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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chocolate mousse checker board cake using 31 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate mousse checker board cake:

1. Take For the vanilla sponge:
2. Prepare Dry ingredients-
3. Get 1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
4. Take 1/2 tsp baking soda
5. Take 1 tsp baking powder
6. Prepare Wet ingredients-
7. Take 100 gm melted butter
8. Take 200 gm condensed milk
9. Get 1 tbsp sugar
10. Get 1/2 cup water
11. Make ready 1/2 tbsp vanilla essence
12. Get For chocolate sponge:
13. Get Dry ingredients-
14. Prepare 1 cup all purpose flour
15. Get 1/4 cup cocoa powder
16. Get 1/2 tsp baking soda
17. Get 1 tsp baking powder
18. Take Pinch coffee powder
19. Make ready Wet ingredients-
20. Prepare 100 gm melted butter
21. Make ready 200 gm condensed milk
22. Get 1 tbsp sugar
23. Get 1/2 cup water
24. Take 1/2 tbsp vanilla essence
25. Get For frosting:
26. Prepare 3/4 cup whipping cream
27. Get For ganache-
28. Take 50 gm fresh cream
29. Prepare 100 gm milk chocolate
30. Get For decorating:
31. Prepare Chocolate chips as required

Chocolate Mousse Cake Filling is actually quite easy to make despite sounding a bit intimidating. The ingredients you will need to make chocolate mousse for a cake filling include: hot water, unsweetened cocoa powder, milk chocolate chips, heavy whipping cream and granulated sugar. Spray pans with vegetable pan spray. In large bowl, cream butter and sugar with electric mixer until light and fluffy.

Instructions to make Chocolate mousse checker board cake:

1. For vanilla sponge: Sift all the dry ingredients 3-4 times. Keep them aside.
2. In a bowl take all the wet ingredients and heat on high for 1 minute in a microwave.
3. Mix the dry ingredients to wet ingredients gradually in three parts.
4. Don't over mix. The mixture should have smooth texture.
5. Pre heat the oven for 10 minutes at 170°C.
6. For chocolate sponge: Sift all the dry ingredients 3-4 times.
7. In a bowl take all the wet ingredients and heat on high for 1 minute in a microwave.
8. Mix the dry ingredients to wet ingredients gradually in three parts.
9. Don't over mix. The mixture should have smooth texture.
10. Pour both the mixtures in 6" greased cake tins.
11. Bake both the cakes in the oven for 50 minutes or till the toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cling wrap the sponges after they cool and keep them in fridge for 4-5 hours.
12. For chocolate ganache- Heat the fresh cream till bubbles are formed. Now add this heated cream to chopped chocolate pieces.
13. Cover it and keep it aside for 10 minutes. Now mix both of them properly and let the ganache set at room temperature for 6-8 hours.
14. Whip the whipping cream till stiff peaks are formed.
15. Mix the chocolate ganache and half the quantity of whipped cream to make CHOCOLATE MOUSSE.
16. Now cut the above portion of both the sponges.
17. Cut the remaining both the sponges into half.
18. Now using a 4" round cutter cut all the 4 parts of the sponge.
19. Take a cake board and apply some whipped cream and then place chocolate ring and apply some whipped cream on the inner side and place a 4" round sponge of vanilla inside the chocolate ring. Now soak the layers with sugar syrup properly and the apply thin layer of whipped cream on it.
20. Next place the vanilla ring and apply whipped cream on the inner side and place the 4" round chocolate sponge. Soak this layer with sugar syrup properly and then apply thin layer of whipped cream.
21. Similarly arrange the other two layers above it.
22. Crumb coat the whole cake properly with chocolate mousse and keep it in fridge for about an hour.
23. Give final coating of chocolate mousse and decorate with whipped cream. On the top add chocolate chips.

This chocolate mousse cake has three parts: chocolate cake, homemade chocolate mousse, and chocolate frosting. If you don't want to make the cake from scratch, you could use a box cake mix. While this fancy French dessert might seem like the kind of dish you'd only be able to enjoy if you were at a high-end restaurant, chocolate mousse is easily achievable right in your own kitchen. Don't be intimidated—if you've ever heated milk on the stove to make a cup of hot chocolate, you'll find the basic cooking principles for chocolate mousse to be very similar. Place a glass in the middle of the cake and cut around to create an even smaller circle.

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