RECIPE: REC: Chocolate Peanut Butter Mousse Cake
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Did this tonight for H's birthday. I think the idea is okay but it needs some major changes.
It looks as though you haven't tried this Meryl, so I'll provide my comments now.
It comes off as a chocolate cream mousse cake. The PB is all but lost. No, in fact, lost.
As I was creating the first layer, I thought that the addition of whipped cream needed to stop after the first addition. At this point, I really liked what I tasted. The rest of the cream was not necesary.
The chocolate layer is too much for me. It drowned the PB. There was no flavour of PB at all. Normally, I would use Callebaut for chocolate preparations but this time, I used regular Baker's.
So I would do something 'like' this again, but with the PB layer stopping with one addition of cream, maybe 1 cup whipped. Then just a glaze of chocolate to hold it together.
Thaks Meryl. It introduced me to Oreo cookie crumbs. Didn't know they were available and that's all I could find for the bottom. But they were good as a bottom layer.
Everything is an adventure and can only contribute to our eventual ability to just wing it.
It looks as though you haven't tried this Meryl, so I'll provide my comments now.
It comes off as a chocolate cream mousse cake. The PB is all but lost. No, in fact, lost.
As I was creating the first layer, I thought that the addition of whipped cream needed to stop after the first addition. At this point, I really liked what I tasted. The rest of the cream was not necesary.
The chocolate layer is too much for me. It drowned the PB. There was no flavour of PB at all. Normally, I would use Callebaut for chocolate preparations but this time, I used regular Baker's.
So I would do something 'like' this again, but with the PB layer stopping with one addition of cream, maybe 1 cup whipped. Then just a glaze of chocolate to hold it together.
Thaks Meryl. It introduced me to Oreo cookie crumbs. Didn't know they were available and that's all I could find for the bottom. But they were good as a bottom layer.
Everything is an adventure and can only contribute to our eventual ability to just wing it.
Hi Marg. thanks for your review - The peanut butter mousse definitely sounds
like it would be better with much less cream. I just looked over the recipe and the ingredients only list 2 1/2 cups cream, yet it says to use all 2 1/2 cups for the peanut butter mousse and the leftover cream for the chocolate mousse. Well, what leftover cream???? Maybe the peanut butter mousse was meant to just have 1 cup cream and the remaining 1 1/2 cups used for the chocolate mousse?
like it would be better with much less cream. I just looked over the recipe and the ingredients only list 2 1/2 cups cream, yet it says to use all 2 1/2 cups for the peanut butter mousse and the leftover cream for the chocolate mousse. Well, what leftover cream???? Maybe the peanut butter mousse was meant to just have 1 cup cream and the remaining 1 1/2 cups used for the chocolate mousse?
I think the difference is taken up by the air whipped into the cream. It does end up at
these volumes.
I should also add that I don't have much experience with this sort of dessert. I have just had a hankering for peanut butter recently; it may be related to my chipmunk 'pet' of 6 years who has just recently emerged once again, in the interests of stocking her Spring larder.
these volumes.
I should also add that I don't have much experience with this sort of dessert. I have just had a hankering for peanut butter recently; it may be related to my chipmunk 'pet' of 6 years who has just recently emerged once again, in the interests of stocking her Spring larder.