Saturday, September 29, 2007

Love thy neighbours+ Share Tiramisu

Love they neighbours! I have very good reasons to!!! I have some really sweet neighbours! two, who live above me and one who lives in the apartment opposite ours. We try new baking recipes and exchange them. Almost every weekend for the past 2, i have been over indulging myself... muffins, agar agar, choc cakes, Tiramisu. So far i've only done a chocolate cake but this week i decided to try Tiramisu myself cuz i couldnt get enough of it... surprisingly for such a delicious dish, its really little work... My neighbour from the next aparment was so sweet she even got most of the ingredients for me ;) Thanking wont be good enuf so the biggest portion of the tiramisu goes to her!!!

I always tot Tiramisu was from Japan..doesnt it sound very Jap? Well it actually is an Italian dessert!The Italian name tiramisù means "pick-me-up" (metaphorically, "make me happy,"), i guess the chocolate and caffein content do just that!





Here is how it goes:

INGREDIENTS
3 egg yolks
1/4 cup white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/8 cups mascarpone cheese
24 ladyfingers (cake like biscuit, the size n length of a finger)
1 1/2 cups brewed coffee
1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder

DIRECTIONS
1.In a medium bowl, beat yolks with sugar and vanilla until smooth and light yellow. 2.Fold mascarpone into yolk mixture. Set aside.
3.Dip ladyfingers briefly in coffee and arrange 12 of them in the serving plate. 4.Spread half the mascarpone mixture over the ladyfingers. Repeat with remaining cookies and mascarpone.
5.Cover and chill 1-24 hours. Sprinkle with cocoa just before serving.