Types of Tiramisu for sweet tooth
The classic composition of the dessert involvesthe use of such essential ingredients as chicken eggs, special Italian Mascarpone cheese (its consistency is similar to cream), Espresso coffee, sponge cookies, sugar and powdered sugar. Italian chefs claim that you can't change the ingredients, as this will affect the taste. Indeed, only by using these products can you get a dessert with an original smell, taste and appearance. Today, the recipe is often supplemented with cognac or coffee liqueur, wines. Jam and other ingredients are added to the cream. But the basic recipe itself remains unchanged, as well as the delicate taste of the dessert. Today, you can make a variety of Tiramisu at home, each with a different recipe. Here, everything depends not on the amount of ingredients, but on the ability to replace one component with another. So, natural coffee is often replaced with cocoa, and cookies - with a simple sponge cake. Instead of alcohol for children, jam is added, and for an adult table, you can use not cognac or coffee liqueur, but the dessert Sicilian wine Marsala, strong Madeira. The first classic recipe was presented in 1971 by the chef Clemente, but since then this dessert has undergone all sorts of changes. In Italy itself, they adhere to a strict recipe, but today chefs around the world offer not only Tiramisu cakes, but also pastries, muffins, ice cream with the same name.
Cake Tiramisu with cream
The famous dessert Tiramisu is a delicate anda very tasty dessert, which once tried, you want to cook again and again. Many people mistakenly believe that the cake is very difficult to prepare, but this is not true at all. In order to enjoy the lightest coffee aroma, the refined taste of cheese and the piquant bitterness of cocoa, it is not necessary to visit sunny Italy, it is enough to devote a little time to cooking in your own kitchen. The first recipe involves using cream, which the classic one does not provide. To prepare the dessert at home, you need to stock up on the following ingredients:
- 200 g of biscuit (savoyardi cookies);
- 100 ml of Espresso coffee;
- 6 full st. l. coffee liqueur or cognac;
- 2 full st. l. cocoa powder;
- a simple Tiramisu cream (see below for a preparation in the classic recipe);
- 600 ml cream (the fat content should be from 35%);
- 3 full st. l. sugar or powdered sugar;
- classic cream;
- Mascarpone cheese 500 g;
- 6 chicken eggs;
- 6 tbsp. l. Sahara.
To prepare the cake you must haveSponge cake cookies in the shape of lady fingers. Savoyardi sponge cake is also suitable, but if you can’t get it, you can bake regular sponge cakes, which need to be cut after cooling. To soak the cakes, you will need strong coffee, but you need to take only natural coffee, instant coffee is not suitable for this dessert. After preparation, the coffee should cool down, after which it should be strained, add cognac and sugar. The drink should have a very sweet taste, a pronounced taste of alcohol, but not be too cloying. Prepared cream should be whipped with a mixer, starting at low speed, gradually adding powdered sugar. The overall consistency should resemble thick cream. Now take a square or rectangular dish, put a thin layer of cream on the bottom, and tightly adjoining sponge cookies on top. There are two options: you can soak the cookies in coffee before placing them in the baking tray or after the biscuit has been placed on the bottom of the baking pan. If you do not have sufficient baking skills, then it is better to prefer the second option, since too much soaked cookies can simply fall apart into pieces when you place them. Add more cream on top of the biscuit, sprinkle with cocoa. Now put the second layer of cookies, cream again, so you should get three layers (but there are no clear rules, in Italy there is a classic recipe with only one layer). Coat the Tiramisu cake on all sides with cream, which is best leveled with a long knife or a special spatula. Cocoa will be needed a little later. The resulting dessert should be put in the refrigerator for 4 hours, and it is best to do this in the evening, by morning it will be perfectly soaked and become tender. Before serving, sprinkle the cake with cocoa, you can decorate it with roses made of whipped cream, sprinkle with chocolate shavings. Cut the dessert carefully, the cut will produce a very beautiful, characteristic pattern.
Recipe with Mascarpone cheese
Homemade Tiramisu Dessert with CheeseMascarpone is considered classic. This recipe involves making a cream based on Mascarpone and chicken eggs. The recipe itself is very simple, anyone can make this type of Tiramisu cake. First, separate the whites from the yolks, placing them in different containers. Add sugar to the yolks, beat the mixture thoroughly, then add Mascarpone cheese, 3 full tablespoons of any cognac and continue mixing until smooth. If you are making a dessert for kids, then the cognac should be replaced with three tablespoons of apricot jam, quince, peach (let the baby choose which one he likes best). This “children's” version differs from the classic one in that the cream acquires a very delicate and interesting taste. Perhaps, you yourself will continue to make dessert with jam, and not with cognac. Next, beat the previously set aside whites until a strong foam is obtained, add them to the finished mixture with cheese. Mix everything very carefully with a wooden spatula, you can’t use a mixer for this. Put the resulting mixture in the refrigerator to cool. Assembling the cake at home is no different from the previous one. The traditional shape of Tiramisu is rectangular or square, but at home you can also use a regular detachable round baking pan if you don’t have another one. When cooking, the cookies should be placed so that they don’t touch the walls, this will make it possible to make a very beautiful and even edge. Before serving the cake on the table, you need to remove the side part from the pan, sprinkle the dessert itself with cocoa. The classic Tiramisu dessert will be interesting to those who are not familiar with its delicate, memorable taste. The translation of its name from Italian means approximately “take me to heaven”, but in addition to the unusual, delicate taste, the cake is also distinguished by a high content of nutrients, which no sweet dish can boast of. You can try Tiramisu not only in a restaurant, but also at home, it is easy to make yourself. It does not require many products, and no special skills are required. The classic recipe involves using soft Mascarpone cheese, which is very similar to thick cream. It turns out incredibly delicious!
