Blackberry Mousse without gelatin – Eggless & Vegetarian
This blackberry mousse without gelatin recipe is decadent as it is delicious. This simple, easy and effortless recipe made with eggless vanilla pastry cream as a base uses agar-agar instead of gelatin so it’s eggless and vegetarian. A perfect dessert that sets quicker than classic mousse recipes and makes a pretty presentation to serve family and friends.
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Food Blog Genius – Monthly Collaboration Theme – Valentine Recipes from Breakfast to Dessert.
This month of Valentine is always so exciting, isn’t it? Everyone is posting things Valentine related, things are all so pink and hearty!! Love it. So this month my food blogger friends and I decided to bring you some Valentine Recipes from Breakfast to Dessert. And look at the cool choice we have here. Whether it’s French toast for breakfast, shrimp pasta for lunch or Cookies for tea.
Here’s is the list of recipes in the collage below.
- Strawberry Mimosa Recipe – by Arlene of Flour on my Face
- Stuffed French Toast with Ricotta and Berries by Kirsten, of Treat Your Self Sweeter
- Strawberry Chocolate Pancakes – by Sarah of The Fit Cookie
- Slow Braised Red Wine Lamb Stew with Moroccan Spices by Gloria of Homemade & Yummy
- Spicy Shrimp Pasta by Melisa and Greg by My Wife Can Cook
- Soft Almond Cookies by Julia of Imagelicious
- and of course Easy Blackberry Mousse Recipe by Me!!
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One of my favorite desserts beside cheesecakes is mousse. I will attempt to make mousse with almost any fruit just because I love it SO much!! I do make an exotic chocolate mousse (vegetarian chocolate mousse too) once in a while but nothing like a good Strawberry mousse, Mango Mousse, Chestnut Mousse, Raspberry Mousse or Blackberry Mousse. Isn’t it?
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Let’s talk ingredients and Substitutes (Save/Pin)
- Blackberries – I always use frozen because that’s what I get!! Fresh work just as well. If you buy frozen blackberries that have been sweetened you may want to reduce sugar in the recipe.
- Agar Agar/gelatin – I’m not a vegetarian and yet I prefer to use agar-agar instead of gelatin because it’s plant-based so a bit more healthy than gelatin.
- Eggless Vanilla Pastry Cream – This is, of course, eggless so vegetarian.
You can use my decadent and delicious classic French vanilla pastry cream if you can eat egg yolks but I usually do prefer to keep my desserts lite for the family and the eggless works better in terms of fewer calories.
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Ingredients
- Blackberries 10 oz or 450 grams (fresh or frozen)
- Sugar – 100 grams (1/2 cup)
- Boiling water – 120 ml (1/2 cup)
- Milk – 500 ml (2 cups)
- Whipping cream – 250 ml (1 cup)
- Cornstarch – 2 tbsp
- Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
- Agar-agar – 2 tsp
Method
Prepare blackberry puree
- Save a few blackberries for garnish
- Blend remaining blackberries in a blender with 60 ml (1/4 cup) hot water. The hot water will ensure the seed blend too.
- If the puree is very gritty strain it thru a sieve. Mine was just perfect.
- set aside.
Prepare the eggless vanilla pastry cream (progress pictures can be found here)
- Pour 1/4 cup milk in a bowl, stir in the cornstarch – set aside
- Pour remaining milk and sugar in a saucepan and bring to almost boil
- Add cornstarch mixture and stir until thick and creamy
- Lastly, add the vanilla
- The mixture should be thick enough to coat the back of the spoon.
- Stir in the blackberry puree
- Set aside to cool completely
Whip the cream
- Whip the cream using a whisk attachment until soft peaks
Dissolve the agar agar
- Place 2 tsp agar-agar with remaining 60 ml (1/4 cup) water.
- Let sit for 3 minutes to dissolve
- Boil this mixture for about 3 minutes on low
- Set aside to cool slightly but still warm.
Assembly
- First, add just a couple of tbsp of cooled blackberry pastry cream to the agar-agar and whisk well to avoid any lumps.(we are tampering the agar-agar)
- The add the agar-agar mixture to the full batch of blackberry pastry cream.
- Next, fold in the whipped cream until well combined.
- Pour or Pipe equal amounts into desired bowl, cups or ramekins
Chill until set
- Place the fill cup in the fridge for at least 3 hours to chill completely.
- The mousse will set in an hour but it tastes great if chilled for a couple of hours.
- Garnish with a blackberry when ready to serve.
- I dusted with extra powder sugar too.
- Enjoy!
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Blackberry Mousse without Gelatin|Eggless Blackberry Mousse|Vegetarian Blackberry Mousse
Blackberry Mousse without gelatin | Vegetarian Blackberry Mousse Recipe
Ingredients
- 450 grams Blackberries fresh or frozen
- 100 grams Sugar
- 120 ml Boiling water
- 500 ml Milk
- 250 ml Whipping cream
- 2 tbsp Cornstarch
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 2 tsp Agar-agar
Instructions
Prepare blackberry puree
- Save a few blackberries for garnish
- Blend remaining blackberries in a blender with 60 ml (1/4 cup) hot water. The hot water will ensure the seed blend too.
- If the puree is very gritty strain it thru a sieve. Mine was just perfect.
- set aside.
- Prepare the eggless vanilla pastry cream (progress pictures can be found here)
- Pour 1/4 cup milk in a bowl, stir in the cornstarch - set aside
- Pour remaining milk and sugar in a saucepan and bring to almost boil
- Add cornstarch mixture and stir until thick and creamy
- Lastly, add the vanilla
- The mixture should be thick enough to coat the back of the spoon.
