White chocolate and cherry mousse

Decorated roses cake, withe chocolate mousse with cherry

The most beautiful & easy rose cake you’ll ever do

So..It’s not really a rose cake, it’s actually a white chocolate and cherry mousse, decorated with roses. It resembles a cake but it’s not. It’s a fresh, easy and impressive mousse.

Well I got some roses <3 (I know lucky me). I love flowers, all kinds, specially roses and orchids. But they eventually die 🙁 And I was so happy to have them that I tried to immortalize. I usually dry them but this time I decided I could use them for cake decoration.

Well I could have done a “normal” 3 layer cake and put the roses on it, but I was thinking “what different thing can I invent that’s not the same old, everyone does?”

Decorated roses cake, white chocolate mousse with cherry

Look at this! Isn’t it simply wonderful??

I love the way this mousse turned out. I did it just for the 2 of us, so it’s not very big or has much flowers. And my flowers weren’t that fresh, so you can notice some alterations on the petals. But if you use fresh flowers the gelatin conserves them perfectly.

You can double or triple the size and use your favorite flowers

It’s so easy you’ll want to do it for every dinner party, school party, all the parties you’ll even go. It’s super pretty and impressive. And you can even do it with edible flowers. I don’t really recommend eating these roses

A mousse to impress

Sometimes you just want to impress. Either you’re helping your friend by taking a dessert to her party, having dinner with the in-laws, or just inviting your boss for dinner at your house. But making a 3 layers weeding cake and decorating it may be a bit too much. This recipe is super easy and so beautiful.

Decorated flower white chocolate mousse with cherry

You will need to think ahead, has it needs a lot of time to settle in the fridge. But great for make ahead events, without last minute buttercream decoration breaking down or worrying if the cake will go dry.

Rose cake decorated. White chocolate and cherry mousse

White chocolate & cherry

I know, just the thought of this combination makes me drool. I love chocolate, all kinds of chocolate, but the sweeter they are the better. So obviously I adore white chocolate. Though it’s so hard to find a good quality one right? My all time favorites will always be Milky bar buttons (or Galak in Portugal) by Nestle. Ohh I ate so much of these when I was a kid.

Off course you don’t need these ones to be exact, but buy more than the store cheap white chocolate. As a chocolate Connoisseur (mainly because I devour A LOT OF IT almost daily, and try out all different ones) trust me on this. In white chocolate the quality makes a huge difference. Cheap one will taste like flour. Horrible….almost makes the chocolate not eatable. So go for some quality belgian white chocolate. And remember, you can always buy different ones to try out before making this recipe… always a good excuse to eat chocolate 😛

But white chocolate is very sweet. So my initial idea of making a cherry coulis would make this too sweet altogether. So I decided for an easy solution. Cherry yogurt. Even thought, depending on the brand you buy, it can also be sweet, the yogurt itself has sourness to cut some of the sweetness. So when choosing go for the sourest of the yogurts.

The yogurt will not be firm like the chocolate mousse but that makes it even more interesting. The mix of textures is essential in cooking.

So this dessert has it all…

Beautiful decoration

Super easy

Sweet and sour flavors

Firm and gooey texture

Rose cake – white chocolate & cherry mousse

Recipe by JoanaCourse: DessertCuisine: Other world cuisine

Ingredients

6 to 7 Roses
12 Gelatin sheets
200 gr White good quality chocolate
200 ml Cream
1 Cherry yogurt

Directions

FLOWER TOP
Start by choosing a tin with the shape you want your mousse to be. I went for a round dome like bowl.
Soften 9 gelatin sheets in cold water. Or follow the instructions on your gelatin pack. After they are soft, heat them up until completely dissolved
In your container/tin/bowl decide where do you want the roses to be and imagine a line on the bottom of them. You will fill all that space with the gelatin. Add extra water and mix until you’ve reached that line. Now dispose the flowers upside down (so when you unmold it the roses are facing up). Set it all on the fridge for 5h or until gelatin is firm.
MOUSSE
Start by microwaving your white chocolate with 2 tbsp of cream in 30 second intervals until its almost completely melted.
In a bowl whip the remaining cold cream until soft peaks form.
Soft and dissolve 3 gelatin sheets.
Add the chocolate and gelatin to the whipped cream by hand, gently folding them.
Add the mousse to the top of the flower dome. Drizzle yogurt stripes in the mousse, not mixing them completely.
Chill in the fridge until completely set – 5h to overnight.

Tips and Notes

Since this mousse doesn’t need to bake, you can choose any type of bowl, container, tin with the shape you want your roses to show. Be creative and make a nice flower arrangement. It can be rectangular with a mix of flowers, square with a mathematical display of roses, or a pretty dome like mine.

Decorated flower cake, withe chocolate mousse with cherry

If your flowers are sinking in the water, place the bowl without them in the fridge for 30 min to 1 h for the gelatin to start firming up but not completely. Then place your flowers. They should hold in position now.
To unmold the cake place the bowl in warm water for 1min.

Use this recipe to be creative and make your own mousse domes. You don’t need edible items so make your own theme mousse. Share and post all your innovations and experiences here 🙂

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