Mousse Cake

Finally second semester had start. In this semester, we will learn more mousse cake.

Mousse cake is a very popular and famous. Its texture is soft and smooth, and very nice to eat. But the making method is very complicated. The most important thing to make this cake is have to make sure that the mousse is well set and wouldn't melt too fast. Beside that, hygiene is also very important while making mousse cake, because the mousse will not going to bake, and it is also a high risk food with high in moisture and protein.

Chocolate Mousse Cake

A very easy and normal mousse cake. It's mousse is use chocolate, gelatin, meringue and cream to structure it. Gelatin is a refined product obtained by boiling the protein "collagen", contained in the bones and tissues of animals (click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelatin for more information). It can help to set the mousse when adding it in, but fruit like fresh pineapples and kiwi contain enzymes which can prevent the gelatin from setting. Meringue is made by beating egg white and sugar. But the meringue use in this cake is Italian merringue, which heat water and sugar together until sugar dissolves, before add in beaten egg white. It is because to kill the bacteria which found in egg white.

Strawberry Yoghurt Mousse Cake
A mousse cake with yoghurt inside. By adding yoghurt inside, make it taste more unique than other mousse cakes. We made a Joconde Sponge to decorate the side of this cake. It is just like normal sponge cake, but the difference is use all purpose flour (a stronger protein flour than high ratio flour) and adding ground almond. The sponge is more strong in structure and not easy to crack when rolled up.

White Chocolate Mousse Cake

A mousse cake with a very soft mousse. This cake will more watery because the gelatin inside is less than the others. Therefore, while making the mousse, we have make the mixture a bit set before add in whipped cream. The base of this cake, we made a praline crunch, which made by chocolate and corn flakes, to make it more great while eat. It is also very nice while eat single itself.

Mousse cake is actually not suitable for vegetarian, because of the gelatin inside. But for any vegetarian, there are also have vegetarian gelatin, or you can try another mousse cake call Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse. It is use egg yolk, dark chocolate and whipped cream to set it, there are no any gelatin inside. But ofcause it is more soft and not so strengthen. Therefore, we make it into a dome shape to prevent the mousse melt too easily.