Strawberry Mascarpone Coffee Cake
Coffee cake, with ripe strawberries and a crumb topping
Servings: 8 servings
Ingredients
- 10 tablespoon butter softened
- 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
- 4 large egg whites
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup mascarpone cheese
- 2 ½ cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups chopped strawberries fresh or frozen
Crumb topping
- 1 cup flour
- ¾ cup sugar
- 4 tablespoon butter softened
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a springform pan
- In a medium bowl, combine the crumb topping ingredients. Using a fork, pastry cutter or hands, cut the butter into the flour and sugar until it resembles large crumbs; set aside
- Cream together butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla and mascarpone
- Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and stir to combine
- Gently fold in chopped strawberries
- Pour into greased springform pan (you can also use a 9x9 inch square baking dish
- Sprinkle crumb topping evenly over the top of the batter
- Bake at 350 degrees, for about one hour; until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean
- Cool before removing springform outer circle, and let cool well before cutting