Friday, July 13, 2007

Easy Homemade TIRAMISU recipe

Tiramisu, Dessert from Italy, tiramisu means 'PICK ME UP' in Italian. Tiramisu, a simple layered cake of sponge cake or lady fingers where coffe , cream and chocolate is the combination.So tiramisu, for chocolate and coffee lover.

Tiramisu making can be seperated into 3 main parts :
  1. Coffee
  2. Filling
  3. Base

Coffee Prepartion :

  • 1 1/2 cup of espresson
  • 2 teaspoon of sugar

Method for coffee preparation :

  1. Boil espressso coffee.
  2. Add in 2 teaspoon of sugar while the coffee is hot
  3. Cool at room temperature.

Tiramisu Filling Preparation :

  • 4 egg yolk
  • 100g of sugar
  • 120 cc of liquer (brandy, kailu.. sweeted wine)
  • 450 gr of mascarpone cheese/ cream cheese
  • 230 cc of whipped cream

Filling Preparation Method

  1. Beat 4 egg yolk in double boiler until it fully blended (about 5minutes)
  2. Add in 100g of sugar and 120 cc of liquer.
  3. Mix the egg yolk, sugar and liquer until cream thickens. ( Indicator of the cream thickens- small bubble appears)
  4. Mash mascarpone cheese in a seperate bowl until creamy.
  5. Add in the mixture of egg yolk into the mascarpone cheese.Mix well.
  6. Add 230 cc of whipped cream.
  7. Whisk until smooth.
Base Preparation :
  • 285 g sponge cake/ 2 pack of lady fingers
  • 2tablespoon of cocoa powder
Tiramisu Base Preparation
  1. Lightly soak the lady finger one by one in the coffee dip and place in the container/tiramisu pan.
  2. Evenly distribute half of the filling on top of the lady fingers.
  3. Repeat step 1 and 2 for the second layer.
  4. Sprinkler the cocoa powder on top of the layer.
  5. Refrigerate for 3-4 hours.
  6. Ready to serve.