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| Tiramisu’ |
Prep time: 30 mins
Total time: 30 mins
Serves: 6
This word literally means “pick me up,” so called because it has a lot of “energetic” ingredients in it.
Ingredients
- 5 eggs
- 50 grams of superfine confectioner’s sugar (¾ cup, zucchero semolato)
- 500g mascarpone cheese (2 cups)
- 200g of semi-sweet chocolate
- 30 Savoy biscotti (lady fingers)
- 250 ml strong espresso
- 1 table spoon cocoa powder
Instructions
- Separate 5 eggs. Whisk the 5 yolks and 150 grams of superfine confectioner’s sugar (¾ cup, zucchero semolato) until pale.
- Fold in 500g mascarpone cheese (2 cups).
- In a separate bowl, beat until stiff the 5 egg whites with a bit of salt.
- Mix that into the egg yolk-sugar-mascarpone mixture.
- Spread a layer of this cream over the bottom of a large rectangular dish.
- Grate 200g of semi-sweet chocolate.
- Dip 30 Savoy biscotti (lady fingers) in 250 ml strong espresso (1 cup).
- Put down a layer of the biscotti, then another layer of the mascarpone mixture.
- Sprinkle the grated chocolate over the second cream layer. Put more biscuits down, then more cream, then more chocolate. Repeat, ending with a cream layer with 1 TBSP cocoa powder on top.
- Chill at least two hours before serving.
- Alan adds that all those layers may not be necessary; he can’t remember ever seeing a tiramisù with more than three and unless you have a really deep dish only two layers is feasible.