Tiramisu
It has been a few years since I made tiramisu. I started by trying my own recipe which ended up being a small disaster as I discovered that the sponge fingers packages in the UK are smaller than the ones in Portugal and my recipe called for 1 package but that clearly wasn't enough. I am a fan of Felicity Cloake's column in The Guardian and one of her articles is entitled ' How to make the perfect tiramisu '. It sounded promising. Alas, we seem to disagree on the amount of coffee and the type of booze. Her recipe was OK but not the taste I remembered and there was too much mixture left over. Third time lucky. I absolutely nailed it on my third go! Serves: 6 good size portions or 8 average portions. Ingredients: 4 eggs, separated 75g caster sugar 5 tbsp Amaretto 400g mascarpone 250ml coffee 250g sponge fingers biscuits cocoa powder to dust Method: Whisk the egg yolks with the sugar until pale. Whisk in the mascarpone, a little at a time until smooth and combined. I ha...