A week ago, a friend of mine came up to me and asked me what my best chocolate cake was. I told him it was my brownies, but he didn’t want something too dense. I kinda knew what he meant, so I decided to make him a dark chocolate mousse cake instead.
I baked a regular chocolate sponge cake but lowered the sugar content(as requested). Then I made some chocolate mousse with 70% dark chocolate and heavy cream of 35% fat content. I left the bottom layer of the cake in a spring-form tin and stacked the (then softened) mousse on top and smoothing it out evenly leaving about 3 tablespoons of mousse aside. Refrigerate for an hour and take it out. Smooth out the remaining mousse and stack on the second layer and leave to refrigerate in the spring-form tin for another hour or two to ensure the cake and the mousse holds its shape well.
In the mean time i made some chocolate ganache by using equal parts of the same 35% heavy cream and 70% dark chocolate. I allowed my ganache to cool down to room temperature(consistency is still rather loose), removed the spring-form tin from the cake and poured half of it over my cake as a “crumb-coating” in a way. I left the cake in the fridge to allow the ganache to firm up a little bit. I also left the other half in the fridge to achieve a thicker consistency.
After twenty minutes I took both the cake and the ganache out from the fridge and complete my finishing touches. I smeared the (already thickened) leftover ganache with a spatula to create smear/spread marks. Since the ganache has already thickened, it holds the shape really well. I left the exterior very plain and rustic to let the taste do all the talking(hehehe).
Gladly, my friend and his family loved it.. It met his expectations of “chocolatey”
I have posted the recipe for the cake and the mousse before if you’d love to give it a shot at home. That’s all for now, good luck!
Chocolate cake recipe: https://thenavycatandfood.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/chocolate-swiss-meringue-buttercream-2/
Eggless chocolate mousse: https://thenavycatandfood.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/eggless-chocolate-mousse/
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