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Dark chocolate, coconut & passionfruit mousse cake

All the best chocolatiers know that chocolate and passionfruit are a match made in heaven. - by Alison Pickel
  • 08 Feb 2016
Dark chocolate, coconut & passionfruit mousse cake
Cook: 575 Minutes - medium - Serves 12 - nut-free
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All the best chocolatiers know that chocolate and passionfruit are a match made in heaven.

Ingredients

1 unfilled chocolate double sponge cake

¼ cup coconut rum liqueur

⅓ cup coconut flakes (optional), toasted

Passionfruit & coconut mousse

6 gelatine leaves

6 ripe passionfruits (the skin should be crinkled when ripe)

160 g can coconut cream

85 g golden caster sugar

2 tbsp coconut rum liqueur

300 ml thickened cream

Chocolate ganache

200 g dark chocolate, around 70% cocoa solids, finely chopped

300 ml thickened cream

Method

  1. To make the mousse, put the gelatine leaves in a bowl of cold water, one at a time, so they don’t stick together. Set aside for 5 mins to soften. Scoop the pulp and seeds from the passionfruit into a sieve suspended over a bowl, and push through the juice – you should have about 100ml. Put 1 tbsp of the seeds in a small bowl and set aside. Save 2 small empty passionfruit halves and discard the rest.
  2. Pour the coconut cream, passionfruit juice and sugar into a saucepan and bring to a gentle simmer. Remove from the heat and stir in the coconut rum liqueur. Add the gelatine to the hot liquid, a leaf at a time, squeezing out the water before you add them. Stir until the gelatine has dissolved. Fill each reserved passionfruit half with some of the mixture, place in a small dish and chill until needed. Leave the remaining mixture to cool to room temperature.
  3. Pour the thickened cream into a large bowl and whip until it’s holding its shape. Add half the passionfruit mixture, fold together, then add the remaining mixture and fold through again.
  4. Line a deep 20cm cake tin with a double layer of cling film. Slice each sponge in half through the middle and drizzle each layer with 1 tbsp coconut rum liqueur. Place one of the layers into the tin, flat-side down, and spread with a third of the passionfruit mousse – don’t worry if a little trickles down the sides. Layer the remaining sponges and mousse on top, finishing with a layer of cake. Cover the top of the cake with cling film and chill for at least 4 hrs, or preferably overnight.
  5. When the cake has chilled and the mousse is set, turn out onto a cake stand, so the base now becomes the top, and remove the cling film. Using a palette knife, scrape any passionfruit mousse off the edges of the cake, to give it a smooth surface. Place the cake back in the fridge while you prepare the ganache.
  6. Put the chocolate and thickened cream in a pan and gently heat, stirring now and then, to make a runny chocolate sauce. Leave to firm up at room temperature until it reaches a spreadable consistency.
  7. Remove the cake from the fridge. Spread the ganache over the top and sides of the cake with a palette knife until completely covered. Decorate with a ring of toasted coconut shavings, if you like. Remove the filled passionfruit shells from the fridge and place these on top too, topped with the reserved passionfruit seeds. Chill until ready to serve, but bring out of the fridge 1 hr before slicing (don’t forget to serve the passionfruit jellies to your favourite guests too). Leftovers will keep in the fridge for 2 days.
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