Milk chocolate mousse and walnut cake

Serves 4

Prep time 25 minutes

Ingredients

For the milk chocolate mousse

50ml milk
50ml cream
1g gelatin leaves
25g good quality milk chocolate
Zest from ½ an orange
10g egg yolks
5g sugar

For the walnut cake

100g sugar
100g butter
100g egg
100g flour
2g baking powder
200g chopped walnuts

For the orange sauce

200g orange juice
20g sugar

Method

For the milk chocolate mousse

Bring the milk to a boil with half of the sugar and take off the heat. Add the egg yolks and the rest of the sugar and continue cooking until thickens taking care not to overheat. Drop in the gelatin leaves followed by the chocolate. Finally fold in the whipped cream. Pour into molds and refrigerate.

For the walnut cake

Cream the sugar and butter well and then add in the eggs. Add flour with baking powder followed by the chopped walnuts. Mix everything together and cook in a well buttered tin for 30 mins on 180°C.

For the orange sauce

Place the juice and the sugar in a pan on the heat and let the liquids reduce for 10 minutes.