Name: Chocolate Mousse Gâteau
Ingredients: about ¼ lb (350 g) fresh summer fruit, or good jam, or 8 oz (225 g) dried apricots, stewed as below; ½ pint double cream (275 ml); 6 oz Chocolate Menier or plain chocolate (175 g); 5 eggs; 6 oz caster sugar (175 g); 2 tablespoons very hot water

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Taste of Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1976

About

Several friends have said that they have never tasted a better pudding than this. It is a mouthwatering soft dark chocolate sandwich cake made with just eggs, sugar and chocolate, no flour at all, and it is then packed with fruit and whipped cream. It must be made well in advance but it is not difficult and is extremely impressive and beautiful for a dinner party. In the summer, I fill it with strawberries, raspberries, redcurrants or sliced peaches. You could use blackberries in the autumn