Italian dessert tiramisu with mascarpone is known throughout the world. And all thanks to its unusual taste.
Moreover, various sweets have appeared, for example, chocolate with tiramisu flavor, waffles, cookies and cakes. But nothing compares to the original delicacy, which occupies the first position in the menu of restaurants and sweet cafes.
But in order to try it, it is not necessary to leave the house, you can make tiramisu with mascarpone on your own.
Tiramisu with mascarpone - general principles of preparation
Italian dessert consists of two main elements - the filling and biscuits.
Tiramisu is collected in layers, like a cake.
From above, the dessert is covered with a thick layer of cream and sprinkled with cocoa.
Before making a bookmark, each cookie is dipped in coffee, which gives the delicacy a special tenderness and aroma.
A detailed dessert assembly technique is described in detail below in recipes.
How to make a cream
The basis of the cream - mascarpone. This is an Italian cheese, which has a high fat content, taste like butter and has a very delicate texture.
In the classic cream eggs are added, which must be whipped into a foam. They give the filling a special pomp.
Particular attention should be paid to the quality of eggs, since the product does not undergo heat treatment and is used raw. Sugar or powder is used as a sweetener.
For aroma, you can add vanilla to the cream.
How to cook savoyardi
The unchanged ingredient of tiramisu is savoyardi cookies, which are also called ladies' fingers.
You can cook it yourself or buy it in the store. But on sale it is not always, and the acquisition becomes a problem.
It is the preparation of cookies for many that is a snag, although there is nothing complicated about it.
What you need for cookies: • 3 proteins;
• 2 yolks;
• 60 grams of flour;
• 60 grams of sugar;
• powder for dressing.
How to cook savoyardi:
1. Beat yolks with 30 grams of sugar until the grains are completely dissolved.
2. Beat the whites with the remaining sugar protein until fluffy and dense foam.
3. Combine both masses, add flour and mix.
4. We spread the dough into a bag, cut off the tip and squeeze sausages on a baking sheet, about 7-8 cm long. Width up to 2 cm. We reserve a place between the cookies, as they will rise in the baking process.
5. Sprinkle the raw billet powder and send in the oven. We bake until light rosy, usually enough for 8-12 minutes at a temperature of 180-190 degrees.
Before assembling the savoyardi dessert, you need to cool well, it is better to cook them the day before.
Also it is important not to keep the deposited cookies on the baking sheet, so that the protein does not move upwards.
Bake Savoyardi need immediately after beating, the dough is not stored.
Recipe 1: Classic Tiramisu Dessert with Mascarpone
This recipe made dessert popular all over the world. After some time, various variants of tiramisu with mascarpone and without it appeared on its basis.
Ingredients
• 250 grams of mascarpone;
• 2 eggs;
• 3 spoons of cocoa;
• A spoon of Amaretto liqueur;
• 200 grams of coffee;
• 4 tablespoons of powder;
• 100 grams of Savoyardi.
Cooking
1. Making impregnation of coffee. Ideally, espresso is used, but you can simply brew strong coffee on the stove. To do this, you need 200 grams of water and 2 tablespoons of ground beans. The drink is brewed, filtered, cooled. Then liquor is introduced into it.
2. Beat in a bowl the squirrels from two eggs, at the end enter half the icing sugar. It should make a thick, stable mass.
3. Separately, beat the yolks with the second half of the powder and mix with the mascarpone. Cheese should be introduced carefully, adding one spoon and carefully mixing.
4. Proteins are introduced into the yolk mass with cheese, mixed upwards, trying not to precipitate foam, the cream should be airy and homogeneous. 5. Savoyardi divided into 2 parts. Quickly dip cookies in coffee and place them on the bottom of a deep form with the first layer. Then lay out the cream, again moistened cookies and so on. You can make 2, 3, 4 layers, but the last should be a cream.
6. Sprinkle cocoa tiramisu and remove in the cold, withstand at least 3 hours.
Recipe 2: Tiramisu with mascarpone without eggs
Many are afraid of cooking a popular dessert because of the addition of raw eggs. But, as it turned out, you can make tiramisu with mascarpone without them. To many, this recipe seems simpler and easier. But what can replace eggs and how to do it right?
Ingredients
• 150 grams of heavy cream from 33%;
• 500 grams of mascarpone;
• 100 grams of powder;
• 18 pieces of Savoyardi;
• cocoa for dressing;
• A cup of coffee and a spoon of liquor.
Cooking
1. Making the cream. Cool the cream well, beat with a mixer into the foam and gradually introduce all the powder. Then, in a spoon, enter the mascarpone. The cheese should have the same temperature as the cream.
2. Mix coffee with liqueur, dip half of the cookies and stack as the first cake.
3. We spread the cream, then again Savoyardi.
4. Lubricate the top layer of tiramisu cream, sprinkle cocoa and remove cool for 4 hours, but better at night.
Recipe 3: Tiramisu with Mascarpone and Berries
The divine taste of the Italian dessert, diluted with fresh berries. To do this, tiramisu with mascarpone will need fresh strawberries, raspberries, blackberries. You can take one kind or assorted, a matter of taste. But it is important that the berries were dense, before the time did not let the juice and well kept their shape.
Ingredients
• 6 yolks;
• half a kilo of Mascarpone;
• a cup of coffee;
• spoon of liquor;
• 3 spoons of sugar;
• 30 Savoyardi;
• Cocoa;
• berries.
