Guess what, today you getting some real traditional cake from me. Yip, no alternatives today, because sometimes the real deal is all you need! We had a friend’s birthday to celebrate this past weekend and I decided to bless her with some cake. “Cause it’s all about the cake, ’bout the cake, OH TROUBLE!”
I cannot remember exactly when I started baking this cake, but it was definitely when I was in High School which means is more than 20 years ago. It is my Aunt on my Dad’s side’s recipe and I am pretty sure she got it from some other trusted source. Over the years I have adapted it to make it my own. It has now become “The Cake” I get asked to produce for my in-law family get-togethers and also my go-two recipe when I want to make something nice – Welcome to my “Almost Famous” Totally Real, Awesome Chocolate Mousse Cake!
Mmmm…might have just given you an incentive to have me over?
I doubled the recipe for the sponges below as I wanted to have a 3 tier cake.
Sieve together:
1 cup flour 1 cup castor sugar
1 Tbsp cacao 1 Tbsp drinking chocolate
2 tsp baking powder
Make a hole in the middle and pour in:
½ cup oil
½ cup boiling water
Mix together
Separate 4 eggs
Pour 4 egg yolks and ½ tsp vanilla essence into chocolate mixture. Beat egg whites until stiff and add 1 tsp baking powder. Fold into chocolate mixture.
Grease 2 x 21cm pans and line with baking paper. Pour mixture into pans.
Bake for 20 minutes at 180°C
While the cakes are cooling down I make the mousse. I use a ‘package pudding’ to make up my mousse as it gives it the right consistency. To make sure that my mousse is thick enough I just reduced the amount of milk that is normally used to make up the pudding.
Once the pudding is chilled I started the assembly of the cake. Putting some mousse in between every layer of the cake and then covering the whole cake with it. Put the cake into the fridge to chill and set.
For the final piece of the cake (mind the pun) I melt some milk chocolates and added some milk to make it more runny. Before all the pieces of chocolate has totally melted I pour the chocolate mixture over the moussed cake (removed from the fridge). As soon as it is done, the cake goes back into the fridge.
An Voilà, you have my My Totally Real, Awesome Chocolate Mousse Cake!!
Tips:
- As there will be a tier left over, you can use it to make some smaller cakes or just serve it cut up into blocks
- Make sure to taste as you go along, as life is too short to just look at your cake and not have it!
GET CREATIVE AND MAKE A TOPPING OF YOUR OWN!
I think this cake deserves to be branded as “FAMOUS”, but it will have to be shared and made to be made famous, SO PLEASE SHARE!
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