Ingredients
• 175 g butter,
• 100 g caster sugar,
• 250 g dark chocolate,
• 1 tablespoon water,
• 4 eggs,
• Home-made Chantilly whipped cream (do not use low fat cream).

Instructions
• Work the butter with a fork until creamy. Add the sugar.
• Break the chocolate into pieces in a saucepan with 1 tablespoon water. Melt over a very low heat. Add the chocolate to the butter/sugar mixture and mix well. Incorporate the egg yolks into the chocolate cream.
• Beat the whites until very stiff and fold them gently into the chocolate cream.
• Pour all the mixture into a buttered dish and refrigerate it until the next day.
• At the time of serving, turn out the chocolate mousse and cover it completely with Chantilly.

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