Tiramisu🤩

Tiramisu is a coffee-flavoured Italian dessert. It is made of ladyfingers dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of cream, sugar and mascarpone cheese, flavoured with cocoa. A simple no bake dessert! One of my favourites🤩

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INGREDIENTS-

Servings- 8-10 people

For lady finger/ savoiardi biscuits- 15-20 biscuits

1. All purpose flour/Maida - 1.5 cups

2. Powdered sugar - 1/2 cup

3. Milk - 1/2 cup

4. Softened butter - 1/3 cup or 80gms

5. Baking powder - 1/2 tsp

6. Vanilla essence - few drops

Other ingredients-

1. Water - 1/2 cup

2. Coffee powder - 2 tsp

3. Mascarpone cheese - 1 cup or 200gms

4. Whipping cream - 1 cup or 200ml

5. Powdered sugar - 5-6tbsp (depending on taste)

6. Vanilla essence - few drops

7. Cocoa powder for dusting

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SUBSTITUTES-

For mascarpone cheese-

1. You can substitute mascarpone cheese with whipped hung curd.

2. You can use 100gms hung curd and 100gms grated paneer. Blend them to a thick consistency mixture in a blender.

3. Next, you can also use cream cheese but it will taste quite differently.

4. You can make it at home. Follow this recipe. Use amul fresh cream to make homemade mascarpone cheese. https://theviewfromgreatisland.com/minimal-monday-homemade-mascarpone/

For lady finger biscuits-

1. You can use digestive biscuits.

2. You can make eggless cake sponge or ready made cake.

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PROCESS-

To make lady finger biscuit -

• The first step is to cream the butter and sugar together until its nice and fluffy.

• Now add milk and vanilla essence. Whisk them well.

• Add all purpose flour/ Maida to this. Fold the batter to get a thick consistency.

• Take a piping bag and fill this batter in it.

• Pipe it into cylindrical shape in a tray.

• Bake it in a preheated oven at 200 degrees C for 15-20 mins or until brown.

For the mascarpone cream-

• Take 200gms mascarpone cheese and whisk it to make it smooth. Do not over beat it.

• Add powdered sugar and whisk again. Over beating may lead to curdling of cheese.

• Now take whipping cream in a mixing bowl and beat it till stiff peaks.

• Add vanilla essence and the mascarpone sugar mixture. Fold it well. Do not overmix.

Coffee-

• Take 1/2 cup water and bring it to boil. Add 2 tsp coffee powder. Mix and keep it aside.

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To assemble the tiramisu-

• Layer your serving dish with a very thin layer of mascarpone cream.

• Dip lady finger biscuits into coffee. Place them in this arrangement. After arranging pour two spoons of coffee on top evenly.

• Now spread half of the cream on top evenly. Reserve some to pipe it on top.

• Now pipe small rounds on the whole dish.

• Dust it with cocoa parad powder evenly.

• Refrigerate it for 4 hours or more.

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