Nut cake with mascarpone cream

AUTHOR
Reed Chan
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
4 5
COOK TIME
40 mins
TOTAL TIME
40 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 25
  • 100 g Walnut kernel halves
  • 3 Eggs (size M)
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 210 g Sugar
  • 50 g Breadcrumbs
  • 3 TABLESPOONS Flour
  • 1/2 package Baking Powder
  • 100 ml Rum
  • 250 g Mascarpone
  • 300 g Low-fat curd
  • 50 ml strong espresso
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour

Directions

  1. 1

    Finely chop the walnuts. Separate eggs. Beat the egg yolks, salt and 75 g sugar with the whisk of the hand mixer until creamy. Mix breadcrumbs, flour, baking powder and nuts. Stir the nut mixture and rum into the egg-sugar mixture. Beat the egg whites until stiff, then pour in 75 g sugar. fold the beaten egg white into the nut mixture

  2. 2

    Put the mixture into a square, greased and flour-spread cake tin (approx. 22 x 22 cm). Bake the cake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for 20-25 minutes

  3. 3

    Take the cake out of the oven, let it cool down for about 15 minutes and turn it onto a cake rack. Let the cake cool down

  4. 4

    Cut the cake in half horizontally. Mix mascarpone, quark, espresso, vanillin sugar and 60 g sugar. Spread cream on one half of the cake and cover with the other half. Cover and refrigerate for about 2 hours. Cut into cubes and serve

  5. 5

    waiting time approx. 3 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
150 kcal
CARBS
13 g
FATS
8 g
PROTEINS
4 g