Grape slices with mascarpone cream

Name: Grape slices with mascarpone cream
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 16
Ingredients: 150 g Butter; 275 g Cantuccini (Italian almond biscuits); 3 sheets Gelatine; 600 g blue and green grapes; 500 g Low-fat curd; 500 g Mascarpone; 1 package Vanillin sugar; 7-10 Tbsp Juice of 1 lemon; 120 g Sugar; 35 g Chocolate shavings; 7-10 Tbsp Oil

AUTHOR
Kate Willis

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
45 mins

TOTAL TIME
45 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16

150 g Butter
275 g Cantuccini (Italian almond biscuits)
3 sheets Gelatine
600 g blue and green grapes
500 g Low-fat curd
500 g Mascarpone
1 package Vanillin sugar
7-10 Tbsp Juice of 1 lemon
120 g Sugar
35 g Chocolate shavings
7-10 Tbsp Oil

Directions

1
Melt the butter and let it cool down a little. Finely crumble 250 g cantuccini. Mix the crumbs with the butter. Lightly brush the bottom of a square springform pan (24 x 24 cm) with oil. Pour the crumb mixture into the tin and press to a flat bottom.
2
Chill for about 30 minutes. Soak gelatine in cold water. Pluck the grapes from the stalks, wash and drain well. Mix quark, mascarpone, vanillin sugar, lemon juice and sugar. Squeeze the gelatine and dissolve in a small pot. Stir in 4 tablespoons of mascarpone cream, then stir into the remaining cream. Fold in approx. 500 g grapes and chocolate shavings and spread on the bottom. Chill the cake for about 3 hours. Cut the remaining grapes in half. Crumble the cantuccini.
3
Stir in 4 tablespoons of mascarpone cream, then stir into the remaining cream. Fold in approx. 500 g grapes and chocolate shavings and spread on the bottom. Chill the cake for about 3 hours. Cut the remaining grapes in half. Crumble the cantuccini. Carefully remove the cake from the tin and cut into 16 pieces. Decorate slices with cantuccini crumbs and grapes
4
3 hours waiting time