Strawberry Cake with Mascarpone

Ingredients

• 50 g melted, cooled butter or margarine
• 3 eggs
• 120 g sugar
• 1 pack vanilla sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 125 g flour
• 1/2 - 1 tsp baking powder
• 120 g mascarpone
• 60 ml whipping cream
• 1 pack cream stabilizer
• 3 - 4 tbsp powdered sugar
• lemon juice to taste
• 1 pack cake glaze (red or clear)
• 250 ml water or red fruit juice
• 2 tbsp sugar (omit if using fruit juice)
• 500 - 600 g fresh strawberries

Method

1. Prepare the Viennese sponge base with butter, eggs, sugar, vanilla sugar, salt, flour, and baking powder.
2. Bake the sponge base in a 28 cm fruit tart pan.
3. Spread the cooled sponge base evenly with chocolate.
4. Whip mascarpone with whipping cream, cream stabilizer, powdered sugar, and lemon juice into a cream.
5. Spread the mascarpone cream on the chocolate base.
6. Wash and halve the strawberries and arrange them on the cream.
7. Prepare the cake glaze with water or fruit juice and sugar.
8. Pour the cake glaze over the strawberries and allow it to set.
9. Chill the strawberry cake before serving.