Mini Strawberry-Mascarpone Shortcake Trifle – Layers of sweet summer strawberries, fluffy angel food cake and a sweet Mascarpone cream!
My husband is seriously the best. I know that a lot of women say that but I personally could not have been given a better man to call my husband. He got the day off for Memorial day and while I worked on editorial calendars for the next few months and put the last few touches on blog posts for the up coming week, spent the morning standing in the kitchen working on breakfast and lunch for us.
Not only did he work on meals but he was making us a low carb meals because I’m finally getting back to the point where I don’t need to have the carbs with the medication I was having to take! I’m so exited about that, y’all!
So he whipped up lunch and then he got back into the kitchen after a little lunch break and started working on a cake. 🙂
He doesn’t work in the kitchen with me all the time or write blog posts with me but sometimes he wakes up with ideas for the blog, well…he had one of those days. So he got up early, went to the store and came home with a few bags of groceries and then woke me up to let me know about his dessert idea. haha. 🙂 He had a grand plan for this strawberry angel food cake, he even named it “Heavenly Angel Food Strawberry Cake”. He measured out everything and sliced his strawberries from our strawberry picking adventure over the weekend…into the oven it went. Next he whipped up a Mascarpone cream to go with the cake. Y’all…a Mascarpone whipped cream, I have to admit that I never would have though to make that.
Fast Forward 35 minutes and the cake was ready. He took it out, sat it up and on glass jar to cool (as you should with any angel food cake) and waited.
Unfortunately when the time came to flip the cake out, it was a bust. 🙁 Super Sad face. He played it off like it wasn’t a big deal but I have a feeling that his heart might have cracked a little, I know mine did.
The strawberries settled to the bottom
BUT I told him that I didn’t want to waste that Mascarpone whipped cream that he made because it was delicious!
So we turned that cake fail into perfect little Mini Strawberry-Mascarpone Shortcake Trifles!
I cut off the bottom section of that angel food cake, cubed it into bite size pieces, sliced up some more of our fresh strawberries and Thomas topped them with his homemade Mascarpone whipped cream!
Holy Moly, y’all! They were good. I wasn’t sure if I was going to love that Mascarpone cream at first but it was fantastic; it was just perfect with the strawberries!
Mini Strawberry-Mascarpone Shortcake Trifle
Mini Strawberry-Mascarpone Shortcake Trifle
Layers of sweet summer strawberries, fluffy angel food cake and a sweet Mascarpone cream!
- Prep Time: 10m
- Cook Time: 35m
- Total Time: 45m
- Yield: 3-4 For mini trifles
Ingredients
- 1 box angel food cake mix
- 1 1/4 cups water
- 8 ounces mascarpone cheese
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 2 cups sliced strawberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Whisk together the angel food cake mix and water.
- Pour into an angel food cake pan or a loaf pan.
- Bake for 35 minutes or until done.
- Remove from oven - if using an angel food cake pan, sit on top of a glass bottle to cool - if using a loaf pan, tip onto side to cool.
- Cool completely.
- Once cool, cut into small cubes.
- In a bowl, mix together the Mascarpone and heavy cream.
- Mix in the powdered sugar and vanilla.
- Mix until smooth.
- Layer small jars with layers of cake, Mascarpone filling and sliced strawberries
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I love that your hubby comes up with ideas for your blog! That’s too cute! One of my best recipes is actually one my hubby came up with (peanut butter lava cakes). These trifles are amazing! I love strawberries this time of year.
I agree with you. You have a wonferful husband !!!!
I love that his ideas involved dessert…a it is a delicious one!
OMG ANGIE! This looks phenomenal! I need one stat
I think the fact that your hubby helps you come up with recipes for the blog is adorable! And just let him know that once he has his first recipe fail the rest are cake 😉
Oh my gosh, I think my heart broke a little as I’m reading, picturing his disappointment in his cake after all that work. Luckily, the outcome is perfect and goes to prove what I say ALL THE TIME – some of the best recipes are the result of mistakes!
Angel Food Cake is one of the best desserts! I love this!
Nice when recipe fails can be transformed into something just as fantastic as you first envisioned! These trifles look perfect. And that mascarpone whipped cream sounds just heavenly!
What a great way to save a flop of a cake! I’ve only every baked one Angel Food Cake from scratch and that was enough for me! Way to save the day!
I have had that happen a few times but my failed cakes never turned into something so scrumptious! And you’re right, that mascarpone whipped cream sounds amazing!
I’m sooo craving this right now! LOVE mascarpone and trifle has always been a favorite of mine!
I love desserts with fresh strawberries! This looks delicious!
I love this. I do this kind of thing often, my cake flops and I turn it into a parfait. Works like a charm. This is one stellar trifle. I wouldn’t want to waste that mascarpone either. It looks dreamy!
I love these individual jar servings – so pretty and so delicious!