Chocolate Mousse Cake

Name: Chocolate Mousse Cake
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 150 g dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids), roughly chopped; 4 medium eggs, separated; 50 g light brown sugar; 150 g dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids), roughly chopped; 125 g butter; 50 g caster sugar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Gloagburn

By Alison Niven

Published 2025

About

A very delicious, fudgy chocolate cake that just happens to also be gluten-free. It sinks down in the middle after baking, so sometimes I whip up a carton of double cream and fill the hollow with it, then top it with raspberries and strawberries.

Ingredients

150 g dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids), roughly chopped
125 g butter
4

United Kingdom
Scottish
Cake
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Scotland

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/gas mark 4.
Melt the chocolate and butter together in a glass bowl above a pan of simmering hot water. Set aside to cool to room temperature.
In a bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the light brown sugar until