Baked Ricotta Cakes with Berry Sauce
From Nerdhaus
Ingredients
Cakes
- 1 cup ricotta cheese
- 2 egg whites, beaten
- 4 tbsp honey
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- fresh mint leaves for garnish
Sauce
- 4 cups mixed fresh or frozen fruit
- (strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, cherries, etc)
Directions
Cakes
- Beat the egg whites
- Hand-mix the egg whites, ricotta cheese, honey and vanilla until smooth
- Lightly grease four ramekins
- Spoon the ricotta cheese mixture into the ramekins and level the tops
- Bake for 20 minutes
Sauce
- Save about 1/4 of the fruit for decoration
- Heat the rest of the fruit in a saucepan, with a little water if using fresh fruit
- Press the fruit through a sieve to strain out chunks and seeds
- Drizzle the sauce over the cakes, and decorate with the remaining fruit and mint leaves