These adorable little San-X characters are the perfect subject for some adorable little cakes. Make these whenever, adding the Christmassy chocolate decorations only if you’d like, they’re sure to be adorable!
Rilakkuma, Korilakkuma & Kiroiitori Chocolate Mousse Cakes
Yield:
18
Prep Time:
30 minutes
Cook Time:
4 hours
Additional Time:
4 hours
Total Time:
8 hours 30 minutes
Rilakkuma, Korilakkuma and Kiroiitori chocolate mousse cakes with a Christmas twist to them.
Ingredients
Chocolate Decorations
- 100 grams of Dark Chocolate
- 80 grams of White Chocolate
- 20 grams of Milk Chocolate
- Chocolate Food Colouring: Yellow
- Chocolate Food Colouring: Pink
- Chocolate Food Colouring: Red
Cakes (6 of each kind)
Instructions
- Place the template onto a cutting board and cover it with a sheet of acetate.
- Melt the chocolate in a heat proof bowl on top of a saucepan with a small layer of water in it, on medium heat. Heat each colour of chocolate separately until it has melted completely.
- Using a toothpick or a piping bag, trace and fill in the design with the right chocolate colours.
- Refrigerate in between each of each colour until set.
- Cut out a total of 36 circles of cake, 18 circles with a diameter of 7 centimetres and 18 circles with a diameter of 11 centimetres.
- Line sphere moulds (⌀ 7cm) with the bigger cake circles.
- Fill each with chocolate mousse, 6 with milk chocolate mousse, 6 with strawberry white chocolate mousse and 6 with lemon white chocolate mousse.
- Cover with the smaller cake ring.
- Refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
- Place a wire rack over a large cake pan, placing baking paper or clingfilm under the wire rack to catch any spilling chocolate ganache.
- Remove cakes from sphere moulds and place onto the wire rack.
- Cover with chocolate ganache, colour some of the white ganache yellow for Kiroiitori.
- Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
- Cover with another layer of chocolate ganache.
- Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
- Decorate with chocolate decorations.
Notes
*For this recipe I made about 4 times as much of each kind of chocolate ganache as mentioned in the linked recipe.
Disclaimer: Rilakkuma, Korilakkuma and Kiroiitori are property of Aki Kondo and San-X and I am in no way claiming ownership of them.