Tiramisu Recipe

Guest Recipe By: Sanchita Tiwari

Category: Desserts

Total Time: 7 hours (1 hr Cooking + 6 hrs Setting)

Tiramisu is an Italian dessert made of sponge cakes (also known as Ladyfingers). The coffee flavoured layered dessert is very easy to make and excellent in taste. It only takes 1 hour to cook. Then, you just need to keep it in the fridge for 5 hours so that the dessert can set. The recipe has many variations. You can use panettone instead of ladyfingers or any other sweet/yeasted bread. Since our chef is vegetarian, she did not use egg yolk and wine. However, you can add dark rum, Marsala wine, brandy, etc in the dish. But many a time, even non-vegetarians substitute these with coffee or cheese mixture. So here goes, the ultimate recipe of Tiramisu. Godetevi il piatto (enjoy the making and baking).

Made for: 2 adults and 1 kid

Ingredients for Tiramisu Recipe:

Name		Quantity
Sponge Cake	:	1 (whole)
Beaten Whipped Cream	:	2 bowls
Cream Cheese	:	1 bowl
Powdered Sugar	:	6 to 7 table spoons
Lukewarm water	:	1 cup
Coffee powder ( I used Nescafe)	:	2 table spoons
Sugar	:	3 table spoons
Cocoa Powder (for topping)	:	½ cup

How to make Tiramisu:

Step 1:  Bake a sponge cake and let it cool and slice horizontally into 2 or 3 layers.

Step 2:  Prepare your coffee syrup by mixing the coffee powder and sugar in lukewarm water. Only 3 table spoons of this mixture should be used in Step 4.

Step 3: Take the cake slices, place them on a tray and now soak the slices evenly in coffee syrup and keep them aside.

Step 4: Add the whipped cream, cream cheese, sugar and coffee syrup (3 tbsps) into a bowl and then beat the mixture properly.

Step 5: Now take a lower layer of cake slice prepared in Step 3 and spread cream paste on that evenly.

Step 6: Arrange the other slice of the cake on top and spread cream paste evenly.

Step 7: Refrigerate this  overnight or for minimum 6 hours.

Step 8: After the Tiramisu is set, sprinkle cocoa powder on top. 

Step 9:  Cut into pieces and serve chilled.

About our Guest:

In Sanchita Tiwari's words 'If you are having dinner or lunch in an Italian restaurant, it's never complete without the traditional flavours of Tiramisu. Tiramisu really acts as a pick me up (like its literal meaning). It has lots of cream cheese, whipped cream, cocoa powder, wine and coffee syrup and egg yolks but we are vegetarian & teetotaler so I made it without egg yolks and wine. It's favorite dessert of me and my family.'

Sanchita Tiwari is a Recipe Blogger. For more of her recipes visit her blog at http://www.fromshivikitchen.com/ .

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