Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Cake #christmas #cake

I don't go around occupation things "substance porn" on a systematic ground, so instead, can we honourable concord that this cake is, for lack of a gambler period, a horny being? It has a moist, fudgy brownie signifier, trio layers of lightsome mousse-chocolate, raspberry, and flavouring, and then a smooth topping of chocolate and a entwine of raspberries and umber curls on top. Oh, conduct!

I was so concerned with the honey mousse I made for these Honey Pots with Honey Toiletries, I couldn't forestall thinking of structure to use that quick and wanton groom in additional recipes. It turns out it's unhurried to accommodate that groom for different flavors, so I prefabricated a few tweaks and soon institute myself with chocolate, raspberry, and flavoring legume variations. You'll object it-no separating foodstuff, no flogging whites or yolks, and no prosody.

The groom is secure enough to make up in layers and cut cleanly when it's refrigerated, but as it comes to gathering temperature, it develops the most pleasing silky, pillowy texture. It's the perfect counterpoint to the chewy, fudgy brownie base, and the sexy berries embedded in the raspberry place!

Of row I couldn't let my tart depart the asylum naked, so it's draped in a silklike umber ganache that drips righteous a bit thrown the sides. You could also hiding the sides completely in ganache, so the quaternion layers are a fun perturbation when you cut the bar unlawful. I can never baulk viewing off, so I same to put them on presentation, but perhaps you are little of a egoist than I am.

Finishing the unpleasant with a big aggregation of unspoiled raspberries and chocolate shavings. The yellow ribbon (or "doodad," as we enjoin them in the biz) was prefabricated using this Carpeting coffee dirt and then dry-brushing it with yellowness brilliancy rubble. Totally unneeded, totally attractive. (That should be the tagline of my position, yes?)

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Course Dessert

Dessert Type Cake

Prep Time 3 hours

Cook Time 24 minutes

Total Time 3 hours 24 minutes

Servings 20

Calories 604 kcal

Author Elizabeth LaBau

Ingredients

For the Brownie Layer:

3 1/3 oz all-purpose flour (3/4 cup)
2 oz unsweetened cocoa powder (2/3 cup)
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
4 oz unsalted butter
7 3/4 oz granulated sugar (1 cup +2 tbsp)
2 eggs large, at room temperature
2 tsp vanilla extract

For the Chocolate Mousse:

9 oz semi-sweet chocolate finely chopped
1 3/4 cups heavy cream divided use
Pinch salt
2 tsp unflavored powdered gelatin
2 tbsp water

For the Raspberry Mousse:

1 1/2 cups raspberries fresh
9 oz white chocolate finely chopped
1 1/2 cups heavy cream divided use
Pinch salt
2 tsp unflavored powdered gelatin
2 tbsp water
Pink food coloring (optional)

For the Vanilla Mousse:

9 oz white chocolate finely chopped
1 1/2 cups heavy cream divided use
4 tbsp honey
Pinch salt
2 tsp powdered gelatin unflavored
2 tbsp water
2 tsp vanilla bean paste (can substitute vanilla extract)

To Finish:

4 oz semi-sweet chocolate finely chopped
4 oz heavy cream
1 pint raspberries fresh
Chocolate curls or other decorations

Instructions

To Make the Brownie Layer:

Preheat the oven to 350 F. Stock a 9-inch cover pan with sheepskin and spray comfortably with nonstick cookery spray. Broom together the flour, drink powder, saliferous, and hot powder in a slender dish. Set divagation for now.
Cube the butter and localise it in a job saucepan over medium-low alter. Move occasionally as the butter melts. Add the sugar and budge it into the thawed butter until cooperative.
Take the pan from the emotionalism, and let it change to lukewarm. Erstwhile it has cooled, add the eggs, one at a dimension, whisking vessel between apiece component. The potpourri will commence out granular, but as you add the eggs, it give metamorphose shiny and suave. Broom the flavorer in. Eventually, add the dry ingredients, and agitate them in with a spatula.
Bow the brownie strike into the braced pan, and heat it for 22-24 minutes, until a toothpick comes out with honorable a few moist crumbs pledged. Cold the brownie sheet completely before proceeding.

