Tiramisu birthday cake for my dearest hubby
Before the final touch up
Yummy!!
I wanted to make something different for my hubby's birthday and finally decided on making Tiramisu - something which I have never done before as I have always thought that Tiramisu is really difficult to make.
I googled for "easy Tiramisu recipe" and after reading through a few sites, ultimately decided on the following recipe, which is essentially my simplified version (I'm lazy, remember?) of a mixture of various recipes. I choose an eggless recipe as I'm not comfortable consuming raw eggs.
The preparation was easy enough, except for the soaking of the sponge fingers. The first 2 sponge fingers I soaked almost disintegrated in the bowl of coffee syrup as I had soaked them abit too long (like about 4s). I got so nervous after that that I just dip my sponge fingers in and took them out in lighting speed (I think dipping for 2s yield the best result).
The resultant Tiramisu is tasty with a nice coffee aroma and not too heavy nor creamy. The most wonderful thing is that Hubby actually said "very nice" after taking just one bit. I will increase the cheese proportion the next time as I find it not cheesy enough. Other than this, I'm very happy that I managed to hit the right recipe on my maiden attempt on Tiramisu making.
Happy Birthday Hubby!!
Ingredients
Coffee Syrup
3tbsp coffee powder
1 cup boiling water
Cream Filing
250g mascarpone cheese
300ml thickened cream
3tbsp icing sugar
4-5tbsp Kahlua
20-25 sponge fingers
Cocoa powder
Method
- Dissolve coffee powder in water, set aside for later use.
- In a bowl, whisk the mascarpone cheese with icing sugar till the mixture is smooth and creamy.
- In another bowl, whisk the thickened cream until soft peak. Fold the thickened cream into the mascarpone mixture till well combined.
- Line the bottom and sides of a 6" square loose bottom pan with parchment paper.
- Dip each sponge finger into the coffee syrup and line the bottom of the pan with the sponge fingers. Spread a layer of the mascarpone cream mixture over the sponge finger and sprinkle cocoa powder over the top of the mascarpone cream mixture. Repeat the layering (sponge finger - mascarpone cream - cocoa powder) and top it off with a thick layer (personal preference, you can sprinkle a thin layer if you do not like too much cocoa powder) of cocoa powder on top.
- Refrigerate for at least 4 hours, best overnight, before serving.
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