Recipe Number 100 - Chocolate Mousse Cake

 On Saturday, we had a family get together, which was really lovely. I took two puddings along. As I was up to recipe number 100, I thought I had better do something more challenging - this definitely fit the bill!!
I had made the sponge earlier in the week and put it in the freezer - so far so good. On Friday I made the chocolate mousse and sandwiched it in between the sponges - also fairly straight forward.
On Saturday morning, I thought to myself, it won't take long to cover the cake in cream and make the chocolate caraque - wrong!
Although the weather was not as hot on Saturday as it has been in recent days, it was still very hot, and I would not recommend making chocolate curls on a hot day. When I looked at the "rising to the berry " blog, she had just covered hers in grated curls which would have been so much easier. This method involved melting the chocolate, spreading it over a flat surface and then cooling. When cooled sufficiently I had to use a flexible knife to scrape up the curls.
The problem was that no sooner had I started scraping, the chocolate started melting, and as I picked up the curls to put on the cake, there was more left on my hand than the cake.
My biggest moan about this caraque was that it seemed quite wasteful, and a lot ended up in the bin. Having said that, as I scraped what was remaining into the bin, I think I finally mastered the technique  to making the curls!!!
The main thing, however was that everyone thought that the cake was delicious, and someone even gave it a 10. I think I would give it 9.5. I would probably make it again, but would find an alternative way to decorate it!