Kitchen appliances and utensils:
- kitchen stove;
- deep bowl;
- stewpan;
- sieve;
- silicone spatula;
- baking dish;
- parchment paper;
- cling film;
- split ring;
- acetate film;
- a bowl;
- spoon;
- whisk;
- cutting board;
- blender
- freezer;
- microwave.
Ingredients
Eggs | 2 pcs. |
Sugar | 280 g |
Wheat flour | 20 g |
Cocoa powder | 75 g |
Water | 281 ml |
Milk | 80 ml |
Loose gelatin | 36 g |
Cream 33 - 35% | 730 ml |
White chocolate | 80 g |
Milk chocolate | 80 g |
Dark chocolate | 80 g |
Step cooking
Making biscuit
- Break one egg into a deep bowl, add 30 g of sugar, put in a water bath. The water in the saucepan should not boil much.
- Beat the egg mixture until sugar is completely dissolved.
- When the egg mixture became hot, remove the bowl from the water bath, continuing to beat until a lush, light, well-kept mass is formed.
- Then sift 20 g of flour and 10 g of cocoa.
- Gently mix with a spatula until smooth. The mass should remain lush and thick, only in this case you get an airy biscuit.
- The resulting dough is transferred to a baking sheet or baking dish with a diameter of 20 cm, covered with parchment paper, distributed in a thin layer.
- Bake a biscuit at a temperature of 180 degrees 10 - 15 minutes. The main thing is not to bake so that the biscuit does not become dry.
- Cool the finished biscuit and cut out a circle from it to the desired diameter. In our case, with a diameter of 16 cm.
Mousse Cooking
- First, soak 8 g of loose gelatin in 48 g of cold water. We will do this in advance for all three mousses.
- Pour 80 ml of milk into the stewpan, bring to a boil, but do not boil.
- In a deep bowl, combine one egg with 50 g of sugar, whisk lightly with a whisk.
- Without stopping whipping, pour hot milk into a thin stream, knead until sugar dissolves.
- After that, pour the resulting mass into a stewpan and put on low heat. Boil the mixture until slightly thickened.
- Remove the stewpan from the heat and immediately add the swollen gelatin, mix well until it is completely dissolved.
- Next, melt 80 g of white chocolate. This can be done in the microwave - by pulse pressing for 15 seconds or in a water bath. Melted chocolate is added to the custard base, mixed until smooth, then cooled to room temperature.
- Take 200 ml of fat and cold cream 33 - 35%, whisk with a mixer first at the lowest speed, gradually increasing it to maximum.
- Into whipped cream we introduce completely cooled custard mixture with chocolate and mix thoroughly until smooth.
- Using the same principle and using the same ingredients, we prepare milk chocolate mousse, and then dark chocolate mousse.
Cooking Mirror Glaze
- Pour 12 g of loose gelatin to 72 ml of cold water.
- Cook the syrup. To do this, add 200 g of sugar to the stewpan and pour 65 ml of water.
- Bring the syrup to a boil over medium heat with continuous stirring, the sugar should dissolve.
- Sift 65 g of cocoa into boiling syrup.
- Stir until smooth and boil for 2 to 3 minutes.
- Pour 130 ml of fat cream of 33 - 35% into the pan and bring to a boil over low heat.Add the swollen gelatin to the hot cream and mix until it is completely dissolved.
- Now we connect everything - pour cream with gelatin into syrup with cocoa, mix.
- The resulting glaze must be pierced with a blender. We lower the blender's immersion nozzle to the very bottom of the container at an angle of 45 degrees and break through at low speed.
- The finished glaze is tightly covered with cling film and sent to the refrigerator for 6 - 8 hours.
- Glaze thickens well. In order to use it to decorate the cake, you need to heat it in a microwave oven with pulses for 15 seconds, each time getting out and mixing.
- Heated glaze is filtered through a sieve to rid it of air bubbles.
Assembly and decoration of the cake
- Cake should be formed in a split ring with a diameter of 20 cm and a height of 7 cm.
- First, tighten the bottom of the ring with cling film and put on a kitchen board, so that it is convenient to put in the refrigerator. The sides are laid with an acetate film.
- Pour the white chocolate mousse with the first layer, distribute it evenly. We put the mold with the mousse in the freezer so that it grasps.
- On the frozen white chocolate mousse, pour the milk mousse, again send it to the freezer.
- The last to pour dark chocolate mousse.
- Gently place a biscuit on top, drown a little in the mousse. We remove the cake in the freezer for 6 - 8 hours.
- Now we proceed to decorate the cake - we cover it with mirror glaze. We take out the cake, carefully remove the ring and the acetate film.
- We cover the cake with icing, distributing it in a circular motion from the center of the cake to its edges.
- When the glaze sets, carefully remove the excess with a spatula.
- The edges of the cake can be decorated with confectionery powder.
- We remove the finished cake in the refrigerator for 3 - 5 hours. Enjoy your meal!
Video recipe
You can watch a video recipe where you can see what ingredients were used, how to cook a biscuit in stages, make a delicate mousse and decorate with a mirror fill. Enjoy watching!
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