New Lessons - Peach Lemon Cake

Occasionally downcast days, breezy evenings, lots of jasmine flowers, endless amount of mangoes and tender coconuts, doesn't my days sounds relaxing? It is such a pleasurable time in Coimbatore. I have just started my car driving lessons, traffic, clutch, break, gear and accelerator everything is new but still exciting. I wish there were automatic cars in India it would have been easy, but my master says its better to learn from manual car. Ladies who is already driving any interesting stories on driving lessons? Mine is yet to come as of now, i'm still working on gear and clutch.

This is totally a fruity cake topped with fresh mascarpone cream cheese, truly a winner. Girls in south India do we get mascarpone cream cheese here? or is there any alternatives, feedback please?  I'm back to business of cake baking, hopefully i will be regular here as well :))

 

Ingredients

Recipe adapted from here (Thank you Sue for the wonderful recipe) 

100 ml Vegetable oil

3/4 cup Castor sugar

3 Eggs

1/2 tspn of Vanilla extract 

3 tspn Lemon zest 

2 tbspn Yogurt

1 Cup All purpose flour

1 tspn Baking powder

3 Peaches diced to small cubes

Procedure

Preheat the oven to 160 degree. 

Butter, flour and line the bottoms of three 9cm round cake pan.

Combine flour and baking power, sifted.

In a separate bowl, beat sugar and egg yolk until creamy, next add in vegetable oil. 

In another separate bowl beat in white egg to soft peaks. 

To sugar, yolk and oil mixture add in lemon zest and yogurt. 

Next very gently fold in  flour and egg whites alternatively to yolk mixture until well combined.

After well combined add in diced fruit to the cake batter.

Pour the cake batter to prepared cake pans and bake for about 20 - 25 mins till the toothpick inserted comes out clean. 

Cool the cake to room temperature before creaming the cake.

Mascarpone Whipped Cream

250 gram Mascarpone cream cheese

300 ml Whipping cream

1tspn Vanilla extract

100 grams of sugar

Pulp of 2 Fresh Peaches
Few drops of peach food colour

Method

Combine sugar and cream and beat until single stiff peaks are formed. Very carefully whip the mascarpone cheese till they are smooth on low speed. Gently fold in mascarpone and fruit pulp into the cream till well smoothly combined. 

Another method is combine cream cheese, whipping cream and  sugar beat on low till soft peaks are formed, be careful not to over beat them! 

Assembly

On a cake stand, first layer of the cake, spread good amount of cream cheese filling. Follow this for next two layers. Frost the last layer with remaining cream cheese filling and pipe cream as flowers uniformly. The cake is ready to serve!