Mascarpone Cake

The Mascarpone Cake is something that we like to have, not as a dessert but as breakfast or snack, but you can also decorate it with some whipped cream and fruits and have it as dessert for a great meal.

We should also say that, apart from Mascarpone Cheese it has apples and some lemon so it is not as tasteless as you can think in a first impression.

Here goes the recipe:

Ingredients for one cake:

• 250 grams Mascarpone Cheese
• 200 grams Icing Sugar
• 150 grams all-purpose Flour
• 4 Eggs (separated)
• 2 Apples (I use golden apples as are the ones I like the most but you choose)
• 1 Lemon (rind grated for the cake and juice to avoid the apples getting brown once peeled and cut)
• 1 teaspoon Baking powder
• 1 teaspoon Butter

Preparation Instructions:

1. Wash the lemon and grated the rind. Reserve it. (I use only half of the lemon's rind).
2. Make the juice with the lemon and put it in a bowl.
3. Then peel and chop the apples in small pieces so then get soft after baking the cake.
4. Put them in the bowl with the lemon juice trying to cover the apples with the liquid to avoid them getting brown. Later we will need the apples, but not the lemon juice. Reserve it.
5. Separate the yolks from the whites.
6. Mix the yolks perfectly and add the sugar.
7. Once it is completely mixed add the mascarpone cheese, the chopped apples, le lemon rind, the baking powder and the flour and mix until it is an smooth mixture.
8. In a different bowl whip egg whites until they form stiff peaks.
9. Preheat the oven to 180ºC.
10. Once done, we add the stiffed egg whites gradually into mascarpone mixture. Mix only enough to blend. Over mixing will deflate the egg whites.
11. We butter or spray a 23 cm round springform pan and add the mixture.
12. Bake until cooked. In my oven this took around 40 minutes.

As every oven is different you should check every 10 minutes inserting a toothrbick in the center. When you take it out it should be clean, not with a little batter clinging to it so it is possible that the cake is golden brown but not cooked enough. In my case after 30 minutes I put kitchen foil above it to avoid the cake getting burnt but leaving it to cook in the inside.

The result is a grat Mascarpone Cake with Apples and a lightly lemon taste. If you prefer it without the lemon taste, do not use the rind.