The Spice Men chocolate and cardamom mousse cake recipe on Saturday Kitchen

The Spice Men serves up chocolate and cardamom mousse cake with homemade honeycomb on Saturday Kitchen.

Tony Sing says: “This is a really simple torte recipe, and if you’re really pushed for time you can even buy the sponge base to make it even easier for yourself.”

The ingredients are: 15g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing, 75g caster sugar, 2 free-range eggs, ½ tsp vanilla extract, 60g plain flour, sieved, 2 tbsp cocoa powder, 2 tsp whisky (preferably single malt) and salt.

For the honeycomb: 2 tbsp golden syrup, 100g caster sugar, ½ tsp ground cardamom (about 12 cardamom pods, seeds finely ground) and 1½ tsp bicarbonate of soda.

For the chocolate torte: 250g dark chocolate, 70% cocoa solids), finely chopped, 430ml double cream, whipped to soft peaks, 1 tbsp whisky (preferably single malt), 1 tsp ground cardamom (about 50–60 cardamom pods, seeds finely ground), 50g caster sugar and edible gold dust, to decorate.