This morning, I bought 20 pounds of sweet cherries.

I have plans for these cherries.

I will freeze some, I will freeze cherry-basil syrup, I will make some cherry-basil frozen yogurt.

I will eat some of them fresh on this chocolate mousse.

This is just not any old chocolate mousse. This is Raw Vegan Chocolate Mousse. This is so simple to make. The only “trick” to this chocolate mousse is that the cashews…YES, cashews!!! – need to be soaked for 6 hours. Other than, that…put all in the food processor and process until emulsified into mousse. For the record, I have not a thing against the heavy cream that is typically used to make a mousse. I LOVE heavy cream. But this version??? – it hits a bit higher on the nutrition chart and sacrifices NOT A THING, i.e. NOTHING… flavor-wise.

Top with fresh cherries, or rapsberries or whatever your chocolate-loving heart desires.

YUM.

*** I used Hershey’s Dark Cocoa in place of the raw cocoa….thus losing my place in the “raw vegan” society. Oh, well.