This Mint Chocolate Mousse Recipe makes a quick and easy mousse anyone can make! It’s cool and delicious and perfect for any chocolate lover!
I absolutely love chocolate mousse desserts! They are so sweet and creamy and delicious!
This easy mint chocolate mousse recipe is no exception! It is cool and creamy and oh so delicious! It uses Junior Mints candies to add the mint flavor and add a little extra richness to the other ingredients!
This chocolate mousse dessert is perfect as a dessert, a snack for the kids or a special treat any time you’re having a chocolate attack!
Mint Chocolate Mousse Recipe
This easy mint chocolate mousse recipe makes a smooth and creamy chocolate mousse dessert with a distinctive mint flavor. It’s a perfect dessert with virtually any meal and is also a wonderful treat anytime you’re having a chocolate craving!
Ingredients
2 Tbsp. baking cocoa
2 Tbsp. milk
1 cup Junior Mints
2 Tbsp. margarine
1 (8 oz.) container whipped topping
1/2 tsp. vanilla
Instructions
- Mix cocoa and milk in a saucepan until smooth.
- Add mints and margarine.
- Cook over low heat until smooth.
- Cool for 15 minutes.
- Fold in whipped topping and vanilla.
- Spoon into dessert dishes.
- Garnish with whipped topping.
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This recipe is so cool. I can’t wait to make it. You have the best recipes.
Can you use butter instead?
Yes you can use butter.
I made thise recipe and it’s so good. I found Junior Mints at Dollar Tree and came home and made this dessert. It’s amazing how the Junior Mints melt and there is no physical trace of them. It makes such a light and fluffy mousse.
Good idea Bea to get the mints at the Dollar Tree because sometimes they can be expensive.
When I went shopping at the Dollar Tree I also picked up sour cream and made that Cinnamon Sour Cream Fruit Dip you have on this site, so I was thrilled. Yepee!
what are Junior Mints? What company makes them? I am not familiar with many kinds of candy.
They are a soft mint that is covered in chocolate.
You can also find the junior mints with the boxes of theater candy which now they have here at Wal Mart, Walgreens and even our grocery stores. If you can’t find them you could probably replace them with 2-3 York peppermint patties (jr. mints are pretty much the same thing) or in Dining on a Dime there is a recipe for party mints on page 265 which is the same as York Peppermint patties. It would take more work since you have to make up the mints first but if you can’t find the other this would work. The Party mints are really easy to make too.
I love this recipe, it is such a hit with my husband and kids. I now try recipes instead of just reading about them and so economical too. I live on a budget and now plan on making a lot more of these recipes. Thanks for writing the best cookbook ever.
Oh Joan thank you so much. I am really glad you are enjoying the cookbook and the recipes. I had to chuckle when you said you are now trying the recipes instead of just reading about them. I know I did that myself for years and I think many others do to. : ) : ) Glad your family liked the recipe.
If you didn’t like mints could you make this just as a plain chocolate mousse and about how many servings does this make?
You can Patricia. In place of the junior mints just use plain chocolate. As far as servings go it usually depends on how big of servings you dish up but it should easily serve 4 and most of the time when we don’t give serving sizes it is for 4 people.