{"id":634,"date":"2017-08-19T10:45:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T10:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/?p=634"},"modified":"2017-08-19T10:45:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T10:45:40","slug":"chocolate-mousse-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Mousse Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

A take on our family’s favorite birthday treat — Angela Mia<\/em> Chocolate Mousse Cake. This version is slightly less dense and doesn’t include a chocolate chip siding (however, you could certainly add it, as you wish!) Best served with homemade vanilla ice cream!<\/p>\n

Imperative ingredients<\/em>: booze in the mousse– your choice, but Kahlua works extremely well. Also the darkest cocoa powder you can find for the cake as well as the ganache!<\/p>\n

Optional additions<\/em>: Berries on top, chocolate chips, jam or ganache layer within.<\/p>\n

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Chocolate Mousse Cake<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cake<\/span><\/p>\n

2 cups boiling water
\n1 cup unsweetened dark cocoa powder
\n2 3\/4 cups all-purpose flour
\n2 1\/2 cups granulated sugar
\n2 teaspoons baking soda
\n1\/2 teaspoon baking powder
\n1\/2 teaspoon salt
\n1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
\n4 eggs
\n3 teaspoons pure vanilla extract<\/p>\n

Chocolate Mousse<\/span><\/p>\n

2 cups dark chocolate chips
\n1 cup whipping cream
\n3 Tablespoon confectioners\u2019 sugar
\n2 teaspoon vanilla extract
\n4 Tbsp Kahlua or Godiva liqueur<\/p>\n

Chocolate Ganache<\/span>
\n1 1\/4 cup high quality dark chocolate
\n3\/4 cups whipping cream<\/p>\n

Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cake<\/span><\/p>\n

Preheat oven to 350F.<\/p>\n

Grease three 9-inch cake pans and lightly flour<\/p>\n

Put 2 cups of water into a saucepan, mix in the cocoa and boil. Stir until combined and smooth, then turn off and set aside to cool.<\/p>\n

In a bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt.<\/p>\n

In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla together.<\/p>\n

Beat in the dry ingredients alternating with the chocolate mixture.<\/p>\n

Beat just until blended, do not over mix.<\/p>\n

Divide the batter into the three prepared pans and bake for about 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.<\/p>\n

Remove cakes from oven, place on cooling racks and leave them in the pans for 5 minutes.<\/p>\n

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Chocolate Mousse<\/span><\/p>\n

Melt chocolate in a double boiler, or a pot filled with water and bowl. Set aside to cool.<\/p>\n

Whip the cream and sugar, to stiff peaks. When chocolate is cool, whisk into cream. Whisk in vanilla and Kahlua. Set aside or store in refrigerator.<\/p>\n

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Chocolate Ganache<\/span><\/p>\n

Melt chocolate and cream in a double boiler, or a pot filled with water and bowl. Set aside to cool.<\/p>\n

Put chocolate mousse in between layers. Then pour chocolate ganache over top of cake. Serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A take on our family’s favorite birthday treat — Angela Mia Chocolate Mousse Cake. This version is slightly less dense and doesn’t include a chocolate chip siding (however, you could certainly add it, as you wish!) Best served with homemade vanilla ice cream! Imperative ingredients: booze in the mousse– your choice, but Kahlua works extremely… Continue reading Chocolate Mousse Cake<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twiceifilikeit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}