Photo: David Holifield
Chocolate and cardamom mousse cake with homemade honeycomb
18 ingredients
30 min + 1 hr
Serves 6-8
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This is a really simple torte recipe, and if you’re really pushed for time you can even buy the sponge base to make it even easier for yourself.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
902
Calories
21g
Protein
32g
Fat
126g
Carbs
Counts 8 of 10 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 8 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Chocolate | 1 oz (28g) semisweet | 155 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Vanilla | 1 tsp extract (4ml) | 12 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Whisky | not in our table | 0 |
| Syrup | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 15g/½oz unsalted butter
- 75g/3oz caster sugar
- 2 free-range eggs
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 60g/2½oz plain flour
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 tsp whisky
- salt
- 2 tbsp golden syrup
- 100g/3½oz caster sugar
- ½ tsp ground cardamomcardamom
- 1½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 250g/9oz dark chocolate
- 430ml/¾ pint double cream
- 1 tbsp whisky
- 1 tsp ground cardamomcardamom
- 50g/2oz caster sugar
- edible gold dust, to decorate
Directions
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