Recipe: Perfect Andrea’s Tiramisu

Andrea’s Tiramisu. Tiramisu is a traditional Italian dessert which literally translates to "bring me up". The traditional recipe is made with ladyfingers soaked in coffee and a liqueur (usually Marsala) and covered with a cream made of mascarpone, raw egg yolk and sugar, then finished off with a dusting of cocoa powder. This delicious and unbelievably easy Tiramisu recipe is made with coffee soaked lady fingers, sweet and creamy mascarpone (no raw eggs!), and cocoa powder dusted on top.

That's one of the best things about this tiramisu recipe. Place a small saucepan filled halfway with water over medium heat and bring to a simmer. This heady, mood-elevating concoction is rich and deeply satisfying, yet remarkably light in texture. You can cook Andrea’s Tiramisu using 6 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Andrea’s Tiramisu

1. You need of Espresso.
2. It's 4 of medium to large eggs.
3. It's 300 g of Savoiardi biscuits (or sponge fingers).
4. Prepare 100 g of sugar.
5. It's 500 g of mascarpone cheese.
6. Prepare of Cocoa powder.

A creamy dessert of espresso-soaked ladyfingers surrounded by lightly sweetened whipped cream and a rich mascarpone, tiramisù relies heavily on the quality of its ingredients. In case you do not know, Tiramisu is an Italian trifle that is creamy and ethereal. It is made by dipping Italian Savoiardi cookies (Ladyfingers) in espresso and layering them with a magical, creamy filling. Finally it is dusted with cocoa powder and chilled for few hours in the fridge.

Andrea’s Tiramisu step by step

1. First, get coffee ready - about 8 cups of espresso. We use a moka pot (caffettiera) with lavazza rossa and brew it 4 times to get this amount. Pour the coffee in a container each time when it is ready and let it cool down a little..
2. Separate the egg whites from the yolks and put each in two separate mixing bowls. It’s very important that no yolk ends up in the egg whites. We use a tool to help along but you can achieve the same without..
3. Add 50 grams of sugar to the yolk and mix with a hand mixer until light and fluffy. Then, with the hand mixer still in action, add the mascarpone little by little to this mixture and mix until smooth..
4. Wash the beaters of the hand mixer and dry them before using them again for the egg whites. Add 50 grams of sugar to the egg whites and whip with a hand mixer until the egg whites form a dense foam. You’ll know it is ready when the foam doesn’t move around when you move the bowl (see video)..
   
5. Add a spoonful of the white egg foam into the yolk mixture at a time and mix it with a spatula gently (see video) until it’s all mixed. This is your tiramisu cream..
   
6. Have everything ready - biscuits, tiramisu cream, coffee and a tray of your liking. We used a baking tray sized 24cm x 28cm as two layers of biscuits could be aligned nicely without breaking the biscuits (see second photo)..
7. Spread a thin layer of the tiramisu cream to cover the tray. Dip each biscuit one by one into the coffee and place it on the tray side by side. It’s important to dip each side of the biscuit quickly rather then dipping the whole biscuit as you do not want the biscuits to get too soggy (see video)..
   
8. Once you have the bottom of the tray covered with biscuits, add an other layer of cream and repeat the process for a second layer of biscuits and cover these with more cream..
9. Using a fine mesh colander, add a thin layer of cocoa powder to cover the whole tray..
10. Place the tray into fridge for at least 2 hours before serving!.

One of Italy's most popular desserts, tiramisu is an elegant, rich layering of bold espresso and cocoa, creamy mascarpone cheese, sweet Marsala wine, and delicate ladyfinger cookies. The ladyfingers, which are themselves classic Italian treats, are briefly soaked in an espresso and sugar mixture to soften them. Whisk in milk and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture boils. Traditionally, tiramisu is made with Marsala wine in the filling, and the ladyfingers are soaked in a boozy coffee mixture. The Marsala wine gets cooked over a double boiler, along with egg yolks and a little bit of sugar.