This chocolate brownie mousse trifle has gone all Willy Wonka on you! Absolutely overloaded with chocolate, there’s crumbled brownies at the bottom smothered in velvety smooth chocolate mousse, and topped off with some milk and white chocolate curls.

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Chocolate Brownie Mousse Trifle

You all are going to laugh your asses off at me and my stupidity because, let’s just say, this dessert isn’t as it was intended to be!

I did a Cadbury shop with #cbias and made sure that I was on time by completing my shop a few days before its due date. I even made the brownie bottom part of this dessert in the daytime so I had time for the mousse to set too.

Since I was doing a Cadbury shop (Mmmm, Cadbury), I thought I’d go the whole hog and buy their wonderful rich and indulgent dark chocolate, specifically Cadbury’s Bournville.

The giant man-baby is that much of a chocolate fiend that sometimes I have to stash chocolate away from him, run off and eat it under a blanket or something. He’s terrible. If he finds any of the chocolate that’s marked mine (because he’s already ate his portion), he’ll eat mine then deny it. Pffttt. Operation ‘hide chocolate’ is now underway!

My original intentions were to create some bars. A thin crispy brownie base covered in thick chocolate mousse and topped off with a thin layer of ganache and some chocolate curls then cut into bars. Sounds great doesn’t it? I thought so too.

Made the thin crispy brownie cookie-esque base, everything went fine. But I thought I’d freeze the brownie base for 15-30 mins to create some sort of a barrier so the mousse didn’t make the brownies soggy – kind of like a crisp brownie cheesecake bottom.

Opened the freezer and there wasn’t room, so with one hand I’m trying to rearrange the freezer and holding the brownies with the other hand.

The brownie pan had a removable base for ease of removing after everything had set, so I’m guessing you can imagine what happened next…

I dropped it!! Not only that, but it landed upside-down too! Argghh! 🙁

Thankfully the brownies landed on a clean area so I tried to salvage, but because it wasn’t cold it just tore into shreds… e.v.e.r.y.w.h.e.r.e!

I just stook there wondering what the heck to do next. There wasn’t time to make anymore brownies.

Then it hit me, why not crumble the brownies at the bottom, and make some sort of a trifle with the chocolate mousse?

It was decided.

But since time was not getting on and the deadline was so very close, I started panicking. Panicking is not good in the kitchen. And as my mother always used to say, “more haste equals less speed.”

Isn’t she always the wise one? I managed to lose tools, couldn’t find ingredients and even dropped a whole drawers of tools onto my feet. 😳

But all in all this dessert turned out great despite the stars not aligning for me. The mousse is wonderful and the brownies divine.

Such an indulgent luxurious treat even if it didn’t go the way I wanted. I can sit down and relax with a nice big chocolate brownie trifle or two. That should take the traumatic events away!