Dubai Chocolate Mousse Cake

We took the elements of the trendy Dubai Chocolate Bar and transformed them into a most fabulous Dubai Chocolate Mousse Cake!  Two special fillings, a layer of crunchy, nutty vibrant pistachio kadayif cream and a layer of airy, rich chocolate mousse are encased inside layers of a moist chocolatey chocolate cake, all of which are lovingly frosted with a chocolate ganache frosting.  OMgoshdarnit...can you tell that we love, love, love our chocolate, lol?!

Homemade Kadayif Noodles

Round and round and round we go...  These are the delicate paths we follow to the making our own Homemade Kadayif Noodles!  And just what are these kadayif noodles, you may be asking?  

Well, have you ever heard of 'Dubai Chocolate'?   Ever tasted the creamy, crunchy pistachio filling in a Dubai Chocolate?  Well, you need these fine kadayif noodles if you're going to get that exquisite crunch!  My little girl introduced me to Dubai Chocolate and we quickly became hooked onto that incredibly nutty, creamy, crunchy pistachio filling inside the chocolate.  We wanted to try making it at home!

We soon realized that, while pistachio is fairly easy to obtain, pre-made kadayif noodles are 1) hard to obtain and 2) kinda expensive.  Luckily, after some research, we realized that these delicate kadayif noodles can be made at home with a wee bit of effort and time!

Pistachio Kadayif Cream Filling

Can you guess what this is?  It's something that you've definitely heard of before, if not seen, if not tasted!  This is a part, the most important part IMHO, of the latest, greatest food wave that's been going, well, around the world really.  I was hesitant at first to try it, thinking it was just a fad that would fade before two blinks of the eye.  But it didn't, of course, and my darling little girl finally persuaded me to spend a pretty penny to buy a bar of the famous "Dubai Chocolate."  This pistachio filled chocolate bar was, to my surprise, really quite unique and OMgosh totally delious!

And what is the most important part of the Dubai Chocolate Bar?  Well, it's the utterly unctuous Pistachio Kadayif Cream, of course, as shown in the photo above.  This gorgeously green creamy filling combines the buttery, nutty, slightly sweet lusciousness of ground pistachio nuts in a delightful contrast with the crisp crunch of the fine kadayik dough strands.  This nutty and creamy filling is the heavenly contrast to chocolate that makes the Dubai Chocolate so irresistible!

Nom, nom, nom, and just like that we were hooked!  But, woozer, the 'Dubai Chocolate' anythings sure are expensive!  So we found out, with a bit of research, that you can make Pistachio Kadayif Cream at home with just a wee bit of time and effort.  (And with that creamy filling we went on to make a Dubai Chocolate Pistachio Cake, omgoshdarnitall, to die for, check it out!)