Chocolate mousse cakes
Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for Christine Manfield's chocolate mousse cakes.
- 20 mins preparation
- 1 hr cooking plus cooling
- Serves 8
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Ingredients
- 300 gm dark chocolate (68% cocoa solids)
- 50 gm milk chocolate (33% cocoa solids)
- 175 gm unsalted butter
- 8 eggs, separated
- 100 gm brown sugar
- 100 gm caster sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- To serve: raspberries, blackberries and cherries, halved
Method
Main
- 1Preheat oven to 160C. Melt both chocolates and butter in a heatproof bowl placed over a saucepan of simmering water, then set aside to cool slightly.
- 2Whisk yolks, both sugars and vanilla in an electric mixer until pale and creamy (4-5 minutes). Stir into cooled chocolate.
- 3Whisk eggwhite until stiff peaks form, then fold gently into chocolate mixture. Spoon into eight, 200ml (9cm-diameter, 4cm-high) non-stick moulds coated lightly with melted butter and sugar until three-quarters full, then place in a roasting pan and fill with enough boiling water to come halfway up sides of moulds. Bake until cakes are risen and set (40-45 minutes). Cool on a wire rack. Do not refrigerate - the cakes need to be served the day they're made. Serve with raspberries, blackberries and cherries.
Notes
Note Christine Manfield uses Valrhona chocolate in this recipe.