- Stir in the blackberry puree
- Set aside to cool completely
Whip the cream
- Whip the cream using a whisk attachment until soft peaks
Dissolve the agar agar
- Place 2 tsp agar-agar with remaining 60 ml (1/4 cup) water.
- Let sit for 3 minutes to dissolve
- Boil this mixture for about 3 minutes on low
- Set aside to cool slightly but still warm.
Assembly
- First, add just a couple of tbsp of cooled blackberry pastry cream to the agar-agar and whisk well to avoid any lumps.(we are tampering the agar-agar)
- The add the agar-agar mixture to the full batch of blackberry pastry cream.
- Next, fold in the whipped cream until well combined.
- Pour or Pipe equal amounts into desired bowl, cups or ramekins
Chill until set
- Place the fill cup in the fridge for at least 3 hours to chill completely.
- The mousse will set in an hour but it tastes great if chilled for a couple of hours.
- Garnish with a blackberry when ready to serve.
- I dusted with extra powder sugar too.
- Enjoy!
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Hi, looks lovely. Definitely would love to try this. Could this be used as a cake filling. Thinking of making raspberry mousse and use it as a filling with white chocolate on the outside.
Absolutely Nidhi. You can use it as a cake filling. I would highly recommend adding an extra tbsp of cornstarch to make it a bit more thicker so it sets firm and of course use a frosting dam to keep it all in.
Thank you for this recipe. We love blackberry. Made it yesterday and it was a big hit. Such an easy recipe too . Thanks for sharing
Than you Raymon. Happy to hear that you enjoyed this recipe. We do love it very much as well. Thanks for coming back to write this feedback. Always happy to hear from those who try my recipes. Thanks
Tried this recipe last week and it was absolutely delicious. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe. We love blackberries so this was a treat.
Thank you Tristan – So happy to hear that you enjoyed this recipe. Thank you for coming back to write this feedback. Always get to hear from those who try my recipes. Appreciate it very much.
Did you use agar agar flakes or powder? I have the powder.
I use powder not flakes. Thanks
One more thing I don’t have frozen or fresh blueberries but Ihave frozen blueberry purée what quantity do I need to make mouse?
I use powdered Agar Agar not the flakes
Hi
What should be the amount of agar agar to be used for making other mouse.?can I keep your mousse recipe as base and use different fruits purée like lichi,raspberry ,or pistachio?
You can use it as a base for similar fruit purees. Raspberry will work. Pistachio is not fruit and lichi is more liquid. So you will need to create recipes for these two differently. Thanks
Hello mam
I was making pistachio mousse for entremets but I don’t want to agar or egg . What can be added to make mouse firm that stays stiff in entremets and in what ratio
Well, If you can’t use agar agar than the other is gelatin! But that wont’ be vegetarian. You definitely need something to keep it stiff.
What quantity of agar can be used in making noises like raspberry, strawberry and litchi ?i would be using fruit purée? Plz let me know the amount to be added?
For the raspberry and strawberry you can use the same amount of agar agar as in this recipe Thanks
Thanks
I love all your tips! I didn’t know that blending with hot water would help with seeds – awesome suggestion! Like you I try to make my desserts lighter so I love that there are no eggs in this recipe!
Thanks Julia.. yeah I like it lighter so we don’t feel guilty
This looks so pretty. I love blackberries. I like to use fresh, but like you, frozen works too. Mousse is such a light dessert, perfect way to end a meal.
Yeah I only get frozen Gloria not so lucky here. Yeah mousse is my favorite of all desserts.
The colors are so pretty! I haven’t made mousse with agar agar before, but I’ve used gelatin. I have been wanting to try the agar agar, I need to get some and experiment with it!
It’s very easy to use and definitely more healthy than gelatin Sarah. You must try.
Yum! This sounds delicious I’m so glad it’s gelatin free, because I can’t eat gelatin!
Aww I didn’t know that..Agar agar works just as well Mellissa
I didn’t know you could make eggless mousse, so thank you for this recipe! It’s also a lovely way to use blackberries.
Absolutely Thanh.. SO happy to hear that.
I love the idea of using agar in a mousse! So nice to have a plant-based option!
Exactly Mary.. small step towards living a little healthier
Wow such beautiful colors. That’s my kind of fancy dessert!
Yup! I love fancy desserts
I love the fact that these are vegetarian and eggless.. Not many recipes are!!!
Loved the texture and how it has turned out!! And you totally got me there with the valentine’s day recipes…
So glad to hear that Sushma. Thanks
It’s really nice to see a vegetarian mousse recipe. I love that you used agar agar instead of gelatin. I think many people don’t even know that gelatin is animal based. The color of this is beautiful, and blackberries are my favorite berry! Great work!
Thanks Debi. Yes, I can consumer gelatin but like you said.. go for plant based..! Thanks for the lovely comment
This blackberry mousse looks really delicious. Love blackberries are you get all the goodness of Vitamin C
That is true! Thanks Bintu
It’s so nice to find a beautiful mousse like this without eggs in it. I’m not keen on using raw or lightly cooked eggs and I often avoid mousse because of it. Your Blackberry Mousse is wonderful – great that it is vegetarian too. Also love that you can use frozen blackberries!
yes April I always use frozen.. that’s what I get!
Yummy. I love all kinds of mousse and this looks fabulous! I love your round up too!
Thanks Elaine.. Me too big fan of all kind of mousse
I love mousse desserts! They are easy to make and always look good and taste divine. Haven’t tried blackberry mousse but I am sure this taste amazing.
I did taste awesome Julia. Thanks