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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Tiramisu


Egg yolks – Of 3 eggs
Milk – 1/4 cup
sugar – 1 cup
Mascarpone cheese – 3 cups
Cream cheese or fresh cream – 1 cup
Vanilla essence – 1/4 tsp
Ladyfingers /sponge cake (cut the cake into 3 rings so that you'll have layers
Italian Coffee powder – 5tbsp
Hot water – 1 cup (for making espresso)
Kahlua or any coffee liquor – 1/4 cup
Cocoa powder/Grated chocolate- as needed

Fill half of a medium sized sauce pan with water and allow it to boil.In a metal bowl whisk egg yolks,milk and sugar together.Simmer the boiling water and place the metal bowl on top of the sauce pan and stir the mixture often for 10-15 mts..When the sugar dissolves,the egg mixture will begin to thicken.Remove from the sauce pan and allow it to cool.
prepare espresso allow to cool
Combine mascarpone cheese,cream cheese and vanilla essence together using an electric mixture.You’ve to mix it until it turns almost creamy with small chunks remaining.Add egg yolk mixture to the cheese mixture and combine them together.

Combine 1/4 cup cooled espresso and 1/4 cup Kahlua together.

Pour espresso-Kahlua mix into a flat plate so that it’ll be easy to dip the ladyfingers.Keep it aside.Dip each ladyfingers into the espresso-Kahlua mix and arrange it in a serving dish side by side.Ladyfingers will get soaked up very fast so careful dip only the bottom half of the ladyfinger ,the top half has to be dry.You can break the ladyfingers to fit into the dish.

Spoon half of the mascarpone cheese mixture over the ladys fingers.Sprinkle grated chocolate/cocoa powder over it. Again arrange another layer of soaked ladyfingers over the cocoa/chocolate powder.Spoon remaining cheese mixture over ladyfingers and spread it evenly.

Cover and chill it for 8-10 hrs.

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