Muscat-Mascarpone Cream

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8–10

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

  • About

I made this expressly to go with the rhubarb and cornmeal cake, but it is a useful way of giving a little chic spin to any basic cake. It would also be wonderful with Christmas pudding or mince pies.

Ingredients

  • 2 large eggs, separated
  • 100 ml muscat
  • 250 g mascarp

Method

Whisk the egg whites until stiff but not dry and put aside for a moment. Beat the yolks with the muscat and, when smoothly combined, beat in the mascarpone and icing sugar. Whisk well and then, when you’ve got a voluptuous, thickening cream in front of you, fold in the egg whites. You can keep this in the fridge, covered, for a day before using it.