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Sunday Recipes – Oculus Cherry & Mascarpone Box

February 14th, 2010 Write a Comment  Print This Post

Every Sunday we share a recipe from EBC president Eric Pateman.  This is a perfect  – and delicious – last minute dessert to cap off a romantic Valentine’s Dinner.  It literally takes just a couple of minutes from start to finish.  We’ve even given you the shopping list for Granville Island.  If you have a heart shaped cookie cutter at home, you can turn the box into a heart for your sweetie – and of course, you can make a stencil for the cocoa dusting to say any message you like…

OCULUS CHERRY & MASCARPONE BOX

Oculus Reduction

Serves 6

• ½ jar Mission Hill Wineries Oculus Cherries (Edible BC)
• 250 grams of Mascarpone Cheese (Duso’s)
• 2 tbsp of icing sugar (Grainry)
• 1 loaf of pound cake, any flavour (we used Tiramisu; from La Baguette)
• cocoa powder for garnishing plate (Edible BC)

Cut crusts off the pound cake and cut into 1” by 2.5” by 1” high rectangles.  Hollow out a ¼ “ rectangle of the cake to make a box.

Pour syrup from cherries and reduce by half in a saucepan.

Beat mascarpone cheese with icing sugar until fluffy. 

Half cherries to remove pits.

Fill piping bag with mascarpone cheese and fill boxes with cheese.  Pipe top of box on an angle.  Top with 3 cherry halves and drizzle syrup over cherries and cake.   Garnish plate with a dusting of cocoa powder and enjoy!