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Chocolate Cake with Apricot Mousse

QimiQ Benefits

  • Baked goods remain moist for longer
  • Longer presentation times
  • Icing does not break on cutting

Minutes

25

Difficulty

easy

Chocolate Cake with Apricot Mousse
Chocolate Cake with Apricot Mousse

Ingredients

For 1 baking tray

  • For the cake

  • 200g

    QimiQ Classic, unchilled

  • 200g

    Butter

  • 1

    Vanilla bean, scraped

  • 120g

    Powdered sugar

  • 12

    Egg yolk(s)

  • 400g

    Dark chocolate (40-60 % cocoa), melted

  • 12

    Egg white(s)

  • 500g

    Sugar

  • Salt

  • 340g

    Flour

  • 60g

    Cocoa powder

  • To coat

  • 125g

    Apricot jam

  • 10ml

    Rum

  • For the mousse

  • 500g

    QimiQ Whip Pastry Cream, chilled

  • 200g

    QimiQ Classic, chilled

  • 200g

    Quark 20 % fat

  • 160g

    Apricot jam

  • 160g

    Apricots, pureed

  • 40g

    Sugar

  • For the glazing

  • 200g

    QimiQ Classic

  • 200g

    Dark chocolate (40-60 % cocoa)

Preparation

  1. Preheat the Convotherm to 160° C with convection.
  2. For the cake, whisk QimiQ Classic smooth. Add the butter, vanilla seeds and icing sugar and whisk until fluffy. Carefully add the egg yolks.
  3. Add the luke warm chocolate.
  4. Whisk the egg whites with salt until stiff. Sieve the flour and cocoa powder together and fold into the chocolate mixture. Fold in the stiff egg whites.
  5. Pour the mixture into a greased cake tin and bake in the preheated Convotherm for 40 minutes. Allow to cool.
  6. Foor the mousse,lightly whip the cold QimiQ Whip and QimiQ Classic until completely smooth, ensuring that the mixture is entirely incorporated (bottom and sides of bowl).
  7. Add the remaining ingredients and continue to whip until the required volume has been achieved.
  8. Slice the chocolate base through the middle and sandwich together with the apricot mouuse. Coat the surface and sides of the cake with the jam / rum mixture.
  9. For the chocolate glaze, melt the QimiQ. Remove from the heat, add the chocolate and stir until completely smooth. Spread evenly over the surface and sides of cake and allow to cool.
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