Bittersweet Chocolate Mousse Cake

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2002, America's Test Kitchen TV

Chocolate mousse cake runs the gamut from fluffy, insubstantial layer cake to dense-as-a-brick, and fudge-like slab. Could we make one that maintained the qualities of a perfect chocolate mousse--rich, creamy, and full of chocolate flavor?

SERVES 12 to 16 (Makes one 9-inch cake)

TIME 1¾ hours, plus 3 hours cooling and 8 hours chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

The best chocolate mousse cake recipe produces a fudgy, chocolaty, and very rich dessert with a perfect texture. To get the sophisticated flavor we were looking for, we used bittersweet chocolate plus an ounce of unsweetened chocolate for d...

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