Torta Paradiso con Mascarpone

Name: Torta Paradiso con Mascarpone (Sponge cake with mascarpone)
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 4 large eggs, beaten; 250 g caster sugar; 250 g butter, just melted but not oily, plus extra to grease; 1 tsp baking powder; 25 g cornflour; 225 g self-raising flour; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 3–4 tbsp raspberry jam; few drops of vanilla extract; 50 g caster sugar; 300 g mascarpone cheese; icing sugar to dust

Sponge cake with mascarpone

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Antonio Carluccio's Italia

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2005

About

Rich, creamy mascarpone comes from southern Lombardy and it is the ideal filling for this wonderfully light sponge.

Ingredients

250 g butter, just melted but not oily, plus extra to grease
250 g caster sugar
4

Europe
Italy
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Heat the oven to 180°C/Gas 4. Line a 25cm shallow round cake tin with baking parchment and grease with a little butter.

Using a balloon whisk, whip the melted butter into the sugar until light and fluffy, then slowly beat in the eggs and vanilla. Gradually sift the flour, cornf