Pumpkin Mango Mousse Cake with “Zottolade




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Total time: 1 hour

Ingredients for the chocolate base:











For the pumpkin mango mousse:













For the chocolate mousse:












Instructions:

Beat butter with sugar until fluffy. Add eggs gradually, then incorporate the melted chocolate coating.

Then mix flour, sifted cocoa powder and nuts and gently fold in.

Place cake baking ring (28 cm diameter) on baking paper, cover with baking paper, fill in the mixture, smooth out and bake in the preheated oven at 180 °C for about 10 minutes until light, then let cool.

For the fruit mousse, boil pumpkin puree and fruit pulp with sugar and vanilla bean pulp. Add Bacardi and lime juice. Soak gelatin, squeeze out, dissolve in the fruit mixture and let cool. Whip the cream until semi-solid and fold it in as soon as the fruit mixture has cooled to approx. 30 °C.

For the jelly, heat the fruit pulp and apricot jam with the sugar. Soak the gelatine, squeeze out and dissolve in it. Pass through a sieve and allow to cool.

For the chocolate mousse, beat eggs, egg yolks, granulated sugar and vanilla sugar over steam, first warm, then cold, until the mixture has a creamy consistency.

Melt the couvertures in a water bath or in the microwave.

Soak gelatin, squeeze, dissolve in warmed coffee liqueur and stir into egg mixture.

Stir in the melted couverture and fold in the semi-solid whipped cream.

Cut the chocolate base out of the cake hoop, clean the hoop and line the inside with slightly stiffer plastic wrap, replace the cake base.

Place a 15 cm diameter cake hoop on

Preparation Tip:

This chocolate sponge mixture is suitable as a base for cakes, slices or mousse variations. It can be baked - like all other sponge cake masses - well frozen in stock.

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