Durian Mousse Cake

Many people love durians, myself included. At the restaurant, we have a durian dessert which I had helped created,  using our in house home-made ice cream. I love that and had long wanted to make a durian mousse cake, which would resemble an ice-cream cake of sort, if served frozen.

Opportunity came last week, when I had to prepare a cake as dessert for my brother's housewarming reception for forty over people. As it was buffet style, I did one 10 inch tray and a 7 inch round for two separate group of guests.

Durian Mousse Cake - I finally tried making this in my kitchen, 2 cakes at one go due to the large no. of guests invited by my brother.

The cakes were made thinner than my usual, to be served buffet style and decorated simply with meringue rosettes which was then torched lightly.

The cakes' texture turn out pretty good, but a tad too sweet and the taste a little on the light side. This surprised me as I thought durian should taste stronger than other fruits. As I found out from this attempt, durain may smell really strong, but when it comes to making dessert with them, it would be good to increase its ratio higher for better taste, while amount of sweetness lower, to compensate for the fruit's natural sweetness. Will definitely attempt this again as durian is one of my all time favourite fruit!