Pistachio cake with mascarpone cream and strawberries

bake Baking sweet
Total: 1 hr 25 min. | Active: 45 min.
vegetarian

Treat yourself to a delicious dessert with an intriguing combination of flavours. Topped with juicy, red strawberries, this mouthwatering pistachio cake with mascarpone cream will capture your heart. Each slice is an explosion of delectable flavours. You'll love the soft texture and delicate, nutty flavour of the pistachios. The cake is finished off with a delicious mascarpone cream – this airy, velvety, creamy and sweet concoction envelops the cake like a cloud. The strawberries can be fresh or roasted and the resulting sauce will add a special touch to the dessert. This cake should be kept in the fridge so that the cream stays fresh. As this recipe uses a lot of butter, it's important to take the cake out of the fridge several hours prior to eating so that the cream becomes as light as a cloud once more.

Recipe by:
Sarah - Fragola & Limone

Ingredients

for 12 pieces

Batter
5  egg whites
½ tsp salt
5  egg yolks
190 g sugar
200 g butter, melted
210 g unsalted, shelled pistachios, finely ground
100 g Maizena cornflour
½ parcel baking powder
Mascarpone cream
125 g mascarpone
1 dl cream
40 g icing sugar
¼ tsp bourbon vanilla sugar
600 g strawberries, cut into small pieces
2 tbsp chopped pistachios
a little  icing sugar, to dust

How it's done

Batter

Using the whisk on a mixer, beat the egg whites and salt until stiff, set aside. Place the egg yolks and sugar in a bowl, beat until light and fluffy. Add half of the butter, continue to beat. Add the remainder of the butter, continue to beat. Combine the pistachios, cornflour and baking powder, mix in. Carefully fold in the beaten egg whites, transfer the batter to the prepared tin.

Bake

Approx. 40 mins. in an oven preheated to 170 °C. Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly, remove from the tin and leave to cool completely on a rack.

Mascarpone cream

Using the whisk on a mixer, whisk the mascarpone, cream, icing sugar and vanilla sugar until creamy. Spread the mascarpone cream over the cake, top with the strawberries and pistachios, dust with the icing sugar.

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