Post #472107 by MadDogMike on Mon, Jul 27, 2009 11:06 AM

What a beautiful showcase dessert, I would love to try to make it (actually, I would love to fly to Hawaii and try Mama's, but that's out of the question for now :) ). The only description I could find on the internet was "...Chocolate Covered Chocolate Mousse on top of Passionfruit Cream. All this was placed in a cookie clam shell and put on top of a swirly design of some liquer"

Looks like a fortune cookie type shell, I may have to make a ceramic mold and bake some. Then use a chocolate coated passionfruit truffle for the pearl. Without tasting Mama's, it would be hard to replicate but you could still make a nice dessert.

EDIT: OK, I re-thought this. The description above calls for a choculate pearl on a passionfruit cream. A bed of passionfruit mousse on the shell cookie would:
1- look more like a clam (maybe tint the mousse pink)
2- keep the pearl from rolling around
3- hold the top shell upright
4- allow you to use ready made chocolate truffles for the pearl instead of making your own. You could even use chocolates filled with Kahlua or some other complimentary flavor.

You could even buy Madeleines (shell shaped cookies) if you wanted, or use a Madeleine mold and make your own.

HMMMMMMM....

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Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
And watch the world die.

[ Edited by: MadDogMike 2009-07-27 14:04 ]