"I Want" - One Direction

Just liked I promised here is the Chocolate Mousse Crunch Cake!

The super awesome thing about this cake was that it was so easy but looks like it took a ton of work. So step 1 get a cake mix. The recipe called for Devil's food cake which is what we used and I loved it. Bake the cake in two rounds and let them cool. Now here's where we deviated. We decided to add a layer of...Nutella!!

It tasted really good. The only downside was when we put the cake in the fridge the nutella kind of hardened and it made it a little harder to cut. But I think it was totally worth it.

Next step was the mousse. Now the book that we found the recipe in had this crazy complicated recipe to make mousse. We used Diane's mom's recipe: 1 big (like the one bigger than the king size) Hershey candy bar and 2 cups of heavy whipping cream. Diane melted the chocolate over the stove with a little and I mean a little bit of water, we whipped the cream and mixed it together. Viola. We let it chill after we put it on the cake so it was hard enough for the other layer of the cake to sit on.

Before refrigeration.

After refrigeration.

Now it's time for the ganache. We used 1/2 c of semi-sweet (you could also you dark) chocolate chips and 1/2 c whipping cream. We followed exactly what the recipe told us to: to melt it in the microwave and it turned out like this:

 No bueno. So Diane decided to do it over the stove which proved to be a better choice because it turned out like this.

Perfecto! We let the ganache sit for a couple minutes before putting it on because it was really hot but I think we let it cool just a smidge too much because we had to spread it around instead of letting it just spreading it ourselves.

Now for the final step! Crushed heath bar. We used one king sized bar and it proved to be enough.

So there you have it folks. It was seriously so good. It's make me hungry just looking at these pictures again. Here is a picture of the recipe that came from the book but as you can see we didn't really follow it really much.

Now go forth and eat cake!