SUMMER BERRY MOUSSE CAKE

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Try a scrumptious summer dessert with summer berry mousse cake

Provided by Good Food team

Categories Dessert, Dinner, Lunch, Treat

Time 45m

Number Of Ingredients 15

Ingredients

200g digestive biscuit
100g butter , melted
4 sheets leaf gelatine
142ml carton single cream
500g carton fromage frais
140g golden caster sugar
finely grated zest 1 small orange
4 tbsp orange juice
400g raspberries
284ml carton double cream
250g mixture of strawberries (chopped) and raspberries
3 tbsp orange juice
2 tbsp golden caster sugar
mixture of strawberries (some halved), raspberries and blueberries
icing sugar , for dusting

Steps:

Put the biscuits in a plastic food bag and crush using a rolling pin. Melt the butter in a medium pan, then stir in the biscuits. Tip this mixture into a loose-bottomed 24cm round cake tin, about 5cm deep and press down evenly. Chill.
Make the mousse: submerge the gelatine leaves in a large bowl of cold water and leave to soak for 5 minutes. Heat the single cream in a small pan until it just comes to the boil. Take off the heat. Lift the gelatine leaves out of the water and give them a good squeeze to get rid of the water. Stir into the hot cream one by one - they will dissolve immediately. Leave to cool slightly.
Beat together the fromage frais, sugar, orange zest and juice with a whisk or wooden spoon. Stir in the cooled cream and gelatine mixture and the raspberries. Crush just a few of the raspberries against the sides of the bowl and stir again to ripple through, leaving most whole.
Whip the double cream lightly to soft peaks, then fold it into the raspberry mixture. Pour into the cake tin and leave to chill for at least 3 hours, or overnight, until set.
To make the sauce, blitz all the ingredients in a food processor or blender. Chill until ready to serve. (The sauce and the mousse can be made up to a day ahead).
To serve, run a knife between the mousse and the tin, lift it out of the tin and take it off its base. Put on a serving plate and pile a mixture of fruits on top to decorate. Dust with icing sugar and serve with the sauce.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 607 calories, Fat 41 grams fat, SaturatedFat 24 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 53 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 28 grams sugar, Fiber 3 grams fiber, Protein 10 grams protein, Sodium 0.76 milligram of sodium