Orange mousse cake

Here we have an amazing chocolate mousse made of dark and milk chocolate, some bright shade of orange compote, and an incomparable marzipan taste. A light cake that melts in your mouth and reveals all facets of its taste. You better taste it yourself!
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ORANGE MOUSSE CAKE

Ingredients

Orange compote
orange pulp
540g
18.90oz
2.16cup
36.18tbsp
sugar
100g
3.50oz
0.40cup
6.70tbsp
pectin
10g
0.35oz
0.67tbsp
gelatin
10g
0.35oz
0.67tbsp
Biscuit
marzipan
300g
10.50oz
1.20cup
20tbsp
eggs
180g
6.30oz
0.72cup
12tbsp
butter 82.5%
75g
2.63oz
0.30cup
5tbsp
wheat flour
30g
1.05oz
2tbsp
cocoa powder
20g
0.70oz
1.34tbsp
baking powder
6g
0.21oz
0.40tbsp
Chocolate mousse
gelatin
10g
0.35oz
0.67tbsp
dark chocolate 57%
80g
2.80oz
0.32cup
5.36tbsp
milk chocolate
80g
2.80oz
0.32cup
5.36tbsp
milk
70g
2.37fl oz
butter 82.5%
30g
1.05oz
2tbsp
cream 30-33%
250g
8.45fl oz
Orange chocolate mousse
gelatin
10g
0.35oz
0.67tbsp
orange chocolate
160g
5.60oz
0.64cup
10.72tbsp
milk
70g
2.37fl oz
butter 82.5%
30g
1.05oz
2tbsp
cream 30-33%
250g
8.45fl oz
Orange jelly
freshly squeezed orange juice
190g
6.42fl oz
sugar
50g
1.75oz
3.35tbsp
gelatin
5g
0.18oz
0.34tbsp

Method

About the cake - it's light and delicious, quickly melts in your mouth: a sponge cake with marzipan, two types of mousse, orange filling and orange jelly.

Ingredients for a cake with a diameter of 8 inch and a height of 4.3 inch.

Orange compote

Ingredients:

  • 540 g orange fillet | 19.05 oz
  • 100 g sugar | 3.55 oz
  • 10 g pectin | 0.35 oz
  • 10 g gelatin | 0.35 oz

 

  1. Pour the gelatin with ice water.
  2. Punch the orange fillet with an immersion blender, place in a saucepan, heat to 86F, pour sugar and pectin, bring to a boil while mixing thoroughly, boil for 2 minutes, remove from the heat.
  3. Add gelatin, mix well and pour into two rings with a diameter of 6.8 inch. Freeze.

Biscuit

Ingredients (all the ingredients should be at room temperature):

  • 300 g marzipan | 10.60 z
  • 180 g of eggs (~ 3 eggs) | 6.35 oz
  • 75 g butter 82.5% | 2.65 oz
  • 30 g wheat flour | 1.05 oz
  • 20 g cocoa powder | 0.70 oz
  • 6 g baking powder | 0.20 oz

 

  1. Grate the marzipan, combine it with eggs in a mixer bowl and mix until smooth. Add butter and mix again.
  2. Sift the flour with cocoa and baking powder and add to the total mass. Knead thoroughly.
  3. Bake in two rings with a diameter of 8 inch at 295F from 35 to 40 minutes, check with a dry skewer.
  4. Cool the biscuit, cut out of rings, wrap in foil and place in the fridge overnight.

Mousses

MOUSSE on a dark and milk chocolate base:

  • 10 g gelatin | 0.35 oz
  • 80 g dark chocolate 57% | 2.80 oz
  • 80 g milk chocolate | 2.80 oz
  • 70 g milk | 2.45 oz
  • 30 g butter 82.5% | 1.05 oz
  • 250 g cream 30-33% | 8.80 oz

Orange chocolate MOUSSE:

  • 10 g gelatin | 0.35 oz
  • 160 g orange chocolate | 5.65 oz
  • 70 g milk | 2.45 oz
  • 30 g butter 82.5% | 1.05 oz
  • 250 g cream 30-33% | 8.80 oz
  1. You should cook the mousses just before assembling, in stages. Whip the cream until soft peaks. Pour the gelatin with ice water.
  2. Melt a little chocolate in the microwave; combine with the butter, and mix. Heat the milk to 176F, add gelatin and mix. Pour the milk-gelatinous mass onto the chocolate, mush it with an immersion blender.
  3. Cool the mixture to 89-93F, add to the cream and stir.
  4. Put the cake in a ring. Insert an acetate film into the ring. Place the biscuit on the bottom. Pour half of the dark mousse onto the biscuit, then the orange filling, spread the rest of the mousse over the filling, and cover the mousse with the second biscuit.
  5. Put the workpiece in the fridge; cook the light mousse, similar to the dark one. Then, repeat all the manipulations. Put the cake in the fridge.

Orange jelly

You will need:

  • 190 g fresh orange juice | 6.70 oz
  • 50 g sugar | 1.75 oz
  • 5 g gelatin | 0.20 oz
  1. Pour the gelatin with ice water.
  2. Mix the juice with sugar, bring them to a boil and simmer for one minute. Remove from the heat, add gelatin, and mush.
  3. Cool the mixture to the room temperature, pour over the mousse, and send to the fridge until it solidifies. Our cake is ready!!!