Re: Tiramisu
One of my fav desserts if not the fav.
here is a little tist to regular tiramisu I learnt while in Italy
good for ppl who want to try a diff twist, or dont want caffeine/ cant have caffeine
Ingredients:
-2 anday
-1 lemon- for juice or use botrled lemon juice if you like, i prefer fresh.
-a package of finger biscuits( lady fingers)
-3 table spoons of strawberry juice, passed thru a sif
-2 oz. of sugar
- 6 oz. of icing suar
- 8 oz. of light cream cheese
- 4 fl. oz. of water
- 10 oz. mascarpone
- 12 oz. fresh strawberries.
Steps:
- Boil sugar and water in a small pan.
- Take it off the heat when it starts to thicken a bit, take it off the heat. dont let it colour, allow to cool
- use a mixer to mix mascarpone, drained cream cheese, egg yolks, lemon juice and the icing sugar.
- seperately wisk egg whites until stiff. slowly add egg white in the mascarpone/ cheese mixture.
- Refrigerate the mix, allow to cool
- Pour cool mix it into a soup plate and add the strawberry juice.
- Dunk the fingers, one by one, in the syrup only for a second.
- Take a long high dishand line up the dunked fingers next to each other, covering the bottom
- Put some of the mascarpone/ cheese mixture on top of it.
- Slice strawberries into the desired sized pieces
- Add a layor of strawberries.
- Again put some dunked fingers on top of the strawberries, followed by the mascarpone/cheese and finally the strawberries.
- Garnish with some mint leafs and a touch of icing sugar.
Voila!