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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
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• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Cake: Cream the butter with granulated sugar until creamy and smooth. Add in the egg yolks one at a time until combined. | 2. Sift the measured cake flour with salt, and baking powder. blend flour into the egg mixture alternately with the milk and vanilla. | 3. Pour into two 8 inch greased and floured cake pans, set aside. | 4. Meringue: Beat the egg whites until frothy and gradually add in the white sugar a little at a time, beat in the vanilla, Continue beating until stiff peaks when the beaters are lifted. Fold in the amount of chopped nuts you desire either 1/2 cup or 3/4 of a cup. | 5. Spread the prepared meringue over each cake evenly using it all. | 6. Place cakes into a 350 degree preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes until tester comes away clean and golden brown. | 7. Remove baked cakes to cooling rack. Cool ten minutes, invert and completely cool on parchment covered wire racks. | 8. Filling: Beat your 1/2 pint (250ml container) of liquid Nutri Whip into a large bowl, and beat until thick adding in 1 tablespoons of the powdered sugar to sweeten lightly. The powdered sugar is optional as the sugar free preserves added later will also sweeten. | 9. Beat your 6 ounces mascarpone creamed cheese until light and fluffy adding in the other 1 tablespoons icing powder to sweeten, Again the powdered sugar is optional as the preseves will sweeten the filling. Beat in 2 tablespoon sugar free strawberry preserves ( jam or spread) the little bit of vanilla and continue to cream until mixture is light and smooth. | 10. Fold in the blended cheese mixture into the peaked whipped cream mixture folding well. | 11. Add in the well drained pineapple, the blueberries folding in well, but not breaking the berries. | 12. Setting up the Layers: Place cooled cake layer meringue side down of serving platter. | 13. Spread all the filling over the cake layer. | 14. Place second cake layer on top of filling with meringue side up (this is top). | 15. Place in refrigerator for a couple of hours to set and meld flavours. | 16. Just before serving prepare garnishes. | 17. Slice banana and dip into the reserved pineapple juice (this helps to prevent browning of fruit. | 18. Slice strawberries into a fan shape leaving the end in tack and spread out. | 19. Remove cake from fridge, around the outer edge place sliced bananas and then place the strawberries over bananas, marking into ten portions,,that way each portion has a couple of banana slices and a full strawberry fan. | 20. Slice and place on individual serving plates that have a squeeze of strawberry puree and chocolate syrups. Scatter a few blueberries also onto plates with a sprig of fresh mint. | 21. Enjoy. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	1/2	cup		684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
sugar	1/2	cup	granulated	159.9	30.004	5.005	2.496
egg yolk	4			218.96	2.4412	10.7848	18.0472
cake flour	1/2	cup		247.97	53.4506	5.617000000000001	0.5891
cake flour	2	tablespoons		247.97	53.4506	5.617000000000001	0.5891
baking powder	1	teaspoon		2.438	1.2742	0.0	0.0
salt	1/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
vanilla	1/2	teaspoon		6.047999999999999	0.2656	0.0013	0.0013
milk	4	tablespoons		36.6	2.8680000000000003	1.89	1.962
egg white	4			68.64	0.9636	14.388	0.2244
white sugar	3/4	cup		580.5	149.97	0.0	0.0
vanilla	1	teaspoon		6.047999999999999	0.2656	0.0013	0.0013
pecan	1/2 - 3/4	cup	chopped	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
non dairy topping	1/2		whipped	151.3	0.0	33.66	0.85
mascarpone cheese	6	ounces		151.3	0.0	33.66	0.85
icing sugar	2	tablespoons	powdered	-	-	-	-
vanilla	1/4	teaspoon		6.047999999999999	0.2656	0.0013	0.0013
sugar strawberry jam	2	tablespoons	free	151.3	0.0	33.66	0.85
blueberry	1/2	cup	washed	42.18	10.7226	0.5476	0.2442
pineapple	1/2	cup	crushed drained	41.25	10.824000000000002	0.4455	0.099
strawberry	10		washed hulled	486.4	116.736	10.184	4.56
banana	1		sliced	200.25	51.39	2.4525	0.7425
blueberry				42.18	10.7226	0.5476	0.2442
strawberry puree				151.3	0.0	33.66	0.85

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.