Mousse cake "Heart" can be a great edible gift for Valentine's Day or a dessert for a romantic dinner. The delicate texture and creative design will not leave anyone indifferent! How to cook this beautiful and delicious treat? Below are a few dessert options.
Chocolate Mousse Cake
Silky chocolate mousse on top of brownie cake, topped with brilliant ganache, looks luxurious and appetizing. It may seem complicated to make, but it is worth the effort. The recipe for heart mousse cake with chocolate requires the following ingredients.
For cake: ready-made brownie pie (home-made or store-bought).
For mousse:
- 1 tsp gelatin powder;
- 2 tbsp. l water;
- half a glass of whole milk;
- 180 grams of chocolate, finely chopped;
- 1 1/4 cup thick cream.
For ganache:
- 100 grams of bitter (70% cocoa) chocolate;
- 3 cups fat cream.
Cooking “Heart” from chocolate and brownie
Take a heart-shaped confectionery and cover the bottom with parchment paper. You can take a 3D silicone mold to make a geometric heart mousse cake.
Take the brownie cake and attach the shape to it with the wide side. Trim the product at this mark. This will be the bottom layer of your cake.
Mousse Cooking
Further, the recipe for a heart mousse cake requires the preparation of a chocolate mass. Place the chopped chocolate in a heatproof bowl and leave. Dissolve the gelatin in a small container with warm water. It usually takes about five minutes.
Heat the milk in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Turn off the heat, then add the gelatin and beat until fully combined. Pour the resulting mixture onto the chocolate chips and let it melt the chocolate. Beat with a fork until a completely homogeneous mass is obtained.
Using a hand or electric mixer, whip the cream until soft peaks. Add the whipped cream to the chocolate mixture in stages, one third at a time. Shuffle, making sure you scrape all the contents from the sides of the bowl. Once the mixture is completely homogeneous, pour it into the mold. Refrigerate for 2 hours or until it solidifies. This will be the second layer of heart-shaped mousse cake.
In order to make ganache, melt the chocolate using a water bath or a double boiler, and add cream. Stir thoroughly, pour onto the surface of the cake and carefully level. Refrigerate until cooked for at least one hour. Remove the finished dessert from the mold and remove the parchment sheet. Serve the Heart mousse cake chilled. If desired, you can not use ganache, but arrange the layer of dessert in another way. For example, cover it with mastic or mirror glaze.
Color Mirror Variant
This “Heart” mousse cake with mirror glaze looks simply luxurious. It can be safely prepared for a romantic dinner - your soulmate will certainly not remain indifferent. It consists of two layers: soft coffee cake and airy chocolate mousse. And its mirror coating makes dessert a real work of art. To prepare this delicacy, you will need the following.
For the coffee layer:
- a glass of sugar;
- 1¾ cup flour;
- 1/3 cup + 1 tablespoon of good quality cocoa powder;
- ¾ l including baking powder;
- ¾ l including baking soda;
- ½ liter including salt;
- 1 large egg;
- half a glass of sour cream;
- ¼ cup vegetable oil;
- 1 liter including vanilla essence;
- half a glass of warm coffee.
For chocolate mousse:
- one and a half glasses of thick cream;
- 270 grams of chocolate (64-70% cocoa), chopped;
- one large egg;
- five egg yolks;
- one teaspoon of vanilla essence;
- 1/3 cup sugar.
How to make such a dessert?
Preheat the oven in advance to 190 ° C. Lubricate with butter and cover with parchment paper a heart-shaped baking dish. Put sugar in a large bowl and sift flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda into it, stirring with a whisk for one minute.
Add the egg, sour cream, butter and vanilla essence and beat with a mixer at medium speed for two minutes. Add warm coffee and mix for 20-30 seconds or simply mix with a spatula. Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
Bake for 20 to 30 minutes or until the match inserted in the center is clear. Lightly cool for ten minutes straight in the form. Then remove the workpiece onto the wire rack and cool completely.
Cooking a layer of chocolate mousse
The second layer of heart-shaped mousse cake consists of chocolate mass. To make chocolate mousse, whip the cream until soft peaks and cool. Melt the chocolate in the microwave with intermediate heatings for 20 seconds, stirring between each interval. Transfer the melted chocolate mass to a large bowl and let cool.
In the meantime, beat the egg, egg yolks, and sugar in a large bowl placed in a pot of boiling water, stir continuously until the mixture thickens (this takes about 5 minutes). Pour into another bowl, add vanilla essence and beat with a mixer for 7 minutes at high speed. When the melted chocolate has cooled, put half of the whipped cream in it, add the egg mixture, then the remaining whipped cream. Transfer the mass to a silicone heart shape. Put it in the refrigerator overnight.
The next day, put the frozen silicone mousse made of silicone on the coffee cake. As you can see in the photo, the heart mousse cake should keep its shape well. Coat it with mirror glaze.
How to make a mirror glaze?
As you can see, the recipe for a heart mousse cake with mirror icing is not very difficult. The most important part of it is its luxurious coating. Mirror glaze is the main decoration of this dessert.
It will require the following components:
- one and a half glasses of granulated sugar (about 300 grams);
- 2/3 cup of condensed milk with sugar (about 200 grams);
- half a glass + 1 tablespoon of water;
- 8 tsp gelatin powder (32 grams);
- half a glass of water (separately);
- 2 cups of chopped white chocolate (360 grams);
- food coloring of your chosen color.
Add sugar, condensed milk with sugar and the first amount of water to a medium-sized saucepan and heat over low heat, stirring occasionally.
Mix the second amount of water with gelatin powder and mix with a spoon. Leave for a full swell for a few minutes.
