Chocolate mousse cake

By: Rachel Allen From: Rachel Allen's Easy Meals

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Prep time:
15 min
Cook time:
30 min, okus cooling
Serves:
8

Dark chocolate, eggs, a healthy portion of butter and a touch of sugar is all it takes to make Rachel Allen’s devilishly delicious mousse cake

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Ingredients

  • 300 g dark chocolate, broken into pieces, or dark chocolate drops
  • 150 g butter
  • 5 eggs
  • 50 g caster sugar
  • cocoa powder, for dusting
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Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/160c fan/gas 4. Line the base of a 20 cm diameter spring-from/loose bottomed cake tin with a disc of baking parchment and grease the sides with butter.

2. Place the chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water and allow to melt, then remove from the heat and set aside.

3. Place the eggs and sugar in a separate bowl and, using a hand-held electric beater or electric mixer, whisk for 7–10 minutes or until the mixture forms a light, pale mousse.

4. Fold the chocolate mixture into the eggs until fully combined, then pour into the prepared tin and bake for 20–22 minutes or until the cake is almost set. Allow to cool down completely in the tin before removing, then dust with cocoa powder and cut into slices to serve.

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Recipe taken from Rachel Allen's Easy Meals.



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I made this cake but it sank in the middle. I followed the recipe exacly but on reading some of the other comments I didn`t use unsalted butter - maybe that made the differance. It was absolutely lovely and we ate it with cream - very rich.

frenchtart frenchtart  Posted 14 Apr 2013 7:42 PM
 

Sounds almost too easy...but will give it a go, Rachel Allen's recipes are always yum!

HildegardN77561 HildegardN77561  Posted 13 Apr 2013 8:08 AM
 

Absolutely love this recipe, so easy and tastes so great. Tastes even more spectacular the next day.

ShirleyD15348 ShirleyD15348  Posted 12 Apr 2013 11:58 AM
 

Hi Ken, thanks for your comment - this is one of my favourite cakes so I'm happy to help with a few tips. First, I whisk the egg and sugar mixture with an electric whisk at a high speed for the full 10 minutes, until it becomes mousse-like and fills the whole bowl. As you fold the chocolate in, be very gentle and try not to stir it or you will end up knocking the air out of the mixture, which may be causing a thicker, doughier cake. But please bear in mind that this cake, like many flourless cakes, will have a thicker consistency - it's somewheer between a torte and a cake.

Hope this helps.

Anna

Anna -Good Food Anna -Good Food Posted 19 Feb 2013 10:02 AM
 

Iv made this twice and both times the bottom of it was doughy. I think I'm following recipe. Have you any tips

KenF2590 KenF2590 Posted 15 Feb 2013 7:59 PM
 

Hi Sareena, thanks for your comment - generally for baking, it's best to use unsalted butter so if it just says butter, it's safe to assume unsalted.

This is one of my favourite cake recipes so I hope you can try it; I have actually made this with unsalted and salted buttet and it's turned out well every time.

The secret is to make sure you get your eggs really mousse-like at the beginning, I always whisk the mixture for the full 10 minutes.

Anna

Anna -Good Food Anna -Good Food Posted 04 Feb 2013 3:17 PM
 

Hi Rachel regarding one the butter you use for this recipe is it unsalted butter? in some of your other recipe that you have used butter it isn't mentioned if its unsalted butter or just ok to use normal butter?

Sareena Sareena Posted 02 Feb 2013 10:43 AM
 

Very easy to make, made just a little change... I used half dark and half milk chocolate.

Good result! :-)

GabiB22928 GabiB22928 Posted 30 Sep 2012 10:38 AM
 

I had the same issues with time and flavor.

1. I changed the recipe a little to increase the size.
2. The time to cook was, inside the oven: 47min (on) and 10min (off)
3. Next time I will do it with milk choc.

But this recipe is really easy and the result is very good.

David Feitosa David Feitosa Posted 02 Sep 2012 10:57 AM
 

Just made this with my little girl, really easy and fun to make but on tasting I found it a bit too bitter?
As we don't normally bake we wondered if I could substitute soe of the dark chocolate for milk choc?
We also had it with strawberries and cream which all looked great together

elaineH81437 elaineH81437 Posted 23 Aug 2012 10:48 PM
 

Yammy.

Almita Almita Posted 10 Aug 2012 10:01 PM
 

I made this for a birthday in the office; it was so easy to make and went down so well - I would make this again and again!

Anna -Good Food Anna -Good Food Posted 25 Apr 2012 9:18 AM
 

I made this for a dinner party, mixed cocoa powder with icing sugar to sprinle on the top, served with strawberries and pouring cream. This was the best desert I have EVER made. Took a little longer than stated to cook (but I think thats my oven). would HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!

VictoriaA75794 VictoriaA75794 Posted 08 Mar 2012 8:09 AM
 

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ManishaS42946 ManishaS42946 Posted 28 Jan 2012 4:53 PM