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These Turtle Brownie Double Chocolate Mousse Bites have chocolate chip pecan brownie base with chocolate mousse and caramel sauce.

Oh sure this is old topic but how can I not blog about it?

What you ask?

Fat people on a plane.

Much better than snakes on a plane but causing way more controversy.

United Airlines has jumped onto the obese people must buy two seats bandwagon.

Their criteria?

Passengers too large to fit comfortably in a coach seat may be required to buy a second ticket or upgrade to business class, where seats are larger??  (if United’s flight attendants can’t find two open seats for them). Now here is my problem.

Too large to fit comfortably in a coach seat.?

Um, those seats weren’t comfortable when I was a size 6.

I didn’t fit comfortably into them then, so does that mean I should buy an extra ticket?

Now I get it.

No one likes the person next to them spilling over.

But perhaps if the airlines had not gotten so greedy and tried to pack us in like sardines that the spillage factor might be a little less.

And I think that in a time when people are choosing not to travel, the perfect strategy is to charge people more and tell them that they are fat.

What a fantastic marketing idea.

Why didn’t I think of that?

So from now on I will call you all fat and charge you a dollar for every word you read on my blog. 😛

And to further fatten my ass so that I will have to pay for two seats, I present the Turtle Brownie Double Chocolate Mousse Bites.

Proven to pack on the pounds and way tastier than the snack pack of 3 pretzels, two peanuts and an unidentified cracker shaped thing, that you get in place of a meal now a days.

Last but not least…it’s a great time to order my cookbook.

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Turtle Brownie Double Chocolate Mousse Bites

Turtle Brownie Double Chocolate Mousse Bites

Ingredients

  • What is Needed:
  • Chocolate Chip Pecan Brownie Bites (recipe follows)
  • Double Chocolate Mousse (recipe follows)
  • Store bought caramel sauce (or make your own) for drizzling
  • 1 cup chopped pecans for garnish
  • For the Chocolate Chip Pecan Mini Brownie Bites:
  • 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, finely chopped
  • 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
  • 8 ounces unsalted butter
  • 5 eggs
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
  • 1 vanilla bean, seeds scraped, pod discarded
  • 1 2/3 cup flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • ¾ cup semisweet chocolate chips
  • ¾ cup pecans, toasted, chopped
  • For the Double Chocolate Mousse:
  • 2 cups chilled heavy cream
  • 4 large egg yolks
  • 3 TBSP sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 4 oz fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened), finely chopped
  • 4 oz fine-quality semisweet chocolate, finely chopped

Instructions

  1. For the Brownie Bites:
  2. Preheat oven to 325F.
  3. Grease 2 mini muffin pans.In a double boiler, melt together butter and chocolate.
  4. When completely melted, whisk to combine and set aside to cool.
  5. Using a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, mix together the eggs, sugars, and vanilla bean.
  6. Mix until a pale yellow color forms, about 5 minutes.Add in cooled chocolate mixture and beat for 2 minutes.
  7. With the mixer on low, add flour and salt and mix just until incorporated.
  8. Fold in the chocolate chips and nuts.Using a mini muffin scoop, scoop batter into prepared pans.
  9. Bake for 16-20 minutes depending on how gooey you like your brownie.
  10. For the Double Chocolate Mousse:
  11. Heat ¾ cup cream in a 1-quart heavy saucepan until hot.
  12. Whisk together yolks, sugar, and a pinch of salt in a metal bowl until combined well, then add hot cream in a slow stream, whisking until combined.
  13. Transfer mixture to saucepan and cook over moderately low heat, stirring constantly, until it registers 160°F on thermometer.
  14. Pour custard through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl and stir in vanilla.
  15. Melt chocolates in a double boiler or a metal bowl set over a pan of simmering water (or in a glass bowl in a microwave at 50 percent power 3 to 5 minutes), stirring frequently.
  16. Whisk custard into chocolate until smooth, then cool.
  17. Beat remaining 1 1/4 cups cream in a bowl with an electric mixer until it just holds stiff peaks.
  18. Whisk one fourth of cream into chocolate custard to lighten, then fold in remaining cream gently but thoroughly.
  19. Spoon mousse into 8 (6-ounce) stemmed glasses or ramekins and chill, covered, at least 6 hours.
  20. Let stand at room temperature about 20 minutes before serving.
  21. To Assemble:
  22. Pipe mousse on top of the brownie bite.
  23. Add pecans and drizzle with caramel sauce.
  24. Repeat until all brownie bites have mousse, pecans, and caramel on them.
© Peabody


