what is a mousse cake?

Question

i have a presentation to do about mousse cakes for my intermediate pastry class and i cant seem to find any info about them on the web. The only thing that i found were recipes, which i dont neew.

Answer 1

Chocolate Mousse Cake

Ingredients:
1 cup granulated sugar
2 cups butter
1 cup water
1 teaspoon instant coffee, if desired
16 ounces semisweet chocolate, cut into pieces
8 eggs, slightly beaten
1/2 cup chilled whipping cream
1 tablespoon powdered sugar

Prep:
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 9 inch springform pan. Heat sugar, butter, water, coffee (dry) and chocolate in saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly, until melted and smooth; remove from heat. Stir in eggs. Pour into springform pan. Bake until toothpick comes out of center clean, 45-50 minutes. Cool completely. Remove from pan; cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until chilled, at least 4 hours.

Beat cream and powdered sugar in chilled bowl until stiff. Garnish cake with cream and almonds if desired. Refrigerate any remaining cake.

Please note that this cake is different from most flourless cakes because you do not separate the eggs and add the whites whipped. It is therefore a denser, fudgier cake.

Answer 2

A preseentation is gunna be hard 2 do... they are basically a mousse combined with a cake, the mousse is made speeratly and then used as a filling for the cake - i'd reccomend just looking at normal mousse and then saying that the recipe evolved to mousse cake!