The Art of French Pastry

structure with sponge cake
as the foundation, different
floors filled with mousse,
and walls made of frosting.
If you don’t think like a
builder you can have mixed
results, cakes that I call
“organic” looking. Let’s say
you make a cake that has a
surfeit of mousse but not
enough sponge layers: that
cake will collapse in no
time because the