I did promise to share more Christmas recipes in my last post and this festive take on vegan aquafaba chocolate mousse is well worth the wait. I have been meaning to share the recipe for some time but was never very happy with the photos.

Am so glad I waited though because this gave me a chance to finally do a collaborative post with Ceri of Natural Kitchen Adventures. Ceri and I had met on a couple of occasions and this summer we actually worked together on a book project – she did the cooking and food styling and I did the propping and photography.

Being a – blogger, or a freelancer who works from home, is a totally wonderful thing in most ways but one. With no office to go to and a short commute from the bedroom to the kitchen it can be a pretty lonely existence.

Thankfully I have Brutus to keep me company for the past six months and lots of blogger friends online I can reach to if I need to chat. But nothing beats actually hanging out with someone, exchanging ideas and working together.

Ceri and I decided to create a Christmas recipe each – I made the mousse and she made gluten free Lebkuchen cookies. Both recipes are vegan and – actually and they can be served separately but they taste really good together.

Vegan chocolate mousse requires only two ingredients: chocolate and aquafaba (the liquid drained from a can of chickpeas). Not only is it remarkably easy, it has a wonderful texture and tastes incredible.

In my opinion it tastes better than traditional chocolate mousse, you have to try it to see what I mean.

I have dressed this up a little by adding festive spices, orange zest and a little maple syrup for sweetness, but you could leave them out if you are making the mousse outside the festive season. The coconut mousse also only needs two base ingredients, chilled full-fat coconut milk and aquafaba.

Make sure you visit Ceri’s fab blog for the Lebkuchen recipe and check out her recipe app as well.