Firstly, soak the gelatine in cold water.
Then beat the egg yolk with the sugar until very frothy. This process takes a few minutes and the mixture should have increased in volume by the end.
After this step, you can now stir in the Baileys with a rubber scraper. The mixture should then have a creamy consistency. Next, take the pre-baked chocolate sponge bases that have been cut to the correct size (6.5 cm in diameter / 1 cm high) and carefully press them down through the chocolate rim.
When the gelatine is soft, you can remove it from the water and squeeze it out well. Then place the gelatine in a pan and melt it over a low heat. When the gelatine has melted, turn off the heat and pour a large dollop of the Baileys cream into the pan and stir it well into the gelatine. This equalises the temperature and prevents lumps of gelatine from forming.
Then tip everything back into the bowl and fold the warm gelatine mixture into the rest of the cream. In the next step, you can stir the whipped full cream into the cream, the easiest way to do this is in two parts. First fold in the whole cream with a spatula but then switch to a whisk so that you don't have any lumps of cream later.
Then you don't need to add anything else and you can pour the mixture into a piping bag. The easiest way to do this is to place the piping bag in a holder beforehand.
Using the piping bag, you can now pipe the Baileys filling into the chocolate rims lined with bases. Fill the individual pieces up to 2/3 full and then gently tap the mould a little so that the surface of the mousse is smooth.
Place the almost finished patisserie in the freezer for 30-45 minutes. Until the filling has firmed up a little and gained stability, it does not have to be frozen.
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