Mogador

Last Thursday was again another public holiday. Which suddenly attacked my school schedule, lucky that I got a nice classmate who bought me to a day trip at Reims, to visit the home of champagne.

It’s a nice town filled with elegance smell of champagne. The huge underground champagne cellar, Notre -Dame Cathedral, multi-contented Saint-Remi Abbey museum… A very packed and fruitful day.

Being a culinary student, the focus must be food related. We visited a friend’s grandma’s home and had simple nice food with wonderful champagne!! To be an ad-hoc guest, I should bring some gift with me. For the short notice, the most handy yet presentable gift for sure was my fresh made Modagar.

It is a chocolate mousse cake with chocolate sponge cake. Remember the sponge cake we make is without any lever, Again I have to beat in every single air bubble into the cake to make it like “sponge”.
And the most difficult is the chocolate mousse contain no gelatin to fix it. The chef ‘s cakes look nice and small, just perfect to take-away.

Before the day I made it, I still wanna keep it for myself as sometime it’s good to have some nice cake as desert for my last two week Here!! But as i really cannot think of a more appropriate gift, it’s seems this is the only way out.
Thanks for my friend’s ice bag, I brought it safe to Reims and it was still quit firm when we ate it.

Of course it’s not perfect for the first time to handle this recipe. More syrup in the sponge cake was need to keep it moist, and the piped mousse on top was too much for the little cake. Grandma was happy about it and so were my friends, at last the ‘Hard beat’ was just well paid^o*