Tiramisu Dessert at home

Contents:

• Types of Tiramisu for the sweet tooth
• Tiramisu cake with cream
• Recipe with mascarpone cheese

Tiramisu cake - a remarkable and unparalleled dessert, whose history began in Italy. These days, even the Italians have issued rights to Tiramisu, arguing that this dessert with the same name can be prepared only in this sunny country with mascarpone cheese and biscuits. But at home it is unusual to make a dish really well, replacing the hard components of our usual cake and thick cream. We offer you a classic recipe and the recipe with apricot jam.
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Types of Tiramisu for the sweet tooth

Classic dessert composition involves the use of compulsory ingredients like eggs, special Italian mascarpone cheese (it is similar to the consistency of cream), espresso coffee, biscuits, sugar and powdered sugar. Italian chefs argue that the ingredients can not be changed, because it will affect the taste. Indeed, it is only with the use of such products obtained dessert with the original smell, taste and appearance.

Today, the recipe is often supplemented brandy or coffee liqueur wines. The cream is added to jams and other components. But the basic recipe remains the same, as well as the delicate taste of dessert.

Today at home, you can do the most different types of Tiramisu, each recipe is different. It all depends not on the amount of ingredients, and the possibility of replacing one component with another. For example, organic coffee is often replaced by cocoa and cookies - a simple sponge cake.

Instead of alcohol for children add the jam and adult table can be used not brandy or coffee liqueur and Sicilian dessert wine Marsala, Madeira strong.

The first classic recipe was introduced in 1971 as a cook Clemente, but since then it has undergone various changes in the dessert. In Italy itself adhere to a strict recipe, but chefs around the world now offer not only the tiramisu cake, but the cake, muffins, ice cream of the same name.

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Tiramisu cake with cream

The famous dessert Tiramisu - a delicate and delicious dessert that tasted once, I want to cook more and more. Many people mistakenly believe that the cake is very difficult to make, but it is not so. To enjoy the lightest coffee aroma, refined taste of cheese and spicy bitterness of cocoa, it is not necessary to visit the sunny Italy, to devote enough not much time cooking in your own kitchen.

The first recipe is to use the cream, which does not include classical. To prepare the dessert at home, it is necessary to lay up such ingredients:

• 200 g of biscuit (cookie Savoiardi);
• 100 ml espresso;
• 6 full article. l. coffee liqueur or brandy;
• 2 full article. l. cocoa powder;
• simple cream Tiramisu (his cooking, consider a classic recipe below);
• 600 ml of cream (fat content should be from 35%);
• 3 full article. l. sugar or powdered sugar;
• Classic cream;
• Mascarpone cheese 500g;
• 6 eggs;
• 6 tablespoons. l. sugar.

To prepare the cake should definitely have biscuits in the form of ladies' fingers. Suitable Savoyardy cake, but if you can not get it, you can bake the usual sponge cake layers, which after cooling should be cut. For impregnation cakes need a strong coffee, but you just have to take a natural, soluble for this dessert is not necessary. Coffee after cooking to cool down, after which it must drain, add the brandy and sugar. The drink should have a very sweet taste, a pronounced taste of alcohol, but do not be too cloying.

Cooked cream need to beat with a mixer, starting at a low speed, gradually add powdered sugar. Overall consistency should resemble a thick cream. Now take a square or rectangular dish with a thin layer on the bottom of the cream should be laid on top - adherent biscuits. Then there are two possibilities: cookies can be impregnated with coffee before his placement in the pan or already after biscuit laid on the bottom of the baking dish.

If you do not have sufficient skills in baking, it is best to choose the second option, because too much soaked biscuits can simply break up into pieces when laying.   Top biscuit add more cream, cocoa powder do.

Now laid the second layer of biscuits, cream again, so should have three layers (but no clear rules in a classic Italian recipe with only one layer).

Tiramisu cake on all sides coated with a cream that best align the long knife or a special spatula. Cocoa will need later. The resulting dessert should be put in the fridge for 4 hours and it is best to do it in the evening to the morning he was just fine and will become saturated delicate.

Before serving, sprinkle with cocoa cake, you can decorate the top it with roses from whipped cream and sprinkle with chocolate chips. Cut dessert should be neat, on the section gives a very beautiful, typical pattern.

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Recipe with mascarpone cheese

Tiramisu Dessert at home with mascarpone cheese is considered a classic. This recipe involves cooking cream based on Mascarpone and eggs. Sam is a very simple recipe, cook a Tiramisu cake of this type can each.

First you need to separate the whites from the yolks, placing them in different containers. In the yolks add sugar, stir the mixture thoroughly, then put the mascarpone cheese, 3 tablespoonfuls of any cognac and continue to stir until smooth. If you are making a dessert based on the kids, then the brandy should be replaced by three tablespoons of apricot jam, quince, peach (let the kid chooses himself what he likes). This "kids" version differs from the classical one, that the cream becomes very delicate and interesting flavor. It is possible that you yourself will continue to do exactly dessert with jam instead of brandy.

Then, beat whites advance deferred until a strong foam, add them to the ready mix with cheese. Mix everything with a wooden spatula very carefully, it is impossible for it to take the mixer. The resulting mixture is deposited in the fridge to make it cool.

Assembling the cake at home on is no different from the previous one. Tiramisu traditional form - a rectangular or square, but at home you can use and the usual split round baking dish, if the other does not. Cookies in cooking should be laid so that it does not touch the walls, it will make it possible to make a very nice and smooth edge. Before you file a cake on the table, it is necessary to remove the side of the form, sprinkle with cocoa dessert itself.

Classic dessert Tiramisu will be interesting to those who are not familiar with his gentle, memorable taste. Translation of its name from the Italian word about "carry me away to heaven," but other than unusual, mouth-watering taste of the cake is different and a high content of nutrients than can not boast of any sweet dish.

Try the tiramisu is possible not only in the restaurant, but at home, it is easy to prepare on their own. To do this, not so much food, and special skills are not required. The classic recipe involves the use of a soft mascarpone cheese, which strongly resembles thick cream. It turns out wonderfully delicious!