Mousse Cakes

One of the things I love to treat myself to is mousse cakes from fancy bakeries. I am absolutely game to try it all, fruit, flowery, chocolate, whatever. It just has to have one thing - mousse! Obsessed with mousse I am (not mouse, or mouuse as I keep spelling it). To make this concoction you simply need a two biceps and a whisk. If you have gold in your pockets you can also use a hand mixer, or a stand mixer.

I attempted my a entremet styled mousse cake similar to the ones I've had from Patisserie 46. These guys can make cakes. (And macarons, and bread, and coffee, and sandwiches, etc etc). (If you guys want to give me free food, I am very down). So the entremets aka tiny cakes, typically layered with a base sponge or dense layer and topped with mousse. That's the absolute essence, you have two very different components that can be a number of textures.

Where it gets interesting is when they add gelees (jam), crunchy layers, nuts, dried fruit, etc. My favorite cake that I've had twice was a pistachio blueberry entremet (right) that they unfortunately discontinued (I'm still chasing that dream!).

Why that one? Why not chocolate- blah blah blah? The pistachio flavor was full in a cream, and the blueberry glaze complimented it perfectly. Since then I've had others that were delicious but never quite had the qualities and details of that cake. I'd probably recommend my next favorite which is a caramel cake/entremet called the Rory which they almost always have in production. A perfect drink to match would be a black coffee, (low sugar) vanilla latte, or (low sugar or plain) black tea. A lot of people like to get a frou frou fancy drink when they eat cakes. You can't appreciate the cake when you saturate your mouth with all that sugar from the drinks. The drink should instead, be a cleanser between bites.

Unfortunately, since these are made with heavy cream they are extremely caloric and artery clogging. I have tested fate and eaten maybe 3 of them in one day from pure ignorance and fatassery. Regrets? Not that day. I'd recommend you go to this bakery, or any other bakery that has mousse cakes, get a few and just share with friends (share the burden!). Enjoy!

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