Triple-Chocolate Mousse Cake

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2009, America's Test Kitchen TV

To rate a perfect 10, this triple-decker confection would need to lighten up and lose its one-note texture.

SERVES 12 to 16

TIME 1¾ hours, plus 1 hour cooling and 2½ hours chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Triple chocolate mousse cake is a truly decadent dessert. Most times, though, the mousse texture is exactly the same from one layer to the next and the flavor is so overpoweringly rich it’s hard to finish more than a few forkfuls. We set ou...

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