Vit Chokladmoussetarta
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Vit Chokladmoussetarta is a 3-layer Swedish cake that consists of almond paste and cocoa, white chocolate mousse and dark chocolate icing.
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Ingredients
For almond paste
- 1 cup almonds
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 1½ egg white
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract
For the bottom layer
- 2 eggs
- zest of a lemon
- 5 tablespoons cocoa powder
- unsalted butter (for the mold)
For the white chocolate cream
- 7 oz white chocolate
- 3 egg yolks
- 1½ cups whipping cream
- 2 tablespoons liqueur (e.g. Amaretto)
For the chocolate icing
- 7 oz. milk chocolate
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
- ⅔ cup icing sugar
- 2 tablespoons water warm
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Instructions
Almond paste
- Whisk the egg white until it becomes liquid and mix with almond extract.
- In a large container, combine the ground almonds and icing sugar.
- Stir one-third of egg white mixture to almond-sugar powder and mix with your fingertips.
- Gradually incorporate the remaining egg white until smooth and homogeneous.
Bottom layer
- Preheat oven to 350F/180g.
- In mixing bowl, whisk together the almond paste and eggs for one minute.
- Add the cocoa powder and lemon zest.
- Beat for 3 minutes.
- Pour the mixture into the buttered pan.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
- Set aside to cool completely.
White chocolate cream
- Melt white chocolate in a bain marie (water bath).
- Whip cream for 5 minutes.
- Stir chocolate in cream.
- Then add the egg yolks one at a time as well as the alcohol slowly after each egg yolk (do not put alcohol in one shot as it might make the cream collapse).
- Pour the cream on the baked and cooled cake and put the pan in the freezer for 5 hours.
Icing
- Melt chocolate and butter in a bain marie (water bath).
- Add the icing sugar.
- Mix well until homogeneous.
- Finally, add a tablespoon of water.
- Remove the cake from freezer, cover with the icing and return to freezer.
- This dessert will keep for several days in the freezer and can be prepared in advance.
- Take it out of the freezer 20 minutes before serving. It should be eaten cold.
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