Cakegasm! Delicious Mama's Cake

Welcome fellow foodies and Fat Kids! For our first recipe/post/general drooling event, I figured we should celebrate. What do celebrations have? Celebrations have cake. This is a known fact, it can't be argued, and why would you want to anyways? When I take the time to make a cake, that cake better create mouthgasms that level mountains! This cake is all that and more. This is the second time I've used this cake for celebratory reasons and I have no interest in stopping. Around our house, we call this the Mama Cake, as it was first made to entice my wife on Mother's Day. Really though, this was a present for me. Since Valentine's Day is just around the corner, I figured this would be a celebratory double whammy for all my foodie lovers out there.

Delicious Mama's Cake

The Cake:

2 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 stick unsalted pasture butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 cup buttermilk

The Berry Topping:
1/2 cup Port
1/2 cup brown sugar
As many fresh organic strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries as you like

The Filling:
1 cup Mascarpone cheese
1 cup raw cream
Sugar to taste

The Chocolate Sauce for Plating:
1 tablespoon unsalted pasture butter
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/4 balsamic vinegar
Dark chocolate to thicken

This cake is easy, amazing, and will leave you fat and happy. Mix the cake ingredients together until your batter is nice and smooth. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Place your smooth batter into a 9 inch round cake pan. Pop that bad boy in the oven for 30-40 minutes, or until the top is golden brown and a butter knife can come out cleanly.

Your Berry Topping is just as easy. Throw your Port and brown sugar into a sauce pan. On a low heat, stir until the sugar has melted. Just before pulling your syrup from the heat, approximately a minute or two, toss the berries in to let your syrup soak up the delicious flavors.

The Filling, literally stir the ingredients together until you get the desired sweetness. It is the exact opposite of rocket science.  You can use a whisk, a fork, or my personal favorite: the electric mixer to spin your raw cream into whipped cream, slowly adding the sugar to taste.  When it's light and fluffy, mix in your mascarpone.  Your filling is now ready.

Once your cake is done baking, slice it in half. You should have a nice rounded top piece and a level bottom piece. Each should be about an inch thick. Fill the middle of the two pieces with your Filling, scoop the Berries on top, drizzle with Syrup, and put that in the fridge to cool for a bit. You can even dust it with a touch of powdered sugar if you like.

Now, it's after dinner on your romantic day. The two of you are feeling the love. Pull out the cake. Place the cake lovingly as a center piece on your table. Adjourn to the kitchen to make your Chocolate Sauce. This part is easy. You are making a chocolate sauce. Put your ingredients in a sauce pan, dark chocolate last, and stir together over low heat until you have a smooth, thick, delicious sauce.

Cut your cake. Plate with care, making sure to get plenty of berries on it, and then cover with your Balsamic Chocolate Sauce. After eating, don't hesitate to leave the dishes out and go right back to the romantic part.

You're welcome.