Mascarpone-Filled Cake With Sherried Berries Recipe

Ingredients

For cake:

  • sifted cake flour (2 cups)
  • baking powder (1 teaspoon)
  • baking soda (1 teaspoon)
  • salt (1/2 teaspoon)
  • unsalted butter, softened (1 stick)
  • sugar (1 cup)
  • pure vanilla extract (1 teaspoon)
  • large eggs (2)
  • well-shaken buttermilk (1 cup)

For berries:

  • mixed berries, cut if large (4 cups)

For cream

  • mascarpone (8 ounces/1 cup)
  • chilled heavy cream (1 cup)
  • sugar (1/4 cup)

Instructions

Make cake:

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle.
  2. Butter a 9-inch round cake pan (2 inches deep). Line bottom with a round of parchment paper, then butter parchment.
  3. Sift together flour (2 cups), baking powder (1 teaspoon), baking soda (1 teaspoon), and salt (1/2 teaspoon).
  4. Beat together butter and sugar (1 cup) in a large bowl with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy. Beat in vanilla (1 teaspoon). Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. With mixer at low speed, beat in buttermilk (1 cup) until just combined. Add flour mixture in 3 batches, mixing after each addition until just combined.
  5. Spread batter in cake pan, smoothing top. Rap pan on counter several times to eliminate air bubbles.
  6. Bake until golden and a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack 10 minutes. Run a knife around edge of cake to loosen, then invert onto a plate. Discard paper and reinvert cake onto rack to cool completely.

Macerate berries:

  1. Bring Sherry and sugar to a boil in a small heavy saucepan, stirring until sugar has dissolved. Put berries in a bowl and pour hot syrup over them, gently tossing to coat. Let stand 15 minutes.

Make cream and assemble cake:

  1. Beat mascarpone (1 cup) and cream (1 cup) with sugar (1/4 cup) in a large bowl using cleaned beaters until mixture just holds stiff peaks.
  2. Halve cake horizontally with a long serrated knife. Carefully remove top half and reserve. Put bottom half on a plate, then spread evenly with all of cream and replace top half. Serve with berries.

Source: Mascarpone-Filled Cake With Sherried Berries Recipe | Epicurious