I made a vanilla meringue, as chocolate on chocolate does not appeal. I'm glad I did, because this was already an incredibly rich dessert. I garnished with some wonderful organic cherries I had found on sale that morning. They were the reason I decided to make this dessert on a very busy day, what with the pâté and bread I was already making.
I had fun piping the meringue and mousse in swirls. This is the sauceless version I packed up for the picnic, so we could add it at the last moment. I may even have tried to lick the jar it was in. The one I kept right-side-up travelled surprisingly well.
They looked just like this on our picnic. In our minds' eye, anyway. But, I still had a few baked meringue bases left over, so a few days later, on a very cloudy and rainy day, I put together a blackberry curd pavlova with the curd left from these shortcakes. Click on the link for the curd recipe. It was a perfect combination, though the colour looks a bit weird in the gray light.
A few days after that, with my move date looming, I thought I had better use up some of the egg whites that were still in the fridge. This time I made a soft, marshmallowy meringue in the true pavlova style. There was lots of discussion in the forums about whether a crisp meringue was actually a pavlova, but I just stayed out of it and kept baking. I topped this pav with some strawberry-white chocolate mousse left over from the wedding cake, and topped it with some fresh strawberry coulis. This was fantastic! I'd go make another now if all my baking equipment weren't in storage.
Blog-checking lines: The June 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Dawn of Doable and Delicious. Dawn challenged the Daring Bakers’ to make Chocolate Pavlovas and Chocolate Mascarpone Mousse. The challenge recipe is based on a recipe from the book Chocolate Epiphany by Francois Payard
Original challenge recipes can be found here.
33 comments:
OMG your white chocolate and strawberry version looks absolutely amazing! Your dark choc mousse is beautifully smooth. I was not able to achieve this. Yours looks wonderful. Great piping and presentation!
Beautiful job!
WOW you different versions look so professional and your piping skills are superb they all look so beautiful but the 3rd photograph really caught my eye. You have a high level of baking skill. Cheers from Audax in Sydney Australia.
Oh my! I love all the different variations of this dessert you came up with! Yummy!!! Great job on the challenge!
Oh they all look soooo pretty. I adore the white meringue offset with the chocolate mouse and cherries it is so striking.
Looks wonderful!
I love your piped meringues! Your piping skills are seriously superior. Well done!
All your versions look so good. I also made plain meringues and had fun piping out the mousse. :)
Your pav looks so pretty!! I love the way you piped the mousse :)
They all look fabulous but i love the idea of blackberry curd ones ! i'm planning to make more curds this year cos I love them.
All 3 versions look incredibly delicious! Beautiful work!
Beautiful pavlovas! I can't decide which one I like best...the first one is stunning, I love the piping you did there...But the other two are equally beautiful :)
Such pretty presentation! I love it! I missed the discussion on whether pavlova meringue should be crisp or not... personally I like it crisp. Anyway, congratulations on a great challenge!
I'll take one of each please!! Mary these look great!
looks so delicious really i like the way as you present simple but elegant
Ohhh wow all of your pavlovas look so good!! Theyre making me want to make this challenge again! Yummm hehe!!
I agree, your piping skills look professional. Beautiful pictures! Mouthwatering.
Mary, thanks for your kind comments! I just thought I'd mention that I use Marsala a lot - a spoonful or two in a boiled custard is delicious, veal marsala, or dipped savoiardi in half marsala and half evaporated milk and layer with whipped cream like a easy tiramisu.
That chocolate creme mouse looks so yummy... I love the creativity, and that you used what you had (I know, from other extremely amazing creations, but still, what you had!) to make even more awesome combinations! Great job on this challenge!
Stunning! Great job with this month's challenge.
how pretty! it even looks like your piped mousse/meringue was braided. lovely!
WOW...simply amazing works of art!
your pavlovas go above and beyond the challenge....I am in Awe!!!
Your pictures really pop out! I like the vanilla chocolate combo. I found the chocolate chocolate version a little too rich. Good piping skills
The pipping work is so elegant.this was a fun challenge.
Mimi
The braiding-piping looks amazing! I'm far too clumsy to achieve anything like that... And your mousse looks creamy and delicious. Your challenge turned out great :-)
Beautiful presentation, Mary! I love the idea of a vanilla meringue instead of chocolat. Not only does it look better, but the 2flavours get along so beautifully.
Nice work!
All your textures are SO PERFECT! Love the braided design. The fruit versions look really yummy! WOW!
Your pavlova look stunning! I want to eat them all...
No doubt it was delicious! I'm just wondering how you kept it crisp for your picnic. Mine turned to mush after a while. Great job!
Your completed challenges always look so good. Very pretty, and I'm sure they tasted amazing!
Mary, when i saw both your pavlovas in the DK forum, I was blown away. Your piping of the meringue and mousse is gorgeous, and the straweberry-white chocolate mousse pavlova with strawberry coulis is mouth watering!! Beautiful photos too!
How gorgeous they all are! Just stunning!
These are so beautiful. I have to make one for another baking group and I had not thought of chocolate but....... thanks for that thought.
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