I just love it when Pantone pantone.com comes up with a color of the year that I can relate to.
So, any great mocha moose recipes out there that are trued and true by you?
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I’m not sure how I feel about Mocha Mousse. On the one hand, I am happy to see something besides gray but OTOH…it looks a little moose poopy to me
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lol. My reaction was “oh, brown.”
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Never mind.
Thx for saying what I was trying to keep inside 
Never stopped anyone from eating chocolate mousse or chocolate ice cream
Never had mocha mousse, but perk up your favorite chocolate mousse recipe with some coffee powder or Kahlua and you should be good to go.
The Herve This recipe with espresso or coffee instead of water as the base, for example.
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/death-by-chocolate-mocha-mousse-recipe-1908600
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/sandra-lee/mocha-mousse-2118766
I mad 3 versions of chocolate mousse decades ago for a dinner party. Using the M.F.K. Fisher Time-Life Foods of the World: The Cooking of Provincial France recipe. The basic chocolate mousse recipe there calls for 6 ounces of semi sweet chocolate chunks, 3 tbs of strong coffee, 4 egg yolks, 4 egg whites, 2 tbs cognac, 1/4 c sugar, 8 tbs. butter.
So the first was this recipe, which didn’t taste much like mocha; the coffee just enhanced the chocolate taste. Then I made a white chocolate version, same recipe, no coffee, substitute white chocolate. For the mocha version, I used a chocolate bar infused with coffee, so the coffee taste was much stronger and the color a lighter brown, kind of like the Pantone color of the year.
The three colors looked great together and as I recall, everyone loved the different tastes.
These days it’s possible to get really high quality chocolate infused with espresso.
Back then, no one was worried about the raw eggs. The yolks were cooked briefly with the chocolate and sugar.
I don’t think I’d do it now.
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