Chocolate Blackberry Mousse Cake
It’s hard to appreciate a cake without tasting it. I can describe what it looks like, the decorations, the texture of the cream, and the sponge. Even the complexity can come through in a single picture. But the taste? How can you tell what a cake tastes like… unless you actually taste it?
You could imagine the flavors you’ve tried on other occasions and combine them in such a way as to get as close as possible to what you see in the pictures. But it would be so much simpler to get in the kitchen and create this wonderful chocolate cake with blackberry mousse and whipped cream.
Only then will you truly understand how delicate and full of flavors it really is. A picture can say a lot about a cake, but we can only really know what it means when we taste it.
This is an amazingly delicious cake with a rich chocolate cream and a divine blackberry mousse that is super soft and creamy and will literally melt in your mouth.
Chocolate Blackberry Mousse Cake
Ingredients
Sponge:
- 3 large eggs
- 2 tbsp wheat flour
- 2 tbsp almond flour
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 50 g butter
- 50 g dark chocolate
- a pinch of salt
Chocolate cream:
- 150 g dark chocolate
- 150 ml whipping cream
- Blackberry jam
Blackberry and whipped cream mousse:
- 400 ml whipping cream
- 2 tbsp powdered sugar
- 150 g blackberry jam
- 100 ml water
- 2 sheets of gelatin
Instructions
Sponge:
- Preheat the oven to 180 °C (360 °F). Line a 20/30 cm (8 x12 inch) baking tray with parchment paper.
- Melt the chocolate with the butter over a low heat. When the mixture is smooth, turn off the heat and let it cool. Then, incorporate the wheat flour and the almond flour into the chocolate mixture.
- Whisk the eggs with the salt and sugar until they triple in volume and turn into a firm foam. Gently fold the eggs into the chocolate cream, using upward movements.
- Pour the mixture into the baking tray and level it. Bake for 20-25 minutes until it passes the toothpick test. Transfer to a cooling rack.
- When the cake is completely cooled, cut it into two pieces.
Chocolate cream:
- Bring the whipping cream to a boil. Turn off the heat and add the broken chocolate pieces. Let it rest for two minutes, then stir well. Leave the cream to cool.
Blackberry mousse:
- Hydrate the gelatin in cold water. Mix the blackberry jam with the water and boil it for 2-3 minutes. Turn off the heat and incorporate the drained gelatin.
- Make the whipped cream by adding vanilla sugar to the whipping cream and mixing it at high intensity. Half of the mixture will be combined with the blackberry cream (cooled). The other half will be kept white and glossy.
Assembly:
- Place one of the cake pieces back in the baking tray and spread the blackberry jam over it. Add the chocolate cream and then place the other cake piece on top. Alternate the two creams on top: blackberry and plain whipped cream.
- Decorate the cake with chocolate, slice, and enjoy!
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