Tiramisu Trifle
photo by Marg (CaymanDesigns)
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
8-10
ingredients
- 300 ml good strong coffee
- 6 fluid ounces amaretto liqueur
- 1 (500 g) container mascarpone cheese
- 2 -3 cups ready made custard
- 9 ounces sponge cake fingers
- 3 ounces dark chocolate (roughly chopped or grated coarsely) or 3 ounces milk chocolate, of a good quality (roughly chopped or grated coarsely)
-
To serve
- 3 -4 tablespoons toasted slivered almonds
- 2 tablespoons grated chocolate
directions
- Mix the coffee and liqueur in a wide dish.
- In another bowl mix the mascarpone with the custard until smooth using an electric hand mixer.
- Take about a third of the sponge fingers and dip them in the coffee/liqueur mix and line the bottom of a glass dish with them, drizzle a bit more of the liquid over the sponge fingers.
- Now sprinkle over a third of the chocolate followed with a layer of the Mascarpone/custard mix.
- Repeat twice.
- Chill for at least 2 hours or up to a day.
- Just before serving sprinkle with the almonds and more chocolate.
Questions & Replies
Got a question?
Share it with the community!
Reviews
-
A lovely dessert! I wasn't able to find mascarpone so I used Recipe #28620 to make a substitute. I also used 3 cups of vanilla instant pudding instead of the custard. Because I was going to be serving it to children as well as adults I cut the amaretto back to 3 oz. and increased the coffee amount by 3 oz. to make up for it. I felt this was a nice balance as there was still an amaretto flavor present but it wasn't so strong that the children couldn't enjoy it too. I was a little heavy handed with the grated dark chocolate but no one seemed to mind. Hehe! Thanks for sharing this terrific dessert recipe Pets!
-
I wish I could give this more than five stars! It deserves at least ten. I used pudding instead of custard and had to substitute the mascarpone cheese with cream cheese and sour cream but it was still awesome. My dinner guests raved about the dessert and one of them is a pastry chef! No one would ever believe how easy this one was!
-
If someone asks you to bring a dessert, this is the one you want to bring! I had some Instant Bird's Custard in the house (British convenience food) and a chocolate marble loaf cake from the supermarket (these things have an amazing shelf life and are always there when you need them). I made up some good strong instant coffee (Taster's Choice chocolate flavored coffee), and the whole thing took me about 10 minutes to put together, maybe even less. My coffee loving hosts were in ecstasy!
-
Fantastic recipe. Easy and delicious. Compliments from all at our dinner party. Being in the US, I used instant vanilla pudding instead of custard. I used one of the large packages that makes 3 cups and mixed that with the mascarpone once the pudding had set. As others have recommended, I used more of a 1:1 ratio for the coffee:amaretto (with probably slightly more coffee than amaretto). I topped it with shaved chocolate and sliced almonds (although the picture doesn't include that). Can't wait to make this again.
-
see 15 more reviews
Tweaks
-
A lovely dessert! I wasn't able to find mascarpone so I used Recipe #28620 to make a substitute. I also used 3 cups of vanilla instant pudding instead of the custard. Because I was going to be serving it to children as well as adults I cut the amaretto back to 3 oz. and increased the coffee amount by 3 oz. to make up for it. I felt this was a nice balance as there was still an amaretto flavor present but it wasn't so strong that the children couldn't enjoy it too. I was a little heavy handed with the grated dark chocolate but no one seemed to mind. Hehe! Thanks for sharing this terrific dessert recipe Pets!
-
I wish I could give this more than five stars! It deserves at least ten. I used pudding instead of custard and had to substitute the mascarpone cheese with cream cheese and sour cream but it was still awesome. My dinner guests raved about the dessert and one of them is a pastry chef! No one would ever believe how easy this one was!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
PetsRus
Leiden, Zuid Holland
Hello, my name is Bonnie and I am a very beautiful cat as you can see if you look at the picture at the top of this page.... What??.. I am supposed to talk about you??? But it says here: About Me!! Well all right then ......
My mom is Dutch and has moved to England in October 2007, after living 15 years in the Netherlands with my English dad. They don’t have any human children and “created” their own family, which means I have to share them with Hannah, she is a 6 years old tortie cat, Abby the dog, she is a 9 year old Beagle, and a one year old black Miniature Pincher named Poppy, I refuse to tell you my age but I am a georgious lilac British Shorthair cat!!
It is obvious she adores pets just by looking at her name she uses on Zaar (many on Zaar call her Pets or Petsie Poo), her name in real life is Annelies and that is a common Dutch name.
My mom always liked to cook, but since she joined Zaar it got out of control, and it doesn’t help that she is disorganized. Printed recipes everywhere in the house, the recipe binders have got bigger and just between you and me, her hips too!!!
I have lived in Holland all of my life until now, but they lived in several different countries/places:- desert and coastal Oman, up North and West in Holland, Vancouver-Canada, Aberdeen- Scotland and in Norway they lived in Bergen and Oslo. We have all moved together to England, as you can see I’ve already learnt the language!
I heard her say to Dad that this is the last time she moved to another country...she's had it with moving from one place to another! ( its her age...she's getting grumpy)
Mom is 55 years old but I always hear her say that the date of her birthday does not mean that much to her, the date of her cancer anniversary is more important, because so far she is a survivor.
Besides cooking she has other interests too, crafts, gardening and soap making.
She likes Zaar and is one of the hosts on the German-Benelux Forum here on RecipeZaar.
She would like to thank everybody who tries and comments on the recipes she has posted on Recipezaar, your feedback is very much appreciated.
<img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/vjuhl/MEPcookathon.jpg">
<img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/DUCHESS13/berriesblinkie.gif" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com">
<img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/DUCHESS13/FFF/completedbanner.gif">
<img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/DUCHESS13/Animation1.gif" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com">
<img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/DUCHESS13/4treasurehunt.gif">
<img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/purplechefhat.gif" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com"> <img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/projects/chef3.jpg" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com"><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank">
<img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/beartag_1_1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"></a><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"> <img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/adopted_1_1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"></a>