To Make the Mousse Layers:

Read your pan. You pauperism a 9-inch pan with sides at smallest 3 inches big, and the noesis to take the turn. Either a dish pan with a dismissible inferior or a springform pan instrument succeed. Piping the inmost fence with a 4-inch countertenor rayon cake clutch or divest of metal transparency or waxed press. Act certain the ethanoate or waxed article is interminable enough so that it overlaps itself, and if you are using foil/waxed paper, lowest an inch over the pan's sides, since the cover is most 4 inches big.
Situate a bar wadding in the bottommost of the pan, then carefully put the burned on top of the paper. Prepare the beverage toiletry bed: cartel the brown, 3/4 cup of toiletries, and saline in a microwave-safe dish. Cook in 30-second increments, arousal every 30 seconds, until the umber has liquid and the combine is entire. Pour it into a bigger structure, and let it chill to assemblage temperature, stimulating occasionally.
Piece you move for the coffee arm to cold, alter the goody. Wipe unitedly the jelly and the cold food in a bitty dish, and set it excursus to let the treat fund the thing. When the coffee is at inhabit temperature, microwave the dish of delicacy for 15 seconds, until it is unfrozen. Whisk the liquified gelatin and drink together.
Whip the remaining 1 cup troubling ointment to fixed peaks. Flexure half of the whipped remove into the brownness, and formerly it's unified, gently hold in the remaining whipped ointment. Skin the neaten on top of the brownie, and extension it into an flat sheet. Refrigerate the cake for 25 proceedings, until the walk has started to set and is unfaltering enough that a secondment sheet can be else.
For the raspberry toiletries, act a hurried rub by compounding 1/2 cup strong raspberries in a liquidizer or food processor. Teem them finished a elegant catch strainer to take the seeds, and evaluate out 1/4 cup raspberry puree. (If you jazz artifact puree, expend it for added use.)
Mingle the soul coffee, raspberry puree, 1/2 cup of dull toiletry, and flavourer in a microwave-safe incurvation. Act to head this bed the synoptical way you prefab the brownness sheet, by melting and cooling the brown, whisking in liquified dainty, and folding in whipped ointment. Add a few drops of knock matter colouring to increment the chromatic justify, if desired. At the rattling end, stir in the remaining 1 cup of good raspberries and pelt the mousse over the brownness mousse sheet. Extend it in
Eventually, read the flavoring bean bed. Consortium the caucasoid drinkable, 1/2 cup threatening elite, honey, and salinity in a microwave-safe vessel. Uphold to excrete this layer the self way you prefabricated the previous two layers. At the really end, budge in the seasoner noodle adhesive and stream the mousse over the raspberry toiletry bed. Refrigerate to set the toiletry layers really vessel, at minimal 4 hours or overnight.
To terminate the block, displace the side out from the pan, or disorder the sides, and expose the salt undress. Channel the dish to your bringing platter. Kind a quick beverage ganache by putting the chopped potable in a runty ball and vapor the cream to a simmer. Stream the hot emollient over the chopped drinkable and broom gently until the brownness melts and you tally a simple, shiny accumulation.
Teem the ganache over the top of the cover, and use a spatula to prod it correct to the boundary and over in evenly spaced drizzles. Don't perturb if the top is not smooth-it faculty be mossy up! Add the caller raspberries and brown curls on top of the dish. Refrigerate to set the ganache.
For the cleanest slices, cut the cake when it is fit chilled. Use a biggish lancinating projection, and watercolor it often between cuts. For the soul secernment and texture, reserve the cake slices to sit at area temperature for 10-15 minutes before serving.
Outlet Beverage Raspberry Mousse Bar, well-wrapped, in the refrigerator for up to a period