DECADENT CHOCOLATE MOUSSE CAKE
Chocolate cake
Ingredients:
125 ml cacao
250 ml boiling water
5 eggs (separated)
375 ml sugar
125 ml oil
5 ml vanilla
450 ml cake flour
15 ml baking powder
2 ml salt
Method:
Set oven on 180 degrees
Mix cacao and water and allow to cool
Mix eggs and sugar till thick and light. Add cacao mixture oil and vanilla to egg mixture
Sieve cake flour salt and baking powder together.
Beat egg whites till soft peak stage and fold into mixture with a metal spoon.
Pour mixture in prepared try and bake for 20 to 30 minutes.
Chocolate mousse
Ingredients
300g dark chocolate
300ml fresh cream
1 table spoon cocoa powder
3 eggs
55g caster sugar
Method
Melt chocolate in a double boiler till melted
Take off the heat and stir in cocoa powder and let cool
In a mixer add eggs and sugar and whisk till light and fluffy
Add the cooled chocolate and mix threw
Whisk cream till hard peak stage
Fold in chocolate mixture into cream
Keep in fridge till set about 3 hours
Ganache topping
Ingredients
255g dark chocolate
1 cup cream
25ml dark rum
Method
In a double boiler melt chocolate when melted remove from boiler add rum set aside
In a saucepan heat cream add to chocolate and mix
Pour over mousse cake
PICTURE AND RECIPE: Dirk Booysen
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