Latvian Layered Rye Bread Dessert

This Latvian layered rye bread dessert is amazing and unique — your guests will genuinely be surprised. Rupjmaizes kārtojums is a traditional Latvian dessert based on the country's famous dark rye bread, similar in construction to a British trifle, and is often called Sweet Rye Trifle. It's considered a real treasure of Latvian national cuisine.

Ingredients

• 10 slices coarse rye bread (about 350g total), slightly dried, crust removed
• 200g mascarpone cheese
• 150g double/heavy whipped cream
• 60g icing sugar
• 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
• 50g sugar
• 6 tbsp cranberry jam

Directions

1. In a bowl, combine mascarpone cheese, whipped cream, and icing sugar. Mix well and transfer to a piping bag.
2. Cut the rye bread into pieces, remove the crust, and pulse in a food processor with sugar and cinnamon until finely crumbed.
3. Toast the crumb mixture in a dry, hot pan for 5-10 minutes, stirring constantly, to dry it out as much as possible. Blitz again in the food processor until fine.
4. To assemble, layer toasted rye crumbs, then the mascarpone cream, then cranberry jam in individual serving glasses. Repeat the layers, finishing with a decorative top layer.
5. Decorate with fresh mint. Serve immediately or refrigerate — it keeps 3-4 days.

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