A very special mini trifle, made with a dark chocolate mascarpone mousse, enriched with rum and hazelnuts.
This recipe was inspired by the layered Italian dessert “Tiramisù”, which has very different ingredients but a similar structure. All the layers in this trifle give a nice variety of textures and flavours which blend nicely in the mouth.
It’s pure pleasure in a glass, made to satisfy the needy taste buds of chocolate lovers.
Mini chocolate trifle with hazelnuts.
Ingredients
for 4 glasses
100 g ( 3.52 oz) dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids)
2 tablespoons honey
3 tablespoons dark rum
100 g ( 3.5 oz) toasted and skinned hazelnuts
250 g ( 8.8 oz) mascarpone cheese
2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder
sweetened whipped cream
Method
1. Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie (double boiler).
2. Mix the mascarpone with honey.
3. Mix the melted chocolate with the mascarpone cheese, then add 3 tablespoons of rum mixed with 2 teaspoons of cocoa powder.
4. Finely chop the hazelnuts in a food processor.
5. Fill the base of 4 glasses (small-medium size) with the hazelnut crumbs.
6. Add the chocolate mascarpone, then a layer of whipped cream and top each glass with ground chocolate and a hazelnut.
Bicchierini golosi con crema di mascarpone al cioccolato.
Ingredienti
per 4 coppette
100 g di cioccolato fondente al 70%
2 cucchiai di miele
3 cucchiai di rum scuro
100 g di nocciole tostate e spellate
250 g di mascarpone
2 cucchiaini di cacao amaro
panna montata già zuccherata q b
Preparazione.
1. Fate sciogliere il cioccolato fondente a bagnomaria.
2. Mescolate il mascarpone con il miele.
3. Unite il cioccolato sciolto al mascarpone e aggiungete 3 cucchiai di rum, precedentemente mescolato al cacao.
4. Tritate finemente le nocciole.
5. Riempite la base di 4 bicchierini (di piccola-media grandezza) con la granella di nocciole.
6. Aggiungete la crema di cioccolato, poi uno strato di panna montata e guarnite ogni coppetta con della granella di cioccolato ( o cioccolato grattugiato) e una nocciola.
Foodfulife 
This is wonderful. My favorite dessert is tiramisu so I can imagine I would love this. I need to get a double boiler. Perhaps this recipe will nudge me to get one!
Hi! How are you?
This dessert is very chocolatey, quite different from tiramisù, but if you like chocolate is very nice. You probably don’t need to buy anything if you have two small pans (or pots) you can use one on top of the other and boil the water underneath.
I do love chocolate…especially smooth and creamy. And thank you for the two small pans idea! Brilliant. 🙂
You can also use the microwave oven to melt the chocolate, it takes just a few seconds, but I prefer the traditional way 🙂
This looks fabulous. Hot chocolate pudding is my favorite comfort food– so this would be the grown up version. thanks!
Thank you!! Yeap! This is definitely the grown up version :-)…And my weekly portion of comfort food 😉
I love these desserts that are in shot glasses (individual serving size). This looks amazing
Hello Dawn, thank you for visiting my blog!
I love individual serving desserts! They are easy to make and affordable if you cook for a couple of people. And sometimes I like to prepare a cute little sweet thing, just for me, at the end of the day… 🙂
Thank you for sharing!