Need a Halloween dessert recipe that’s a little bit bit spooky, however majorly scrumptious? Then you’ll want to attempt these Ghostly Pumpkin Spice Mousse Cups! To construct these fairly cute ghost mousse cups, we spooned our pumpkin spice mousse (recipe beneath), over a premade chocolate cake, then topped them off with our whipped cream ghosts. The combination of flavors and textures on this recipe work completely!
And with the assistance of a premade or boxed chocolate cake, these yummy ghosts are tremendous straightforward to place collectively. They will simply be made gluten-free, sugar-free, low-carb, and/or keto-friendly. They’re the proper dessert to make for Halloween!
The right way to Make the Ghostly Pumpkin Spice Mousse Cups
Make the Pumpkin Spice Mousse
To make the pumpkin spice mousse, begin by whipping cream cheese, pumpkin puree, pumpkin spice, vanilla extract, and the sweetener of your alternative. Ready whipped cream is then folded in to loosen up the feel.
Ideas for a Tremendous Easy Mousse: Be sure your cream cheese is softened earlier than whipping with the pumpkin puree for a silky clean mousse. If it’s not softened sufficient and you end up with little white specs of cream cheese, pop the bowl within the microwave for about 10-15 seconds to melt after which whip till clean.
This pumpkin mousse can be tremendous scrumptious as a standalone dessert, even dare we are saying with out the ghosts.
Assembling the Dessert Cups
Chocolate Cake (backside layer)
Add your favourite premade chocolate cake to the underside of your jar or dessert dish. You should use your dessert dish to punch out the proper sizes after which slice horizontally by means of the center to make the cake about 1/2 thick. You may also simply lay the underside with cake crumbles. Your favourite chocolate cookies will work right here too.
Pumpkin spice mousse + garnish (center layer)
Spoon your mousse excessive of the cake. We like a 2:1 ratio of mousse to the cake. Then garnish with cake crumbs and chopped pecans, which add one other layer of taste and a beautiful crunchy component to this dessert.
The whipped cream ghosts! (prime layer)
Place your whipped cream in a piping bag fitted with a big spherical piping tip ( We used Wilton 1A Massive Spherical Piping Tip). Should you don’t have one, merely place the whipped cream in a plastic bag and make a couple of ½” huge cut-off throughout the nook.
Pipe the whipped cream excessive of the pumpkin mousse in a tall swirl.
How To Make The Ghost Faces
- For the ghost eyes: We used sweet googly eyes.
- For the ghost mouths: We rolled moistened cake crumbs into oval shapes and flattened them.
- You’ll be able to substitute the eyes and mouth with mini chocolate chips as a substitute.
💡 Tip: Observe piping your ghosts a few occasions on a chunk of waxed paper to get them good.
GET THE RECIPE!
Ghostly Pumpkin Spice Mousse Cups
For an excellent straightforward, scrumptious, and adorably spooky dessert this fall, attempt these Ghostly Pumpkin Spice Mousse Cups. Wish to make them low-carb and sugar-free? Simply use a sugar different like erythritol or stevia, and use a low-carb chocolate cake as a substitute.
Elements
- 1 15 oz. can pumpkin puree
- 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
- 2 cups heavy cream or heavy whipping cream
- 2 1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup powdered sweetener of alternative, for sugar-free used stevia, erythritol, monk fruit and alter to style)
- 1/2 cup 1/2 cup toasted pecan halves
- sweet Googly Eyes
- leftover or premade chocolate cake
DIRECTIONS
-
The whipped cream: Place your beaters and bowl within the freezer for five minutes to relax. Then add heavy cream to the bowl, with 1 tsp vanilla and powdered sweetener of alternative. Beat on excessive till thick. Chill till prepared to make use of.
-
The pumpkin mousse: Whip cream cheese, pumpkin puree, pumpkin spice, vanilla extract, and 1/8 cup of sweetener of option to style till clean. Gently fold in 1/2 cup of the whipped cream. Set in fridge for two hours to relax and set.
-
Assemble: Add cake or cookie crumbles of option to the underside of a small parfait dish or jar. Then add pumpkin mousse and prime with cake crumbs and pecan items. Put whipped cream in a piping bag with a large spherical tip and pipe on prime within the form of a ghost. Add googly eyes and for the mouth, roll moistened leftover cake crumbs right into a small oval form and flatten. Take pleasure in!
-
Ideas: No googly eyes? Use chocolate chips as a substitute. Or roll leftover cake crumbs into small balls.
Notes
Notes: Use a sugar-free, gluten-free or grain-free cake to make this dessert low-carb and keto-friendly.
