Triple Chocolate Glory

We celebrated Jeffy's birthday this week and I always make him a chocolate cake. Except for last year when I told him I would, and then didn't. I had to make up for it this year so I decided to make the Triple Chocolate Mouse Cake from the Jan 2006 issue of Martha Stewart Living.

I had to get the special ramekins to make the wee cakes:

You make two kinds of mousse for this cake, a bittersweet chocolate and a milk chocolate. I have never made mousse before and I think that I could have mixed the bittersweet a little more thouroughly. I was afraid of deflating my whipped cream so I didn't mix it as vigorously as I did the milk chocolate. I also did not put the mixture through a sieve like it says in the recipe. ( I don't have a sieve) I didn't use a piping bag and tip either, I just used a ziploc with the end cut off. (I don't have tips big enough) Here they are all trussed up with their parchment collars:

Voila! Served with a shot of espresso:

I made the cake the day before, and I think I over cooked it just a bit because it was just a wee bit dry, but that's being a little nit-picky. They were absolutely DIVINE.

We have four more left if anybody wants one!