CAKE - Strawberry and Mascarpone Cupcake

By Aemelia

Ingredients

• Mascapone frosting:
• 50 g Butter
• 80 g Sugar
• 1 Egg
• A pinch of salt
• 60 ml Half and half
• 100 g Cake flour
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla bean paste
• 4 Strawberry, cut in half
• 200 ml Whipping cream
• 35 g Sugar
• 50 g Mascarpone cheese
• 1 tbsp Lemon juice

Details

Servings 8
Adapted from dailydelicious.blogspot.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 170 °C
Place the baking paper in to the cupcake tins.
Sift the flour and baking powder together.
Beat the butter, salt and sugar until light and puffy, add the vanilla bean paste and beat to combine.
Put the egg in to the batter and beat until combine.

Divide the flour mixture into 3, put 1/3 of the flour mixture into the batter, stir with a spatula, when combine, add half of the half and half, follow with 1/3 of the flour, stir again then add the rest of the half and half. Finish with the rest of the flour, mix to combine.

Scoop the batter into the tins, add the strawberry half in the center.
Bake for 20 minutes, or until the cake is spring when touch lightly.
Let the cake cool completely before frosting it.

Beat all the ingredient together and put the frosting into a piping bag.
Frost the cake with the frosting and decorate as you wish