Strawberry Cake - Easy Strawberry Cake in 10 Minutes

Recipe for an easy strawberry tart made in just 10 minutes.

Makes 2 cakes – serves 8-12

Course Dessert

Cuisine Danish

Nøgleord Danish strawberries, Easy cake, Easy dessert, Strawberries, Summer dessert

Total Time 10

Servings servings

Calories 321kcal

2 shop-bought mazarin cakes (round Danish almond cakes) - the classic round ones
200 g mascarpone
200 ml whipping cream (38% fat)
75 g icing sugar
1/2 vanilla pod, seeds scraped out - or 1 tsp vanilla sugar
3-4 tbsp lemon juice
1 lemon, finely grated zest
400 g fresh strawberries
Mint and/or edible violas (optional)

Rinse the strawberries, hull them and cut them in half.
Leave them to dry on a tea towel.
Put the mascarpone, cream, icing sugar, vanilla, lemon zest and lemon juice in a bowl and whisk together until the cream thickens.
*The cream thickens very quickly, so take care not to overwhisk it, or it will turn grainy. The cream should be thick enough to hold its shape on the cake and keep the strawberries in place.
Spread the cream over the top of the cakes.
You can put the cream in one large dollop in the centre of the cake and spread it out with a spoon, or you can pipe it from a piping bag. The cake is topped with strawberries, so no neat piping work is needed.
Top the cake with the halved strawberries and decorate with mint and/or edible violas, if you like.