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Avocado Mousse Recipe
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Keto Avocado Mousse

Smooth and creamy, this avocado mousse recipe is low in carbs and high in great dark chocolate flavor! Full of delicious, satisfying fat plus dense with vitamins and minerals, you’ll love this low carb dessert. Perfect for a Keto Diet.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cooling time in Fridge45 minutes
Total Time1 hour
Course: Dessert, Fat Bomb
Cuisine: Keto
Keyword: Keto Recipe
Servings: 8 servings
Calories: 246kcal
Author: Angela Davis

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Pit your avocados, and be careful! Watch the video below for a demonstration. Scoop the flesh out and place in a food processor.
  • Add coconut milk to food processor. Most canned coconut milk will have separated and the cream will be a thick layer at the top. To get just half, use a table knife and slice through the cream, scooping half into the processing bowl. Then pour about half the coconut water into the bowl. Stir the remaining contents of the can together, place in a ziplock bag and save for another use.
  • Add cream, vanilla, salt, cacao powder and sweetener to bowl. Pulse until ingredients start to combine, then process on high until smooth. Scrape down the sides once or twice to make sure everything gets incorporated.
  • Taste and adjust if needed. If it’s too avocado-y, add more cacao powder and sweetener. If it’s too bitter, add sweetener. If it’s too sweet, add cacao powder!
  • Keep your mousse in a covered container in the refrigerator. Try not to eat it all at once!

Notes

Avocado Mousse Ingredients Notes:

Avocados are one of the fruits that you really don’t need to spend extra money on for organic. They consistently appear on the Clean 15 List for least pesticide residue.  Please be careful pitting the avocados.  If you've not done it before, please watch this quick "How to Pit an Avocado" video that I made.  You don't want to get Avocado Hand.
When buying coconut milk, look for whole fat versions with the shortest ingredient list. While coconut won’t show up on the clean or dirty list, most research says that organic doesn’t make a big difference here either. Our favorite brand happens to be organic, and it only contains coconut and water.
With heavy whipping cream, as with all dairy, look for grass fed and organic when available and within your budget.
Our favorite cacao powder is here. Cacao is different than the conventional cocoa powder found in most grocery stores. It is cold-pressed instead of processed with high heat, so it retains much higher levels of antioxidants, flavonoids, minerals and fiber.
Swerve Sweetener is primarily erythritol, a sugar alcohol that provides about 60-70% of the sweetness of sugar without the calories or any effect on your blood sugar. While not perfect, it is the best Keto sweetener option I have found and it does not cause me any digestive issues, which some sugar alcohols do. If you want to avoid it, a great Primal/Paleo option is to use honey instead, in approximately the same amount, to taste.
Vanilla extract and salt help balance the sweet and bitter flavors and bring out the chocolate flavor. Get the real stuff when it comes to the vanilla extract, and we use pink Himalayan sea salt.

Nutrition

Calories: 246kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 23g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 10mg | Sodium: 19mg | Potassium: 622mg | Fiber: 8g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 256IU | Vitamin C: 10mg | Calcium: 28mg | Iron: 2mg