Snoopy Chocolate Orange Mousse Cake 史路比朱古力香橙慕斯蛋糕

This is a birthday cake make for my friend this Saturday. We have party of 15 adults and 9 kids. Therefore, I need to make a large birthday cake! The basic cake recipe used to be for 6" cake base. I triple (x3) all ingredients and make it a thick 8" cake!

Cake base: Chocolate cake (3 layers)
mousse layer: orange mousse (3 layers)
Frosting: Chocolate whipped cream frosting

Basic chocolate cake recipe (8" pan 3 layers)
Ingredients:
Cake flour 150g
Cocoa powder 30g
Eggs 9 eggs
Sugar 150g
Melted butter 75g

Direction
Preheat oven to 370 degree
In electric mixer, cream eggs and sugar until it becomes pale and thick and double in volume
Sift cake flour and cocoa power, fold it into the mixture. Fold in melted butter.
Put batter into cake pan and bake for 40 mins or until the top is springy and a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
Leave cake to cool on wire rack.

Orange mousse (8" pan 3 layers)
Ingredient
Whipping cream 300ml
Plain Yoghurt 300 ml
gelatine 3tbsp
Water 6 tbsp
Sugar 4tbsp
Concentrated orange juice 5 tbsp
Some orange food colour (optional)

Direction
Whisk cream and yoghurt in high speed until slightly stiff. Do not overheat.
Add concentrated orange juice. Add sugar and gelatine to water. Melt the mixture over simmering water. Let it cool. Pour gradually to cream mixture. Keep whisking in medium speed until all mixed.
Add food colour (optional).

Chocolate whipped cream frosting Recipe
Ingredients
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup Icing Sugar
1/4 cocoa powder

Directions
Sift icing sugar and cocoa into a bowl
Add whipping cream and stir to mix
Whip whipping cream mixture

3 layers chocolate cake with 3 layers of orange mousse

I topped the cake with oreo crumbs to look like a muddy land.

Chocolate Whipped Cream Frosting topped with Oreo cookie crumbs

My friend like snoopy, but she doesn't want to have a sweet cake. I promised her to make a less sweet cake. Therefore, I only put fondant for the house and snoopy only. Not for the whole cake. Whipping cream frosting is much lighter and less sweet than a buttercream frosting that use for a fondant cake.