Strawberry Charlotte

AUTHOR
Bo Carpenter
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
3.4 17
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 45 Ladyfingers (approx. 265 g)
  • 100 g soft butter
  • 800 g Strawberries
  • 250 g Mascarpone
  • 500 g Low-fat curd
  • 100 g Sugar
  • 300 g Whipped cream
  • 13 sheets Gelatine
  • 4 TABLESPOONS Icing sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp juice of 1/2 lemon
  • 7-10 Tbsp Sugar and edible paper flowers
  • 1 Freezer bag
  • baking paper
  • 7-10 Tbsp Piping bag with small perforated nozzle

Directions

  1. 1

    Carefully cut off 1/4 of each of 31 sponge fingers with a saw knife. Put longer pieces aside. Put the sponge ends with another 80 g lady fingers in a freezer bag and crumble finely with a rolling pin. Mix with butter. Line the bottom of a springform pan (24 cm Ø) with baking paper. Crumble the crumbly mixture in it evenly flattened. Chill for about 1 hour.

  2. 2

    Wash and clean the strawberries. Set aside 1 strawberry for decoration. Puree 300 g strawberries. Cut 100 g strawberries into small cubes. Mix mascarpone, quark and sugar in a bowl. Mix in the strawberry puree and dices. Whip 200 g cream with the whisks of the hand mixer until stiff. Carefully fold into the quark mixture

  3. 3

    Soak 8 sheets of gelatine in cold water. Squeeze the gelatine, dissolve carefully. Stir in 2-3 tablespoons of quark mixture, then stir everything into the remaining quark mixture. Spread the mixture on the base and leave to set in the fridge for approx. 1 hour

  4. 4

    Puree the remaining strawberries, icing sugar and lemon juice and pass through a sieve. Soak 5 sheets of gelatine in cold water, squeeze them out and dissolve them carefully. Stir in 2-3 tablespoons of strawberry puree, then stir everything into the rest of the strawberry puree. Spread the puree on the cake and refrigerate for about 1 1/2 hours

  5. 5

    Carefully release Charlotte from the mold. Whip the rest of the cream with the whisk of the hand mixer until stiff and fill into a piping bag with a small perforated spout. Spray small tuffs onto the strawberry mirror in 2 rows. Place Charlotte with the 31 shortened lady fingers tightly around the strawberry mirror. Decorate Charlotte with the strawberry, sugar and edible paper flowers

  6. 6

    waiting time approx. 2 3/4 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
390 kcal
CARBS
29 g
FATS
25 g
PROTEINS
9 g