Peanut Butter Mousse

A creamy peanut butter mousse light as a cloud, full of protein, and made with just four ingredients and layered with chocolate fudge, peanut butter, and topped with whipped cream and candied ginger.

This easy peanut butter mousse, high in protein thanks to chickpeas, and further boosted with fresh crystallized ginger chips on top.  This dessert is a wonderful combination of sweet and salty with layers of heavenly peanut butter whipped cream and dark chocolate and candied ginger. And it is full of protein thanks to chickpeas. No, you don't taste the beans!

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Ingredients

The traditional ingredients used to make a peanut butter mousse are coconut milk, maple syrup, and peanut butter. But I included an additional and highly nutritious ingredient, chickpeas. Here is a breakdown of all the ingredients needed to make peanut butter mousse:

1. Coconut cream. Chill the can of full fat coconut milk and scoop out the cream.

2. Maple syrup provides a refined free sugar.

3. Peanut Butter is the base of this recipe so I recommend a natural version, not the commercial kind which contains added sugar.

4. Chickpeas from a can, unsalted, adds protein and a creamy texture.

See the recipe card at the bottom for full information on ingredients and quantities.

Substitutions

Coconut cream. You can use yogurt instead of coconut cream for a thicker texture.

Maple syrup. Use any liquid sweetener or even brown sugar.

Chickpeas. Use yogurt instead of chickpeas.

Step by Step Instructions

For more detail, visit the complete and printable recipe at the bottom of this post, but here are general steps.

Preparations. Refrigerate the can of full fat coconut milk for a few hours or overnight so you can extract the solid layer of coconut cream the next day. Open an unsalted can of chickpeas and rinse them.

Step 1: Open a chilled can of full fat coconut milk, scoop out the cream and add to a blender. You'll need two cans to get 1 cup of cream.

Step 2: To the blender, also add the peanut butter, maple syrup and chickpeas and blend. Taste-test, to be sure it is sweet enough, and if not, add more maple syrup. And be sure the texture is creamy like a pudding. If not, add a bit of milk and blend again.

Step 3: Pour your mousse into jars, and layer with other ingredients. Enjoy now or refrigerate until ready to eat.

Recipe Tips

1. Be sure to use a runny natural peanut butter with no added sugar

2. Be sure canned chickpeas that are unsalted, in a BPA free can and have few other ingredients such as guar gum.

3. Be sure to chill the can of full fat coconut milk and use the cream only. Or use yogurt.

Variations

This pudding is fun to serve layered in clear jars. Choose different layers such as fudge sauce, yogurt, whipped cream.

Toppings to consider including whipped cream, yogurt, peanut butter, nuts, coconut flakes, chocolate chips and even candied ginger.

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