Tiramisu

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Ingredients

Serves 6:

• 1 cup (250 g) mascarpone
• 1/3 cup (100 g) brown sugar
• 24 sponge cakes or lady fingers
• 4 eggs
  
• 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar
• 2 1/3 tbsp (5 cl) Marsala or Amaretto
• 7 oz (20 cl) very black coffee (espresso)
• Bitter Cocoa

Preparation

• Break eggs and separate egg whites from yolks.
• Whiten egg yolks, gradually adding brown and vanilla sugars.
• Mix well, adding sugar to obtain an even, foamy mixture.
• Add mascarpone to eggs and mix with a whisk.
• Beat egg whites until stiff.
• Fold egg whites into egg / mascarpone mixture. Fold in carefully with a spatula, lifting mixture gently. Make sure egg whites do not collapse.
• In a deep dish, mix coffee with marsala
• Dip lady fingers briefly in dish. Do not allow lady fingers to soak too long or they
• will turn to mush. The inside of the lady fingers should remain dry.
• Line bottom of terrine or dish with a layer of lady fingers.
• Cover layer of lady fingers with mascarpone and egg mixture.
• Alternate layers of lady fingers and cream.
• End with a layer of cream.
• Refrigerate dish for 4 hours.
• Serve portions sprinkled with unsweetened cocoa.