Italian luxury - the matchless Tiramisu ...

Quintessence of delicate flavor, fabulous gastronomic delight, exquisite dessert - all of Tiramisu. At least once to try a good Tiramisu not forget the taste of this great taste ever ... Meanwhile, the special magic in making Tiramisu in the home is not - read about it in this article.

As romantic and versatile taste it, too complicated and its history. It is not known when it was invented by the confectionary masterpiece. Some believe that even in the 17th century, the invention relates Tiramisu other only to the 80s of the last century.

If you believe the first version, the original name was dessert �Zuppa del Duca� or �ducal soup" and invented his Venetian chef to Duke Cosimo III de 'Medici in Siena. From there, the recipe moved to Florence, then - in Venice, where the dessert has gained immense fame and popular among courtesans, first noted by exciting properties of goodies. Prostitutes believed that "the duke's soup" uplifting, exciting and ate it in front of the most important love meetings. Because of these properties, and dessert came to be called the present name �tira mi su�, which literally translates as "lift me up" and artistic "lift me up." I must say, these properties - not fiction, because of the dessert consists of chocolate and coffee, the effect of which is well known.

More prosaic version of the origin of dessert states that invented Pastry Tiramisu R. Linguanotto in the 60s of the 20th century in the city of Treviso. Whatever it was, it is clear that this delicacy was born in the First Garden of Europe. But Italian cuisine is known - is a kitchen elegant, thin, when it comes to restaurant meals. That is the case with the Tiramisu matchless taste of this dessert comes from the harmonious combination of delicate ingredients.

What are preparing Tiramisu? The main ingredients - a unique mascarpone cheese, air biscuits "savoyardi" Marsala wine, coffee "espresso", eggs and sugar. Of course, the presence of Italian pastries and wine in the fridge can boast not every cook, but the mascarpone cheese has become quite affordable in recent years - you can buy almost any supermarket at a very affordable price (up to $ 100.. Per pack). Therefore, the preparation of Tiramisu has ceased to be something beyond the possible and necessary to replace only two ingredients: Italian cookies - on biscuit or biscuits and wine - brandy, cognac or liqueur Amaretto.

Let's see how to make tiramisu at home.

Tiramisu cake recipe at home (classic)

You will need: 250g mascarpone cheese, 120 g biscuits in the form of sticks, 75 g sugar, 3 egg yolks fresh, 3-4 tablespoons brandy 1 tablespoon cocoa, 3/2 tsp instant coffee.

Preparation of tiramisu with mascarpone: Dissolve the coffee in 200 ml of boiling water, allow to cool, pour into a bowl, pour in the brandy (cognac / liqueur). Whisk whisk the egg yolks with the sugar until it is completely dissolved, then enter parts mascarpone vymeshivaya each time until uniform mass. Half of cookies quickly dipped in coffee-liqueur mixture out onto a plate and an even layer close, put the top half of the cooked cream, smooth. Put a layer of cream on the remaining cookies and dipped it into the coffee mixture on top lay the remaining cream, smooth, cover with cling film dessert, remove the impregnation and hardening in the cold at least 4 hours. When submitting a classic tiramisu sprinkled with cocoa powder or grated chocolate and cut into serving dessert like this: before you cut each piece, you need to drop the knife in hot water.

If the stores biscuits in the form of sticks you suddenly find that you can replace them with ordinary biscuit Korzh

As you can see, nothing complicated in homemade tiramisu is not, and if you are lucky enough to visit Italy and purchase a present savoyardi cookies and wine Marsala, the home will be exactly replicate the original recipe is not worse than in Italian restaurants. By the way, if you want, you can cook at home Savoiardi:

Recipe Italian biscuits Savoyardy (sticks Tiramisu)

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You will need: 2 eggs, 100g sugar, 90 grams of flour, 30 grams of powdered sugar, 20 grams of butter and a pinch of salt.

Whisk the egg yolks into the foam with 75 grams of sugar, gradually add the sifted (!), Flour, salt, stir, whip the whites in a very solid foam, add the batter at first only 2 tbsp proteins, and then the rest and very carefully mix. Preheat oven to 150 degrees, to lay baking parchment, oiled, powdered with flour. The dough is placed in a syringe or a pastry bag with a hole diameter of about 14mm, on a baking squeeze stripes 10 cm in length, sprinkle them with powdered sugar, put in the oven, bake until browned. And you can just put the dough on the parchment layer of 1.5 cm (the specified amount of ingredients you will need a baking 25 to 35 cm) and bake a cake piece, which can then be cut into biscuits 2 to 10 cm.

Spending on cooking tiramisu a little more time, you can even closer to the classic recipe of this dessert. As for the coffee, it is better to use the tiramisu still espresso, as do Italian chefs, the more that the coffee maker at home today, it's not an uncommon.

Let this exquisite dessert will lift you up to the top of the best taste, amaze friends and family!