Tiramisu
 
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Italian
Serves: 14 servings
Ingredients
  • 175 g sponge fingers (lady fingers)
  • 400 ml good hot sweetened coffee
  • vin santo or other sweet dessert wine*
  • 4 large free-range eggs
  • 100 g caster sugar
  • 750 g mascarpone
  • zest of 1 orange (optional)
  • cocoa powder
Instructions
  1. Separate your eggs, putting the whites into one bowl and the yolks into another.
  2. Add the sugar to the yolks with another swig of vin santo (if you're feeling naughty!), and whisk with an electric whisk on the highest setting for about 5 minutes, or by hand, until all the sugar has dissolved and the yolks are pale and fluffy.
  3. Mix in the mascarpone and the zest of 1 orange (if using orange zest).
  4. Clean and dry your whisk, and whisk the whites with a pinch of salt until they form stiff peaks – they should be a similar consistency to the yolk and mascarpone mixture, and should hold their shape when you lift the beaters from the bowl.
  5. Using a large metal spoon, add a spoonful of your whites to the yolk mixture and gently fold them in, then fold through the rest of the whites. Set aside.
  6. Add your sweetened coffee and vin santo (or sweet wine) in a deep rectangular dish.
  7. Dip each lady finger into the coffee and wine mixture and layer them in a deep bowl or round earthenware dish (about 30cm in diameter and 12cm deep).
  8. Spoon and smooth the mascarpone creamy mixture on top of the dipped lady fingers.
  9. Dust the first layer of dipped lady fingers and mascarpone mixture with cocoa powder.
  10. Repeat with the layers with more dipped lady fingers and mascarpone mixture.
  11. Finely grate over the zest from half your remaining orange.
  12. Pop the tiramisù into the fridge for 2 hours to set.
Notes
*We use Marsala wine
This dessert makes a great make ahead dessert and the longer you let it sit, the deeper the flavours will develop and the lady fingers will be more cakey in texture.
Recipe by sprinkles and sauce at https://sprinklesandsauce.com/tiramisu/