Monday’s Specialty Sauce - Feb 18, 2013

Wild Maine Blueberry Jam – Stonewall Kitchen’s jam is bursting with sweet, intensely flavorful wild Maine blueberries, the right amount of sugar and a splash of lemon, creating the perfect complement to Blueberry Cheesecake Squares.

Angel Food Cake with Blueberry Filling – Serves 12

Just Grillin carries bold ingredients for Angel Food Cake with Blueberry Filling:
Angel Food Cake:
1 cup cake flour, sifted
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups egg whites (10-12 eggs whites)
1 tablespoons cold water
1 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
3/4 cup sugar, sifted
Blueberry Filling:
1 cup whipping cream
1/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup Stonewall Kitchen Wild Maine Blueberry Jam
8 ounces Mascarpone cheese, room temperature
Confectioners’ sugar for dusting

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Sift cake flour, 3/4 cup sugar and salt 3 times.
3. In an electric mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, or you can use a hand mixer, combine the egg whites, cold water, cream of tartar, vanilla and almond extract. Beat on high until the mixture if stiff and glossy, but not dry. Fold in 3/4 cup of sugar 2 tablespoons at a time.
4. Fold in flour and sugar mixture a little at a time. Bake the batter in an ungreased 10-inch tube pan about 45 minutes or until the cake is golden and a toothpick tester comes out clean when inserted into the center of the cake. invert pan to cool.
5. Make filling by placing whipping cream in the bowl of a mixer fitted with a whisk attachment. Whip cream until soft peaks form. Slowly add the sugar. Stir Stonewall Kitchen Wild Maine Blueberry Champagne jam until smooth (heating the jam slightly in the microwave may help). Combine the jam and mascarpone, mix until uniform. Fold jam and mascarpone cheese into the whipped cream until smooth. Chill in refrigerator while cake cools.
6. Once cake cools completely, remove cake by cutting around the edges and center tube and then around the bottom. Cut cake in half, horizontally, gently with a serrated knife. Form a trough by pulling out some of the cake in the center of the bottom half. Fill trough with Blueberry filling. Place top half of cake over filling. Dust cake with confectioners’ sugar and serve.

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