Hazelnut Banana Mousse Cake

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I went to my first official cake lesson last week. Recently these small cake utensils shops have been popping up around Macau, and it's been very popular among the young ones. Basically, you check out their cake class schedule, they make a new cake every day, choose your cake and apply to join the class. All ingredients and utensils are provided, and when the cake is done, you take your own cake home.

I'm pretty confident with my cake baking skills, the teacher also commented that it was obvious that I'm not a newbie in the pastry kitchen (yo!) but my artistic skills are really lacking. I couldn't decorate the cake for saving my own life. baaaah.

Here's the recipe, I translated it from Chinese, so apologies if I made any wrong translation and it doesn't make sense! Recipe courtesy of Kuma Kitchen Macau. Translated by kat (that is, me!)

★ Hazelnut Banana Mousse Cake ★

Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
Whole eggs - 2 pc
Red sugar - 20 gr
Sugar - 20 gr
Low gluten flour - 20 gr
Cocoa powder - 10 gr
Corn starch - 15 gr
Baking soda - 1/4 tea spoon
Milk - 10 gr
Butter - 10 gr

1) Add sugar into eggs and beat
2) Mix flour, cocoa powder, corn starch and baking soda. Divide into 2 parts to add into egg mixture separately. Mix with a spatula.
3) Add in butter (melted) and milk
4) Pour into a flat mold. Bake for 8 minutes at 170 degrees Celsius. Let cool after baking. Measure height of your cake mold, and cut the cake into at least 2 strips 1-2 cm shorter than the mold height.

Hazelnut Banana Mousse
Ingredients
Whipping cream - 180 gr
Hazelnut paste - 110 gr
Banana for mousse - 1 pc (roughly 100 gr)
Gelatin powder - 8 gr
Water - 20 gr
Banana for filling, sliced - 1 pc

1) Beat up the whipping cream to around 70% hard
2) Mix water into the gelatin powder, keep the mixture heated in a bain marie. Add in the hazelnut paste (previously melted in a bain marie), and add in mashed banana. Mix with a spoon
3) Add the hazelnut paste mixture into the whipping cream. Mix with a spatula

Decoration
Ingredients
Banana
Hazelnut

Chocolate flakes

That's the recipe provided to us, but since it was a class, there's one part that isn't included in this recipe sheet - and that is how to make the actual cake! Here's an instruction sort of thingy by moi~

Cake

* use a mold ring that has no base, wrap non-stick cookie baking sheet around the mold ring to make a base

1) Surround the sides of the mold with the cake strips. Use any odd pieces of cake to cover the bottom of the mold

2) Pour in the mousse mixture to around half full. Add in sliced banana. Try to place the sliced bananas evenly

3) Pour in the remaining mousse mixture into the cake. Fill it up to the top

4) Let chill in the fridge

5) When chilled, unwrap the cookie sheet, and slowly slide the mold ring out