Festive Tiramisu

Mon, 7 December 2015

Tiramisu is a well known classic Italian dessert and this morning (07.12.2015) we added a festive twist to it. Kristan Burness from the Unicorn Restaurant in Dublin joined us.

Ingredients:

500g mascarpone cheese

4 egg yolks

150g castor sugar

300ml strong espresso coffee cooled

100ml amaretto

100 g dark chocolate

500g savoiardi biscuits

100g chopped toasted hazelnuts

Optional garnish

Icing sugar

Coco powder or grated chocolate

Holly and red currants

 

Method:

Whisk egg yolks and sugar to pale

Add to mascarpone place in piping bag

In a cake tin or individual glasses

Layer mascarpone cream on bottom

Dip biscuits in coffee and layer on top of mascarpone

Add a splash of amaretto and scatter hazelnuts and chocolate in between each layer

Add about 3 layers

Then pipe the remaining mascarpone cream in to little peaks

Place in the fridge for 4 hours to set 

Then Garnish with additional hazelnut chocolate shavings coco powder and icing sugar

 

Watch below: