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🍰 Chocolate Mousse Cake with Peanut Butter
325 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 60 g cocoa powder (4 tbsp)
- 130 g spelt flour (Type 1050)
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 egg
- 100 g coconut blossom sugar
- 80 g butter
- legumes for blind baking
- 5 sheets white gelatin
- 0.5 vanilla pod
- 75 g smooth peanut butter
- 500 g cream cheese
- 200 ml whipping cream
- 80 g dark chocolate (70% cocoa content)
- 25 g coconut oil
Instructions
- 1. Put cocoa powder, flour, salt, egg, 40 g coconut blossom sugar, and butter into a bowl.
- 2. Knead the ingredients quickly into a soft shortcrust dough.
- 3. Wrap the dough in cling film.
- 4. Place the dough in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
- 5. Preheat the oven to 180 °C top/bottom heat (or 160 °C convection).
- 6. Roll out the dough slightly larger than your springform pan.
- 7. Place the dough in the pan and form a crust up the sides.
- 8. Prick the base several times with a fork.
- 9. Place baking paper on the base.
- 10. Cover the baking paper with dried beans to weigh it down.
- 11. Bake the base in the oven for about 20 minutes.
- 12. Remove the base from the oven.
- 13. Remove the baking paper and the beans.
- 14. Let the base cool down.
- 15. Soak the gelatin in cold water.
- 16. Slit the vanilla pod lengthwise.
- 17. Scrape out the seeds of the vanilla pod.
- 18. Stir the vanilla seeds until smooth with peanut butter, cream cheese, and the remaining coconut blossom sugar.
- 19. Drain the gelatin.
- 20. Melt the gelatin in a pot over low heat.
- 21. Stir in 3 tablespoons of the peanut cream into the melted gelatin.
- 22. Add the gelatin mixture to the rest of the cream.
- 23. Whip the cream until stiff.
- 24. Fold the cream into the mixture.
- 25. Spread the cream over the crust.
- 26. Place the cake in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
- 27. Chop the chocolate roughly.
- 28. Melt the chocolate, remaining cocoa powder, and coconut oil together over a bowl of simmering water.
- 29. Remove the bowl from the heat.
- 30. Let the chocolate mixture cool slightly.
- 31. Spread the chocolate over the cake.
- 32. Sprinkle the cake with peanuts.
- 33. Let the topping set.
- 34. Carefully release the cake from the pan.
- 35. Cut the cake into slices.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 325
- Protein: 11 g · Fett/Fat: 22 g · Carbs: 22 g