Best Tiramisu Recipe

How to make best tiramisu recipe the traditional tiramisu cake made easy with step-by-step pictures.

#1 Italian Dessert!

The origins of tiramisu are very uncertain because each region would have "invented" this delicacy, for this reason it's born a kind of contest between Tuscany, Piedmont and Veneto.

There are many legends associated with tiramisu cake that was attributed even aphrodisiac qualities.

The official version places the birth of an old traditional tiramisu recipe in the seventeenth century in Siena when some confectioners, in anticipation of the arrival of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo de Medici, decided to prepare a cake to celebrate his greatness.

So they decided that the cake had to reflect the personality of the Duke; it must had therefore be important, tasty, and sweet, and at the same time prepared with simple ingredients. But importantly, it had to be very greedy because Cosimo literally loved sweets.

The legend also says that the soup of the Duke became the favorite dessert of the nobles whom ascribed aphrodisiac and exciting properties, so hence the name Tiramisu.

The unofficial version, however, says that who invented the tiramisu recipe was a pastry chef in honor of Turin, Count Camillo Benso di Cavour to support him in its difficult task of unifying Italy.

Even the Veneto region has its own version, it seems that an easy tiramisu recipe was invented in the restaurant "El Toula" located at the time of Treviso near a brothel and served just to pull up.

How To Make Tiramisu: ingredients for 8

- 14 oz (400g) lady fingers Lady Fingers Recipe
- 6 eggs medium size, fresh
- 4 oz (115g) sugar, plus 2 tbsp (30g) for the coffee
- 1 lb (450g) mascarpone cheese
- cocoa powder enough to sprinkle the tiramisu
- espresso coffee just enough to moisten the lady fingers
- chocolate chips enough to cover the top (optional)

Classic bowl of tiramisu

Bowl of fruit tiramisu dessert with peaches

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Caution: since they are not cooked, it is very important to check the freshness of eggs.

To give a flavor a bit stronger you can add to the coffee a liqueur like rum or Marsala, just enough to make it pick up the flavor.

Fruit Tiramisu Recipe
This is an easy tiramisu made with fruit salad and whipped cream instead of Mascarpone.

Below another variation with peaches.

Tiramisu on a fly!

The composition of this bowl of fruit tiramisu is simple.

At the base of the bowl, put a bit of custard (while you cook the custurd add a few drops of lemon and cook a few minutes more).

Put a lyer of ladyfingers soaked in the peach juice, above add a few diced peaches and add more custurd.

As a garnished at the end add other diced peaches on the top. Let rest in refrigerator and then serve.

Preparation: medium 45 minutes

First, prepare espresso coffee (1), just enough to soak the sponge fingers, pour into a bowl (2) (if you want sweeten to taste) and let it cool. Whip the egg yolks with half the sugar (3) to obtain a good compound light and creamy (4).

Work then (not too long) the mascarpone cheese with a mixer (or wooden spoon) until you get a cream with no lumps (5) keep always banging together, the mixture of eggs and sugar previously prepared (6-7).

Whip the egg whites until stiff with a pinch of salt, add the remaining half of sugar, and with a wooden spoon add them gradually and gently to the mixture of mascarpone and egg yolks (8), so you make the cream for tiramisu (9).

Put in a container and begin to dip the ladyfingers with coffee (10), they should be well soaked but not completely. Cover the ladyfingers soaked with a layer of mascarpone cream (11) and level with a spatula (12).

Sprinkle the surface of unsweetened cocoa powder (13). Then provide the second layer of ladyfingers, if you have layered the first set vertically, then layer the second horizontally, or vice versa (14). cover with the remaining cream (15) and level with the spatula (16).

When finished sprinkle with plenty of cocoa powder the surface of your tiramisu (17), then just if you like add a handful of chocolate chips (18).

Put in refrigerator for a few hours to shrink the sweet and... Bon appetit

Easy Fruit Tiramisu Recipe: ingredients for 6

- 12 oz (400g) custard cream
- 8 oz (230g) sponge cake
- 8 oz (230g) whipping cream
- 1/2 cup (120ml) Maraschino liqueur
- 1 banana
- 1 basket of raspberries
- 1 basket of strawberries
- 1 kiwi
- 1 lemon

Preparation: easy 30 minutes

1. Cut the sponge cake into slices 1/2 inch (1cm) thick, and dip the sponge with Maraschino liqueur, and as much cold water.

2. Chop banana and kiwi then prepare a fruit salad, dress with the juice of a lemon and mix. Use half of the slices taken from the sponge cake to coat the bottom of a rectangular pan.

3. Whip the cream and mix with the custard. Make the tiramisu cake with layers of fruit salad, raspberries and strawberries cutted into small pieces with the cream. Cover each layer with the sponge. Cover the last layer with the fruit, then put in refrigerator for at least 3 hours before serving.