Honeydew Mousse Cake
As promised to some of my readers, here is the recipe of my Honeydew Mousse Cake. Sorry for the long delay in posting. This mousse cake is very light and refreshing absolutely perfect for hot weather.
Honeydew melons are the sweetest of the melons. They are an excellent source of potassium. One serving of the honeydew melon will give you almost half of the vitamin C you need for a day.
This cake was made two weeks ago and I’ve been very busy lately and have no time to write the recipe until yesterday. Sorry for the poor lighting in the photos.
Honeydew Mousse Cake
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Author: Ann Low
Serves: 6-8 servings
Ingredients
- Sponge Cake Ingredients
- (for 1 - 8" cake round tin & 1 - 9" square baking tray)
- 4 Large Cold eggs
- 250g Optima flour
- 50g ice water
- 60g Corn oil
- 1 tsp Honeydew essence
- 1 Whole Honeydew Melon (about 700g)
- Prepare Honeydew Mousse
- 220g Honeydew flesh, blended into puree and measure honeydew puree to 160g & mix with 2 tsp lemon juice
- 75g Coconut milk (Kara brand)
- 15g Gelatin (soak with 3 tbsp of water)
- 50g Sugar
- 1 tsp Honeydew flavor
- 225g Fresh (non dairy) topping crea
- Honeydew Puree Topping
- 220g Honeydew flesh (pureed) strain and measure to 150 or 160g and add up water to total 250g
- ½ tsp Gelatin
- ½ tsp Agar agar powder
- 50g Sugar
- ¼ tsp Honeydew flavor
Instructions
- Sponge cake - Put all the ingredients in the mixing bowl except corn oil, beat at high speed till thick. Lower speed and slowly add in corn oil, mix well.
- Take out some plain batter (about 200g) and mix with some apple green coloring and blend well.
- Pour plain batter evenly into 9"square (lined) tray to about ½ inches high.
- Pour the green batter into piping bag and pipe lines on the 9" square tray. (add remaining green batter to the plain batter, mix well and pour into the 8"round cake tin.
- Bake the 9" square tray at 180C for about 8-10 mins and 8" round cake tin for about 25 mins.
- Remove sponge cake from tin and tray immediately after baked and leave to cool.
- Honeydew mousse - Boil sugar and coconut milk at medium heat together till sugar dissolved. Then add gelatin, stir till gelatin melted.
- Pour in honeydew puree, bring to boil again, add honeydew flavor and off heat. Leave to cool.
- Whisk fresh topping cream to peak form (not too stiff) and add whipped cream to the honeydew puree, follow by a drop of apple green coloring into it, mix well with a hand whisk.
- Spread the honeydew mousse to the cake (method same as Mango Mirror Cake).
- Chill the cake for at least 4 hours or overnight before adding the Honeydew Puree Topping.
- Honeydew purees topping - Using a melon baller or a rounded measuring spoon (1/2 tsp) to scoop out the flesh of honeydew. (you can scoop as many as you like), wrap with cling wrap and set aside.
- Measure the remaining honeydew flesh to 220g, puree it and strain.
- In a pot boil 250g honeydew puree (& water), sugar, agar agar powder and gelatin together. Stir well and off heat, then pass honeydew puree through a sift.
- Using a skewer to dip a little apple green coloring into honeydew liquid with ¼ tsp honeydew flavor, mix well.
- Dip rounded honeydew into the honeydew liquid with a skewer and then place it on top of the mousse cake.
- Cool down the honeydew puree a little and gently pour on top of the honeydew mousse cake (pour honeydew puree on the back of the large spoon so that the puree flows evenly on mousse cake).
- Allow the honeydew topping to set for about 30 mins or more in the fridge before removing mousse cake from the cake ring.
- Decorate mousse cake as desire.
For assembling of the mousse cake, please refer to my Mango Mirror Cake
Enjoy Baking!
The underappreciated honeydew is my favorite fruit, and here it is with coconut. Beautiful! Can you advise a way to use agar in place of gelatin?
Hi Neely, You can use agar agar for the honeydew puree topping but you cannot change agar agar to make the mousse. Gelatin makes the mousse set as a creamy light and melt in the mouth texture while agar agar is set as a firm jelly texture.
Ancoo, this is really impressive! I am speechless.
