Soft No-Bake Chocolate Cake Rolls with Chocolate Mousse

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup (55g) Butter
• 1/4 cup (22g) Unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup (120g) Milk, room temperature
• 2 egg yolks, room temperature
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup (60g) Flour
• 1 tsp (4g) Baking powder
• A pinch of salt
• 2 egg whites, room temperature
• 1/2 cup (100g) Sugar
• 3/4 cup (120g) Semi-sweet or milk chocolate
• 1 cup (226g) Cream cheese, room temperature
• 1/2 cup (68g) Powdered sugar
• 1/4 cup (22g) Unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
• 1 cup (240g) Heavy cream, cold
• About 1/3 cup (55g) Semi-sweet or milk chocolate for decoration

Method

1. Melt butter and mix with cocoa powder and milk to form batter base.
2. Whisk egg yolks and vanilla, then combine with batter base.
3. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt; fold into batter.
4. Whip egg whites with sugar until stiff peaks form.
5. Gently fold egg whites into batter.
6. Cook batter on stovetop to form cake discs.
7. Melt semi-sweet chocolate and add to cake discs.
8. Beat cream cheese, powdered sugar, cocoa powder, and vanilla to make mousse.
9. Whip cold heavy cream and fold into cream cheese mixture.
10. Fill cooked cake discs with chocolate mousse.
11. Roll cakes into tubes carefully without cracking.
12. Melt chocolate for decoration and drizzle over rolled cakes.
13. Serve chilled or at room temperature.