Chocolate Mousse Jar Cakes
Chocolate Mousse Jar Cakes are chocolate cakes served in a jar along with chocolate mousse and almond praline.
Ingredients
- 1 recipe chocolate cake
- 1 recipe mousse scroll down for recipe
- Soaking syrup
- Almond praline
Mousse
- 2 cups milk 500 g
- cup ½ heavy cream 100 g
- 1 cup dark chocolate 125 g
- 1 tsp instant coffee powder 3 g
- 3 tbsp cornflour 21 g
- 6 tbsp sugar 42 g
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder 14 g
- 2 tbsp butter 28 g
- 1 tsp vanilla 3 g
Garnish
- Almond praline
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.
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