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Riverside Restaurant / Bed and Breakfast Irish Whiskey Chocolate and Wild Blackberry Cup This original recipe was specially selected for inclusion in the Bord Bia booklet 2000 of award winning recipes Sauce Ingredients 8 oz Chocolate Genoise 8 oz wild Blackberries (Blackcurrants and Bilberries may also be used) 1 tbsp blackberry jam 2 oz whipped cream Chocolate Mousse 3 eggs 4 oz good Couverture 1 oz caster sugar Syrup 1 tsp coffee (instant) 3oz sugar 2 tblsp Irish Whisky 3 fl oz water Method Soak the sponge with a syrup, Irish Whiskey and coffee solution. Spread the sponge with the Blackberry jam, dice and reserve. Melt the chocolate gently over a bain marie. Whisk the egg whites with 1 oz of castor sugar until light and fluffy with soft peaks. (Not too stiff) Add 1 egg yolk to the chocolate mix to thicken. Add 1/3 of the egg whites into chocolate to soften it out. Add remainder of whites and quickly fold in gently. Assembling the Dessert Dividing the mixture between 4 glasses, alternately layer the chocolate mousse, soaked sponge and 6 oz of the blackberries finishing with a layer of chocolate, until all the mix is used up. Allow the mixture to set in the fridge. Reserve 4 of the blackberries for decoration. Make a coulis of the remaining 2 oz of blackberries and syrup from soaking the sponge. When glasses are cold, pipe with whipped cream, drizzle with some blackberry coulis and garnish with whole blackberries and a mint leaf. My mother picks lots of wild Blackberries for me every year, so I use these to make this tasty dessert. I also serve blackberry sauce with Black Pudding by Kellys of Newport and this is definitely a marriage made in heaven!

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