Tiramisu Recipe
From Deer Valley, Utah
Servings: 10 people
Ingredients
- 8 egg yolks
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup dark rum
- ½ cup cold water
- splash Amaretto
- 2½ lbs mascarpone
- 36 ladyfingers
- 2 cups coffee reduction or espresso
- splash Kahlua
- chocolate shavings optional
Instructions
- Whisk egg yokes, rum, Amaretto, sugar, and water over a hot water bath (use a double boiler if you have one) until thick and ribbony. This mixture when finished is called zabaglione.
- Cool the zabaglione mixture over ice bath.
- Whisk cooled zabaglione and mascarpone cheese together until well incorporated and smooth. DO NOT overmix or the mascarpone will break and become granular.
- To prepare coffee reduction, simmer 4 cups of coffee until reduced by half. Cool and add Kahlua.
- Prepare a 10 inch spring-form pan by lining the bottom and sides with parchment paper. If you don't have a spring-form like me, you might try a 10 inch casserole dish. Sometimes we have to be creative.
- Place a layer of ladyfingers, flat side down, on the bottom of the pan, leaving a 1-inch gap between the sides and the ladyfingers. The 1-inch gap is so you can add more ladyfingers in an upright position a bit later.
- Using a pastry brush, soak the ladyfingers with the cooled coffee reduction.
- Fill a pastry bag (you can buy disposable bags at most housewares shops) with the mascarpone mixture and pipe a rope of cream to fill the gap around the ladyfingers. Also pipe cream across ladyfingers.
- Place ladyfingers, in upright position, sugar side out, against the pan. Be sure to push them into the cream and fit them tightly against on another.
- Begin the next layer by placing ladyfingers on the cream layer. You may cut them to create a perfect fit. Brush them with the coffee reduction.
- Pipe a layer of cream on top of ladyfingers and smooth with a spatula.
- Allow to chill overnight.
- To unmold, simply undo spring-form and remove pager collar.
- Top with chocolate shavings and serve.
- If you didn't use a springboard, you can spoon serve from your pan. Not as pretty, but just as tasty.
Notes
Not a lot of prep for this recipe. It's more of a let's get started. You will have to make the coffee reduction or espresso.