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Sour cream with cherries

Sour Cream and Cherry Mousse

A delicious cream for making a cake or a dessert! I love cherries in any kind of sweets and desserts. You can even fold them into a sour cream mousse and serve it as a dessert in its own right! And I'll show you how to make it right now!

Yulia M.

Recipe author

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Sour cream (at least 25% fat)

300

Powdered sugar

100

Gelatin

Water

Cherries

150

Sugar

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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 6 % 3 g

Fats 19 % 10 g

Carbohydrates 76 % 41 g

210 kcal

GI: 39 / 0 / 61

Cooking method

Step 1:

Before you start, the first thing to do is soak the gelatin in cold water. Stir it so there are no lumps and leave it for about 20 minutes to bloom.
Step 2:

You can use either fresh or frozen cherries. If they're fresh, pit them. If they're frozen, take them out of the freezer and thaw them. There's no need to drain off the liquid.
Step 3:

Pulse the cherries a little with an immersion blender — you don't need them fully smooth. Let some small chunks of cherry remain. Add the sugar to the chopped cherries and heat them until hot.
Step 4:

Then add the bloomed gelatin to the hot cherries and stir until it dissolves. Cover the hot cherry-gelatin mixture with plastic wrap and leave it to cool to room temperature.
Step 5:

Once the cherry mixture has cooled, whip the sour cream with the powdered sugar. Use high-fat sour cream — otherwise it simply won't whip and will stay runny. Start whipping on low speed so the sugar dissolves into the sour cream first. Then turn the mixer up to full power and whip until you have a fluffy, airy cream. At first the sour cream will turn runny, but then it will start to gain volume and thicken.
Step 6:

Add a few spoonfuls of the whipped sour cream to the cherry mixture. Stir it in with a whisk. Then add more and stir again. Mixing it in gradually like this keeps the mixture fluffy.
Step 7:

Spoon the finished sour cream and cherry mousse into dessert glasses and refrigerate for 1–2 hours so it sets.
Step 8:

Before serving, decorate it however you like — with melted chocolate, for example. Enjoy!

You can use this sour cream and cherry mousse in different ways. You can spoon it into dessert glasses and serve it as a dessert, as I did. Or you can use it as a filling in mousse cakes. For a mousse cake, you could also make a cherry confit and bring it all together with a chocolate sponge. The flavor will be absolutely fantastic! I recommend it — give it a try!