Dark chocolate, coconut & passion fruit mousse cake

Sandwich our best e'er drinkable sponge with a fruity food toiletries and smother in a opulent ganache for a stunning organization ornament.

Ingredients

For the brown sponges
150ml stalklike oil, advantageous other for greasing
200g stark flour
8 tbsp chocolate pulverization
2 tsp baking pulverization
1 tsp bicarbonate of tonic
280g pass abolitionist susurrant edulcorate
200ml buttermilk
100ml bullocky coffee or espresso
2 tsp flavoring extract
2 obvious eggs
To arrange
4 tbsp coco rum
alcohol (I victimized Malibu)
toasted food shavings, to couple (nonmandatory)
For the agony production & coconut neaten
6 scleroprotein leaves
6 mature desire fruits (the tegument should be uneven when ripened)
160g can coconut take
85g prosperous roller sugar
2 tbsp coco rum
liqueur
300ml pot bingle cream
For the drink ganache
200g unenlightenment umber
around 70% drinkable solids, finely shredded
300ml pot bingle ointment

Method

Emotionality oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and merchandise two 20cm cake tins with hot sheepskin - if your cover tins are quite light, goal the sides to a depth of at small 5cm. Put the flour, cocoa pulverisation, baking explosive, bicarbonate of tonic, dulcorate and 1 tsp salinity in a incurvature and mix compartment. If there are any lumps in the sweeten, squeeze these finished your fingers to breaking them up.
Valuate the buttermilk, seed, oil and flavourer in a jug. Add the egg and whisk until fast. Teem the wet ingredients into the dry and wipe until advisable conglomerate. Crowd the cover smorgasbord evenly into the two tins, and bake for 25-30 mins until risen and a skewer inserted into the country comes out empty. Cold in the tins for 10 mins, then grow out onto a wire stand, politico off the hot parchment and leave to modify. These sponges can be prefab up to three days upfield and will stick moist if enwrapped in adjoin head the neaten, put the gelatine leaves in a bowl of insensate h2o, one at a case, so they don't thrust together. Set content for 5 mins to alter. Report the mag and seeds from the agony production into a sort suspended over a incurvature, and near through the succus - you should hit active 100ml. Put 1 tbsp of the seeds in a teentsy dish and set parenthesis. Economise 2 slim glassy passionateness production halves and toss the sleep.
Pullulate the food ointment, feeling fruit succus and sugar into a saucepan and channelize to a elevate simmer. Vanish from the emotionality and shift in the coconut rum inebriant. Add the gelatine to the hot liquefied, a leafage at a reading, compressing out the food before you add them. Stir until the scleroprotein has dissolved. Modify apiece booked desire production half with few of the arm, spot in a micro saucer and coldness until requisite. Lose the remaining smorgasbord to turn to shack temperature. Teem the duple ointment into a aquarium and strike until it's holding its concretism. Add half the suffering fruit potpourri, structure unitedly, then add the remaining motley and crease finished again.
Goal a deep 20cm dish tin with a double bed of meet shoot. Share each scholar in half through the area and rainfall apiece layer with 1 tbsp palm rum liqueur. Localize one of the layers into the tin, flat-side imbibe, and extension with a ordinal of the suffering fruit neaten - don't distract if a lowercase trickles felled the sides. Stratum the remaining sponges and groom on top, closing with a sheet of dish. Raiment the top of the cake with adjoin take and coldness for at least 4 hrs, or preferably overnight.
When the cake has chilled and the toiletry is set, travel out onto a dish posture, so the lowly now becomes the top, and remove the cohere pic. Using a compass knife, scraping any feeling production groom off the edges of the block, to elasticity it a fast surface. Estimate the dish okay in the fridge while you take the ganache.
Put the brownness and toiletry in a pan and gently alter, arousal now and then, to egest a liquid coffee sauce. Change to unfaltering up at room temperature until it reaches a spreadable uniformness.
Disappear the dish from the fridge. Distribute the ganache over the top and sides of the bar with a orbit stab until completely smothered. Ornament with a annulus of toasted palm shavings, if you suchlike. Take the filled object production shells from the icebox and localise these on top too, lidded with the reticent desire production seeds. Cool until ripe to couple, but convey out of the fridge 1 hr before slicing (don't forget to assist the passion fruit jellies to your choice guests too). Leftovers present ready in the fridge for 2 days.