Friends who cook...

..are always handy to have. Friends who cook well, are a delightful menace to society and a threat to weighing scales world over. Naturally, she would come to me just on the verge of tossing the leftovers into the bin asking if I would have any interest in a mango mousse and she wasn't sure if it was still ok. A swift sample later, it is without a doubt ok. Ok enough that it deserves several spoons to validate my initial finding about it's suitablility for consumption. After all we are in the land of the FDA. Once I have confimed beyond a shadow of doubt, it is perfectly edible, I scoop up a proper dessert portion and park myself in front of the TV for the perfect couch potato moment. Because I'm a generous, kind hearted, do good to the world kind of person, I insist we make some more for the Thanksgiving dinner we've been invited to and we duly spend the afternoon shopping. I feel cheated by the ingredients that involve nary an egg, but cream cheese and sour cream. This is so NOT a mousse. The recipe says pie, but it's not that either, so we'll just stick to the fake mango mousse which is tragically easy to make, which makes it the perfect choice from Deboo's delicious kitchen endeavours for the lazy person.... aka moi.

Deboo's Fake Mango Mousse

Ingredients
Gelatin (unflavoured) - 28gm x 3
Mango pulp – 3 cups
Cream cheese – 225 gm
Sour cream – 3 cups (if you can't find sour cream, use ½ yoghurt + ½ cream)
Sugar – 1 cup
Boiling water – 3 cups

Method
Mix gelatine, sugar and boiling water together. Add the cream cheese and blend till frothy. Add in the sour cream and blend once. Then add the mango pulp and blend again till its a smooth pouring consistency. Pour into a pretty bowl and refrigerate for 12 hours and ta-dah, your fake mango mousse is ready to serve.