Muffins with mascarpone. Chocolate cakes and mascarpone cupcakes: the best recipes

I love pastries with mascarpone. Its creamy taste is incomparable to anything. And I'm always on the lookout for something new with this cheese. And so my friend Yulietta suggested one interesting recipe. These are incredibly delicious chocolate muffins with mascarpone filling. For those who find it difficult to get mascarpone, these muffins are good without filling. And they can also be made with a filling of mashed cottage cheese with sugar, jam, custard, chocolate, even chocolate paste. The filling should be ready, since the cupcakes are baked for a maximum of 15 minutes, and the filling will not have time to come by this time. My children said that they did not try a tastier muffin!

Ingredients:

• Flour 1.5 tbsp
• Eggs 3 pcs
• Mascarpone 225 gr
• Vegetable oil 0.5 tbsp
• Milk 1 tbsp
• Sugar 1 tbsp and 0.3 tbsp
• Cocoa 0.5 tbsp
• Baking powder 2 tsp
• Salt pinch

How to cook

To begin with, put flour in a bowl, 1 tbsp. sugar, baking powder, salt, cocoa and mix (if you beat everything with a mixer, then do not stop, but continue to add the rest of the ingredients), 2 eggs, vegetable oil, milk and beat well to get a homogeneous mass. If there is no mixer, mix until smooth.
Whip mascarpone with 0.3 tbsp. sugar, add 1 egg and beat well. (Or mix with a spoon until smooth.
Fill cupcake molds with a tablespoon of black dough, then put a teaspoon of cream and again a tablespoon of dough on top. Don't overdo it like me. My dough ran out because I poured it to the brim.
Bake for 15 minutes at 180 gr. Delicious stuffed muffins are ready! Bon appetit!

Preparing the dough for a tender cake is a very quick process, you just need to mix all the listed ingredients - in a certain sequence. It will take 15-20 minutes, so you can immediately turn on the oven for heating - up to 180 ° C

Ingredients:

• 300gr. wheat flour,
• 100gr. potato starch,
• 3 eggs,
• 160gr. Sahara,
• 70gr. butter - room temperature
• 200gr. mascarpone, (forgot to buy mascarpone? Easy to make, recipe below)
• 100gr. milk,
• zest of 1 lemon,
• a pinch of salt,
• baking powder sachet.

In a bowl, mix flour, cornstarch, baking powder and a pinch of salt.

Separately, in another bowl (or blender bowl), mix eggs, sugar, zest of one lemon thoroughly. Add here the butter at room temperature and mascarpone. Whip until soft and fluffy. Add the "dry" mixture from the first bowl and pour in the milk. Mix thoroughly until smooth, and pour into a mold. The dough is ready: it's time to bake. It will take 40-45 minutes at 180°C

Do not remove the finished cake from the mold for 15-20 minutes (or better - more), let it cool. Place on a serving platter and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

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Treat yourself to a sweet treat, make a cupcake with mascarpone cream. The pie will be complemented by a strawberry filling with condensed milk - a pleasant surprise for those who are lucky enough to taste this dessert. Such a cake will decorate the festive table or ordinary everyday life with tea in the family circle.

To be clear, mascarpone is cream cheese. It is prepared from heavy cream, which is slowly heated, then lemon juice or wine vinegar is added. It turns out a gentle homogeneous thick creamy mass. Mascarpone is often used for sweet dishes. Its advantage is that it retains its shape during heat treatment. Another cheese-cream contains many health benefits: calcium, phosphorus, and other elements. But a high percentage of fat content can adversely affect the liver or blood vessels. Everything is good in moderation.

This spicy curd cheese came to us from Italy. In our country, it is not so popular, but the trend is already there. Due to its high price, not many people are in a hurry to buy it. You can make it at home using heavy cream, lemon juice, butter.

Let's get back to our cupcake. Any berries are suitable for the filling: raspberries, strawberries, cherries (for those who like it with sourness). It is not necessary to defrost the berries in advance. They will lose their juice and shape. The rest can be immediately taken from the refrigerator and start cooking.

Ingredients:

for the test:

• Eggs 4 pcs.
• Sugar 1 tbsp.
• Butter 60 gr.
• Flour 1.5 tbsp.
• Baking Powder 1 tsp
• Vanillin 5 gr.

for cream:

• Mascarpone cheese 1 pack.
• Condensed milk 0.5 cans

Cooking:

Melt butter over low heat.

