written by Ilaria Gelichi
Tiramisù is a typical delicious Italian dessert, probably everybody knows it. It is made with fresh
eggs, cream cheese, Savoiardi or Pavesini biscuits, coffee and chocolate. The
recipe slightly changes from one place to another, but the basic ingredients
are always the same.
Today I am going to speak
about a special type of tiramisù. Some people do not like the idea of eating
raw eggs (tiramisù is not baked), so my friend Alessandra invented a tiramisù
recipe where eggs are in some way cooked.
First of all, you need to
prepare the custard (cream). I suggest preparing it the evening before, because
it has to be very cool. The ingredients for the custard are:
milk – 250 ml
flour - 1 table spoon
sugar - 4 table spoons
4 yolks
Heat the milk with 2
table spoons of sugar in a pot on the stove. In the meantime, melt the flour in
a small amount of cool milk. In a bowl, mix the yolks with the remaining 2
table spoons of sugar and add then the melted flour. Mix all and put the mixture
in the pot with the heated milk. Mix up everything and keep stirring on the
stove, until it the cream gets thicker. When it starts boiling, turn the stove
off. Keep the custard in the fridge for some hours (or better, all night long),
so that it gets very cool.
Once the custard is
ready, put it in a bowl, add 250
grams of mascarpone cheese and mix it up. In another
bowl whip 250 ml of fresh cream and then add it to the custard and the
mascarpone cheese. In the meantime make some coffee (of course, Espresso!).
Now prepare the tiramisu
in the baking tin, with the ingredients in this order: first, a layer of
Pavesini biscuits (you will need a package of them) soaked into coffee, then a
layer of the mixture of creams, then a layer of bitter chocolate cut in little
pieces (you will need nearly 60
grams of it). Then, start again with the Pavesini, the
creams and finish with some bitter chocolate powder.
Keep the tiramisù in the
fridge for a couple of hours and eat it cool. Buon appetito!!!
