White Chocolate Cake

A super simple white chocolate cake layered with mascarpone cheese! This was Arvind’s birthday cake this year. I baked two layers and used the rest of the batter to prepare cupcakes. The texture of the cake turned out quite pleasant and soft.This recipe is adapted from Live For Cake

📝 Ingredients

• 4 oz white chocolate chips
• 1 1/4 cups milk
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup unsalted butter room temperature
• 1 1/4 cups white granulated sugar
• 3 eggs room temperature
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 8 oz mascarpone cheese (kept at room temperature for couple hours.)
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream
• 2 tablespoon white granulated sugar
• 1/2 teapoon vanilla

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1In a pan pour the milk and the chocolate chips. Then let it simmer in low heat and contunie stirring until the chocolate melts. Leave it aside to cool down to room temperature.
2. 2Preheat the oven to 350 F
3. 3NOTE: I made two 6 inch cake and with the remaining batter I prepared cupcakes.
4. 4If you want to prepare only cake, then layer three 6-inch round cake pan with parchment paper. And brush oil on the side as well. If you want to prepare few cup cakes like I did then line 6 cupcake lines to a muffin pan.
5. 5NOTE: To get a flat top of the cake, wrap the cake pan with baking cloth strips or alluminium foil.
6. 6In a mixing bowl or by using a stand mixerm, whisk the butter and sugar until it fluffy. Then crack the eggs and whisk again to incorporate. Then add the melted chocolate that was kept aside to cool down and whisk again.
7. 7Sift the flour and baking powder along with salt and vanilla. Fold the flour to the egg and chocolate mixture to form a smooth batter.
8. 8Divide the batter into thee pans, if you are making only cakes. Or pour batter in two pans, filling half way through and the remaining batter pour on the muffin pans, with liners on it.
9. 9The cake takes 40 minutes to bake at 350 F in the middle rack of the oven. The muffins takes about 17 minutes.
10. 10Once the cake and cupcakes are baked, let it cool completely before you apply the frosting. You can bake the cake in advance and once cooled completely, wrap in a clear wrap and place in the fridge.
11. 11For the frosting, just whisk everything (mascarpone cheese, kept at room temperture along with heavy cream, sugar and vanilla) until it's smooth and looks spreable.
12. 12layer the frosting in between the cake and cover the crumb as per your liking. Top it with some fresh raspberry for the pop of colors.