I've got 500g of mascarpone cheese and no clue what to do ...

[Meow75]

I bought mascarpone to make a dessert when my IL's visited over the Bank Holiday weekend. I've checked the date on it and it's still good for about 10 days, but it's calling ...

As so often happens, plans changed and the dessert never appeared. ILs have now gone back to Lanzarote, and the two of us are stuck with a ton of lovely lovely mascarpone.

I need to do something sensible with it or on Saturday I'm just going to scoff it and then hate myself and feel sick!!!

Anyone?!?!

Cheese cake! mix it with juice of lemon and 4oz of icing sugar, bung it on a ginger nut biscuit base, job done!

It makes a lovely pasta dish. I poach some salmon fillets, flake and stir into pasta with mascarpone, peas and parmesan. Couldn't be easier and takes about 12 mins all in.

Mix it with tomato sauce to serve with pasta.

Use as a pizza topping with spinach/roasted veggies/bacon/mushroom.

Serve with grilled figs & honey +/- nuts.

Highly recommended and very quick and easy to make

Quick Raspberry and Lemon Cheesecake
From 30 minute meals

Cheesecake

50g butter
50g blanched hazelnuts
8 gingernut biscuits
1 lemon
4 heaped teaspoons good quality lemon curd
1 punnet raspberries (approx 150g)
250g light or low fat cream cheese, marscapone cheese or creme fraiche
1 teaspoon of vanilla paste or extract
A splash of milk
1 tablespoon icing sugar
Good quality dark chocolate for grating ( approx 70% cocoa solids

Place 4 tumblers for these cheesecakes into the freezer.
Put the butter into a medium frying pan on a high heat. Wrap the hazelnuts and biscuits in a clean tea towel and quickly bash with a rolling pin. Turn the heat off under the melted butter, tip in the bashed nuts and biscuits and stir. Finely grate in the lemon zest and mix well. Take the tumblers out of the freezer and divide the mixture between them, gently patting it down until firm.

Put 1 heaped teaspoon of lemon curd into each tumbler and top with a few raspberries. Spoon the cream cheese, marscapone or creme fraiche into a bowl and add the vanilla paste or extract and a splash of milk. Stir in the icing sugar and another splash of milk and mix really well until it looks soft and silky smooth. Divide between the tumblers, scrape over a few gratings of dark chocolate and set aside until you are ready to serve.

250g of mascarpone, 3-4tbsp lemon curd and squirt of lemon juice (both of these adjusted to suit your tastes) is a very scummy topping for baked fruit - try peaches and blackberries (quarter 6 peaches, throw in some blackberries, bake with 2tbsp sugar for 30 mins in a 180c oven.) Any leftover lemon-mascarpone is also delicious spread on digestive biscuits

Lemon curd and mascarpone makes a gorgeous filling for a classic Victoria sponge to which you've added some lemon zest - spread one sponge with curd, the other with mascarpone and sandwich together.

Stir a few tbsp into a basic tomato pasta sauce to make it really creamy - I just did a big batch for the freezer.

Ironically, we had bacon & mushroom in a tomato & mascarpone sauce for tea last night, but DH had bought the sauce when he did the Sainsbo's Internet order.

Oh, and thanks for your suggestions.

I was holding off on doing a cheesecake, but DH is ill off work for the rest of this week so it might cheer him up!!!

make a tiramisu?
you need
savoy sponge fingers
a cup of espresso
mascarpone
2 or 3 egg yolks
cocoa powder
sherry
sugar
cream
you lay the fingers in a serving dish, pour on sweetened espresso over the fingers, and then pour on the gloop you have made by whisking together the eggs yolks, some sugar, sherry. coco powder and mascarpone. then make another two layers the same, like a lasagne. Top with whipped cream and grated chocolate.
prepare the day before and leave in the fridge.

should have been a comma after sherry not a full stop. the recipe did call for finest marsala but i used lidl sherry and it was lovely.

I've always loved Sainsbury's recipe card for lime and mascarpone torte:

Here... I'm sure it was originally Sainsbury's, but Waitrose have jumped on the bandwagon it seems; it's identical!

I came to say tiramisu, but someone beat me to it!