Layered Mousse Gateau

Category: Sweets/Desserts / Mousses

175g Bourbon biscuits 225g unsalted butter 225g milk chocolate 6 Tbsp brandy/rum 3eggs, separated 300ml double cream 225g white chocolate 225g plain chocolate cocoa & icing sugar,for dusting 1.Line the sides of a 20cm round loose-based cake tin with a strip of foil.Finely crush the biscuits in a polythene bag using a rolling pin. Melt 50g butter & mix with the crushed biscuits.Press into the base of the tin. 2.Use the milk chocolate,50g butter,2Tbsp of brandy/rum, one egg & 100ml double cream to make a mousse,following the recipe above.Spoon the mousse over the top of the biscuit base.Level the surface & chill thoroughly. 3.Use the white chocolate, 50g butter, one egg & 100ml cream to make a white mousse & then use the remaining ingredients to make dark mousse in the same way.Spoon each layer carefully into the tin & chill well between layers.Finally,chill the completed gateau overnight. 4.Dust the surface with cocoa & icing sugar.Remove sides of cake tin & carefully peel away the foil to serve.