Grandmother's Kitchen

Tiramisu Cake: Exquisite Italian Dessert

Tiramisu Cake: Exquisite Italian Dessert

Ingredients

  • 6 eggs
  • 120 gr of sugar
  • 500 gr of mascarpone cheese
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 400 gr of Savoiardi biscuits � ladyfingers
  • 3 small cups of coffee
  • 1 spoon of rum
  • cocoa powder

Directions

  1. Put the egg yolks in a large bowl with half the sugar and mix with a whisk until all has become a cream.
  2. Add the mascarpone to the cream and mix all the ingredients with a palette knife.
  3. Add the remaining sugar to the pastry and mix well.
  4. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg whites with the pinch of salt.
  5. Add the egg whites to the pastry little by little, mixing it from the bottom upwards.
  6. Dip the Savoiardi biscuits in the coffee with the rum.
  7. Take a rectangular pan, put some of the creamy mixture on the bottom, cover with a layer of dipped savoiardi and proceed alternating cream and biscuits, until the last layer of cream.
  8. Cover the last layer of cream with the cocoa powder.
  9. Put the Tiramis� in the fridge for 1 or 2 hours.

Tips

  1. You can avoid the rum and use just the coffee, the result will be great as well!
  2. It�s very important that you whip the egg whites very well until they have reached a volume.
  3. Add the egg whites very slowly to the mixture
  4. Use only very fresh eggs and of the greatest quality!

Original source: tuscanychic.com