Easy Recipe for Tiramisu
When people rhapsodise about Italian desserts, it doesn’t take long before tiramisu takes over the conversation!
Funnily enough, tiramisu is a fairly recent addition to the Italian sweets menu and nobody can agree on who came up with the delicious concoction. However its origins are traced to the northern Italian town of Treviso in this fascinating article on The Trail of Tiramisu!
Traditionalists are scandalised by some of the variations of tiramisu you can find in modern restaurants: tiramisu with added fruit, soaked in alcohol or leaving out the eggs altogether!
At Villa Pia, we prefer to keep things simple to appeal to all tastes, including your little fussy eaters. Our chefs use basic ingredients to whip up an absolutely sumptuous tiramisu that would make any nonna proud.
Easy Recipe for Tiramisu
Ingredients: 5 eggs
5 dessert spoons of sugar
500 grams of mascarpone
1 cup of expresso coffee
1 box of pavesini biscuits
cocoa powder
Separate the egg yolks from the white. Mix the egg yolks with the sugar then add the mascarpone. Whisk the egg whites until standing. Then gradually add the egg whites to the mixture of yolks and sugar.
Leave the coffee to cool slightly and start making the layers by dipping the biscuits in the coffee and making a layer in the bottom of an oval dish, then add a layer of the cream, continuing in layers and finishing with a layer of cream.
Dust with the cocoa powder.
Put in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
Buon appetito!
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Image credits: 1. By Paul Stein (Flickr: Tirami Su) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
2. Tiramisu strata, March 2008 (2307603448) by Huynh Hanh -licensed by Creative Commons Attribution 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
