Chocolate Mousse Cake. Check Our Step-By-Step Guide To Bake Up A Sweet Treat For Your Loved Ones. This mousse cake recipe is inspired by Marcel Desaulniers from The Food Network. It's almost as good as my classic chocolate mousse, strawberry mousse cake, triple Nutella mousse cake, and Nutella cheesecake.
And it tastes even better than it looks.
This super moist dark chocolate mousse cake combines unsweetened natural cocoa powder and dark cocoa powder for an extra rich flavor.
Fill the cake with a simplified chocolate mousse and cover the whole dessert with semi-sweet chocolate ganache.
You can have Chocolate Mousse Cake using 24 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Chocolate Mousse Cake
- You need of Chocolate Cake :.
- Prepare 2 cups of sifted plain flour.
- You need 3 tsp of baking powder.
- You need 1 tsp of bicarb.
- It's Pinch of salt.
- Prepare 180 ml of cocoa powder.
- It's 2 cups of sugar.
- You need 2 of eggs.
- You need 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
- You need 1 cup of hot water mixed with 3 tsp coffee.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of oil.
- It's 1 cup of milk.
- Prepare 2 of springform pans.
- Prepare of Baking paper.
- You need of Mousse:.
- It's 500 ml of fresh cream(whipping).
- It's 125 ml of hot water.
- It's 4 Tbs of cocoa powder.
- Prepare 2 Tbs of sugar.
- It's 200 g of baking chocolate.
- You need of Ganache:.
- It's 1 Tbs of butter.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of milk.
- It's 150 g of baking chocolate pieces.
If needed, you can prepare the ganache and mousse ahead of time. Since my birthday was coming up, I finally ended up settling on this Chocolate Mousse Cake. And it was an awesome decision. This cake is moist and intensely chocolaty.
Chocolate Mousse Cake instructions
- Preheat the oven at 180 °c. Sift the dry ingredients - flour, baking powder, bicarb, salt, cocoa powder - together. Beat the eggs with vanilla, add oil, milk and add to the dry ingredients. Pour the hot coffee next and mix till smooth..
- Pour into 2 round springform greased or lined pans and bake for 20/25 mins. Lightly press down the top of the 1 cake layer to flatten and even it out. Let the cakes cool. * use both layers to make a double-layered mousse cake or decorate the other layer as desired. In this recipe, I used 1 layer..
- Add the cream and sugar in a mixer for the mousse.Whip together till it forms stiff peaks.In a separate bowl mix the cocoa with hot water.Melt the chocolate in the microwave and add it to the cocoa mixture and mix till smooth.Fold the cream into the chocolate mixture till combined..
- Take 1 cake layer out of the tin. Spread half of the mousse at the bottom of the springform pan. Add the cake layer, spread the rest of the mousse on top and even it out. Cover the pan with cling wrap and freeze overnight or for 2hrs..
- Prepare the ganache. Melt the butter, add the milk and chocolate. Stir till choc melts and leave to cool and thicken slightly..
- Pour the cooled chocolate ganache over the mousse and let it set in the fridge. Loosen the tin on the sides of the cake tin and place the cake on a flat tray. Decorate as desired *Alternatively loosen the cake tin, pour the ganache over to allow dripping and let it set in the fridge. Serve chilled.
It's topped with a super rich and creamy chocolate mousse for the ultimate chocolate dessert! And all of that chocolate in one little piece of cake meant a very happy birthday. Using a microwave oven or double boiler, melt together chocolate and butter; set aside to cool slightly. This chocolate mousse cake has three parts: chocolate cake, homemade chocolate mousse, and chocolate frosting. If you don't want to make the cake from scratch, you could use a box cake mix.
