Ghostly Pumpkin Spice Mousse Cups

November 10, 2024

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Desire a Halloween dessert recipe that’s a bit of bit spooky, however majorly scrumptious? Then you might want to strive these Ghostly Pumpkin Spice Mousse Cups! To construct these fairly lovable ghost mousse cups, we spooned our pumpkin spice mousse (recipe under), 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’ll simply be made gluten-free, sugar-free, low-carb, and/or keto-friendly. They’re the proper dessert to make for Halloween!

A close-up of a single glass dessert cup with layers of chocolate crumble, orange-colored mousse, and a whipped cream ghost on top. The ghost has chocolate chip eyes and mouth. Pecans are sprinkled on the mousse, and pumpkins are visible in the background.

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 selection. Ready whipped cream is then folded in to loosen up the feel.

Suggestions for a Tremendous Clean Mousse: Be certain 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 can too 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 stunning crunchy factor to this dessert.

The whipped cream ghosts! (high layer)

Place your whipped cream in a piping bag fitted with a big spherical piping tip ( We used Wilton 1A Giant Spherical Piping Tip). In case you don’t have one, merely place the whipped cream in a plastic bag and make a couple of ½” vast 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 may substitute the eyes and mouth with mini chocolate chips as an alternative.

💡 Tip: Apply piping your ghosts a few occasions on a chunk of waxed paper to get them good.

GET THE RECIPE!

Two glass dessert cups filled with layers of chocolate crumble, orange-colored mousse, and topped with whipped cream ghosts. The ghosts have chocolate chip eyes and mouths. Pumpkins and spoons are visible in the background.