Tiramisu

This one is for my husband, Dan. Dan and I met through friends on Christmas 2004. We are obviously Jewish, and do not celebrate the holiday. Usually its movies and Chinese food but that year my friend Tali invited me out to go bowling with some of her friends that I didn’t really know. Long story short, I met my husband that night. A boxing day shopping trip and a New Year Eve party later- we became official and the rest is history.

Throughout this whole blogging and Instagram process, he has been nothing but supportive. He is my main cheerleader. Always checking my Instagram to see if I have more followers and getting excited if I do. Now this is very meaningful since he doesn’t really use social media himself.

For his birthday this year, his request was a Tiramisu cake. Usually I find Tiramisu is made in a tin foil or gets fixed into a long rectangular pan of some sort. So, I attempted to make it in a springform pan, hoping I can easily snap it out and it will look like a cake. It worked for the most part. A little rustic looking, but hey, we are home cooking here! If it ain’t rustic, then it ain’t home made, am I right!?

I got this recipe from my mother-in-law, who got it from an Italian co-worker, so this my friends, is the real deal. This Tiramisu is creamy, coffee flavoured and definitely worth gossiping about!

Tiramisu

Yield: 8 servings

INGREDIENTS:

6 eggs

500g of mascarpone cheese

6 tablespoons of sugar

2-3 packages of Italian lady fingers 

1/4 cup red vermouth (optional) 

2 cups expresso coffee

1-2 tbsp cocoa powder 

DIRECTIONS:

1. Make a large pot of expresso coffee. Set aside. 

2. Separate the eggs and beat the whites until fluffy. Set aside. 

3. In a separate bowl mix the sugar with the yolks until creamy.

4. Add mascarpone cheese to sugar and yolk mixture and mix until incorporated.  

5. Gently fold the whites into the yolks and mascarpone mixture. 

6. Add vermouth to the coffee in a bowl.

7. In a tin foil or large dish (about 8 or 9 inches); dip cookies into coffee mixture than layer in the bottom of the pan. 

8. Cover cookies with half of the cream mixture.

9. Make another layer of cookies and cover with rest of cream. 

10. Sprinkle top with cocoa powder. Enjoy!