Tiramisu

Early 2009, I had Tiramisu cake at Olive Garden (an Italian Restaurant) for the first time and I fell in love with this cake. After lot of research and hesitation, I tried to make Tiramisu Cake in the year 2015 and fortunately it came out good in the first try itself. This is my families all time favorite cake and I am happy to share the recipe of Tiramisu as my 100th post/recipe.

Tiramisu is an Italian cake. There are three layers in this cake . Lower layer is coffee soaked ladyfinger cookies. Middle layer is a mixer of egg yolks & mascarpone cheese. Upper layer is whipped cream drizzled with cocoa powder . In many places, they do one set of three layers only but here we are preparing cake with two set of three layers . Second set of three layers is totally optional. It’s no bake cake. Classic Tiramisu cake have Rum (2 tbsp added in coffee) in the ingredients list. If you want the touch of classic cake you may add rum substitute (no alcohol – 2 tsp) with brewed coffee.

Ingredients

Ladyfinger cookies
Cocoa powder – 1 tbs
Heavy cream – 2 cup
Mascarpone cheese – 1 lb
Egg yolks – 6
Sugar – 3/4 cup
Milk – 2/3 cup
Vanilla extract – 1/2 tsp
Coffee powder – 2 tbsp

Directions

Middle Layer

Take 6 eggs and separate egg yolks and pour it in a pan and place the pan in the burner with low flame
Whisk the egg slowly and add sugar little by little
Mix everything continuously and pour milk little by little
When you see the bubbles, stop the flame
Let the mixture to cool down for a while
Keep this cooked mixture in refrigerator for at least 1 hr
After that add mascarpone cheese to this egg mixture without any lumps
Keep the mix in refrigerator for at least 2 hours or if keeping longer, until you are ready to assemble the layers

Top Layer

Take heavy cream and vanilla extract in a mixing bowl
Beat the cream well using hand mixer until stiff peaks form, keep this also in refrigerator until you are ready to assemble

Bottom Layer

For Bottom Layer, you need to Brew coffee. You can add real rum or imitation rum if you like the cake to be authentic.

Brewing Coffee

Add 1.5 cup of water in the coffee maker
Place the filter in the upper part and add 2 tbsp of coffee powder
Switch on the coffee maker
Wait until all the water drained; Coffee is ready now

Assemble Cake Layers

Take a rectangular pan (9x7x3 size)
Take a big bowl that can soak the ladyfinger
Pour the brewed coffee into the bowl and soak the ladyfinger one by one and place it in the pan
Take out the middle layer cream from fridge and add it.
Level the cream layer
Now take out the top layer cream from fridge and add it.
Level the cream layer
Repeat the three layers again.
Now take the coco powder and sprinkle on top using tea filter
Cover the pan and keep the cake in refrigerator
The cake take overnight or 8 hrs to settle
Tiramisu cake is ready to serve