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Okay, my first and biggest complaint is that tape doesn't stick to parchment paper. I ended up having to smear corn syrup on the outside to keep the parchment paper together while the mousses were in the fridge.
Also, as someone else said, the milk chocolate really didn't set nicely. I had to serve mine with the parchment paper still wrapped around to keep it from falling apart.
Otherwise, these were delicious. I don't think I'll be making them again, though.
This recipe is so fantastic! Tastes delicious and very impressive to look at. I recently made it for a dinner party as part of a dessert trio and my guests were blown away. Check out pictures here http://gustatorydelight.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/couples-wine-night-the-grand-finale/
I'm a caterer and sometimes I have a hundred individual desserts to do. I like to bake a the cake in a lined sheet pan and cut out the cake rounds using a can or buscuit cutter. If you are using a can (a clean vegetable can with top and bottom cut out) then you can actualy keep the cake in the bottom and pipe the mousse right on top then freeze until solid. When ready to serve push out frozen dessert from can onto serving plate and let thaw:)
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This recipe is time-consuming, but well worth it. It is de-LISH! I had a hard time dumping the cakes out of the ramekins. I was thinking maybe next time I should grease and flour them? For some reason, my milk chocolate mousse didn't set up as well as the bittersweet mousse, and I did it exactly the same way. I garnished it by melteing some white and dark chocolate, piping them into hearts, and let them harden. I highly recommend this recipe.
I tried this recipe and it was excellent, easy to make and delicious to taste. Thanx Martha please demonstrate some more recipes on video.
I used this recipe to make a 9 inches cake. It was very delicious. However, the mousse was too soft so I used chocolate to make a barrier to hold on the mousse.
I did not double the mousse part of this recipe, instead, I did 1/2 dark and 1/2 milk and proceeded as directed. It held up very well and impressed my guests so much at Thanksgiving 2007 that I will make these for Christmas Eve this year. Beautiful and truly delicious!
These were amazing! The mousse was very rich - I used Ghiradelli's milk and bittersweet chocolates - and very smooth. It was a bit tricky getting the tape to stick to the parchment paper, I ended up using packing tape but it still didn't work great. Oh well, they were beautiful and delicious!
This is perfetct for my mood :-)
This is perfetct for my mood :-)
One of my favorite desserts to wow the table at dessert time! Used the best quality chocolate I could get my hands on and each time this has turned out sublime!
HI Bito: dont wait so long before eating. I wait overnight, and Just before serving remove collars, garnish then serve and eat immediately. Don't let them set and melt. Just enjoy. you saved some good recipes, and I got them. thanks
Extremely time consuming and not worth the effort. The cakes were dry and I undercooked by 12 minutes. After chilling they are very hard too. The bittersweet mousse set ok after whipped to stiff not soft peaks. The milk chocolate did not set well even after 5 hours in fridge. When unwrapped they started to melt quickly. They looked picture perfect for about 10 minutes. The taste was just OK. I'm not a huge mousse fan and they just tasted like mouthfuls of mildly flavored whipped cream.
I can't wait to try this recipe. It's perfect for a candlelight dinner in your house for your husband's birthday or your wedding anniversarry.
I tried this cake and it tasted like chocolate heaven.The only problem I faced though was that the mousse was quiet runny, even after refrigrating it for 4 hours! When I wrapped off the parchement, the mousse looked well structured and firm, but almost 10 minutes later, the mousse started melting and collapsing...It was a disaster, but people didn't seem to care since they loved the taste...I followed the mousse recipe exactly, so I dont know what went wrong...Any suggestions?
I may not be the first one to make this suggestion, but I figured I'd have a go at it anyway.
I found the step where we are to wrap the cake with parchment paper, a bit messy.
Today, I discovered that the mouth of the larger SOLO cups fits the size of the ramekins that I used (which is probably about the same size that you used in the show as well). I cut off the bottom of the SOLO cup and set the cup around the cake, mouth-side down. This way, the "mold" for the mousse is more structured.