Hormone-Balancing Easy Chocolate Mousse Breakfast

A delicious, creamy nut butter treat made with an easy chocolate mousse that will help you balance hormones, boost your energy and easy to make!

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Easy Chocolate Mousse Breakfast

This easy chocolate mousse is both sweet and salty with layers of heavenly almond butter whipped cream and dark chocolate avocado mousse.

Also layers of nuts, quinoa, crystallized ginger, and more.

And it’s a hormone-balancing parfait. Isn’t that awesome? A delicious cup that is healthy and helps to balance hormones.

Did you know that chocolate helps to balance hormones? Yes, it does! And so do avocado, spinach, chia seeds, almonds, maca powder, and quinoa – all ingredients in this parfait.

How to Eat to Keep Hormones Balanced

Keeping your hormones balanced it important for everything from improved moods and energy to weight-loss, better skin and fertility, and even longer life.

It’s easy to throw them off these days. Trouble-makers include sugar, birth control, stress and lack of sleep. Even the absorption of BPA from the use of plastic.

But what you eat can greatly influence how balanced your hormones are. You can have some control by choosing certain foods. Read more detail about how eating these seven ingredients help balance hormones in my article here.

You can certainly eat those ingredients individually through out the day. However sometimes it’s convenient to have one simple recipe can cover that all at one time.

And that’s what this parfait does.

Tips to Make This Easy Chocolate Mousse

This easy chocolate mousse is easy to make, easy to eat, and even makes an elegant breakfast, snack or dessert.

It’s rich in taste and flavor. I do recommend you taste-test the sweetness of the mousse, adding more maple syrup if need be.

I make a whipped cream folded with nut butter which is light and delicious. I used almond butter, but other nut butters work as well, they just aren’t as key to balancing hormones. And the whipped cream is made with coconut cream yet it doesn’t taste coconut-y because I used light coconut milk. Full-fat has more of a coconut flavor and, of course, is heavier. I love coconut but you don’t want every recipe tasting like coconut.

Finally, one additional special perk in this recipe is the addition of homemade crystallized ginger chips.

Ginger itself is a wonderful detoxer, so it’s good for you! Now, crystallized ginger chips are a bit sugary, so they aren’t that healthy, but sure are fun. And you can add them here, or leave it off. I have however shared the homemade crystallized ginger chip recipe below in case you want to use it for your holiday recipes.

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Hormone Balancing Nut Cream Chocolate Mousse Parfait

A delicious, creamy nut butter treat that will help you balance hormones, boost your energy and easy to make!

Course Breakfast

Cuisine vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free

Keyword healthybreakfast, hormone-balance, nut butter, protein

Does it keep? 1 day refrigerated

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 5 minutes

Servings 4

Calories 181 kcal

Author Dee Dine

Ingredients

Easy Chocolate Mousse

• 2 medium avocados
• 1/4 cup baby spinach leaves
• 1 (3.5oz) dark chocolate bar (I also love quality chocolate by HU, Valrhona, Pascha, and Eating Evolved)
• 1/4 cup nut milk
• 1 tsp maca powder
• 2-3 tbsp maple syrup
• pinch of salt

Nut Butter Whipped Cream

• 1 cup coconut cream (the solid portion of a can of full fat coconut milk)
• 2 tbsp maple syrup
• 6 tbsp unsweetened almond butter (such as 365 Whole Food brand, or Barney Butter) (Or use sunflower butter to make it nut-free)

Crystallized Ginger

• 2-3 knobs of ginger peeled and sliced
• 3/4 cups of water
• 1/4 cup organic cane sugar

Toppings

• 3 tbsp popped quinoa
• 2 tbsp chia seeds

Useful Equipment

• 1 Blendtec Twister Jar
• 1 Mini Food Processor
• 1 Weck Parfait Jars

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Make Nut Butter Cream

1. Use a hand mixer to whip up the hard portion of the coconut milk can, and save the liquid portion for smoothies. Whip in other ingredients.

2. Pour the blended mixture into 2-3 parfait jars

3. And put jars in refrigerator while you make the chocolate avocado mousse.

Make Chocolate Avocado Mousse

1. Break up chocolate bar, and melt in microwave at 45 seconds, and stir until all bits are melted. (Or melt in a pyrex measuring cup that sits in a boiling water bath)

2. Put that and other mousse ingredients in a blender (I used a small blendtec jar), or in a mini food processor), and blend until creamy.

3. Pour this layer onto the butter cream layer in the parfait cups.
4. Dollop on some nut butter, or sunflower butter if you are making it nut-free.
5. Make the crystallized ginger (below), then top the parfaits with yogurt or more whipped cream.
   

How to make Crystallized Ginger:

1. Cut chunks of fresh ginger into 1-2 inch long logs.

   Peel the ginger using the edge of a spoon. Slice the logs long-wise with a mandolin (be careful!) or a paring knife.

2. Simmer the strips in simmering water for 30 minutes. Don't let the water run down.

   Drain the water, and pour on the sugar and toss the strips until they are well-coated.

   Lay the strips on a parchment overnight to dry at room temperature.

3. Store in a dry, airtight container - I'm not sure how long they would last since they have sugar on them. But if you refrigerate them, they become soggy. So we only make enough to eat that day. Let me know if you know a way to store homemade crystallized ginger chips.

   Some say they dry them in an oven that has been preheated to 350F, turned off, and with door open. I haven't tried that; not sure if the sugar will "cook".

How to Serve Jars

1. Sprinkle layered mousse with popped quinoa, cacao nibs, nuts, crystallized ginger and any other toppings you like.. Serve parfaits immediately.

Nutrition Facts

Hormone Balancing Nut Cream Chocolate Mousse Parfait

Amount Per Serving

Calories 181 Calories from Fat 108

% Daily Value*

Fat 12g18%

Saturated Fat 5g25%

Cholesterol 1mg0%

Sodium 11mg0%

Potassium 571mg16%

Carbohydrates 17g6%

Fiber 7g28%

Sugar 7g8%

Protein 3g6%

Vitamin A 323IU6%

Vitamin C 11mg13%

Calcium 31mg3%

Iron 1mg6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Dee Dine

Dee Dine is the recipe developer and writer behind Green Smoothie Gourmet. She shares her super healthy wholesome recipes on her blog and her Instagram that she feeds her family and friends. She gravitates toward recipes that are fast to create, plant-based, nutritious, easy, and use familiar ingredients. And chocolate is always a good idea! More about Dee.