Raspberry Mousse Chicken Pox Cake

I've been following this blog for a while now.  All her cakes / creations are so beautiful, and so inspiring.  From the posts that I've read, she's a Thai girl who is in accounting but bakes as her hobby.  Not only did that strike a cord with me, but her cakes are so professional looking.  And honestly, she could definitely open a shop or work as a pastry chef if she wanted to.  

I guess in the end, not sure whether its the Asian gene in us, we will alway stick to the stable job with decent income over what we may truly dream to do.  And I would think, people that do what they love, definitely has some guts! 

So back to my raspberry mousse cake.  I was using this recipe of hers, and was telling A that I really doubt I could make it anywhere near as good as hers.  But, I started reading the actual blog post, and it answered my questions exactly.  So, I took her advice and gave it a go. 

I had to double the mousse part of the recipe to make look anything resembling what hers looked like. 

Here are the results: 

So.. problems were that the polka dot ended up looking like chicken pox.  And obviously from the city photo, you can see that i didn't exactly fold in the cream well enough. 

You can see the 2 layers of the mousse, when I had to double the recipe.  But taste wise, it was really good.  The top layer was nicer, since it had less raspberry in it. 

So I can definitely improve on this recipe, and have better results.  Except I will have to wait till raspberry season, since it costs $8 /punnet at the moment. 

So it'll be a recipe for next time. And next time, I'll decide whether I want to have the chicken pox effect again. 

xoxo

Mich