Recipe #4069

Pan-fried Pound Cake with Ground Cherries and Lime Mascarpone

Preparation: 20 min
Marinating/Waiting: 0 min
Cooking: 1 h 
Total: 1 h 20 min
6
servings
Category: Desserts
Subcategory: Cakes
Source: Metro

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Recipe ingredients

  • 3 eggs
  • 3/4 cup (180 mL) butter*
  • 1½ cups (375 mL) icing sugar
  • 1¼ cups (310 mL) flour*
  • 1/4 tsp. (1 mL) salt
  • 1/4 cup (60 mL) spirits (rum, cognac)
  • 2 500 mL baskets of ground cherries
  • 4 tsp. (20 mL) honey*
  • 1 tsp. (5 mL) butter*
  • 1/2 cup (125 mL) mascarpone
  • Juice and zest of 2 limes
  • 2 Tbsp. (30 mL) sugar
  • 2 Tbsp. (30 mL) butter*

Preparation

Preheat oven to 400ºF (200ºC). Separate eggs.
Melt butter. In a large bowl, beat whites with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form. Set aside.
In another bowl, beat egg yolks, icing sugar and a pinch of salt until thereare no streaks of yolk. Add melted butter and flour separately, mixing well. Add spirits.
Gently fold whites into the yolk and suga mixture.
Pour batter into a buttered cake pan dusted with flour.
Bake for 15 minutes, reduce heat to 350°F (180°C) and bake for a further 25 minutes.
Cool to lukewarm and turn cake out. Remove leaves from ground cherries. In a frying pan, melt the butter with the honey. Add ground cherries and cook for 3 to 5 min., set aside.
In a large bowl, beat the mascarpone, lime zest, lime juice and sugar. Set aside.
Cut the pound cake in 6 slices.
In a frying pan, sautée the pieces of cake in butter to brown each side.
Serve the slices of pound cake with  candied ground cherries and lime mascarpone.

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* We recommend Selection and Irresistibles products.

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Metro encourages moderation in the consumption of alcohol. The sale of alcoholic beverages, as prescribed by law, is restricted to adults only. And, please, don't drink and drive!

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