Peanut Butter Cup Mousse Cake Recipe

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Peanut Butter Cup Mousse Cake
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Ingredients
22
Count
Nutrition
342
Calories
Total time
15
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Make Cake:
  2. 1. Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350ºF. Lightly butter
  3. Bottom and sides of a 9-inch round cake pan. Line with a circle of baking
  4. Parchment or waxed paper. Dust side of pan with flour and tap out excess.
  5. 2. Stir together flour, 1/2 cup sugar, cocoa, baking powder and salt in
  6. Medium bowl.
  7. 3. In large bowl, whisk together 2 whole eggs, oil and vanilla until frothy.
  8. Sift flour mixture over egg mixture and stir until smooth. Mixture will be
  9. Stiff.
  10. 4. In a grease-free medium mixer bowl, with the whisk attachment, beat egg
  11. Whites until frothy. Gradually increase speed to medium-high and continue
  12. To beat until they start to form soft peaks. Add remaining sugar, 1 teaspoon
  13. At a time. Continue to beat until egg white mixture forms a stiff, shiny
  14. Meringue.
  15. 5. Using large rubber spatula, gently fold 1/3 egg white mixture into the
  16. Egg- flour mixture to lighten it. Fold in remaining egg white mixture. Do
  17. Not over mix batter. Scrape into prepared pan and spread evenly with a
  18. Spatula.
  19. 6. Bake for 15 minutes or until cake springs back when gently touched in
  20. Center. Cool cake in pan 5 minutes. Invert to wire rack and cool completely
  21. Make Mousse:
  22. 1. Put peanut butter chips into large bowl. In small saucepan, heat milk
  23. To a gentle boil. Pour hot milk over peanut butter chips. Let stand 30
  24. Seconds. Whisk until smooth and add peanut butter and vanilla. Let stand 5
  25. Minutes or until tepid.
  26. 2. In chilled bowl, beat cream and confectioner’ s sugar just until soft
  27. Mounds barely start to form and cream in still pourable. Do not over beat
  28. Cream. Gently fold 1/3 whipped cream mixture into peanut butter mixture to
  29. Lighten it. Fold in remaining whipped cream. Do not over mix mousse or it
  30. Will become grainy.
  31. Assemble Cake:
  32. 1. Lightly oil bottom and side of a 9-inch fluted tart pan with removable
  33. Bottom. Line bottom and ides of pan with plastic wrap, smoothing out any
  34. Wrinkles, and pressing it into ridges on sides of pan. Scrape peanut butter
  35. Mousse into pan and spread it in an even layer, filling in all fluted
  36. Indentations in side of pan with mousse.
  37. 2. Remove paper circle from bottom of cake. Place cake on top of mousse in
  38. Tart pan and gently press into place. Cover layer of cake with plastic wrap.
  39. Freeze for 3 hours or until firm.
  40. 3. Remove plastic wrap from cake and invert onto a cardboard cake round.
  41. Lift off side and bottom of tart pan, using a thin bladed knife if necessary
  42. Peel off plastic wrap from peanut butter mousse layer.
  43. Make Milk Chocolate Glaze
  44. 1. Put milk chocolate in medium bowl. In small saucepan heat cream to a
  45. Gentle boil. Pour hot cream over chocolate. Let mixture stand for 30
  46. Seconds. Whisk until smooth. Stir in vanilla.. Cool glaze until it starts
  47. To thicken slightly.
  48. 2. Place cake on a wire rack over baking sheet. Pour milk chocolate glaze over cake, covering it completely. Refrigerate on wire rack for 5 minutes or until glaze is set. Sprinkle cake with chopped peanuts and refrigerate until serving.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 341.78 Kcal (1431 kJ)
Calories from fat 178.04 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 19.78g 30%
Cholesterol 44.8mg 15%
Sodium 128.67mg 5%
Potassium 195mg 4%
Total Carbs 38.09g 13%
Sugars 25.79g 103%
Dietary Fiber 2.19g 9%
Protein 6.71g 13%
Vitamin C 0.1mg 0%
Iron 1mg 6%
Calcium 62.6mg 6%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 297.42 Kcal (1245 kJ)
Calories from fat 154.94 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 17.22g 30%
Cholesterol 38.99mg 15%
Sodium 111.98mg 5%
Potassium 169.7mg 4%
Total Carbs 33.15g 13%
Sugars 22.45g 103%
Dietary Fiber 1.91g 9%
Protein 5.84g 13%
Vitamin C 0.1mg 0%
Iron 0.9mg 6%
Calcium 54.5mg 6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 8
    Points
  • 10
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low sodium

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