Big Fat Chocolate Mousse Cake
Chocolate mousse with optional cake
After writing this weeks chocolatey newsletter I found myself with a tonne of chocolate which I’d purchased for “research purposes”, a lot of which is much fancier than the stuff I use day to day so I wanted to create a recipe where the chocolate could really shine.
Chocolate cake is one of those things that you either love or just can’t really be bothered with and whilst I certainly can’t relate with the latter, I do understand that an absolute chocolate stodge-fest isn’t everyones cup of tea, so I present to you this chocolate mousse cake. It’s somewhere between a dessert and a layer cake, the spnge is rich and squishy but the mouse is lovely and light but still with enough substance that it doesn’t collapse under the weight of the sponge. This mousse recipe is one of my favourites, it’s slightly denser than an egg white based mousse and is quite adaptable. It’s not the worlds simplest mousse but as long as all of your components are the correct temperature it it should come together without any drama. I kept the decoration for this really simple, the ganache is so silky and shiny it seemed like a shame to cover it up with anything but decorate it however you like!