At this time, break the eggs into a deep bowl.

Add sugar.

You can use cane, it has a brown color, gives a delicate aroma and caramel shade to the cake. Stir until sugar dissolves. Then pour the melted butter into the bowl in a thin stream, continuing to work actively with the whisk. Separately mix flour with baking powder and vanilla. Pour into the dough.

This will allow the baking powder to be evenly distributed throughout the cake, giving it an even volume.

Bake the cake in a preheated oven at 200 degrees for about half an hour until done.

Cool the finished cake to room temperature. Prepare the cream: mix half a can of condensed milk with mascarpone cheese.

Ingredients for 9-11 pieces:

Cooking:

Salad "Pomegranate Bracelet"

• beets - 2 pcs,
• onion - 1 pc,
• potatoes - 2 pcs,
• carrots - 2 pcs,
• smoked or boiled chicken - 200 g,
• eggs - 2 pcs,
• pomegranate - 1-2 pieces,
• walnuts,
• garlic - 1-2 cloves,
• mayonnaise,
• salt,
• pepper

Cooking

Boil beets, carrots, potatoes and eggs. Grind the boiled vegetables and eggs on a coarse grater into separate bowls.
Mix mayonnaise with a clove of garlic passed through a garlic squeezer.
Cut the chicken fillet into strips or cubes.
Finely chop the onion and fry.

In the middle of the dish in which we are going to serve the salad, put a glass. Spread layers of lettuce around the cup to get the shape of a bracelet. Some layers of lettuce, if desired, can be lightly salted and peppered.
1st layer: potatoes + a little salt + freshly ground pepper + mayonnaise
2nd layer:
3rd layer: carrots + a little salt + mayonnaise
4th layer: walnuts
5th layer: half chicken + mayonnaise
6th layer: fried onion
7th layer: eggs + mayonnaise

8th layer: half chicken + mayonnaise
9th layer: half a beet + a little salt + mayonnaise
Remove the glass and top the salad well with mayonnaise.

Cover the entire surface of the salad with pomegranate seeds.
Wrap the salad bowl with cling film and place in the fridge.
Let the salad brew for ~12 hours.

Cassata siciliana * » - Festive Sicilian Cake

* Cassata is known to many as candied fruit ice cream, but the Sicilians call it a birthday cake that has almost a thousand years of history. This cake is baked for Easter, baptism, it is a wedding table decoration.

You will need for 12 servings:

Cooking time: 2 hours (+ 3 hours for chilling)

1. Biscuit: Preheat oven to 175°C. Beat egg whites with salt until stiff. Carefully add sugar, grated lemon zest, egg yolks and flour. Place parchment paper on the bottom of a springform pan, about 24 cm in diameter. Pour the batter into the mold and smooth out.

2. Bake the biscuit in the oven for 45 minutes. Remove the biscuit from the oven, invert onto a board and cool. Then cut into 3 cakes.

3. In a small frying pan, melt 300 g of sugar with 125 ml of water and reduce to a yellow syrup. Remove from stove, cool slightly.

4. Mash ricotta, pour in sugar syrup and 30 ml of maraschino, mix well.

5. Grate chocolate. Coarsely chop the pistachios. Cut candied fruits into small cubes. Mix everything with ricotta.

6. Put one cake in a detachable form, sprinkle with 10 ml of maraschino.

7. Put half of the cream on the cake, smooth it. Put the second cake on top. Sprinkle with maraschino and put the second half of the cream on the cake. Cover with a third cake layer, drizzle with maraschino.

8. Put the cake in the fridge for at least 3 hours, then take it out of the mold and put it on a dish.

9. Whip cream with vanilla sugar. Spread the top and sides of the cake with 3/4 of the whipped cream. Put the rest of the cream in a pastry syringe and make patterns on the cake. Arrange the candied fruit nicely. Serve the cake as soon as possible.

Advice:
Ricotta can be replaced with soft cottage cheese.

Maraschino is a colorless transparent cherry liqueur with a strength of 30-35%. It can be replaced with vodka and add cherry aromatic essence. You can also use cognac.