Tiramisu is a delicious, coffee-flavoured Italian dessert, rich in flavour and creamy in texture. In this post I am going to tell you how to make a delicious tiramisu.
While we were in Rome, I ate a total of 5 tiramisu’s in just 2 days. For me, Tiramisu is the perfect dessert (it is actually my favourite dessert of all time). The creaminess of the mascarpone, bitterness from the espresso, combined with the chocolate and sweet, sugar ladyfingers = pure perfection.
Ingredients
250 gr cream
75 gr sugar
500 gr mascarpone
200 gr espresso
250 gr ladyfingers biscuits
4 egg yolks
50 ml amaretto
Cacao powder
Instructions
Add the cream and a spoonful of sugar into a bowl, and whisk it together until it is thickened.
Separate the egg yolk from the whites.
In a separate bowl, beat the egg yolk with the rest of the sugar until thickened.
Carefully mix the mascarpone into the egg yolk mix.
Once that is done, slowly add the mixed cream into the bowl with the egg yolk and mascarpone.
TIP! If you beat it too hard, the cream will turn into butter and all the air will leave the mix so be careful.
Mix half the espresso with the amaretto on a oven tray. Put the ladyfingers in the mixture and soak them until soft.
Put half of the mascarpone mix on top of the ladyfingers. Then soak more ladyfingers in a bowl and put them on top of the mix to create layers. Continue until the mixture is finished.
As a finishing touch, sprinkle some cacao powder on top!
Put the tiramisu in the fridge for a few hours to settle.
Done!