pecans, but he can eat almonds. So I topped it with spicy, salty, slightly sweet almonds. The result was pretty, if I do say so myself.
If I were to make these again, I would probably try to cut down the sugar a bit in the pizzelles. However, these were still really tasty as is. While some of us used utensils to eat our mousse bowls, others couldn’t wait that long.
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