Light sponge cake layered with mascarpone cream and loaded with fresh blueberries. This is a lovely cake for all occasions!
I get childishly excited when blueberries come into season. I love them, they are so good! Juicy, sweet, plump and just begging to be popped into your mouth by the handful. Or in a cake!
Specifically this naked cake with fresh blueberries, which is astonishingly quick and easy to make. The combination of mascarpone and blueberries is a complete classic, an utter celebration of blueberries being in season. The cake is amazingly delicious, the blueberries just explode in your mouth, you just have to taste it!
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Ingredients
all the ingredients should be at room temperature
sponge cake
- 90 g flour
- 50 g potato starch
- 150 g sugar
- 4 organic eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- pinch of salt
- beans from 1/2 vanilla pod
mascarpone cream
- 250 g mascarpone
- 250 ml heavy cream
- 50 g icing sugar
also
- 1 tablespoon dried blueberries powder (optional)
- 3 tablespoons blueberry jam
- 250 g fresh blueberries
- 2 tablespoons grated dark chocolate
- mint for decoration
Instructions
Combine the flour with the potato starch and baking powder.
Crack the eggs and beat the egg yolks with half of the sugar until a very light mixture. Beat the egg whites until stiff, then gradually add salt and the remaining sugar, whisking constantly, until a stiff and shiny mixture. Add the egg yolks and gently stir with a spatula. Add vanilla beans, then sift the dry ingredients and stir gently with a spatula just until combined.
Line a 18 cm springform with parchment paper and grease the sides with butter. Pour the batter and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out dry, about 35-40 minutes at 170°C. Let cool completely.
In a large bowl, beat the cream until it reaches the consistency of yogurt, add icing sugar and mascarpone. Beat until stiff.
Stir 1/3 of the mascarpone cream with blueberry powder.
To assemble cut the cake into two layers, place one layer, flat side up, spread with blueberry jam, 100 g fresh blueberries and the mascarpone cream with blueberry powder. Place the second cake layer and cover sides and top of the cake with a thin layer of buttercream to create the naked cake. Top with fresh blueberries, grated chocolate and mint. Place for at least 30 minutes in the fridge. Enjoy!
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Hi! Thank you so much for this tecipe! I am usually afraid of adding fresh berries inside the cake – especially if the cream contains heavy cream. Aa far as I know, bacteria start growing pretty fast – on fresh berries…. How long do you think this cake remains fresh and should be eaten after assembling? Thank you very much. I just would like to make it for a friend and I need to tell her something to be on a safe side…
Hi Evelyn! You can make the cake 1 day before serving, keep refrigerated the whole time. The cake keeps for 3 days in the fridge. Please, let me know if you have any more questions.