Mascarpone Filled Buttermilk Cake with Sherried Berries
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Ingredients
- For the cake:
- 1 2/3 cups sifted Gluten Free Flour Blend
- 1 1/2 teaspoons xanthan gum
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon Gluten Free vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup well-shaken buttermilk
- For berries:
- 1/2 cup Fino (dry) Sherry
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 4 cups mixed fresh berries, cut if large
- For cream:
- 8 oz mascarpone (1 cup)
- 1 cup chilled heavy cream
- 1/4 cup sugar
- Garnish:
- confectioners sugar
- Directions
Preparation
Step 1
Make cake:
Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle. Butter a 9-inch round cake pan (2 inches deep). Line bottom with a round of parchment paper, then butter parchment.
Sift together Gluten Free flour, xanthan gum, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. With mixer at low speed, beat in buttermilk until just combined. Add flour mixture in 3 batches, mixing after each addition until just combined.
Spread batter in cake pan, smoothing top. Rap pan on counter several times to eliminate air bubbles.
Bake until golden and a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack at least 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:
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:
Beat mascarpone and cream with sugar in a large bowl using cleaned beaters until mixture just holds stiff peaks.
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.
notes:
Cake, without cream, can be baked 1 day ahead. Wrap in plastic wrap once cool and keep at room temperature.
Berries can macerate at room temperature up to 2 hours.