Cherry cake with mascarpone is a delicious dessert, suitable for tea drinking with friends and relatives, and for celebration. The treat consists of several layers. Cherry gives the cake a pleasant sourness, which combines favorably with the sweetness of all baking.
Cake Products
The ingredients for the mascarpone cherry cake are divided into four parts.
Biscuit:
- chicken eggs - 3 pcs;
- premium flour - 150 g;
- sugar sand - 150 g.
Cream:
- mascarpone cheese - 250 g;
- sugar sand - 150 g;
- cream with a fat content of at least 30% - 250 ml.
Impregnation:
- filtered water without gas - 70 ml;
- sugar sand - 60 g;
- cognac or "Amaretto" - 10-15 ml.
Filling:
- frozen or canned seedless cherries - 500 g;
- dark chocolate - 50 g.
All products are best immediately divided into parts in the required quantity. This will greatly simplify the cooking process.
Cooking
Cherry cake with mascarpone can be easily prepared according to step-by-step instructions:
- Eggs are combined with sugar in a deep plate and mixed with a whisk or mixer until the latter is completely dissolved. The mass after whipping should increase approximately twice.
- Sifted premium flour is added to the eggs with sugar and quickly mixed with a mixer until smooth. In this case, the test should not have lumps or dry flour.
- The baking dish (it is better to use a demountable one) is plentifully greased with butter and filled with dough. It should occupy approximately 3 cm from the bottom.
- The mold is placed in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 25 minutes. Readiness can easily be checked with a toothpick. If the dough does not stick to it when the biscuit is pierced, then the cake can be removed and cooled.
- In a small cooking ladle, water and sugar are mixed. Everything is heated over low heat until the grains dissolve and boil. The finished syrup cools and brandy or Amaretto is added. Alcohol will not be felt, but will give the cake a pleasant aroma and unusual taste.
- The finished base is evenly soaked in syrup.
- Cherry thawed (if it was frozen), transferred to a colander. When the liquid drains, the berry is evenly spread on the cake and sprinkled with a little grated chocolate. You can not defrost the cherry to the end and add it to the cake, but then it will turn out too wet.
- To prepare the cream, it is necessary to cool the cream and beat with sugar until a mass with a consistency of thick sour cream is obtained. Mascarpone cheese is added and thoroughly mixed with a spoon until a homogeneous composition is obtained.
- The resulting cream is transferred to the berries and evenly distributed over the entire surface.
- The remaining crushed chocolate is evenly distributed over the cream, and after the finished cake is removed in a cold place for 3-4 hours.
After it must be carefully removed from the mold, cut into portioned slices and serve.
Cooking Tips
Fresh berries can be replaced with canned seedless cherries. Many use the fruits left over from the compote, or specially make blanks for baking.
From fresh cherry, you can quickly and easily remove seeds using a cocktail tube. She needs to pierce the fruits exactly in the center from top to bottom. So the bones will literally pop up, and this task can be handled in just 5 minutes.
To speed up the cooking process, you can use ready-made cakes bought in a store or cooking. Only they must be selected carefully. They must be fresh. That's just to buy a simple and fluffy cake biscuit for a cake is quite problematic.
When preparing the test, do not mix the mass for a long time. Otherwise, it will settle, and the cake will not work out lush and soft.
To make the berries look appetizing and keep in shape, they must be boiled. To do this, they are transferred to a pan, filled with sugar and placed on a slow fire. When the fruits give the juice, a mixture of 3 tablespoons of starch and water is added to them. Everything is stirred gently and brought to a slight boil. When the syrup becomes clear, the pan is removed from the heat and cools.
To make the cream more airy, you can use not granulated sugar, but powder. This will give a light sweet taste, and the cake will not be cloying. All ingredients for the mascarpone cherry cake should be fresh.
In order for the finished treat to hold its shape better, it must be kept in the cold longer. It would be ideal to put it in the refrigerator for the whole night.
These simple tips for making cherry mascarpone cake will help simplify cooking and make it more delicious.
Impregnation options for cake
In fact, you can use not only cognac impregnation. For such a cake, syrup made from white wine or coffee is perfect.
With white wine
For syrup, you need to take:
- white fruit wine - 30 ml;
- sugar - 40 g;
- cherry juice - 50 ml.
White wine is mixed with berry juice and sugar. In an enameled bowl, it is slightly warmed until sugar is completely dissolved and poured evenly onto a biscuit.
Coffee shop
To prepare the impregnation you need:
- freshly ground coffee - 14 g;
- sugar - 90 g;
- water without gas - 200 ml.
Water (100 ml) is mixed with coffee and brewed, after which it should be infused for 15 minutes in a warm place. The remaining water is mixed with sugar, and syrup is cooked over low heat. After that, both parts are combined, stirred and cooled to room temperature. You can soak the cake with this syrup.
If the cake is prepared for children, then non-alcoholic treatment should be used. For adults, both cognac and wine syrup are perfect.
Decoration
Make recommendations not only delicious, but also beautiful will help simple recommendations and imagination. Decorating a cherry cake with a mascarpone can be completely different. In the classic version, simple chocolate chips are used. It is simply sprinkled on top of the goodies and served in this form on the table. That's just such a view is not suitable for a celebration and meeting friends, although it is quite good for Sunday tea.
For the celebration, you can use cherries, mint, pieces of chocolate and straws. A circle of berries is laid out in the center, which is decorated with mint leaves so that they are slightly raised. On the edges are laid out pieces of chocolate and straws.
If the sides are smeared with cream, then chocolate or wafer rolls can be glued (on the cream) around the cherry cake with mascarpone.
You can also use M & M's candies for decoration. For example, they can be placed in a chaotic manner or laid out a beautiful mosaic of colors.
There is another beautiful option. You can decorate the cake with fresh berries or fruits. For example, cherries, strawberries, blueberries or currants. Circles of bananas are also great.
In general, if there are no problems with imagination, then you can decorate the cake so that it will be remembered for a long time.
Mascarpone cherry cake is quite simple to prepare, despite the large number of ingredients. Its taste can be different and depends on the impregnation and decoration. But always it turns out incredibly tasty, sweet and with a little acidity. The cake is perfect for meeting friends, a birthday and simple family gatherings over a cup of tea.