This recipe for Strawberry Mousse Cake came with a Paul Hollywood endorsed springform tin that I recently purchased. To make the recipe you need ready to make jelly as found in the UK.
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At the end of the millennium I headed off to visit a friend in Dubai. December 1999 was one I will remember for many reasons. First, DSTV had a special on their new decoders at R1999. Funnily enough, the new generation ones cost the same today. Dave gave me a SOG crosscut as a gift, much like a Leatherman, which I still use. I had to buy a pillow when I arrived which was the last time I ever travelled without my own. And it was Ramadan at the same time as the world was celebrating one of the biggest New Year’s ever. Dubai being a Muslim country was not going to allow any celebrations for the turn of the Century. The world was waiting with bated breath to see if computers would work the next day.
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Fireworks were planned around the world and in Dubai it was just going to be another evening. At the very last minute, the country decided to allow very specific celebrations. This holiday was also my first visit to IKEA. I bought a huge pack of tea lites back with me from Dubai and as I don’t use many they lasted years. Last week I needed to buy more and found a pack of 100 at a local store. It took me right back to my time with Kim in the desert country. Talking of desert countries, did you see the desert island meme where the one person says to the other “good thing the artist could not read properly”? The island is covered in desserts! If I had to be stranded somewhere I would so want this strawberry mousse cake with me. It lasted quite well and looked pretty.
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This is the jelly you will need:
Strawberry Mousse Cake
Ingredients
for the sponge base
- 2 eggs
- 50 g fructose
- 15 g butter, melted, plus extra for greasing
- 50 g flour, sifted
for the mousse
- 135 g packet strawberry jelly
- 600 g strawberries, hulled and all except 3 cut in half lengthwise, divided
- 1 x 380 g tin evaporated milk *
to decorate
- 50 g dark chocolate, roughly chopped
- 3 strawberries from your 600g punnet
Method
for the sponge base
- Preheat the oven to 180° Celsius
- Grease and line the base of a 23cm springform tin
- Place the eggs and fructose into a glass bowl and set over a bain-marie
- Whisk using an electric beater until doubled in volume and at ribbon stage
- Remove from the heat and gently fold in the butter
- Carefully pour the flour along the edge of the bowl and gently fold in
- Once the flour has been incorporated pour into the tin and bake for 15 minutes
- Remove from the oven and leave to cool completely
- Once cooled, remove the sponge from the tin and carefull remove the baking paper
- Clean your tin and line the sides with baking paper
- Place the sponge back into the tin on the base **
for the mousse
- Cut the jelly along the lines and place into a saucepan with 15mls water
- Leave to melt on the stove over a low temperature
- When completely melted remove turn the stove off
- Place 200g strawberries into a blender
- Purée until smooth and then pass through a sieve to remove the seeds
- Place the evaporated milk into a stand mixer and use a baloon whisk to whisk for 5 minutes
- When the milk has thickened and doubled in volume gently fold in the jelly
- Gently fold in the strawberry purée
- Arrange the cut strawberries around the edge of the tin, with the cut side facing outwards ***
- Pour the mousse into the tin and level the top as best you can
- Refrigerate for 2 hours to set
to decorate
- Melt the chocolate and dip the base of your strawberries into the melted chocolate
- Set aside on baking paper to set
- Carefully remove the mousse from the tin and place onto a serving dish
- Place the rest of the chocolate into a piping bag and pipe the chocolate onto the top of the cake
- Decorate with the strawberries and serve
- This will keep in the fridge for a week
Notes
** I could not remove the base from the sponge once I had made the mousse
*** if you have any left over scatter them on the sponge base or use to decorate
Inspiration published on Lavender and Lime August 25:
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- 2015 – Roast Potato Wedges
- 2014 – Cinnamon Sugar
- 2011 – Slow Cooked Beef Short Ribs
- 2010 – Chocolate Macaroons
This looks great, lovely texture in that mousse!
It was really good 🙂
What a monumental visit to Dubai. I’ve never been but it’s on my bucket list. This looks so light and refreshing!
Dubai has changed so much since I was there Katherine 🙂
The texture of this mousse looks so fabulously light! Can you use regular gelatine and juice instead of jelly crystals?
I want to try that to see if I can make the same jelly consistency to start off with. I cannot see why it won’t work 🙂
What a gorgeous strawberry mousse cake, your presentation is beautiful!
Thank you Cheri 🙂
This cake looks absolutely divine Tandy. And strangely this story has reminded me that I need to buy another pack of 100 tea light candles. I’m running out and I go through them like crazy lol.
I use a lot in summer, but the citronella ones, so my white plain ones mainly stay unused 🙂
This sounds and looks absolutely scrumptious! It’s strawberry season for us, with loads of fresh and sweet berries for good recipes like this. 🙂
I so want to plant my own but we are still not allowed to water our gardens.
Sounds like you had a memorable experience to ring in Y2K!
Interesting jelly product – I don’t know that we have an equivalent in the US. I may be traveling to the UK in the next 8 weeks and will have to stop into a Tesco or Sainsbury’s to find some. Looks like a fun dessert!
I am going to do the same when we are in the UK in October 🙂
Just in time, Tandy. I can look for this jelly today when I go to Tesco’s. We are flying home on Friday.
I love Tesco’s and always come home with their parchment paper 🙂
I have never been to Dubai, but I sure want to there once. This strawberry mousse cake looks so beautiful, Tandy. Perfect texture.
Thank you Anu 🙂