chocolate cake for a dear friend

My friend Alex is finally getting married. Hence, I decided to make a small cake for him and his wife and our dear friend, Jianying who came back to sg for the wedding.

This is a smaller 6-inch version of the chocolate mousse layer cake I made previously, using 2/3 of the recipe. The cake was covered with whipped cream as I used 70% dark chocolate for the mousse this time and hence the whipped cream helped to temper the bitterness of the chocolate.

I did however, 1/2 the coffee used in the chocolate mousse which helped accentuate the taste of the chocolate and yet no coffee flavour. I'll probably 1/2 the rum the next time round.