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Comments

  1. here here! i find it rather discriminating – ryan air is thinking of doing this too. furthermore thay want to charge you every time you go to the lavatory!! anyway i’ll happily pay a dollar to visit this blog! looks scrumptious!

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  2. A dollar a word you say? A bit steep Peabody, especially as I’m pretty sure you’re partly to blame for maybe another inch or so on my thighs…

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  4. But they won’t know how much you weigh until you show up. I just can’t imagine working for an airline and having to tell someone who is already harried from travel that they need to spend an additional $300-400!!

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  5. Those look heavenly! Glad you took a short reprieve. Isn’t it amazing how food blogging isn’t something you can intrinsically ignore for that long!

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  6. Yowch. Sorry to hear that. They tell you that you are fat *on sight?* I don’t get it. Completely unnecessary. I mean, I once sat beside a pretty huge guy (prob. a little bigger than Steve Irwin), but if he hadn’t insisted on keeping his stupid huge bag between his knees, we would’ve been fine.

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  7. Welcome back Peabody! I don’t know if I can swing $1/word, but if that was the only option…. I’d try to find a way!

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  9. Glad you’re back! Having recently flown, I totally relate to this post. I’d rather read your blog than endure air travel any day!

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  10. Airlines have gotten quite ridiculuous lately. I can appreciate that some people are a bit too large to properly fit in the seat, and I can see how that would be uncomfortable for them and for the people around them, but shoulnd’t the airline accommodate the a bit better? I just think it’s crazy to make people pay for an extra ticket, since they’re already paying for a pretty over-priced one to begin with…
    These brownies might be worth paying the extra ticket, though 😉
    Glad to have you back!

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  12. I’m so happy you are back! You were missed:) Now this whole airplane extra seat controversy has been around for awhile and it sucks. They take away all the “luxuries” of flying (food, free drinks, blankets, etc.) and then want to charge you more for it. I agree the seats are more comfortable in first and business class but who in the world can afford those? I flew in first class once on a flight home from Dubai and I only got bumped up there because I had food poisoning and needed to lay down. The food poisoning sucked the but seats and bed sure was comfy! Naomi Campbell was actually sitting next to me. I made sure not to make her mad because I didn’t want any cell phones to be thrown in my direction…haha.

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  16. I wish we lived closer together. I so want to be your friend, one that I can share a laugh and sarcascim with in person. Sigh….

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  17. Welcome back, P. You had me LOL all though the post. A few years back my hubby and I shopped hard and found business class tickets to Europe. We did that a few times. Spoils a person, big time. Flying, period, is just for the birds these days, though. It’s tough, when you’ve just gotta get there and there’s no other way.

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  18. UM WOW. You get me every time, Peabody. These look amazing. Send 50 my way. Could you think of anything more sinfully delicious? Talk about delicious bites. Mmm mmm.

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  20. People with crying babies, people who are overly chatty with me when I am trying to sleep, and anyone who won’t let me get by to use the bathroom have much greater priority in terms of being fined extra!

    So delicate yet decadent…

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  21. I’m wondering too, are they going to ask your weight when you go to purchase your ticket? Is it like, “we’ll need the measurement of your ass before this transaction is completed”? Or do they make you fork over enough for another ticket during boarding if they deem you “not comfortable”?
    Ah to heck with it, gimme one of those brownies.

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  24. Welcome back Peabody!

