My Space Odyssey - Mango Mousse Cake

Recipe for this cake is exactly the same as the Mango Mousse Cake that I posted earlier except I used Mango Chiffon Base instead of Vanilla Chiffon Base. Don't ask me for the Mango Chiffon Base as this is nothing fantastic, don't waste the mangoes. I would rather eat fresh mangoes than to use it to bake a chiffon cake.

The top decorative pieces of this cake are created by me. Trying to be an abstract artist. I used Valrhona white and 70% dark chocolate to do these pieces. Very abstract and I don't even know what they are. I only know that they are real yummy. However, I quite like the effect they had on the cake - mysterious flight to space.



This is the plastic mould I used to create My Space Odyssey Mango Mousse Cake. I bought it from a baking speciality shop and it costs me HK$26.

Roland, when will be your flight to Space? Game enough to take on this one???

Thousand apologies, Kirsten! Overall the mango chiffon tasted great with the mousse. I shall withdraw the statement I made earlier in this post.

This is my recipe for the mango chiffon cake base that I used for this cake.

Ingredients:
4 egg yolks
40g castor sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp rum
4 tbsp corn oil
100g mango puree + 15ml lime juice + 15ml water + 1/4 tsp mango essence
120g cake flour + 3/4 tsp baking powder + 1 tbsp coconut powder

4 egg whites
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
45g castor sugar

The method for making this chiffon is the same as in Mango Mousse Cake dated 30th March, 2005