Layer cake with strawberries and mascarpone cream

Ingredients

Cake :

• 4 eggs (room temperature)
• 1/2 cup icing sugar (or sugar)
• 1/3 cup flour
• 1/3 cup potato starch
• 1 lemon peel

Cream :

• 1,5 cups cream
• 1,5 cups mascarpone
• 2 tbsp icing sugar
• 1 vanilla bean (1 tsp vanilla extract)
• 1 lb strawberries
• syrup

Materials

• Electric mixer
• 3 molds 6 inches diameter
• Plastic wrap
• Parchment paper
• Spatula
• Piping bag
• Bench scraper
• Cake turntable

Preparation

• Cake :
  Separate egg yolks from the whites.
  Mix egg yolks with sugar until until the mixture lightens.
• Add flour and potato starch and mix well. Add lemon peel and mix again.
  
• Whisk the egg whites until they form peaks. Add them carefully to the previous mix with a spatula.
• Pour the batter into 3 greased molds (6 inches diameter) and bake 13 minutes at 350°F (180°C).
  
• Remove from oven and leave to cool down on a grid. Unmold and wrap the cakes in plastic wrap.
• Cream :
  Put all ingredients in a bowl and mix it all with an electric mixer. Refrigerate.
  
• Put some cream on a cake turntable. Put some parchment paper on top and put some cream on it. Put the first cake on the cream.
• Brush some syrup on top of the cake (you can make a syrup or use strawberry / red berries syrup).
  Cover the cake with cream with the piping bag.
  Put the strawberries cut in half on top and put cream on the empty spaces. Put the second cake on top.
  
• Repeat step 8 and finish by adding the third cake on top. Cover the whole cake with some cream, smooth it all with a spatula and freeze the cake during 30 minutes.
• Remove from freezer and cover the cake generously with cream. Smooth it with a spatula and freeze again for 15 minutes.
  
• Decorate your cake with cream and strawberries cut in half and there you are !
• The cake has to be very cold to cut it easily.