This delicious strawberry and white chocolate mousse cake will blow your mind. This beautiful cake is ideal for brunch, baby showers, or any springtime/summer celebration. Though it may seem complicated with so many ingredients and directions, actually is quite easy to prepare and there is no way you can go wrong with it. Not much baking is required which makes it a perfect dessert for summer.
This white chocolate strawberry mousse cake is a delicate and elegant summer dessert, refreshing and most of all really flavorful. All the layers combined go well together. It is so so good. Everybody loved this white chocolate strawberry mousse cake and I am sure you would too.
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Ingredients :
Sponge Cake Layer (18cm)
2 eggs
125 gr of unsalted butter
125 gr caster sugar,
125 gr plain flour
1/2 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp of strawberry essence
pink food colouring
Strawberry Jelly (18cm)
300 gr strawberry puree ( puree your strawberries)
10 gr OR 1tbsp of gelatine + 4 tbsp of cold water
100 gr of caster sugar
Strawberry Mousse (18 cm)
300 gr strawberry puree
5g gelatin powder + 2 tbsp (30g) cold water
300 ml of double/heavy/ whipping cream (35% fat), cold
White Chocolate Mousse (20 cm)
300 gr of white chocolate + 150 ml of double cream
300 ml of double/heavy/ whipping cream (35% fat), cold
10 gr of gelatine +4 tbsp (60g) cold water
100 gr of icing sugar ( for the double cream)
Mirror Glaze :
150 gr glucose syrup
150 gr granulated sugar
75 gr Water
10-12 gr gelatine + 75 gr Water for gelatin
100 gr condensed milk
150 gr white chocolate
Food colouring of your choice ( red and pink)
1 tsp of titanium dioxide ( optional)
Directions
Step 1 : Make your sponge cake layer first. This can be done 1 day in advance as well. Line your baking pan with some parchment paper and cooking oil or butter. In a bowl add your softened butter and sugar and mix for few min. Then add eggs, whisk again, then add sifted flour, baking powder and strawberry and vanilla extract. Mix well and add red food colouring to get the colour you want. Place your cake mixture into prepared baking tin and cook for 20-25 min at 180 C / 350 F. Leave the cake to cool down completely and then cut in half and set aside.
Step 2 : Make strawberry jelly. Wash and cut your strawberries, i used about 500 gr of strawberries to get 600 gr of puree. After add strawberries in a pan, then sugar and cook on low heat until sugar dissolves. Place everything into the blender and puree until smooth. Divide the strawberry puree into two bowls, one will be used for the jelly and the other for the strawberry mousse. Set aside the one for the mousse and add gelatine to your other one for the jelly. Take a wooden board, clingfilm your ring tightly around the bottom and add your strawberry puree inside. Transform into the freezer for it to set completely. When its done, run a hot knife around and it should come out easily.
Step 3 : Make strawberry mousse. Whisk 600 ml of your double cream or heavy cream in a bowl, add 100 gr of icing sugar and whisk until soft peaks. Divide the mixture into two bowls. Add your strawberry puree, mix that in and then add dissolved gelatine. Add your mousse over the jelly and place it back in the freezer to set completely.
Step 4: Make white chocolate mousse. Put your white chocolate in a bowl, add your double/whipping cream and place in a microwave over 30 second breaks or do it over the double boiler.
Meanwhile dissolve gelatin in cold water and let it swell for about 5 to 10 minutes. Place the gelatin over low heat just until the gelatin dissolves and pour it over the melted chocolate mixture. Let cool completely. Then add melted chocolate mixture to your whipping cream and mix until well combined.
Step 5 : Assemble your cake. Take a larger deep ring pan 20 cm, cling film it from the bottom and add parchment paper around the sides, so that the edges are smooth. If you dont have it, you can use a cake straightener to make it smooth. Add your white chocolate mousse at the bottom. Add your sponge, then strawberry jelly, strawberry mousse and more sponge cake. Then add more of the white chocolate mousse and straighten the cake. Place the mousse cake in the freezer overnight.
Step 6 : Make the mirror glaze. Pour over the cake. Decorate the cake the way you like it. Place the cake in the fridge to set and enjoy all the amazing layers!
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