Blueberry Mascarpone Pound Cake with Marinated Berries
Author: Ciao Chow Bambina
Recipe type: Dessert
- Pound Cake
- 1¾ cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1½ sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 cup mascarpone (8 oz.), room temperature
- 1½ cups sugar
- 3 eggs, room temperature
- ½ Tbsp. vanilla bean paste
- 1½ cups blueberries
- Marinated Berries
- ¼ cup balsamic
- 2 Tbsp. brown sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla bean paste
- 1½ cups fresh blueberries
- Preheat oven to 325 F.
- Butter sides and bottom of a 9x5-inch loaf pan then right before filling with batter, line with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, vigorously whisk the flour, baking powder and salt.
- Rinse 1½ cups blueberries and toss them with a little flour to lightly coat.
- Use an electric mixer on high speed, beat together the butter, mascarpone and sugar for 3 minutes until pale and fluffy.
- Add the eggs one at a time, mixing on medium speed for one minute after each addition.
- Mix in the vanilla bean paste.
- Without over-mixing, stir in the dry ingredients (in 3 additions) until just incorporated.
- Gently stir in the blueberries.
- Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan, smoothing out the top with a rubber spatula.
- Place on a baking sheet on the middle rack of the oven.
- Bake for about 1 hour 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Check the cake when there's about 20 minutes to go, you may want to put a sheet of foil over the top to keep it from browning further.
- Remove from oven and let cool for 15 minutes in the pan.
- Gently remove the cake from the pan and let cool completely on a wire rack.
- In the meantime, prepare the marinated blueberries.
- Rinse 1½ cups of blueberries and place in a medium bowl.
- In a small bowl, whisk the balsamic with brown sugar and vanilla bean paste.
- Pour the balsamic mixture over the berries.
- Let the fruit marinate for about 15 minutes.
- Drain the marinade.
- Slice the pound cake.
- Serve berries over top.
Recipe by Ciao Chow Bambina at https://ciaochowbambina.com/blueberry-mascarpone-pound-cake-marinated-berries/
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