Cake Mousse - General Cooking Principles
A dessert like cake mousse attracts with a wide variety of ingredients and ease of preparation. The maximum that you have to bake is an ordinary biscuit cake. In many recipes, cookies are used instead of biscuit (sometimes with the addition of fruit or cottage cheese). The most important thing is to prepare the air mousse correctly. Mousse cake can be chocolate, coffee, fruit, berry, cottage cheese, etc. The general principle of preparation: ready mousse is spread on biscuit cake or cookies (cake can also be placed between two parts of the mousse), the cake is put in the refrigerator for several hours.
Cake mousse - preparing food and dishes
To make a mousse cake, you will need a bowl for mixing the ingredients, a baking mold for the biscuit, a small saucepan, a detachable shape, and a mixer or blender.
You must first soak the gelatin, wash and chop the berries and fruits (if used), melt the chocolate and butter.
Recipes for mousse cakes:
Recipe 1: Cake Mousse
A delicious, light and airy chocolate and banana mousse cake. These ingredients combine perfectly with each other, creating a great treat for any holiday. And still do not need to bake.
Ingredients Required:
- 175 g of dark chocolate;
- Five eggs;
- A pack of curd mass;
- 4 tablespoons cream;
- Three ripe bananas;
- Spoon of butter;
- 55 g brown sugar;
- Gelatin;
- Lemon juice with half a lemon.
Cooking method:
We take sheet gelatin, soak three in water. Peel the bananas and cut them into pieces. We take a frying pan with a non-stick coating and spread the oil in it, melt it. Add sugar to the butter and mix. As soon as caramel begins to form, pour in the lemon juice and mix. Spread the bananas and simmer for a couple of minutes. Drain the juice and breed gelatin in it. Mix bananas with cottage cheese and gelatin dissolved in the juice. We take a form with removable walls, lay with polyethylene. We spread the fruit and curd mass and remove for two hours in the cold. Soak two sheets of gelatin in cold water, melt the chocolate in a water bath. Lightly heat the cream and dilute gelatin in them. Combine melted chocolate with yolks and cream. Protein whisk and enter into the total mass. We spread the mousse on the cake from the cottage cheese and leave it in the refrigerator for several hours.
Recipe 2: Cake mousse with currants
The perfect treat for all sweet teeth. The dessert is prepared on the basis of condensed milk, sour cream, yogurt, cottage cheese and currants.
Ingredients Required:
- Three eggs;
- About 250-250 g of sugar;
- Eight spoons of flour;
- Baking powder;
- 75 ml of water;
- 175 g of condensed milk;
- 125 g sour cream;
- Juice of half a lemon;
- A glass of red and black currant;
- 185 g of yogurt;
- A glass of milk powder;
- Halfpacks of fat cottage cheese;
- Gelatin.
Cooking method:
Beat four tablespoons of sugar with yolks until a white mass is obtained. Pour in five spoons of water. In another bowl, beat the whites with four tablespoons of salt and 2 g of salt. In another bowl, mix the flour with baking powder (pre-sift). First add whipped yolks to the flour, then the whites, then gently mix the mass with a spoon. We take the form with removable walls, lay it with paper and oil it. Fill the form with dough and set for half an hour to bake. Cool the finished biscuit and cut into two cakes (one spread on the bottom of the mold). Grind berries (fresh or frozen) in a blender, mix with powdered milk and half a cup of sugar. Then add cottage cheese, yogurt (fruit can be) and swollen gelatin. Mix everything with a blender and remove for 10 minutes in the refrigerator. We lay out two three currant mousses on the cake, put the second cake on top and press. Spread the remaining mousse. Remove the "design" in the fridge. Beat condensed milk with a mixer with sour cream and lemon juice. After two hours, we take out the cake and grease with cream, again we put it in the refrigerator. We decorate the finished cake mousse with berries.
Recipe 3: Exotic Mousse Cake
Mousse cake got its name thanks to the mango, which is part of the treat. Making dessert is pretty easy, so this recipe can be noted by novice cooks.
Ingredients Required:
- Two spoons of flour and starch;
- Baking Powder - ½ tsp;
- Two eggs;
- Salt - 1 g;
- Oil - half a pack;
- Three tablespoons of sugar;
- 0.75 cup of cream;
- Two spoons of powdered sugar;
- Mango;
- Gelatin;
- Little chocolate.
Cooking method:
Melt the butter, beat with eggs and sugar. Add starch and salt. Then pour flour with baking powder. Knead the dough and set to bake for 20 minutes. Grind the mango pulp with a blender. Powder whip cream. Warm the soaked gelatin, then mix it with fruit puree and cream. Thoroughly mix the whole mass. We spread the mousse on the cake, remove the cake for several hours in the refrigerator. Sprinkle the finished mousse cake with chocolate chips.
Recipe 4: Cake mousse "fast"
An excellent treat for any holiday, not requiring much time. Raspberries are used in this recipe, but can be replaced with any other berries.
Ingredients Required:
- A pound of raspberry;
- Three glasses of cream;
- 130 g of cookies;
- A bag of gelatin;
- Sugar - 210 g;
- Jelly - 100 g
Cooking method:
Pour gelatin with water according to the instructions and leave to swell. We wash the berries, add sugar to them and set to heat. As soon as the juice stands out, remove the pan from the stove and grind the contents with a blender. We warm the gelatin. Beat cream and spread on raspberries, then add gelatin. Beat the whole mass thoroughly. Take the form and fill half the mass. Soak the cookies a little with fruit juice and spread on top of the mousse. Spread the remaining mousse on top. After an hour and a half, lay out fresh berries and pour in the diluted jelly. We remove the cake mousse in the refrigerator for several hours.
Cake mousse - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
Your attention is invited to a set of the best recipes for making cake mousse. - whipped cream or proteins are added only to the cooled fruit puree. Gelatin should begin to harden;
- lush mousse is obtained from carefully whipped cream or proteins, but do not overdo it. The dense consistency of whipped cream and proteins is difficult to mix with the bulk;
- for a richer taste in the mousse, you can add any liquor.
