Summer Berries with Orange and Vanilla Mascarpone

• A large handful of strawberries, hulled and sliced
• A large handful of raspberries
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 oranges
• 1 vanilla bean
• A small tub of mascarpone
• 2 shortbread cookies

1. Put your strawberries in a bowl.
2. Sprinkle over 1 tablespoon of the sugar, the juice and zest of one of the oranges and half the seeds from the vanilla bean.
3. Mix it all together gently then put it to one side while you get everything else ready.
4. Mix the mascarpone with the remaining tablespoon of sugar, the juice and zest of the second orange and the remaining seeds from the vanilla bean.
5. Stir it together really well.
6. Spoon the mascarpone onto each plate.
7. Use the back of a spoon to make a well in the center and then put the fruit on the top.
8. Drizzle over the juices.
9. Crumble a shortbread cookie over each plate.

handful of strawberries, handful of raspberries, sugar, oranges, vanilla bean, mascarpone, shortbread cookies

Taken from www.cookstr.com/recipes/summer-berries-with-orange-and-vanilla-mascarpone (may not work)