Pastry chef Jacques Torres shares his easy recipe for a chocolate mousse dessert using pantry items, and it involves baking cake in a frying pan

• Insider asked pastry chef and chocolatier, Jacques Torres, to help us make a delicious dessert at home.
• The "Nailed It!" star walked me through making a layered chocolate mousse cake.
• The recipe involved baking cake in a frying pan which turned out be faster and just as delicious as using the oven.
• Torres also shared a baking hack for parents. He says he mixes 3 tablespoons of cake mix with 2 tablespoons of water and microwaves it for 1 minute to create fast cupcakes for his kids.

Baking at home is a great way to pass the time while staying inside, but it can be challenging if you can't find the right ingredients.

So, Insider asked Jacques Torres — pastry chef, chocolatier, and the head judge on the Netflix show "Nailed It!" — to help us create something incredible at home even if you have limited access to ingredients and/or kids that always want to "help."

Torres, also known as Mr. Chocolate, came up with something delicious: a layered chocolate mousse dessert to bring a little decadence to our quarantine routine.

To make the treat, the chef decided to avoid using flour since some people might have had a hard time finding it right now, limiting the ingredients to things many of us probably have in the pantry already while allowing for many substitutions.

Torres showed me how to make the dessert from start to finish, and demonstrated how to make cake quickly in a frying pan as part of the recipe.

As a bonus, he offered a foolproof recipe for when you need a quick cupcake fix: Combine 3 tablespoons of cake mix with 2 tablespoons of water, put it in a cup, and microwave for 1 minute to create fast cupcakes. Torres uses a mixture of half angel food cake mix and half vanilla cake mix, but I tried it with every type of cake mix I had on hand and was shocked to find that each one of them turned out great!

You can watch Torres walk me through the entire recipe here:

And here's the full recipe written out below:

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