Wanting to give 9m/o chocolate at Easter?

[TwittleBee]

I've seen a lot of parents saying it's selfish / waste of money /sets bad habits / unhealthy etc etc to give little ones chocolate (even at Easter). AIBU for wanting to give my 9m/o DS some chocolate though?

My plan was to make a sugar free mousse made with 100% cocoa chocolate and flavoured with orange.

Does the mousse have raw egg?
I’d be more worried by that thsn the sugar or chocolate.

They're lion stamped so it's okay I thought?

DD is 16 months and I won't be giving her an egg. Maybe a small piece of mine.

100% cocoa will be horrible and bitter

No sugar and just cocoa? Sounds good for adults but too bitter for a kid.

It wont do him any harm at all so if you want to give him a little bit then go for it. Please don't worry about what others think.

Go get him the biggest chocolate egg you can find and let him taste a little....you eat the rest 😂 it's one of the few perks of being a parent. I personally love Easter and Halloween

This is a parody, right?

To those who worry about it being too bitter please read my PP about how he will probably be fine with that

In which case, OP, feed him all the sugar free mousse you like. Sounds gross to me, but it won't harm him and he's your baby.

I don’t think our parents worried about this kind of stuff, and we are all OK, aren’t we?

My DD will have just turned one and won't be having any, I just don't see the point at that age. Instead we have used egg moulds to make eggs using yogurt bark made with fresh fruit. So still sweet but without the added sugar. She won't be missing out, my husband and I have got yogurt bark eggs too

I don’t even want to know what yoghurt bark is.

LoveInTokyo frozen yoghurt sometimes with other stuff like fruit frozen into it

It’s not chocolate though, is it?

My grandson had chocolate for the first time in his advent calendar. Even those small amounts got everywhere. He had more at Christmas and boy those nappies. He'll be here for Easter but mum's organising the chocolate and I'm supplying the endless supplies of banana.

What's the mousse recipe out of interest, if you don't mind sharing? I'm keen to give it a go

@LinkyPlease here you go!

120g 100% dark chocolate
150ml double cream
150ml coconut cream
4 eggs separated
1 orange's grated zest
(If you wanted to make it sweet you could add a 1tbsp of honey/syrup/brown sugar at a time till it is at your desired sweetness, but I really rate the bitterness! Delicious when served with ginger biscuits!)

1. Melt the chocolate in a bain marie with the cream and orange zest (add honey/syrup/brown sugar at this stage if you wish) then remove from heat
2. Let the chocolate mix cool a little then beat in the egg yolks
3. Whisk the egg whites till they form stiff peaks
4. Whisk the coconut cream until this becomes very fluffy
5. Carefully fold in the coconut cream into the chocolate mix
6. Very carefully fold in the stiff egg whites trying to not knock the air out of them
7. Put the mixture into small pots or whatever you plan to serve the mousse in and let chill in fridge over night (or for at least a few hours)

I really rate the bitterness!

Mmmmm, bitterness. Just what you want for dessert.

And how is adding honey, syrup and brown sugar OK? If you're sugar free, that's sugar.

FleurDelacoeur I have put that recommendation in for people who do not rate bitterness. I love bitterness, I like strong black coffee too. Everyone has different tastes. I like the complexity of flavours in that mousse

FleurDelacoeur there is also some sweetness provided by the coconut cream and the double cream and the orange zest. All of those have "naturally-occurring" sugars in too so technically it isn't really sugar free at all I guess.

I'd be giving my child chocolate over raw egg.

I've managed 3 kids and all had first taste of chocolate at Easter....none are overweight !!!!

It's joy of having little ones who u only want to give a taste. Buy huge egg, give little one small amount (stuff the rest myself while.watching telly)

Ffs get the kid an Easter egg (and scoff most of it yourself) like a normal person. Jesus Christ.

I wouldn't give him chocolate if you don't want to OP. Don't feel pressurised.

And I wouldn't be worried about the bitterness of the mousse either. Young babies can handle a surprising range of flavours.

I remember giving DS some berries at about 7 months. It was only when I tasted them afterwards that I realised they were incredibly tart. I couldn't eat them. He on the other hand lapped them up .

We train our kids to prefer bland sweet flavours. That's not a good thing. Bee Wilson's book First Bite has some interesting stuff on this.

The amount of sugar and fat in a chocolate button or nibble of a shared Easter egg is negligible. Cocoa and orange are asking for a case of the squits, though.