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Tiramisu! It's like we're at a fancy Italian Restaurant... when actually we can't leave the house!
Tiramisu! It just sounds delicious! This Italian dessert has layers of coffee soaked ladyfingers (which we made yesterday!), sandwiched with sweet fluffy mascarpone cheese filling, then topped with a sprinkle of cocoa powder! No Italian restaurant required!
This photo does not capture the deliciousness of this Tiramisu!
Tiramisu
Yield: 1 large serving dish, I believe my glass dish is about 2 litres, but use whatever pan you’ve got, the taller the container, the more layers you will get. You could also make this in a 9”x13” pan
Mascarpone Filling:
1 1/4 cup Whipping cream
4 Egg Yolks
1/2 cup Sugar
2 Tablespoons Frangelico - Traditionally this is made with Marsala wine, but I don’t have any, so use whatever liqueur you got!
pinch of Salt
1 1/4 cup Mascarpone Cheese, softened at room temperature
Ladyfinger Soaking Syrup :
2 cups of coffee
1/4 cup sugar
2 Tablespoons Frangelico (optional)
Approximately 24 ladyfingers (or one batch of the recipe we made yesterday)
Cocoa Powder - for dusting
In a shallow baking dish stir together your ladyfinger soaking syrup ingredients - coffee, sugar, Frangelico. Set this to the side.
In the bowl of your mixer (or by hand) whip the cream to soft peaks. Then leave in fridge until we are ready for it.
Get a pot with water simmering on the stove, we are going to do a water bath! Just an inch or two of water in the bottom of a large pot will be perfect.
Grab a metal bowl the will fit on top of your pot of water and in it place the egg yolks, sugar, Frangelico, and salt. Then stir them together and place it on top of the simmering water pot on the stove. The bowl should not be touching the water, we are just trying to steam the bottom of our bowl and cook the eggs so they are safe to eat.
Constantly stir your egg mixture while it is sitting on the waterbath until the eggs feel warm/hot and when you rub it between your fingers you cannot feel any grains of sugar. Then pour this mixture into the bowl of your mixer and whip on high until cool - it should be super fluffy and marshmallowy looking.
In a large bowl place your softened mascarpone cheese.
With a spatula fold in all of your egg mixture, being as gentle as you can so you don’t knock out too much air.
Now fold in about 1/3 of your whipped cream, again, being gentle!
Then fold in the rest of your cream. Now your filling is complete!
To layer your tiramisu you will start with a layer of ladyfingers. Grab one ladyfinger, dunk it into your coffee syrup on both sides and then place it into the bottom of your serving dish. Continue until you have fully covered the bottom of the pan (mine fit 8 cookies).
Now pour a layer of your mascarpone filling - my container would fit 3 layers of ladyfinger cookies, so I planned to do 3 layers of mascarpone filling, so I poured about 1/3 of the filling on top. but count up your ladyfingers in the base layer and see how many cookies you have for your baking dish and divide the filling evenly.
Continue to layer the soaked ladyfinger cookies, then the mascarpone filling until you use them all up.
Then lightly dust the top of your tiramisu with cocoa powder!
This baby is all finished now, it just needs to sit in the fridge for about 8 hours or overnight to let everything soak into each other.
Yum!
Lady Fingers...Prelude to a Tiramisu!
What are lady fingers? Obviously they are these wonky digits on the end of my hands….but ALSO a delicious sponge cake-y cookie used in things like TIRAMISU! These cookies can be little tricky, the hardest part is folding everything together gently, so no taking your aggression out on these babies! Make them in a Zen state of mind!
Last fingers…but the cookie kind!
Ladyfinger Cookies
Yield: about 24-30 3” long cookies
Preheat your oven to 400*F
3 Egg Yolks
3 Egg Whites
1/3 cup Sugar
Flour, sifted
pinch of Salt
Icing sugar for sprinkling on top ~3 Tablespoons
In the bowl of your mixer whip your 3 egg yolks with approximately 60% of the 1/3 cup of sugar (save the rest of the sugar to whip up with your egg whites). Whip until super light and fluffy 5-10 minutes. Then place into a large bowl.
In a super clean bowl with a super clean whisk, whip up your egg whites and pinch of salt. When they start to turn white and foamy, sprinkle in the remaining sugar, then whip until medium stiff peaks form.
In 3 parts, fold the egg whites into the egg yolks, start with one third, gently fold that in until it’s almost incorporated, then add the next third and repeat the folding, and then the final third, until all the egg whites have been incorporated.
Now sprinkle all your flour on top of the eggs and continue to gently fold until the flour has been incorporated. Don’t worry if you have any little flour lumps, that is ok! Try not to over mix your batter or else it will get super runny and make piping a bit torturous!
With a piping bag pipe log shaped cookies onto parchment lined baking trays. Each log should be about 3” long and 1” wide.
Sprinkle the cookies heavily with icing sugar, a sifter works great for this.
Pop into the oven and bake for about 15 minutes or until golden brown.
These can now be eaten or made into delicious tiramisu! Which is what I shall be making tomorrow!