What To Do With Leftover Mascarpone Cheese – Best Easy Dessert Recipes and perfect Ideas for ways to use leftovers.
What To Do With Leftover Mascarpone Cheese
You have plenty of delicious options for what to do with leftover mascarpone cheese, a creamy and rich ingredient that elevates the healthy fat content and flavor of the dish it’s blended into.
Mascarpone Cheese is like a luxuriously thick Italian cream cheese that finds it’s way into creamy desserts and savory dishes that require a creamy, dreamy element. (In this post I’m going to only share sweet treats, but feel free to go for savory uses like topping bread or bagels with mascarpone or adding a little to a creamy pasta sauce.)
In addition to the below easy recipes, you could always use up the mascarpone in any recipe that calls for sour cream, heavy cream, ricotta cheese, crème fraîche or cream cheese – simply substitute for mascarpone instead for similar, creamy results.
Tiramisu Mousse
Tiramisu is the most obvious use for Mascarpone Cheese, in fact you may have a part of a tub leftover from making an indulgent Tiramisu of your own.
For this easy tiramisu mousse recipe, mascarpone is blended into whipped heavy cream in a stand mixer, and layered in a dish with grated dark chocolate to create an almost instant Tiramisu type dessert experience.
Leftover Mascarpone Cream Topping
Dollop a little mascarpone on top of fresh fruit, such as fresh berries or watermelon, for a super quick and easy sweet treat.
You could even go a step further and prepare a dessert like the above mascarpone stuffed strawberries when strawberries are in season.
Chocolate Frosting
Blend whatever leftover Mascarpone cheese you have into an indulgent mascarpone chocolate frosting to fill a layer cake with or smother a chocolate cake, pound cake, banana bread or top cupcakes with.
This mascarpone filling recipe needs only 4 ingredients that are simply whipped together in a large bowl – fresh cream, mascarpone, cocoa powder and sugar or your sweetener of choice.
Creamy Smoothie
This raspberry and vanilla smoothie recipe is my favorite smoothie of all time, especially when topped with an indulgent swirl of whipped cream.
The smoothie tastes like a sweet cheesecake dessert, and once you add in a couple of spoons of leftover mascarpone cheese to a smoothie, you’ll never make one without it again.
Chocolate Mousse
You’ll find that incorporating mascarpone cheese into a classic dessert of chocolate mascarpone mousse is a great way to enjoy the decadent ingredient in a rich and chocolatey sweet treat that’s easy to prepare and tastes incredible.
This easy recipe has just 3 ingredients that are all easy to find at a grocery store – dark chocolate, heavy cream and of course – mascarpone cheese.
Lemon Mousse With Mascarpone Recipe
This refreshing lemon mousse is light, luscious, full of mascarpone creaminess, lemon zest, lemon juice and wonderfully smooth and creamier in texture thanks to the inclusion of leftover masarpone.
You can feel free to swap the lemon for lime juice and lime zest or orange juice and orange zest if you’d prefer and you can make the mousse as sweet or as tangy and citrusy as you’d like.
Panna Cotta
The higher fat content of mascarpone cheese creates the ultimate creamier texture in a panna cotta dessert than other creamy ingredients produce.
Top your creamy mascarpone treat with mixed berries to balance the richness of the classic Italian dessert.
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