Two different chocolate cakes

I have recently made two different chocolate cakes.  These two different chocolate cakes combine additional flavours such as cinnamon, apple, or plum, chestnut. Interestingly both have dark rum.

One is a rich dense flourless chocolate cake with flavours of chestnuts and prunes and dark rum, the other one is a light chocolate mousse cinnamon, apple and dark rum dessert.

Gateau Mozart

Cinnamon chocolate mousse and apple gateau

Cinnamon chocolate mousse and apple gateau

This is a recipe from Pierre HerméLe Larousse du Chocolat“. Pierre Hermé is a famous french pastry chef, most famous for his macarons.  His cookbook Le Larousse du Chocolat gathers good chocolate recipes across France and some of Pierre Hermé as well.

I had not done the Gateau Mozart for some time (recipe HERE). Imagine three very thin disks of sweet shortcrust pastry with a subtle cinnamon flavour alternating with a light chocolate mousse which contains apples cooked in butter, a pinch of cinnamon and have been flambé !

Cinnamon chocolate mousse and apple gateau

Flourless chestnut, chocolate and rum cake

I found this recipe a while ago in the Delicious Magazine. I had cut out the recipe and placed in my cookbooks.  This recipe intrigued me because of the combination of chestnut and prune and rum.   With chestnut puree, you retain a lot of moisture and the flavour is undeniable. Years ago, I made up a chestnut steamed pudding. It is such a nice dessert. My curiosity was picked.

Flourless chestnut, chocolate and rum cakeFlourless chestnut, chocolate and rum cake Flourless chestnut, chocolate and rum cake

 

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