Kiwi mousse cake
Kiwi mousse cake recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- Chocolate cake:
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 2, 1 ounce, squares unsweetened chocolate
- 3/4 cup water
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 small eggs
- 1/3 cup sour milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Syrup:
- 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier, orange liqueur, or rum
- 1/3 cup water
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- Mousse filling:
- 5 kiwifruit, peeled and sliced
- 1 1/2 cups whipping cream
- 3 egg whites
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 ounce unflavored gelatin, dissolved in 3 tablespoon water
- 2 to 3 drops green food coloring
- Chocolate leaves:
- 2 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, melted and warm
- 6 to 8 camellia leaves or any other nonpoisonous leaf
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease and paper line a 9 inch springform pan.
- Sift flour with baking soda into large bowl.
- Combine butter, oil and chocolate in small pan.
- Stir over low heat to melt.
- Add water. Cool 15 minutes.
- To flour mixture, add sugar, eggs, sour milk and vanilla.
- Mix with wooden spoon.
- Stir in cooled chocolate mixture.
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Bake for 30 to 35 minutes.
- Remove from oven.
- Stick holes in hot cake and drizzle syrup over top.
- Set aside to cool.
- Syrup: Combine water and sugar in small saucepan. Bring to a rolling boil. When cool, add liqueur. Pour over hot cake.
- Mousse filling:
- Briefly puree kiwi and pour into a bowl.
- Whip cream until soft peaks form.
- Beat egg whites, gradually adding sugar until soft peaks form.
- Stir gelatin into puree.
- Fold egg whites and half the whipped cream into kiwi mixture.
- Color with food coloring.
- Pour mousse filling mixture on top of cooled cake still in springform pan.
- Top and decorate with remaining whipped cream.
- Cover and freeze 4 hours before serving.
- To serve, unmold by removing sides of pan.
- Decorate with chocolate leaves or shaved chocolate.
- Top with strawberry.
- Chocolate leaves:
- With small brush, paint a thin layer on vein side of leaf.
- Chill until set.
- Repeat with 3 more layers.
- Refrigerate.
- When ready to use, peel chocolate off leaves with chilled hands.
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