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Tiramisu
photo by lilsweetie
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 4 large eggs, separated
- 8 ounces mascarpone cheese
- 1 cup espresso coffee or 1 cup very strong coffee
- 3 teaspoons coffee liqueur
- 24 ladyfingers
- cocoa powder
directions
- In a large bowl beat sugar and egg yolks well-you want it a pale yellow creamy color.
- Add mascarpone and beat until JUST mixed.
- In a small bowl beat egg whites until you get stiff peaks.
- Fold into mascarpone mixture.
- In another small bowl combine espresso and booze.
- Dip cookies and place 1 layer in an 8x8-inch deep-dish glass casserole dish.
- Cover with half the cheese mixture.
- Top that with another layer of dipped cookies and top with remaining cheese.
- Sprinkle with cocoa.
- A nice touch would be to also add chocolate curls.
- Refrigerate.
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Reviews
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Great recipe, easy to make. I used 5 tbsp of amaretto in place of coffee liqueur, 4 tbsp of sugar in the egg yolk mix and 2 tsp of sugar in the whisked egg white mix. Next time I make this recipe, I will be more careful about how long I am dipping the lady finger cookies into the coffee/liquor. A swift dip will suffice for it to moisten over night because I found mine to be too soggy at serving time (though it didn't detract from the taste). Finally, I added a little bakers chocolate shavings into the marscapone mix. Prima!
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I decided to get all brave and make this--damn the salmonella full speed ahead! If you had the patience of Job, I think you could whisk the sugar/yolks in a double boiler over extremely low heat to bring the temp up to 140 F. Likewise with the whites (like you are making a sabayon). But, again, patience of Job!!!<br/>As to flavor--I punched it up per others' suggestions by adding extra sugar (double the amt. called for) Amaretto, almond extract, lots of extra chocolate. <br/>Oh, and a final thing: my ladyfingers where the hard Italian ones--Sar..something I think they are called. Ina Garten talked about them on her show when she made Tiramisu...<br/>ANYWAY--I liked the result. <br/>Will post again if I get bad food poisoning! :-)
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Great recipe, easy to make. I used 5 tbsp of amaretto in place of coffee liqueur, 4 tbsp of sugar in the egg yolk mix and 2 tsp of sugar in the whisked egg white mix. Next time I make this recipe, I will be more careful about how long I am dipping the lady finger cookies into the coffee/liquor. A swift dip will suffice for it to moisten over night because I found mine to be too soggy at serving time (though it didn't detract from the taste). Finally, I added a little bakers chocolate shavings into the marscapone mix. Prima!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Diana Adcock
Geneseo, Illinois