But just a word of warning – this is not one of those desserts you make when you want to “just have a little something”. It’s a LOT of dessert. It’s not hard to make, but it will fill you up (with cake and happiness, of course…).
Ingredients
Cake
- 3 eggs, brought to room temperature
- ½ cup sugar
- 1/3 cup oil
- 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream
- 2 t vanilla
- 1 cup flour
- 3 T dark cocoa powder
Mousse
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- ¾ cup milk
- 1 3.4 oz. packet, vanilla instant pudding
Icing
- 1 cup chocolate (semisweet, dark or bittersweet – your choice)
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- Bittersweet or white chocolate for garnish (optional)
Directions
Spray or butter and flour a 9” round pan and set it aside.Put your eggs and sugar into a bowl and mix with the wire whip for a couple minutes. Next add in the oil, whipping cream and vanilla and mix again until well combined. Switch out the attachment for the regular mixing hook, add in the flour and cocoa powder and mix again until everything is well combined.
Pour your batter into your prepared pan and bake at 350 for about 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out dry.
Move the cake to a wire rack for 5 minutes, then remove the cake from the pan to cool completely.
Once your cake is cool you can move on to the next step.
The mousse is pretty simple. Put the wire whisk attachment back on your blender. Put all the ingredients (whipping cream, milk and vanilla instant pudding) into a bowl. Mix it on low until everything is just combined (say a minute), then turn up to medium for 2 minutes then up to high for an additional two minutes.
Place your cake on a plate and cover the top with your mousse, smoothing it out. It shouldn’t go down the sides of the cake, but don’t lose sleep if a little does.
Move the whole cake to the fridge for an hour to set, and clean up the mess you’ve made to this point.
After an hour, melt the chocolate and add in the heavy cream, stirring to just combine. Take your cake out of the oven and pour the mixture over the top, smoothing it out as much as you can. Some will drip down the sides…that’s just art.
If you’d like, you can shave some bittersweet or while chocolate over the top to make it all fancy-like.
Put the cake back in the fridge for the topping to set (an hour or two) and you’re good to go!
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