“Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.”
Anthony Trollope
Time to experiment again. The boy comes home from school every afternoon & asks me what I did the ‘whole‘ day. He wants a blow-by-blow account…& keeps saying “And Mama, and what else, and…and”, a pregnant pause between each question, in the vain hope that I’ll say I made dessert. Today he was thrilled because I eventually said, “and laundry, & working on the PC….”& finally said … “and I made some dessert.” 
It’s just these darned strawberries. Passionate, red, delicious creatures. Absolutely irresistible. Even though I try & walk away from the shelves, they call me back gently. I bought some more today…
I keep seeing these beautiful individually plated desserts that people make, & have been collecting condensed milk tins for a while. We don’t get any specialised baking tins etc in India, & they are pretty steep when we go overseas. Besides, there is always so much more to buy. 
STRAWBERRY CHOCOLATE YOGURT MOUSSE
My recipe
Biscuit base
Ingredients:
100gms digestive biscuits; ground
4 tbsp melted butter
Method:
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Mix the crumbs in with the melted butter to form the crumb mixture for the base.
Strawberry Mousse
Ingredients:
200gms Curd Cheese (made by hanging yogurt for 24 hours)
200gms Cream
2tbsps gelatin
200gms Strawberries; pureed
4-5 tbsps powdered sugar 
- Line the mousse tins with baking parchment.
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Sprinkle the gelatin over 1/4 cup water, & leave in a bowl of hot water until it becomes a clear liquid.
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Blend the curd cheese, strawberries & powdered sugar together until smooth. Add the clear gelatin & whisk again till well blended.
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This makes the dark strawberry mousse. Once you use a portion of this in the first mousse layer, add the whipped cream to the rest to make the light strawberry layer.
Ingredients:
200gms dark chocolate
100ml Cream
1 tsp gelatin
Method:
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Sprinkle gelatin powder over 2 tbsps of cold water, & leave over a bowl of hot water until clear.
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Put the dark chocolate & cream in a pan over low heat till melted, cool & stir in the clear gelatin. Mix gently but uniformly.
Assembly
Line the tins with baking parchment on the inside. Line a tray with foil, & place the tins upright on them.
Put 1 – 1 1/2 tbsp of biscuit mixture into each tin, & press down firmly with the end of a narrow glass to make a base.
Top with a about 1-2 tbsps of the dark strawberry mousse (sans cream) into each. Now mix the cream into the mousse & divide equally among the tins.
If you don’t have metal moulds or rings, you can always set them in glasses.
Divide the chocolate mousse between the tins, topping the light strawberry mousse. Leave to set for 4-5 hours, or better overnight.
Gently dislodge from tins before serving. Garnish with fresh strawberries & chocolate flakes etc.
Have a LOVEly day today…
Quaintly enough, the 13th of Feb also marks the day the hub & me met 19 years ago….
This recipe is being sent to Original Recipes @ Culinarty for Lore’s ongoing event.
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These mousse cakes look so nice and creamy 🙂 and chocolate and strawberries are so decadent. Nice dessert for Valentine’s day .
That looks divine Deeba…Beautiful pictures as usual…Im drooling:)…
Of course he wants to know what you did all day I would too and wondering if dessert is lurking somewhere.
These are just beautiful! Wow!
What a spectacular looking dessert! I want to come home to it too!
Deeba, your food is beautiful and delicious, as always! I love reading your posts. Happy Meeting Day Anniversary to you and hub. 🙂
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19 years! Wow 🙂
And why does your son ask for dessert? Don’t you bake some everday 😉
Wow, these are so gorgeous! I love all the layers.
I’m all for strawberries this season,the mousse looks so decadent,neatly layered flavors.
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these look divine. i can imagine how long it must have taken you to do all of this.. amazing!
Wow, these are looking just superb Deeba!! What a nice idea to use the tins for the mousse. I came to check ur orange chocolate gateau to make it, but got stuck looking at all these goodies here :). Have a great weekend ..
Did he ever have any doubt?! 😛 Beautiful layering Deeba! I love everything about it!
wowo this i love very much , i might just copy this !
Clever using the condensed milk tins!
Very pretty dessert, delicious too! Love the verrine version a lot too!
Wow is all I can say!! These look so delicious!! No wonder your son loves dessert with stuff like thsi!
i love mousse!! it’s so cute and romantic – always. Deeba, you did it again. you created a sexy dessert, and the cuteness of that pink is so dazzling i’m actually dying right here……xx
oh yum! that looks amazing!
