Chocolate Mousse Jar Cakes
Chocolate Mousse Jar Cakes are chocolate cakes served in a jar along with chocolate mousse and almond praline.
| Prep Time |
| 15Minutes |
| Cook Time |
| 40Minutes |
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Ingredients
- 1 recipe chocolate cake
- 1 recipe moussescroll down for recipe
- Soaking syrup
- Almond praline
Mousse
- 2cups milk500 g
- cup ½ heavy cream100 g
- 1cup dark chocolate125 g
- 1tsp instant coffee powder3 g
- 3tbsp cornflour21 g
- 6tbsp sugar42 g
- 2tbsp cocoa powder14 g
- 2tbsp butter28 g
- 1tsp vanilla3 g
Garnish
Instructions
Mousse
- In a saucepan, combine milk, cream, chocolate and coffee bring it to a simmer over medium heat.
- In a separate bowl, stir together sugar, cornflour and cocoa.
- Once the cream mixture comes to a simmer, gradually add this to the dry ingredients and whisk well.
- Transfer the entire mixture back into the saucepan and bring it to a boil, whisking continuously.
- Once the mixture comes to a boil, bring it off the heat and add butter and vanilla. Whisk well.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Assembling the Cake Jar
- Pipe out a layer of mousse on the base of the jar.
- Using a circle cutter, cut out circles of cake from the chocolate cake alternatively use crumbled cake.
- This is our second layer.
- Sprinkle some soaking syrup.
- For the third layer add a heaped tablespoon of mousse and level it with a spoon.
- Add a layer of Almond Praline.
- Repeat the cake layer, soaking syrup and finally pipe the mousse.
- Sprinkle some praline, and chill the cake jar for at least 2 hours for the flavours to infuse.
Recipe Notes
