Tiramisu
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Just delicious - adjust the strength of coffee and amount of alcohol to suit your taste. Great pudding to make the night before. Alternatively make in individual dishes.
Serves 6
Ingredients
- 1 pod vanilla (or 1 tsp vanilla extract)
- 3 eggs (yolks & whites separated)
- 50 g caster sugar
- 250 g mascarpone cheese
- 350 strong fresh coffee
- 2 tbsp white rum
- 2 tbsp Tia Maria
- 2 tbsp amaretto
- 300 g sponge fingers
- 3 tbsp cocoa powder
Method
- Step 1 Slit the vanilla pod lengthways and scrape out the seeds. Put in a perspex bowl with the egg yolks and sugar. Put the bowl over a saucepan of simmering water and whisk with an electric whisk until thick and creamy.
- Step 2 Take off the heat and leave to cool.
- Step 3 Beat the mascarpone cheese into the mixture, then fold in the egg whites.
- Step 4 Separately mix the coffee with the rum, Tia Maria and amaretto. Submerge half of the sponge fingers very briefly in the coffee mixture - don't let them turn soggy - then quickly layer them in the bottom of the serving dish. Spoon over two tablespoons of the coffee mixture.
- Step 5 Layer half of the mascarpone mixture on top, then repeat with the second sponge layer (don't repeat the additional coffee mixture) and then the second mascarpone mixture.
- Step 6 Sift the ccoa powder over the top. Then cover and leave in the fridge for at least 2 hours, or overnight.