Cake tiramisu - a real gourmet delicacy

While I did not go to Rome, for me the name "Tiramisu" meant nothing. I met in the menu - and missed without much interest. But one day my friend and I walked around Rome in the rain, full of impressions, terribly hungry, tired and soaked. And then a small restaurant was seen near the Palazzo Barberini. This is what you need! Inside, it was full of tourists, but we found a table. They began to study the menu. Traditional bruschetta, some local soup, on, honestly, and I do not remember. Something we ordered. And then the waiter asked: "And dessert?". The choice was small, but the girlfriend immediately aspirated said: "Cake" Tiramisu! ". Here are the dishes arrived, one by one. It was delicious, I can not complain, but I remember only dessert. Gorgeous, delicate, unforgettable, delicious! On the last evening before the departure, we from the Pantheon ran back to the Palazzo Barberini for a sweet delight ...

Since then, if I see cakes or "Tiramisu" cake in the menu, I will definitely try. For me, the quality of "Tiramisu" became an indicator of the quality of the cafe.

But what is this cake? What is its history? And what is this process - the preparation of Tiramisu?

The name of this dessert is translated as "Take me up". Let's start with the story. The legend around this dish goes a lot. One of them is that this cake was first invented in Siena for the Duke of Tuscany Cosimo III Medici, but called it "Zuppa del Duca" - "duke's soup". The name "Tiramisu" appeared later. In this case, such a dessert could taste and the famous Giacomo Giovanni Casanova.

Another version is much more prosaic and brings the invention of this sweet pleasure closer to our time. According to the data given in Wikipedia, for the first time the cake "Tiramisu" was prepared by a certain confectioner from the restaurant "Alla Bikierere" in Treviso (data on the name of the inventor of this masterpiece vary). But whether or not he tasted this cake of love is a great lover, it's not so important. It is important that if you try this culinary temptation one day, you will look for it again and again. Exit? Make it yourself.

How to cook a cake "Tiramisu"?

The classic recipe includes Mascarpone cheese, espresso, eggs, sugar and savoyardi - biscuit biscuits in the form of ladies' fingers with grains of sugar (known since the 15th century, the official cookies of Savoy). Top of the dessert is powdered cocoa.

It is clear that not all components are easily accessible in our stores. Then we put the question in a different way: how to cook a cake "Tiramisu" at home?

The answer we can find in the well-known cookbook "Sex-Kitchen Giacomo Giovanni Casanova" by Natalia Starostina.

So, we need half a kilo of cream cheese Mascarpone or very fatty sour cream, four tablespoons of powdered sugar, four eggs, a fragrant biscuit biscuit packing of about 250 grams, a medium espresso coffee cup (100 ml), a glass of strong dessert wine such as Marsaly "(Can be replaced with liqueur or cognac diluted with water) and 2-3 tablespoons of cocoa powder.

We start cooking "Tiramisu".

Separate the yolks, we'll fry them with sugar powder and enter into "Mascarpone".

Proteins we shall take in strong foam with a pinch of salt and also we will enter into a cream cheese-egg cream.

Wine is mixed with coffee.

In the form we will lay out biscuits, impregnated coffee with wine, we will cover with cream on top. Repeat the procedure as many times as many layers can be placed on the form.

The form is put in the refrigerator for the night. Before serving, sprinkle the finished cocoa dessert and lick your lips from the anticipation of a delicious meal!

Very easy to prepare, is not it? By the way, you can prepare biscuits yourself, because for this you need only eggs, sugar and a little flour ...

So you can easily surprise guests and relatives by preparing them a cake "Tiramisu". Just remember, it is addictive, like a real drug! So, if you are ready to become dependent on this treat - a pleasant appetite!