Mont Diavolo

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    12

    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      10 hr

Appears in
The Chocolate Lover's Cookbook

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1987

  • About

This is a spectacular dessert, the kind that your guests will go home talking about. A mountain of chocolate mousse is hidden under a layer of sponge cake covered in chocolate icing.

Ingredients

For the cake

  • 100 g ( oz) plain flour
  • 40 g (

Method

Oven temperature Gas Mark 4/180°C/350°F

For the cake: preheat the oven. Line a 30 X 36 cm (12 X 14-inch) baking tray with baking parchment. Sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt together three times. Break the eggs into a large heatproof bowl, preferably a copper