Cranberry Mousse Dome

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This elegant cranberry mousse dome is so much easier then it looks. It is a impressive holiday dessert and tastes light, creamy and just melts in your mouth with Cranberry cream flavor!

Cranberry Mousse Dome

This elegant cranberry mousse dome is so much easier then it looks. It is a impressive holiday dessert and tastes light, creamy and just melts in your mouth with Cranberry cream flavor!

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Ingredients

For Cranberry
  1. For Cranberry Mousse
  2. 2 (3 ounce)boxes of cranberry jello
  3. 2 cupsboiling water
  4. 2 cupscold unsweetened cranberry juice, homemade or store
  5. bought. I used homemade found in my profile
  6. 2 1/2 cupsheavy whipping cream
  7. 1/4 cupconfectioner's sugar
  8. 1 teaspoonvanilla extract
  9. For Bottom (crust)
  10. about 4 of my flourless chocolate wafer cookies, located in my
  11. profile or an alternative could be thin cake slices or soft
  12. baked chocolate cookies
  13. For Garnish
  14. as neededsilver, green and red colored sugar
  15. molded caramel tree, see end of recipe for instrutions
  16. white chocolate colored transfer sheet, instructions in my
  17. Holiday White Chocolate Brownie recipe

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Line a large bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerat it while preparing mousse

  2. 2

    Dissolve jello in boiling water in a bowl

  3. 3

    Mix in cold cranberry juice. Refrigerate until cold but NOT starting to set

  4. 4

    Whip cream to soft peaks, add vanilla and sugar and whip until just almost holding its shape

  5. 5

    Beat in cold cranberry mixture

  6. 6

    Pour into plastic lined bowl

  7. 7

    Gently press chocolate flourless wafer cookies to cover bottom cover and refrigerate at least 6 hours or best overnight.

  8. 8

    Invert on to serving plate and remove plastic wrap

  9. 9
  10. 10

    Make Whipped Cream Layer

  11. 11

    Beat cream until it holds soft peaks

  12. 12

    Add sugar and vanilla and beat until it holds its shape well

  13. 13

    Spread whipped cream over cranberry mousse

  14. 14

    Garnish with silver, green and red colored sugar and caramel tree and a piece of white chocolate colored transfer

  15. 15
  16. 16
  17. 17
  18. 18

    To make caramel decorations

  19. 19

    Add granulated sugar to a pan, the amount will depend on how many things you want to make. I used 2 cups here to make 6 molds and shards for various desserts

  20. 20

    Heat sugar over medium high heat. When sugar begins to melt around edges swirl oan and use a wooden spoon to evenly melt sugar until golden, caramel is very hot so be careful not to get it on you

  21. 21

    Pour into mold or metal cookie cutters for shapes. Or drizzle on parchment paper free form. Allow to cool then pop out of molds and peel free form pieces off parchment

  22. 22
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“Fenway” passed away on 2/3/2021. For the last year she tried to teach her husband of 42 years how to cook like her. Although I will never be as good of a cook as her she did pass on her passion for cooking. Therefore, I will attempt to carry on her legacy and maintain/update her site. My wife was a Registered Nurse, a licensed deep water aerobics instructor, a mother to our 2 children and a fantastic cook. We grew up in New England but have been fortunate to live all over the US. I am now retired, missing her terribly, but thankful for all the years we had together and all her cooking lessons.
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