Recipe
ORANGE MOUSSE CAKE WITH GRAND MARNIER
Serves: 10
Preparation time: 75 minutes If they like it, it serves 10 otherwise
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Totaltime: 10 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 recipe Grand Marnier orange mousse
- 1 recipe almond genoise cake
- 2 large seedless oranges
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 3 tablespoons Grand Marnier
- 1/4 cup apricot jam
- 1 ounce sweet chocolate
Preparation
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Slice oranges thinly.
Boil water and sugar. Steep oranges in cold syrup for an hour.
Make Grand Marnier syrup with remaining sugar, water, and Grand marnier. Cool.
Slice genoise into 2 layers.
Line a 9 inch springform pan with wax paper and arrange sliced oranges on paper. Save a few slices. Spoon 1/2 mousse into pan.
Top with a genoise half. Brush with 1/2 of syrup. Press orange slices into sides of pan, rounded sides down.
Spread remaining mousse over cake.
Top with other genoise. Brush with syrup. Refrigerate 4 hours.
Invert cake on platter. Heat and release pan sides. Peel off wax paper. Brush with top with melted apricot, and decorate with chocolate.
main ingredients:
type of recipe:
cake
type of dish:
dessert
cuisine:
France
specific recipes:
Chef-recipe
season and occasion: Mothers-Day
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