I have to admit that cakes are not my specialty nor my choice for a dessert. But there was this one time I wanted to celebrate a special moment with a huge cake looking very “cake-y”. So I came up with this very fast recipe, that gets better and better with every extra day you wait for the juices to soak in: mascarpone cake with strawberries and baked apple
Mascarpone cake
Servings: 12 portions
Time: 1 hour
Difficulty: easy
Ingredients
- 3 slices of cake pastry (I bought mine)
- 300 g strawberries
- 150 of baked apple puree (I bought mine, but you can bake 3 apples and blend them with a bit of sugar)
- 500 g of mascarpone
- 150-200 g of heavy cream
- gelatin for 0.5l of liquid
- 2-3 tbsp of powder sugar for mascarpone
- 2-3 tbsp of normal sugar for the strawberry sauce
Directions
- Mash 8-10 strawberries, mix in the sugar and boil them until they become a paste. Add some water if necessary.
- Dissolve the gelatin and let it cool at room temperature.
- Beat the heavy cream until it is very stiff.
- Mix the mascarpone with the powder sugar and mix in the heavy cream very slowly and with circular moves. Keep a few tbsp of the heavy cream for the final decoration.
- On the first layer of the cake arrange the strawberry jelly.
- On the bottom of the second layer spread the mascarpone and turn in upside-down on the strawberry jelly layer.
- Continue the same with the baked apple jelly. You should aim for this layering:
- Cover the cake in mascarpone, too and decorate it according to your taste.
- Let it rest for at least 24 hours.If liked my mascarpone cake with strawberries and baked apple, check out as well my Best sweets in the world section.