When the mixture of sugar, milk and water begins to boil, remove it from the heat and add dissolved gelatin. Stir until it is completely dissolved. Pour the hot liquid over the chocolate chips and let it melt for 5 minutes. Use a whisk to stir the icing until the chocolate has completely melted.
Add food coloring gel and mix until smooth. Strain the icing through a fine strainer to remove lumps. Leave it to cool.
Once it has cooled to 37 ° C, pour it onto a chilled cake. Cover the edges of the plate with napkins to prevent it from becoming contaminated with drops of glaze. Serve the Heart mousse cake immediately or store it in the refrigerator until serving. Keep in mind that the glaze loses its shine after 24 hours, so if you make a dessert for someone as a gift, calculate the time.
Chocolate Mirror Cake
This brilliant Chocolate Heart Mousse Cake is made from honey mousse, strawberry whipped cream and chocolate coating. This is a sumptuous treat for a special occasion! To cook it, you will need the following:
For the almond layer:
- 500 grams of almond flour;
- 420 grams of powdered sugar;
- 120 grams of self-rising flour;
- 3 large eggs;
- 3 large egg whites;
- 70 grams of sugar;
- 170 grams of melted butter (unsalted butter);
- 40 grams of cocoa powder.
For honey mousse:
- 300 grams of dark chocolate;
- 400 grams of honey;
- 3 large egg yolks;
- 2 tablespoons of dark rum;
- 1 liter of thick cream.
For the strawberry layer:
- 600 ml of thick whipped cream;
- 4 tablespoons powdered sugar;
- a bag of gelatin powder;
- 10 l Art. cold water;
- 1 liter including vanilla extract;
- 150 grams of strawberry smoothie or jam.
For chocolate coating:
- 350 grams of dark chocolate;
- 40 grams of cocoa powder;
- 120 ml of water;
- 300 grams of sugar;
- 200 grams of condensed milk;
- 1 liter Art. vanilla essence;
- 100 ml of cold water (separately);
- 15 grams of powdered gelatin.
For golden glaze:
- 150 grams of sugar;
- 100 grams of condensed milk;
- 75 ml of water;
- 16 grams of powdered gelatin;
- 60 ml of water (separately);
- 180 grams of white chocolate;
- 1 tablespoon of gold food coloring (in powder).
How to make such a heart mousse cake: recipe with photo
First you need to preheat the oven to 230 ºC. Sift together almond flour, icing sugar and flour so that there are no lumps. Then add the eggs and stir until smooth.
In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until soft peaks and slowly add sugar. Continue whipping until solid wet peaks. Then add the meringues to the mixture prepared in the previous step. Gently mix until fully combined.
Melt the butter and mix it with cocoa. Pour this mixture into the rest of the mass and gently combine everything until a complete combination. Place the prepared dough in a silicone baking dish and bake for 8 minutes.
Once the cake has cooled, sprinkle it with a thin layer of granulated sugar and cover it with plastic wrap. Leave it overnight in the refrigerator. As a result, the sugar will dissolve in the cake and it will remain soft and moist.
Chocolate layer
To make chocolate mousse, place the chocolate in a heat-resistant bowl located above a pot of boiling water to melt. Bring honey to a boil and remove from heat.
Put the yolks in a large, heat-resistant bowl. Add 1/3 of the hot honey and beat until smooth. Then add the rest of the honey and beat until the egg yolks thicken. Pour the egg mixture into the melted chocolate and beat to combine all the ingredients.
Whip the thick cream separately until soft peaks and gently place them in a chocolate base. Pour the cooked mass into a mold and freeze.
Strawberry layer
Meanwhile, make strawberry whipped cream for the Heart mousse cake. Pour gelatin with cold water and let swell for five minutes. Then melt it in the microwave for five seconds.
In a chilled bowl, whip the thick cream until soft peaks. Add to powdered sugar and vanilla essence. Turn on the mixer at minimum speed, pour gelatin into the mixture and mix until the whipped cream forms hard peaks. Put the strawberry puree and stir.
Cooking Chocolate Mirror Glaze
Make sure you have the following tools: strainer, thermometer, hand blender.
Combine chocolate and cocoa powder in a large, heat-resistant bowl and set aside. Pour the gelatin powder with the second amount of water specified in the recipe and let it swell for five minutes.
Put the first amount of water, sugar, condensed milk in a pan and bring to a boil over low heat. Add the swollen gelatin, stir until completely melted and remove from heat. Add vanilla essence.
Pour the hot mixture onto chocolate with cocoa and let stand for 5 minutes, then beat. Use a hand blender to break up the remaining pieces or unmelted chocolate. Pass the mixture through a strainer to remove pieces of chocolate or gelatin. Allow the mixture to cool to 30 ° C before pouring it onto a chilled cake.
Golden mirror glaze
Add sugar, condensed milk and the first amount of water to a medium-sized saucepan and heat over low heat, stirring occasionally.
Pour a second amount of water into gelatin powder and mix with a spoon. Leave to swell for a few minutes. When the mixture of sugar, milk and water begins to boil, remove from heat and add the swollen gelatin. Stir until it dissolves. Pour the hot liquid over the chocolate chips and let it melt for 5 minutes. Use a whisk to stir the icing until the chocolate has completely melted.
Add gold dye and mix with a blender until completely homogeneous. Pass the icing through a fine strainer to remove lumps. Leave to cool.
Once the icing has cooled to 37 ° C, pour it partially on the chilled dessert to create a pattern on top of the chocolate decoration (as in the photo). Mousse cake "Heart" with a mirror glaze should look very festive. Put it on a plate and enjoy immediately or refrigerate until you need it.