Mirabelle Dessert Cups
Layers of delicious smooth mascarpone cream, juicy mirabelle plums and crumbled madeleines make this scrumptious summer treat: the Mirabelle dessert cups!
Ingredients
- 250 g mascarpone
- 150 g heavy cream
- 60 g icing sugar
- 2 sachets vanilla sugar
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1/2 tbsp butter
- 50 g madeleines or any sponge cake crushed
- 450 g mirabelle
Instructions
Cook the mirabelle
- Cut the mirabelle plums in half and remove the seeds. Once all the fruit is halved, add them to a saucepan together with the vanilla sugar and butter. Add the lemon juice when the butter melts and the fruit starts cooking.
- Cook everything until the fruit start to soften and caramelise, and a thick sauce starts to form. This will only take a couple of minutes. Take off the heat and let cool completely.
Mascarpone cream
- While the mirabelle plums are cooling. Place the heavy cream and icing sugar into a bowl. With an electric whisk or in a stand mixer whip the mixture to stiff peaks. Gently fold in the mascarpone cheese. Store in the fridge until ready to assemble the dessert cups.
Assembly
- Start by adding a layer of mirabelle plums with their sauce at the bottom of each cup.
- Crumble the madeleines into small pieces and make an even layer in each cup. Top this layer with a generous layer of mascarpone cream. Repeat until the cup is full and end up having a layer of cream at the top. Decorate with some crumbled madeleines, mirabelle plums and a drizzle of the sauce.
- Place the cups in the fridge until you are ready to serve. Enjoy!