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Triple-Chocolate Mousse Cake | America's Test Kitchen Recipe
243 ratings
To rate a perfect 10, this triple-decker confection would need to lighten up and lose its one-note texture. Triple chocolate mousse cake is a truly decadent dessert. Most times, though, the mousse texture is exactly the same from one layer to the next and the flavor is so overpoweringly rich it’s hard to finish more than a few forkfuls. We set out to tweak this showy confection. By finessing one layer at a time, starting with the dark chocolate base and building to the top white chocolate…
Ingredients
Refrigerated
• 4 Eggs, large
Baking & Spices
• 1/3 cup 2 1/2 ounces/71 grams), light brown sugar, packed light
• 28 oz Bittersweet chocolate
• 1 Chocolate or cocoa powder
• 2 tbsp Cocoa powder
• 1 tbsp Granulated sugar
• 1 pinch Table salt
• 1/8 tsp Table salt
• 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
• 12 oz White chocolate chips
Drinks
• 3/4 tsp Espresso, instant powder
Dairy
• 6 tbsp (3/4 stick), unsalted butter, unsalted
• 3 cups Heavy cream
Desserts
• 3/4 tsp Gelatin, powdered
Liquids
• 5 tbsp Water, hot
• 1 tbsp Water