    Yup, knew there was a reason why United Airlines is my least favorite airline. As someone who, oh I don’t know, racks up 50K+ miles a year at least, I can definitely say flying these days sucks hugely. And let’s talk about sweet Johnny who kicks the back of my seat while is lovely mother practices spare the rod/spoil the child with “now Johnny, don’t do that. If you don’t stop, you won’t get any more fishy crackers”. Why can’t the airlines do something productive like having child free/cellphone free/surly flight attendant free flights.

    So, I’m telling my boss tomorrow, I’m not flying anymore, saving the company tons of travel budget and instead going to pay you $1 a word…

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  26. No refund on the Snickerdoodle Muffin recipe then no dollar per word read…and how will you know which words I skipped? 🙂
    Leaving on a jet plane in a few weeks so you’ve made my day just a bit cheerier reminding me of the coming cattle car conditions. Fortunately not flying United…love the quip about their marketing expertise!
    These bites looks sinfully good. Glad you didn’t keep us hanging too long…the photo on your previous post was tantalizing.

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  30. I think it’s alright and completely fair. I mean, I don’t know what they consider “too large to fit comfortably in a coach seat”, but if they are talking about actually really obese people I think it’s the reasonable thing to do. You say that those seats have never been comfortable and I think this is more of reason against your point of view rather than supporting it. Like, if the seats are small and tight and uncomfortable already, they shouldn’t be made any more of these, should they? It’s like extra luggage. You also have to pay more for it.

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  32. oh, and also!
    According to my point of view, it’s great they are clear on this. Or would you prefer this wasn’t published (cause I assume it is) and only when you bought the ticket they told you about the “situation”. This way you know what you are up to when you buy the ticket.

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  35. I agree completely. How about less greed and more value for the money people are already shelling out?

    Bring on the inches baby because these look insanely good. Like, I MUST make them good.

    Oh, and send me a bill. Your blog is still worth it, unlike the airlines!! 😉

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  38. I have to say I’m a bit torn on this topic. I sat next to a man the other day that had to get a seat belt extender, and was quite obviously mortified about it. I do wonder if it would have been better for him if no attention had been called to it and it would have just been assumed that the seat next to him was vacant. It’s an awful situation to put someone in, I just wonder if allowing them to deal with it privately is a better way. And these little bites look so delicious and decadent – nicely done!

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  39. “So from now on I will call you all fat and charge you a dollar for every word you read on my blog.” Thanks, Peabody. I just snorted and spat my drink out all over the keyboard. Do I get to charge you a dollar for that? 🙂

    Seriously: agree with you on the ridiculousness of the new airline policy and, of course, drooling over yet another one of your pictures.

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  42. Thanks to all of you. Reading this post and the comments just made the rest of my day! 🙂
    Btw, I am one of those who looks quite well-fed, though I think I can manage in one airline seat. 😉

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  43. I might as well give up on getting into a bikini this summer! You’re killin’ me with these AMAZING tempting recipes!

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  48. The regulation states that people who cannot sit down while the arm rest is in place need to buy another seat. Since they are obviously sitting on another seat if the armrest is up I think they should have to pay for it although I imagine that this will be limited in the future under laws involving handicap accessibility.

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  49. Yeah, this is one where I kind of go both ways – I think that it’s fair to charge someone for two seats if it really is impossible for someone to sit next to them, but on the other hand I agree with you that this whole teeny seat thing is ridiculous! Perhaps one solution would be to allow people to sit in business class for free if no seats are available without a seat companion, or to have a few slightly larger seats on every plane (though I do see how this could be uncomfortable or embarassing too). Also, it’s not just people who are heavy – tall people have the same problem. I’ve seen people who are 6’7″ be required to purchase a business class seat since they don’t fit.

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  50. Get a document from a health professional labeling your weight as a disability…then they’d really be discriminating…or they’d have to accommodate at their cost! Public transportation will squeeze every dime from us they can! LOL! Your desserts look yummy…please pass the plate!

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