Chocolate Avocado Mousse
Born in Ohio, raised in Georgia and a SoCal local for most of her adult life, Chef Amber is an entrepreneur, spiritually-led chef, author, and owner of two restaurants known as The Source Café in Hermosa and Manhattan Beach, California. Amber is committed to making a paradigm shift in the world through food. Amber has been in the restaurant business since the age of 14. From working in front and back of house, she worked her way up the ranks and graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelors in Hotel & Restaurant management. She did her culinary training under a Southern Italian chef in Fort Collins. She was asked later to move to Hermosa Beach and open Mediterraneo as the Executive chef and continued to run the restaurant for a decade.
Her forthcoming book, HUNGRY – Why I f*ucking eat, how I became honest with food, my body and myself. shares her authentic journey of how she became honest with food, her body, and herself, and her forthcoming cookbook Sexy Nourishing Food comprises a combination of The Source Café classic favorite dishes along with her staple go-to dishes she enjoys making at home.
Ingredients
- 3 avocados
- ¾ cup cacao
- 5 T maple syrup
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- 1 T chia seeds
- 1 T vanilla
- ¼ t sea salt
- ½ t cinnamon
Cashew cream:
- 1 cup cashews, soaked overnight in water, strained, rinsed
- 2 T maple
- 1 T maca
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- Pinch sea salt
Directions
- In a high-speed blender or food processor, blend all of the ingredients for the mousse until creamy.
- For the cashew cream, blend all of the ingredients in a food processor until creamy.
- Top the mousse with the cashew cream and cacao nibs with some berries.
