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[petronia]

Tiramisu
Originally uploaded by petronia.

(LJing from within Flickr - for some reason it doesn't let you blog several photos at once? :/)

RECIPE

Ingredients:

* eggs, 4 separated
* sugar, 12 tablespoons
* cream cheese, 500 grams [1]
* amaretto, 3 shots
* coffee, 2 cups [2]
* Savoiardi ladyfinger biscuits, 1 large package (something like 40)
* cocoa powder or grated chocolate

Directions:

1. Place the egg yolks in an electric mixer bowl and add approximately 8 tablespoons of sugar.
2. Beat with an electric mixer until the mixture forms a good ribbon (should nearly have soft peaks).
3. Once the correct consistency is achieved, whisk in the cream cheese until smooth.
4. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg whites along with 4 tablespoons of sugar until hard peaks form. [3]
5. Fold the egg white mixture into the cream cheese mixture.
6. In a separate bowl, pour the hot coffee and amaretto.
7. One at a time, quickly dip [4] each biscuit in the coffee mixture and then place on the bottom of a 9x13 glass baking pan. Continue until you have an entire layer of biscuits on the bottom of the pan.
8. Using a spatula spread half of the cream over the biscuits. Repeat the process above to make a second layer. This should fill the pan.
9. Refrigerate 8-10 hours or overnight. Sprinkle the chocolate over the top.

[1] Should actually be mascarpone cheese, but parents refused to buy the stuff as is 60% saturated fat. XD;; Cream cheese works fine, it just... tastes like cream cheese instead of mascarpone.

[2] If I were making it again I'd only use 1 cup coffee (it really doesn't need to be that wet), but make it espresso. And maybe add a bit more alcohol.

[3] Hard peaks = until you can pile it up to look like a meringue. I did this by hand, it took several geological eons.

[4] Or lay the biscuits in the pan first and then spoon coffee over them, which may be easier to manage - they're very absorbent. XD

As a bonus, here's a picture of tonight's lasagna. :P

Comments

[one-if-by-land.livejournal.com]

oh, wait, so tiramisu has raw eggs? :0

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Yup! (I'm pretty sure it always does.)

[one-if-by-land.livejournal.com]

ahhhk, raw eggs always make me paranoid because my junior high family consumer science teacher would over-emphasize on how IF WE ATE THE CAKE BATTER WE WILL GET SALMONELLA AND DIE, and even though I know salmonella is 1) unlikely and 2) not that serious, I've refused to eat a raw egg since. ;_; (except, er, I just had tiramisu a few weeks ago and I thought it was superyummy. existential crisis!)

[sfllaw.livejournal.com]

You may opt to coddle the eggs. If there's salmonella, it's extermely likely to live on the shell and not within. So a brief dunk in boiling water should kill the bacteria.

[i-smile.livejournal.com]

That looks so good. (Without looking at the recipe, as I like to believe that food comes out of the pantry fully cooked.) I especially like the Action Hands! in the pictures. It's like watching Yakitate!! Japan. :D

[z107m.livejournal.com]

Bellissima!