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Dessert: Chocolate Mousse Cake

Stelios Parliaros

 

This creamy rich chocolate mousse topped with slivers of chocolate flakes is decadent and luxurious.

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info:
cuisine: Mediterranean Recipes
course/dish: Desserts
main ingredients: Chocolate
preparation time:
Active time: 1 hour
Total time:  6 hours

servings: 4-6

ingredients

Base
6 egg whites
6 egg yolks
180 g  sugar
180 g  flour
20 g cocoa
20 g  corn flour

Mousse
120 g  cream (35% fat)
120 g  milk
60 g  sugar
8 egg yolks
450 g  milk chocolate, Nestle melted
450 g  cream, lightly beaten to become thick
2 gelatin sheets

instructions

Preheat  oven at 220 º C.

For the base
1.  Beat the egg yolks with 150gr sugar until they turn white.

2.  In a different bowl beat the egg whites into a meringue and add the remaining sugar.

3.  Combine half the meringue with the yolk mixture, add the flour, cocoa and corn flour and stir lightly with a ladle.

4.  Gradually mix in the rest of the meringue.

5.  Using a spatula spread the mixture, 1 cm depth, on a cooking sheet, and bake for 8-10 minutes.

6.  After it has cooled, flip it over and remove the cooking sheet.

7.  Cut a strip from the baked mixture,4.  about  8 cm width, and place it all around a ring-pan, 20 cm in diameter. Next cut two disks from the same mixture, 18 cm in diameter each, and place one of them on the bottom of the pan.

For the mousse
1.  Place the milk and cream in a pot and heat them.

2.  Beat the egg yolks with the sugar well and just before the milk and cream mixture come to a boil, add it to the yolks and sugar.

3.  Empty all of the combined ingredients in the same pot the milk and cream was boiling and heat them up to 85 ºC (it should not come to a boil).

4.  Soften the gelatin sheets in cold water and then add them to the mixture. Allow the mixture to cool but not grow cold. A

5.  dd it to the milky chocolate, stir well and as soon as it starts building up combine it with the cream.

6.  Place half of the mixture in the ring-pan, on top of it place the baked disk you have set aside and then the rest of the mixture.

7.  Refrigerate for at least 5 hours. Very carefully remove the ring-pan and garnish with chocolate flakes.

For the chocolate flakes
1.  Melt 100 gr of milky chocolate in a double boiler and then by stirring it lower its temperature to 28 ºC.

2.  Spread it on a cooking sheet, taking care to make it very thin, and before it grows cold and hard, graze it with a spatula and make flakes.

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