Cooking
1. Rub the yolks with sugar, gradually add the cheese and mix well. The cream is ready! It is already possible to add pieces of berries to it, but in order not to produce a lot of juice, it is better to make layers when assembling the dessert. 2. Brew coffee, cool and dip cookies. We spread the first layer, tightly to each other.
3. Lubricate with cream, sprinkle with pieces of berries. Then put another layer of cream.
4. We moisten savoyardi, we spread new korzh. The procedure is repeated.
5. The top layer - cream, sprinkled with cocoa. On it we lay the whole berries or pieces. But it is better to do this after soaking in the fridge, before serving. In this case, the berries do not lose their appearance, do not let the juice.
Recipe 4: Tiramisu with Mascarpone on Sour Cream
Sour cream - more affordable and cheaper product than mascarpone. When mixing these products, you can get a very tasty cream, but only if you follow all the subtleties. Eggs are not used, but if you do not think of stuffing without them, you can put 3 pieces.
Ingredients
• 600 grams of sour cream from 25% fat and higher;
• 250 grams of mascarpone;
• a cup of powder.
Also, according to tradition, Savoyardi cookies, coffee, cocoa will be needed for sprinkling. The assembly of the dessert takes place according to the classical scheme.
Cooking
1. We take a clean kitchen towel, an ordinary waffle and put it in a sieve so that the tips hang from the edges. Sieve put on the pot or bowl.
2. Put the sour cream in the center of the sieve, cover with a clean napkin and remove the structure for 6-8 hours in the refrigerator. During this time, extra water will stand out, sour cream will become thicker - what you need for a good cream.
3. Mix the strained sour cream with mascarpone and sugar, use to build tiramisu.
Recipe 5: Tiramisu with Mascarpone on Cognac
Ideally, boiled coffee with the addition of “Amaretto” liqueur is used to wet the cookies. But no less popular recipe for tiramisu with mascarpone and brandy. The dessert acquires a unique, nutty flavor and a slight bitterness of alcohol. It is not recommended to give such a treat to children.
Ingredients
• 300 grams of cookies;
• 4 eggs;
• a cup of coffee; • 4 spoons of brandy;
• 5 tablespoons of sugar;
• pinch of vanilla;
• 400 grams of mascarpone;
• cocoa spoon.
Cooking
1. For cream we divide sugar in half, we separate proteins from yolks. Whisk separately with sugar. Then we combine, add mascarpone, a spoonful of brandy, add vanilla and mix well.
2. Mix coffee with the remaining cognac.
3. We moisten the third part of the cookies, lay out on the bottom of the form.
4. Sandwich cream.
5. We moisten the second part of the cookies, lubricate the cream and do the same procedure with the remnants of Savoyardi.
6. Sprinkle cocoa powder on top of the dessert.
Recipe 6: Tiramisu with mascarpone, cinnamon, ricotta and nuts
Tiramisu dessert with mascarpone and ricotta is very tender, not so fat and is very easy to prepare. A peculiar smell of cream attached nuts. Cinnamon is used to flavor cookies.
Ingredients
For cookies:
• 3 egg whites;
• 100 grams of powder;
• 4 yolks;
• 100 grams of flour;
• 2 grams of cinnamon.
For cream:
• 250 grams of mascarpone;
• 250 grams of ricotta;
• 250 grams of natural yogurt;
• 100 grams of nuts (better than hazelnuts);
• 130 grams of sugar.
For impregnation you will need a cup of fresh coffee, a pinch of cinnamon. To sprinkle cocoa powder.
Cooking
1. Beat the whites with powdered sugar to a fluffy foam, introduce separately the ground proteins. Enter a mixture of flour with cinnamon, which must be sieved beforehand. Knead the dough.
2. Put the dough in a pastry bag, squeeze the sticks. The length of raw cookies should be about 8 cm, thickness 1.5-2. Sprinkle the powder with the preparation, send it to the oven. Bake 10 minutes at 180 degrees.
3. Dry the hazelnuts in the oven, grind to crumb.
4. For the cream, simply whip ricotta with mascarpone, add yogurt and sugar, mix and add ground hazelnuts. Cool well.
5. We collect the cake according to the classical scheme: we moisten the cookies, we coat the layers with cream. For decoration, you can simply sprinkle cocoa dessert or mix it with cinnamon.
Mascarpone Tiramisu - Tips and Tricks
• No liquor or desire to add alcohol to the dessert? Use a similar essence. Tiramisu almost does not lose in taste, the aroma will be bright, pronounced.
• In some dessert recipes, sugar is used, in others powder. What is the difference? In fact, it does not exist, just the powder dissolves faster, less time is spent on the preparation of the cream, the egg whites turn out to be lush. But when replacing one product to another, be guided by weight. Sugar in a glass is much more powder and vice versa.
• Instead of cocoa for sprinkling, you can use coffee, a mixture of these products. Also make a variety and new notes will help ground nuts, cinnamon. And you can just sprinkle the dessert with grated chocolate or decorate with sweet chips.
• Tiramisu can be the basis for a festive cake, it can be covered with mastic, decorate with any cream. But the serving of dessert, which is collected in small bowls or glasses, looks particularly impressive. Experiment!
• To make tiramisu dessert easily leave the form, you can cover the bottom and sides with cling film. Just do not forget to remove when serving.
• Mascarpone is a tasty product, but very fat. To fix this, you can add a portion of natural yogurt, whipped cream to the cream.
