Reviewed: May 12, 2012

Made this as a filly in a pound cake, and the left over where awesome with fresh fruit. I made a chocolate one and a white chocolate one. Do the white chocolate I just subsituted the bakers chocolate for white bakers chocolate and chocolate pudding for vanilla. I liked the white version better then the chocolate, but bother were awesome!

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beckscooper

Reviewed: May 8, 2012

Made this for DD's 14th bday party, and we feasted on the leftovers for a couple of days. Delicious! I used the cake mix with the pudding inside to make it more dense, and the guests enjoyed watching me whip the cream (and tasting the results!). Keeper!

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Johanna

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Cooking Level: Expert

Reviewed: Feb. 19, 2012

The mousse tasted great. I used 50 cal. Dr. Oetker mousse dessert and it turned out nice and light. However I reluctantly bought boxed choc. cake and it was too fluffy and wouldn't come out of my nonstick pans, I should have buttered and floured the pans I guess. So I remade chocolate cake from scratch and the texture and weight was much better. If you can, make the cake 2 days ahead so the flavor of the cocoa has time to absorb. The last piece I had definitly tasted the best!

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Lian

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Lacombe, Alberta, Canada

Reviewed: Feb. 14, 2012

Excellent! I made as written and it's a keeper! Very rich and delicious, the b/f is gonna really love this for his Valentines treat ;)

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Staci

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Coos Bay, Oregon, USA

Living In: Ukiah, California, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 29, 2012

For this recipe I chose to make a butter cake instead, not because chocolate didn't sound yummy but because the person I was making it for preferred a white cake. The mouse was incredibly easy to make and so much more delicious than I could have imagined. Make sure to let sit at least the hour after folding in the whipped cream in. I chilled mine for aproxmiatly two. I tasted it before and after and the time just made it even more rich and tasty. I would absolutely recommend this and I will deffinetly be making this again!!

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DeVeglio

Reviewed: Nov. 26, 2011

Do yourself a favor and save this recipe! I've been looking for something that would compare to a cake we enjoy from the Cheesecake Factory and this is it. I was skeptical about starting with a boxed cake mix but this turned out so good. I even forgot the final step of folding in the whipped cream and it was wonderful. I used two 9" round cake pans and used a chocolate cake mix. Even after forgetting to add the whipped cream at the end, I had enough mouse to frost the layers of a 4 layer cake but ended up having to use a tub of icing. If you can find them, insert a couple of long cocktail toothpicks to keep the layers steady. I added chopped chocolate chips to the sides for a finishing touch and received many compliments. Its a keeper!

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Brandiebb

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Mckinney, Texas, USA

Reviewed: Nov. 4, 2011

The flavor is good but I think it could have set better. I also realized that there's "instant pudding mix" and "cook and serve" (here in Beijing, I only found the latter and didn't realize there was a difference). Needless to say, after realizing this 6 hours after setting the chocolate part in the fridge to "set" (pre-whipped cream), I ended up having to cook it. If others made this mistake too, it probably wouldn't set very elegantly.

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anoymiss

Cooking Level: Beginning

Home Town: Laguna Niguel, California, USA

Reviewed: Oct. 31, 2011

We didn't think this cake was anything special until the next day! I kept it in the frig and everytime we got it out it was better than before! This is so delicious, my whole family loves it!

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lindajoy

Reviewed: Oct. 19, 2011

HELP? First, I couldn't find a 3.9 oz box of instant pudding. So I used one large box and one small box. The mousse didn't come out at all like it should've have, it was almost like glue. I really want to make this again, but don't know what to do about the right amount of pudding, could that have been the problem??

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