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 ginger.
It is healthier with the addition of protein rich chickpeas. And interesting with layers of nuts, crystallized ginger, and more.
I love recipes that blur the line between a meal and a dessert. This delicious mix is loaded with nutrition. And it's so easy to make! Perfect for a fresh breakfast or nutritious energizing snack. Are you ready to learn how to make it?
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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. This healthy fat is essential to bind the mousse and provide a creamy base.
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 lighter 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 the chilled can of coconut milk, scoop out all of the solid coconut cream and add to the blender. Refrigerate the leftover the milk or freeze in ice cube trays to add to future smoothies.
Step 2: To the blender, also add the peanut butter, maple syrup and chickpeas to the coconut milk 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 coconut 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.
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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Peanut Butter Mousse
Ingredients
Peanut Butter Mousse
- ½ cup peanut butter
- 4 tablespoon maple syrup
- ⅔ cup coconut milk (Use all the solid portion of a (14oz) can of full fat coconut milk)
- ¼ cup chickpeas (canned, unsalted)
Instructions
Prep
- Chill the can of full fat coconut milk overnight.
- Open a can of chickpeas, rinse - I use unsalted, bpa-free cans.
Make Peanut Butter Mousse
- Remove the solid portion of the chilled coconut milk can, reserving the liquid portion for smoothies. Add that solid cream to a blender, along with the peanut butter and maple syrup and chickpeas and whip into a creamy texture. Add water if the texture is too dry. It will depend on how runny your peanut butter is.
- Pour the blended mixture into 6-8 jars, with layers of yogurt or chocolate sauce or granola.
- Store jars in refrigerator until you are ready to eat. Keeps 4 days.
How to Serve Jars
- Sprinkle mousse with chocolate sauce, cacao nibs, nuts, candied ginger and any other toppings you like. Serve jars immediately.
Bianca Zapatka
Absolutely love this combo! 😍
Looks so delicious!
Dee Dine
Thank you Bianca!!
Ela
This chocolate mousse parfait is fantastic, Dee! And I love that it contains so many healthy ingredients
Dee Dine
Ela, so happy you like it!
Nisha
Yummm! You had me at nut butter coconut cream...two of my favorite ingredients!
Dee Dine
Thank you!