@Joelyn~幸福の起点Joelyn, 有空的话,一定要试试看哦!这蛋糕很清香,而且冰冰的,特别好吃 🙂
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I am totally speechless. Too beautiful!
@Kimberly PetersonThank you very much Kimba :))
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Wowo wat an elegant cake..
够功夫!太羡慕咯!
This cake looks fantastic!!! I can only guess how refreshing it is!
Awesome! I wanna have a piece pls~ 😉
never eaten honeydew mousse cake before and i think the taste should be pretty unique right. is the honeydew taste strong?
What a beautiful creation!
美到~~~HONEY DEW是我很喜爱的水果呢,我会喜欢这款蛋糕:P
OMG, the cake looks so beautiful! And I also love honeydew. Yummm…. Thanks for the recipe.Hope you're having a great week ahead.Blessings, Kristy
Like usual , it's beautiful!
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Wow. Wow wow wow woww… i am practically speechless. What else can I say?! I LOVE honeydew and I've never thought of a honeydew cake before.. and this looks so AMAZING and so PERFECTLY MADE with so much attention to detail.. it is brilliant!! Congratulations you must be quite proud of yourself! Hehehee..
You do make magic with your creations. I have never seen a dessert or heard of a dessert made with honeydew. Thats one of the reasons I love your creations is because I learn new things. You do beautiful work.
beautiful refreshing cake!
It's beautifully done! I love honeydew, can imaging how yummy this cake will be!
Gorgeous as usual! Your cakes always have such perfection to every layer and crumb 🙂 Do you take orders? 😛
the cake have a simple decoration and yet it's very refreshing. Beautiful.
Another beautiful cake from you Ann ^_^
The cake even looks refreshing!Btw wanted to ask about your cake ring – is it the adjustable type? Where did you get it! Thanks 😀
This is one very very very beautiful cake. You were so neat with your layerings… THe cake, the mousse, and the jelly were all impeccable. It must have taken you all day to make this, but i am very sure it was worth all the effort!
I am just speechless! Beside the fact that I've never come across a honeydew cake, your looks just out of this world!
Hi! Beautiful cake. What herb or left is that used as the garnish?
Thank you! That was fresh dill from my garden.
is so fruity! is a nice and unique creation! (: lovely layers too! GREAT JOB ann! (:
Greeting from My Little Sprout since Kathy of Small Kucing promote your honeydew cake! Thanks for sharing, the recipe is tad complicated to me but the out come is alluring! Yummy~!
Have not tried such a cake before – really sounds refreshing!a
@LyndseyLndsey, Thank you very much for your nice compliment. If I'm going to open a bakery shop, you'll be my first customer with a discount of 50% ;DD
gorgeous! i dont think i've come across a honey dew cake before, i'm sure this is really delicious!thanks for another great sharing, ann!
I love honeydew, but I have a very slight allergy. I don't care though, slight allergies still don't stop me from eating this kind of sweet yumminess :-P. This is the most beautiful honeydew mousse cake I've ever seen, Ann – simply gorgeous. Thanks for these great pictures and your recipe.
anncoo, thanks for the heads up! I'll head to PH tmr hehe 😀
@Min {Honest Vanilla}Thanks Min, sorry I don't take order 🙂
absolument divin digne d'un chef mes compliments ma chère ancoo et bravobonne soirée
@JanineJanine, I got the adjustable cake ring from PH, they even sells square one.
@LoriThank you Lori 🙂 It's so nice to have you back again.
Wow … another pretty and great cake. I must really try my hands on mouse cake.
好漂亮哦。。。。还没吃过密瓜口味的水果蛋糕。。。。。味道冰冰凉凉的应该非常棒哦。。。
You are one amazing artist in the kitchen! I am totally impressed how fantastic and beautiful this cake look! wonderful!!!!
Ann, you do such beautiful work. Your creations are definitely a work of art! You should open your own bakery! I would come and buy lots!
the cake looks fruitylicious and absolutely divine 🙂
What a gorgeous cake! I love springy, spongy cake.
another fantastic cake!
Looks amazing! Must be yummy too =)
Ann, how did you get those green diagonal linings on the side of the cake? Did you use a transfer sheet?
Hi Lee Ann, I did not use transfer sheet. You may refer to my tutorial at Mango Mirror Cake
http://anncoojournal.blogspot.com/2010/11/mango-mirror-cake.html
Ann, another lovely cake! Your cakes make me drool. You are indeed a master baker!