Triple chocolate cake

Flourless chocolate and espresso cake/Dark chocolate mousse/White chocolate mousse

Feb 06, 2025

∙ Paid

It's no longer my birthday but the memory of my birthday cake still holds. There is a small piece left in the refrigerator which will be eaten tonight, shared between S and me, but I can assure you that there will be a fight over the last bite.

I'm certain you've been drooling over this amazing cake and I wouldn't dream of leaving you without a recipe—it wouldn't be fair. It's one of the best cakes I have ever tasted and as I've said many times before, a good thing needs to be shared.

This is a triple chocolate cake. The bottom layer is a dark chocolate flourless cake with a subtle coffee flavor that comes from the addition of espresso powder. The middle layer is a dark chocolate mousse without eggs that is as light as a mousse can get and the top layer is a white chocolate mousse, again without eggs but with the addition of gelatin which holds the mousse together. Since white chocolate has more fat in it, it's more difficult to set in the form of mousse and easy to slice, so the gelatin works wonders in this respect. It also gives the mousse a more dense texture, distinguishing it from the more fluffy, airy middle layer of dark chocolate mousse.

The textures and flavors of this cake are unbelievable. There is a complete balance of flavors without any one layer overpowering the other two, each chocolate flavor being distinct and utterly delicious. The textures of each layer are all different from one another thus composing the perfect sweet cake bite.

Admittedly, this cake is not easy to prepare. The fact that I have a stand mixer surely helped me a lot but that doesn't mean that you can't complete the task with only a hand held mixer. It will just be more time consuming.

What's great about this cake—apart from the fact that it tastes and looks divine and that it is the best birthday cake ever—is that once you've made it, you realize that you now know how to make not one, but four different types of desserts. a) The actual cake, b) a flourless chocolate cake which you can make all on its own and serve it drizzled with melted chocolate or you can spoon some créme fraiche on top, c) a light, easy dark chocolate mousse that you can whip up in no time, since it doesn't have any eggs in it, chill it in the fridge in individual ramekins and serve it with a dollop of whipped cream and, last but not least d) a white chocolate mousse which you can serve in small bowls with dark chocolate shavings sprinkled on top. Is that fantastic or what?