Wow they look great I can’t wait to try. Thanks
What a stunning dessert!! Happy V-day to you!
That is the most beautiful dessert I have ever seen !! I don’t know if I have the energy to make it! I need to translate it first. I don’t have a clue what digestive biscuits are, and I have to transcribe the measurement to U.S. Someday, I’d like to try, though.
Looks delicious!
If yougive me this i will also have a lightning of a smile.
Looks so yumm yumm delicious.
Wow, how much fun is this dessert! It looks amazing and beautiful. Yummy!
Your desserts are amazing Deeba and so beautifully presented.
I just got off the Hindustan Times reading the archives wondering what all the fuss was about pink chaddis, pink sarees and what not… depressing that was. But its certainly uplifting to come here and see a beautiful pink dessert! I am into strawberries too, made a strawberry crisp today for dessert. Yummo! will surely try this, have a load of berries to finish because they spoil. Thks Angela
Beautiful! Happy V Day to you and all of your readers.
I’m so impressed! These look awesome!
Stunning! I sent you an email, waiting to hear from you.
Happy Valentine Day!
You’re not only creative when it comes to concocting a recipe but also in finding ways to substitute for baking tools: BRAVO!
The cakes looks wonderfully creamy and inviting, perfect for your anniversary :). Thanks for sharing them with Original Recipes!
These are absolutely beautiful Deeba for any occasion. I can’t wait for strawberries to grace our stores…California strawberries willbe coming soon, although we do get strawberries all year round but not juicy, flavourful ones.
Ooh… you’re doing mousse as well, very pretty with all the colours 🙂
what a beautiful array of colors and distinct tastes! I really like the mousse idea! Hope you had a great v-day!
Beautiful pictures of this fragile yet delicious dessert, I’m mouthwatering , perfectly presented! hmm, lucky people at home! lovely!
Happy Valentines Day Deeba! And an absolutely perfect cake to celebrate it with. I can imagine swooning at that 😀
This looks delicious – I love how pretty the layers look next to one another. What a great dessert presentation.
That would definitely be calling to me – how absolutely gorgeous.
Spectacular dessert! Great idea on saving the tins. I always want to make individual desserts but never have enough small tins to do so.
19 years! wow… nice way of using condensed milk tins. Looks delicious. Another one bookmarked to try. I have bookmarked so many recipes to make from your blog!
Firstly..the mousse is just lipsmacking adorable! I spent so many mins just lookin at it! THe next in reading n trying to see if I can use my memory to store this recipe 😀 I give up..cant..
MIND BLOWING..tip to use the Nestle tins! Wow..honestly the layers n the recipe n killer pics! Too good Deeba!! HAPPY belated VD!
Oh you wicked witch!! That dessert looks just lovely. It’s always nice to spoil the kids with a luscious dessert. Kids have such a high metabolic rate and they are so active that I”m sure there’s no harm in him enjoying his desserts!!
Oh, that’s too gorgeous! I want to come to that too 🙂 And congrats on the 19 years – we are coming up on the 11 year anniversary of our first date!
Very pretty, and very romantic! Hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day, Deeba!
So so pretty Deeba! Gorgeous. And you’re kidding..I can’t imagine you witch like at all. Happy meeting day!
Fantastic desert . even though I have a few on my blog I have to bow to yours as you really know how to pull them…thx for sharing it…cheers
Deeba, Whoa..now I truly u/stand how difficult designing this might hv been! I hv sent a mail..ur after recipe tips hv been used by me. My first time at gelatin/mousse! 😀
(Been 19 yrs since u both met! Wow! Lucky Hub!)
Those look so good! Nice presentation!
Hi Deeba,
Have a sob story to share. I have tried whipping up Amul Fresh Cream into some semblance of whipped cream thrice now.. I have tried all methods possible and published in all sites , but to no avail.
Can you please share the secret behind this? I have tried your method also , obviously. But forget about soft peaks . My cream refuses to move away from its liquid state even after whipping consistently.
Thanks for the reply Deeba..:)
I live in Mumbai where we have only hot and humid weather.. all year round..:)
So might as well give up on this assignment and pick up ready made frosting powders from Haiko..my store in Powai..Thanks all the same..I feel much relieved and soothed now 🙂