More on Mousse

Now that you have a wonderful Chocolate Mousse recipe, here is something you can do with it. This is a neapolitan cake and was my reason for coming up with the Mousse recipe to begin with. You see my mother's birthday is in April and she loves ice cream cakes and I was trying to come up with a good cake to make her. And this idea struck me so I just needed to find a good mousse and cake recipe to make it work.

This is a great cake recipe for freezing. Moist Yellow Cake Recipe from Bakerella
Or if you are the boxed Cake mix sort you can just use the pudding trick

For the middle layer Ice cream of course as this was an ice cream cake and the top My Chocolate Mousse.

First things first make your cake and plate it. I made mine an 8x8 square. When its cool put the whole thing in the freezer.
Line the pan you used to make the cake with wax paper, then fill with your ice cream and put into the freezer also so it can set up in its new shape.

Now make the mousse.


I found when I did this that it helped to let the mousse set up in the fridge a little before attempting to combine it all, so while your mousse is doing that take out the cake and ice cream.

Set the cake (upside down) on the ice cream while its still in the pan and flip the whole thing over so that its now sitting plate side down with the pan of ice cream on top. Squish it down to help conform the ice cream to the top of the cake then unmold. This maybe a bit tricky but if the wax paper did its job you should be able to remove the pan and then the wax paper with little problems.
 You will now have your ice cream in the same shape as your cake happily stacked. return it to the freezer for another 15-20 min to let the ice cream refreese some and the mousse to set up a little more before the final step.

Finally take out the cake and ice cream and the mousse and spoon the mousse on pile it up and spread it gently around until the cake is evenly covered and freeze. Bring it out to sit some before serving to let it all soften up a bit.

Now Imagine with me here the possibilities for this cake:
Chocolate cake, coffee ice cream, Chocolate mousse
White cake, orange sherbet, Chocolate orange mousse
Almond cake, Cherry Garcia ice cream, Chocolate Cherry mousse
White cake (heavy on the vanilla), Strawberry Ice cream, Chocolate peach mousse
Carrot cake, ginger bread ice cream, Chocolate Mousse with a spiced rum and cinnamon extract.

I mean YUM!