Strawberry Mousse Cake

Preparation time: 30 minutes

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Cooling time: 2-3 hours 

A very light subtle strawberry mousse cake that will leave you feeling fruity.

Ingredients 

For the sponge: 
4oz Caster sugar
4oz Self raising flour 
4oz Butter
2 eggs

For the strawberry mousse: 
1 x 135g strawberry jelly
450g strawberries
2 x 170g evaporated milk

To decorate: 
50g dark chocolate
50g white chocolate
5 strawberries

Method:

1. Preheat your oven to 180°C and grease a spring loaded circular cake tin and line the base with greaseproof paper.

2. First make the sponge. Put all your ingredients for the sponge into a bowl and whisk together with an electric whisk until light and fluffy like cake mixture. When your mixture is done pour into your tin and bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes.

3. When cooked take out of the oven and leave it to cool for an hour. When your cake it completely cool, take your cake out the tin and peel the greaseproof paper off the bottom. Line the edge of your tin with a one very long piece of greaseproof paper and cut snippets on the bottom. Place your cake back into the tin with the greaseproof paper around it with the flaps underneath the cake. 

4. Next make the mousse. Break up your jelly and put it in a small pan with a tablespoon of water. Melt gently over a low heat until smooth. Remove from the heat and set aside. Purée 200g of the strawberries in a blender until smooth and pass through a sieve to remove the seeds. Gather the remaining strawberries and cut in half top-to-toe (or slice into three if large). Place each slice of strawberry on the edge of the tin going around the cake.

5. Using an electric whisk, whisk the evaporated milk for at least five minutes, or until it is thick, bubbly and doubled in volume. Then gently fold in the liquid jelly, then fold in the strawberry purée. 
Pour your mousse into your tin and spread evenly round the tin. Place in the fridge for 2 hours to set.

6. When your mousse is set its time to decorate! decorate, melt both chocolates in two separate bowls and heat in the microwave for about 1 minute or you can heat over a pan. 

7.  Pour the chocolate into a piping bag. Snip the end off the piping bag and drizzle lines of chocolate over the top of the mousse and place the 5 strawberries on top.

There we go! Your strawberry mousse cake all done! You can now share it with family and friends.

I hope you enjoy my recipe and i'll see you next sunday with another delicious recipe! Thanks for all the support! Keep baking! :-P x

Lauren Fee

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