Anyone knows the recipe for the italian tiramisu? Anyone made before?

Aikks? Nobody knows??!!

I know but never tried before... so i cannot be blamed for anything bad yea?
Is this for Valentine's? here's a relatively easy one by one of my favorite TV chef, there are 41 Tiramisu recipes when I searched for "tiramisu" on www.foodtv.com ... Don't forget to serve it in a martini glass yea?



6 egg yolks
3 tablespoons sugar
1 pound mascarpone cheese
1 1/2 cups strong espresso, cooled
2 teaspoons dark rum
24 packaged ladyfingers
1/2 cup bittersweet chocolate shavings, for garnish

In a large bowl, using an electric mixer with whisk attachment, beat egg yolks and sugar until thick and pale, about 5 minutes. Add mascarpone cheese and beat until smooth. Add 1 tablespoon of espresso and mix until thoroughly combined.

In a small shallow dish, add remaining espresso and rum. Dip each ladyfinger into espresso for only 5 seconds. Letting the ladyfingers soak too long will cause them to fall apart. Place the soaked ladyfinger on the bottom of a 13 by 9 inch baking dish, breaking them in half if necessary in order to fit the bottom.

Spread evenly 1/2 of the mascarpone mixture over the ladyfingers. Arrange another layer of soaked ladyfingers and top with remaining mascarpone mixture.

Cover tiramisu with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, up to 8 hours.

Before serving, sprinkle with chocolate shavings.

Source: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/re...tml?rsrc=search

Here's another easy one:

Quick Fix Tiramisu Parfaits



8 ounces regular or light cream cheese
2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups whipped cream, divided
1 package ladyfingers
1/2 cup prepared espresso, strong coffee, or coffee-flavored liqueur
1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
Semisweet chocolate, grated, for garnish

In a medium mixing bowl, beat together cream cheese, sugar and vanilla. Fold in 1 1/3 cups of whipped cream. Dunk ladyfingers in prepared coffee. Halve and place layer of ladyfingers in the bottom of 4 tall parfait glasses. Spoon half of cheese mixture over ladyfingers. Top with another layer of ladyfingers and remaining cheese mixture. Top with remaining ladyfingers. Spoon remaining whipped cream over top. Sift cocoa over whipped topping and garnish with grated semisweet chocolate.

Thanks fusionista! Lady fingers???

Hi fluene,

Lady fingers is a type of biscuit. Its quite long like lady fingers. Its easier to find in supermarkets like Cold storage

yea lady fingers is a type of biscuit, it's kinda 4 inches long and 1 in wide. Not bendi yea? Bendi is called okra here, not lady fingers

Thanks Sheep & Fusionista. Any idea which part of the supermarket to look for this ladyfingers? Any of you bought this before?

hi yes i heard people said can get the tiramisu ingredients at only Cold Storage.

and i heard tiramisu very easy to make also, wanted to try but seem like i hard to get the ingredients

Fluene after try let us know the result yeah..cheers

fluene, i found out that ladyfingers can be substituted with vanilla spongecake

I came across a type of biscuits in Australia. It is biscuits but when you apply cream to it and let it settle in fridge for 1 -2 hours, it will turn soft, just like cakes. Is that the lady fingers?

fluene, i think that's ladyfingers

hi. perhaps you can drop by the bakers shop...
you can get all tiramisu ingredients there... like sponge fingers, mascarpone cheese, kahlua & etc.

fluene,
those grocery store in cheras takda these ingredients punya... there's a cold storage in KLCC too. When I want to cook Western food I always have to drive to MidValley and get my stuff from the Jusco there, or to COld Storage to find my special cheese.

only thing is when you dunk the ladyfingers into the coffe mixture of liquer, do it very fast. Like one to two sec. If too dry then increase a little bit next time. This is because, it absorb the liquid and if you dunk to long, it will just break. Or even if you dunk for along time but it still can hold the shape, it takes in too much liquid. When you leave it overnight with the mascarpone mixture, the whole tiramisu will get soggy because the liquid come out of the fingers and drip under the tray (from own experience of throwing away the whole tray here )

Hmm i might try this for valentine's too.. no baking needed.. should be easy

It is. You just have to watch out when you mix the mascarpone with the egg yolk mixture. The cheese is heavy so can burst the bubbles in the egg yolk mixture. If too much bubbles burst, then the whole mixture turn to liquid..... So better fold in the mascarpone than beat it with the machine.

wah.. making tiramisu is ain't easy!!!!! warghhhh!!!!! n i love tiramisu, esp those drenced in kahlua!!!!

me dun even have a convection oven... dunno how can i learn baking

baking is not difficult. sponge stuf just have to know the trick then easy. But to make really really good cakes I suppose harder

Yea, I never beat my batter unless I'm making fried chicken or mash potatoes. The recipes always call for FOLDING in the ingredients to prevent over-mixing, in which case will give u a brick loaf instead of a fluffy cake

I've never made brick loaf but defiantely have brick cookies before... they even bounced off the roof when my friends threw it

I have got all the ingredients needed except for the lady fingers. Exactly in which section of the supermarket should I look for this lady fingers? If I can't find it, then I'll have to use sponge cake then. One stupid question here, how to differentiate sponge cake from other types of cakes? Cakes are usually named as chocolate cake, orange cake, butter cake, etc. They don't say whether they are sponge, chiffon, etc.

Stpeiyee , what is kahlua?

kahlua is coffee liquer.. u must use kahlua in ur tiramisu!!!!
Just get the yellow color sponge cake, the regular flavour should be vanilla.

http://us.kahlua.com/

Hi Fluene,

I found lady finger in the biscuits section. It usually comes in a clear plastic where u can see the biscuits. Its in a oblong shape. there are about 20 to 24 pieces of biscuits in the whole bag (usually there are two packets inside on bag). Usually the supermarkets which carries more imported stuff will carry it like cold storage.

Sorry i dont have to brand of the biscuits to give to you cuz i lost my tiramisu recipe.

Hope the info helps.

And as fusionista said, use kahlua.

Made the tiramisu yesterday. It was delicious (hb said so)

The recipe I used was one without eggs as I feel a bit quesy about consuming raw eggs. Here goes the recipe :


1 pound mascarpone cheese (~450g)
1 cup whipping cream
1 cup sugar (I used 3/4 cup)
1 cup thick coffee without sugar at room temperature
4 tbsp rum
24 lady fingers
2tbsp cocoa powder, sifted (I used much more)


Place the utensils (bowl & beaters) in the fridge at least 20 minutes before starting. Beat the whipping cream till thick and stiff. In another bowl, beat the mascarpone and sugar till well mixed, pale in colour and creamy. Add in 2 tbsp rum and beat again. Fold in the whipping cream.

Put the remaining 2tbsp rum into the coffee. Dip the lady fingers in the coffee quickly and place on serving dish. Repeat till 12 lady fingers form the base. Put half of the mascarpone & cream on the lady fingers. Spread till thickness is even. Sprinkle some sifted cocoa powder on it. Put another layer of coffee dipped lady fingers on the cream. Put the remaining mascarpone and cheese on top. Spread till even thickness. Sprinkle the sifted cocoa powder till it cover the whole top surface. Chill in fridge for at least one hour before serving

Fluene,
Any pics?

Took one pic but very blur. Yesterday lots of commotion in my house due to CNY house cleaning, cookies making, etc. So, shy to take pic of my humble tiramisu. Will take tonight if the tiramisu is still safe in the fridge.

I tried this before. Got the recipe from Kitchen Capers.





Happy Baking!