Chocolate Mint Mousse Cake #CakeSliceBakers

The Chocolate Mint Mousse Cake was one my whole family had begged me to make since we first started perusing The European Cake Cookbook.  Chocolate mousse, mint mousse and layers of chocolate cake all combined to (hopefully) make a beautiful brown and green layered confection.  I used the leftover egg whites to make some chocolate meringues to decorate the top of the cake and serve as additional snacks for a few days.


First the good news: the components tasted delicious individually, and even better combined.  Next the good or bad news depending on your perspective.  Even though the recipe called for an 8 inch springform pan, and I used a 9 inch, I still had almost 2 cups of mousse leftover.  Good news in my house, especially that week as my son had his wisdom teeth removed, and the leftover mousse was a soft, sweet treat.  Finally, the bad news.  The mint mousse was too soft to hold it's shape.  It oozed over as I removed the side of the pan.


The chocolate mostly held it's shape, but the mint, for some reason, was much softer.  As the only difference between the two was that the mint had melted white chocolate folded in and the chocolate had melted semisweet chocolate, it must have been that.

Each month The Cake Slice Bakers are offered a selection of cakes from the current book we are baking through. This year it is The European Cake Cookbook by Tatyana Nesteruk. We each choose one cake to bake, and then on the 20th - never before - we all post about our cake on our blogs. There are a few rules that we follow, but the most important ones are to have fun and enjoy baking & eating cakes! Follow our Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest pages where you can find all of our cakes, as well as inspiration for many other cakes. You can also click on the thumbnail pictures below to take you to each of our cakes. If you have a blog and are interested in joining The Cake Slice Bakers and baking along with us, please send an email to thecakeslicebakers at gmail dot com for more details. The Cake Slice Bakers also have a new Facebook group called The Cake Slice Bakers and Friends. This group is perfect for those who do not have a blog but want to join in the fun and bake through this book.
Our choices for October 2019 were ~
  1. Prague Cake
  2. Chocolate Mint Mousse Cake
  3. Almond Pound Cake
  4. Coffee Chocolate Cake
Prague Cake
Chocolate Mint Mousse Cake
Almond Pound Cake

Comments

  1. A Day in the Life on the FarmOctober 21, 2019 at 5:51 AM

    I am glad that you had the extra mousse for your son. Having wisdom teeth extracted is miserable.

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  2. KarenOctober 21, 2019 at 9:13 PM

    I got way more mousse too, which is not a bad thing.

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