1. Hull the strawberries ( remove the green calyx). Cut them into pieces and process it until smooth in your small jar food processor. Strain it and collect the fine strawberry pulp. Measure 1/2 cup of the pulp and reserve the remaining for the topping.

2. Chop the white chocolate and melt it in microwave in busts of 30 seconds until fully melted. Set aside

3. Add gelatin/agar agar in a bowl and pour 1/4 cup water to it and let it bloom.

4. Take 1/4 cup of the cream in a heavy bottomed saucepan and add 1/4 cup icing sugar to it and heat up the saucepan. Once the sugar dissolves fully, remove from heat. Add the gelatin mixture into it and mix well until the gelatin dissolves completely in the heat. If you find the gelatin crystals that has not melted fully. Take back the mixture into heat and keep in medium and stir until the gelatin dissolves fully.

5. Add this mixture into the melted white chocolate and mix well. Now add 1/2 cup of the strawberry pulp and mix them all well.

6. Add fresh whipping cream into a bowl and beat using electric mixer on medium until soft. Add 1 teaspoon of granulated white sugar and beat on medium high speed until stiff peaks form.

7. Now add the strawberry mixture and pure vanilla extract into the whipped cream and beat on medium speed until everything blends well.

8. Now scoop the mousse into the dessert cups leaving space for the topping. For the topping, add 1 tablespoon of icing sugar to the reserved remaining strawberry pulp. Bloom the 1/4 teaspoon gelatin in 1 tablespoon of water. Melt the gelatin in microwave and add it to the strawberry pulp. Mix them all well. Now spoon this topping over the mousse on dessert cups.

With the strawberries reserved for garnishing I sliced each vertically into 4 pieces using a knife. Then I used a small cookie cutter to remove a ‘V’ shape on the top middle portion to make it close to a heart :P.

I filled up the dessert cups reserving 1 cup of mousse to pipe on the top for garnishing. I scooped that reserved mousse in a piping bag fitted with a big star nozzle and piped on top and then placed the heart shaped strawberries to garnish
Refrigerate the mousse for one to two hours and serve chilled.
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