Soft blueberry and hazelnut cake

 

Difficulty: Medium / High

Ingredients and preparation (For 8-10 people)

 

For the hazelnut biscuit

150 gr of icing sugar

60 gr of ground hazelnuts in flour

50 gr of rice flour

2r g of baking soda

170 gr of egg whites

90 gr of butter

1 / 3 of a jar of blueberries in syrup by Il Baggiolo

20 gr of coarsely chopped hazelnuts

the zest of half an organic lemon

a pinch of vanilla sugar

a pinch of salt

 

In a bowl, mix the icing sugar, hazelnut and rice flour, baking powder, salt, lemon zest and vanilla sugar. Combine the egg whites.

Melt the butter over low heat and cook until it takes on an amber colour (noisette butter). Allow it to cool, pass it through a colander and add it to the dough.

Line a 24 cm diameter cake pan with parchment paper. Fill it with the mixture and sprinkle it with the blueberries in syrup, drained of their liquid, and the chopped hazelnuts.

Bake at 180°C for about 35 minutes and allow the biscuit to cool before turning it out onto a plate.

For the mascarpone Chantilly

 100 gr of fresh cream

60 gr of mascarpone

20 gr of granulated sugar

zest of half a lemon

 

For the mascarpone and blueberry Chantilly

100 gr of fresh cream

60 gr of mascarpone

25 gr of blueberry juice in syrup (take it from the jar of Blueberries in syrup by Il Baggiolo)

20 gr of granulated sugar

 

In two bowls, combine the very cold ingredients and whip them with an electric whisk until they reach the consistency of a mousse.

 

Prepare two pastry bags with smooth spouts (10 or 12 mm diameter) and fill them with the two doughs.

To fill and decorate

2/3 of a jar of “Il Baggiolo” blueberries in syrup, some hazelnuts.

When the biscuit is very cold, cover it with the remaining blueberries (leave some to decorate) and with alternating tufts of the two chantilly. Garnish with some blueberries and some chopped hazelnuts. Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.