Food for the Soul: Raspberry Sponge

This delightful dessert can be served with a handful of mixed berries on the side or an irresistible raspberry sauce poured over the cake.

What you need:

Sponge Cake vanilla*                                 : 1
Mascarpone Cheese or any Cream cheese : 200 gm
Icing sugar                                                  : 3 tablespoon
Fresh Raspberries                                       : 2 cups
Castor Sugar                                               : 2 tablespoon
Lemon Juice                                               : 1 tablespoon
Water                                                          : 1 cup
Coffee powder                                            : 1 tablespoon
Chocolate cubes                                          : 50 gms

*You can either get a sponge cake from the supermarket, or prepare it at home based on the directions below. Both work equally great, so if you are short of time, this dessert allows you to make that compromise.

How to Make:
1. Cut the sponge cake from the middle into two parts using a sharp knife such that they are now two sponge cakes.
2. Mix coffee powder into half cup of hot water, and pour it over a large plate.
3. Dip the sponge cakes one side only over the coffee.
4. Melt the chocolate and pour it over one of the sponge cake,one side only.
5. Beat mascarpone cheese with icing sugar in a bowl till it becomes smooth and fluffy in texture.
6. Pour the beaten mixture into the same sponge over the chocolate, and top with half of the raspberries.
7. Place the other sponge over it slowly and carefully, so that it sits right above the other one.
8. Your raspberry sponge cake is ready. Decorate it with some more raspberries and leftover cheese at the top.
9. Put water, raspberries, castor sugar, lemon juice in a pan, and bring to a boil over high heat.
10. Reduce the heat and let the raspberry sauce thicken to a syrup like consistency.
11. Put the cake and the sauce in the refrigerator, and serve when cold.
12. To serve the cake, cut a piece and place on a plate and pour a spoonful of the raspberry sauce over the cake. Enjoy :))

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As a kid , I absolutely detested the idea of cooking. Looking at my mother constantly juggling between her job and cooking, first breakfast and our lunch and then dinner, and all those homemade snacks, jams and pickles, I used to say to myself, when I grow up, the first thing I am going to do is get a job and pay for a butler to cook for me. I felt a lot of pity for my mom toiling through the day unnecessarily.A lot of the times, my mom asked me to help out, but I always refused, as I thought it was so boring to make that dough, or chop those vegetables. Ughh! what a yucky time pass. I grew up, a dreamy little teenager, mostly submerged in fiction books or chatting with friends, and absolutely loathed home food. I preferred gorging on junk food, at the slightest given opportunity. And once in a while, when mom requested me to make a cup of tea for her, I just refused to cooperate. To this day I hate making tea. But surprisingly I do love to cook now, and enjoy every moment of it. It all started with my travel to foreign locations for my first job. It was Belgium, and I loved the place, the people. But very soon I got bored of the food in the restaurants, and the takeaways, and started craving for home food. Food that my mom cooked every day, and food that I used to loathe eating as a teenager. I called up mom, and asked her for a few recipes, that she recited to me over the phone and I jotted them down. I cooked my first fish curry on a Sunday that week, and it turned out so delicious, that I invited my Belgian girlfriend to join me for dinner. And she loved it too. And so started my love for cooking.The confidence that I could cook, with the additional bonus that I loved the food I cooked, and was specially overjoyed when someone else loved it too, overhauled me into the long journey of cooking which I enjoy to this day. The abundance of creativity that you can add to known and unknown recipes coupled with the fact that almost every time you try and cook something new, you learn something new is a joy for a lifetime. And I would definitely suggest everyone and anyone, to try to cook. It is an easy and forgiving pastime, and it gives you the opportunity to impress. What more, it uplifts your taste buds, and helps you know and accept food in all its multitude.

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