Macerated Berries with Mascarpone Cheese

Here is the desert that we had with the Family lunch on Sunday.


Ingredients:
500gr Mixed berries (any you can find, blueberries, blackberries, gooseberries raspberries etc.)
2-4 tbsp Caster sugar (super fine) 
2 boxes of Raspberry jelly
Mascarpone Cheese to serve


Method:
Mix the jelly as per the packet instructions, and pour into six serving bowls.  Refrigerate for 2 hours.
Wash the berries, and allow to drain in a colander for a while.
Put all the washed berries into a bowl, cover with the caster sugar and toss lightly to coat. 
This works quite well if you put cling film over the bowl, which you leave on whilst in the fridge.  Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes, but preferably an hour.
Mix a little pouring cream into the mascarpone cheese, and stir to soften up.


Add the berry mixture to the top of the jelly in your serving bowls.  
Add a dollop of mascarpone cheese to the top and serve!


Notes:
The jelly part of the desert was my wife's idea - Brilliant!
If you have small ones in the house that don't like the mascarpone, my son loves it, but his mom doesn't care for it, then rather serve with custard.  It tastes great with the custard too!


Nice and easy desert that you can prepare long in advance, so you are not working while your guests are drinking all the wine.


Enjoy!