During World War in Italy, soldiers had to leave homeland for battle and their wife wanted to prepare a dessert full of love and is highly energetic to help their husband stay alive and to remember to come back home and pick his wife up. Therefore she uses the remainder ingredients such as sugar, eggs, cheese, biscuit as well as caffeine of espresso coffee for the energy and perhaps adding alcohol to help them stay calm and relax. She not only chooses their ingredients wisely but also name this dessert "Tiramisu" which mean "Pick me up" so that whenever their husband had a taste of Tiramisu on the war, he would think of his hometown and his beloved wife. He took away not only Tiramisu, but also the deeply love from his wife.
Long story short and below is my step by step recipe
Ingredients
Toppings
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
Coffee dip
- 1&1/2 cups espresson coffee
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1/4 or 1/2 cup of liquor(rum/brandy)
Zabaglion filling
- 4 egg yolk
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup wine(Marsala but if you can't find, you can use any other sweet wine/dessert wine. For me I use moscato or ice wine as substitute)
- 500g mascarpone cheese
- 400g whipping cream
Base
- 1 pack of ladyfinger biscuits(approximately 40 sticks)
Toppings
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
Coffee dip
- 1&1/2 cups espresson coffee
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1/4 or 1/2 cup of liquor(rum/brandy)
Zabaglion filling
- 4 egg yolk
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup wine(Marsala but if you can't find, you can use any other sweet wine/dessert wine. For me I use moscato or ice wine as substitute)
- 500g mascarpone cheese
- 400g whipping cream
Base
- 1 pack of ladyfinger biscuits(approximately 40 sticks)