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Frozen Chocolate Mousse Layer Cake

Ingredients
  

Flourless Cake:

  • 2 sticks 1 cup butter
  • 12 oz bittersweet chocolate chopped
  • 6 large eggs
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 Tbsp vanilla extract

Mousse:

  • 4 Tbsp 1/4 cup butter
  • 10 oz semi-sweet chocolate
  • 3 large eggs separated
  • 3 Tbsp sugar
  • 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup heavy whipping cream

Glaze:

  • 4 oz semisweet chocolate
  • ¼ cup light corn syrup
  • ½ cup heavy whipping cream

Instructions
 

Cake:

  • Preheat oven to 350.
  • Line inside of 9-inch sprinform pan with nonstick foil and wrap a piece of foil around outside, too.
  • Heat butter and chocolate in the microwave until melted.
  • Whisk in the eggs and sugar.
  • Add vanilla.
  • Pour into the pan.
  • Place the pan in a larger roasting pan & fill the larger pan with hot water to come up the sides of the pan. This is your waterbath.
  • Bake 40-45 minutes and remove from oven, allowing cake to cool in the waterbath.
  • Once cool, place cake pan in freezer.

Make the mousse:

  • Melt butter and chocolate in the microwave.
  • Whisk yolks, sugar and vanilla together.
  • Whisk yolk mixture into hot butter/chocolate mixture carefully.
  • Using a mixer, beat the whites to stiff peaks.
  • Fold whites into the chocolate.
  • In the mixer, beat the cream to soft peaks and fold it into the mousse.
  • Spread mousse over the cold cake and return to freezer for an hour.

Glaze:

  • Microwave corn syrup and cream just to a boil.
  • Add chocolate.
  • Let sit one minute and then whisk smooth. Let sit an additional 30 mins to thicken. Remove cake sides. Pour glaze over cold mousse layer and return to freezer for a few hours until ready to serve. Keep frozen!