Best tiramisù recipe: how to make the most famous Italian dessert

What is tiramisù? I think no one of you needs an explanation. This traditional Italian spoon dessert is one of the most famous all over the world. Besides, maybe you still have to find out what is the best tiramisù recipe to try to make it on your own at home, as we do in Italy. This is one of the best known and oldest recipes of Italian cuisine and is made up of layers of ladyfingers – we call them Savoiardi – soaked in coffee and stuffed with a mascarpone-based cream. If you still don’t know how to make tiramisù, by using these ingredients and following my suggestions, you’ll be able to create the most famous dessert of Italian pastry.

The origins and the spread of tiramisù cake

The origins of tiramisù cake are uncertain and the Italian regions of Piedmont, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Veneto contend for its invention. What we know for sure is that this dessert has poor origins and initially, in its first versions, it was much simpler. It seems that its “ancestor” didn’t contain mascarpone cream and was served to children for breakfast.

The authentic tiramisù recipe has now become famous all over the world and in Italy, we also celebrate the Tiramisù Day on 21 March. Moreover, on 5 August 2017, the Ministry of Agricultural Policies officially included this cake in the list of traditional agri-food products of Friuli, thus officially recognizing its authorship.

Italians love to enjoy this dessert at the end of a lunch or dinner with guests or friends and it is considered ideal for celebrating special occasions.

Tiramisu cake recipe: easy to prepare and incredibly tasty

First of all, if you want to follow the classic and easy tiramisù recipe you will have to buy biscuits such as ladyfingers, coffee, eggs, sugar, bitter cocoa, and mascarpone.

Choosing the wine that will accompany the taste and delicacy of tiramisù isn’t difficult, just serve a sweet Italian wine, perhaps sweet Albana or Moscato d’Asti.

To prepare a portion of dessert for 6 people you need:

• 4 eggs,

• 0,22 pounds of sugar,

• 1,10 pounds of mascarpone,

• 0,66 pounds of ladyfingers,

• unsweetened coffee, with the addition of liqueur if you like,

• unsweetened cocoa powder.

The best tiramisu recipe step by step

Here we are: ready to try?

• first of all, separate the yolks from the whites and add them to the sugar;
• whisk them well with an electric whisk or a planetary mixer until the mixture is light and fluffy;
• add the mascarpone (remember to take it out of the fridge 5 minutes before to make it softer) and mix again;
• separately, in another container, whip the egg whites until stiff peaks;
• add them to the egg yolks whipped with the sugar, a little at a time, stirring gently from the bottom up.

The secrets of the authentic tiramisù recipe

You’ve almost finished. Now you have to make a layer of mascarpone cream on the bottom of a baking dish. Quickly dip the ladyfingers on both sides in cold and unsweetened coffee and liqueur. Then arrange the biscuits next to each other forming the first layer. Cover the ladyfingers with the cream, then another layer of ladyfingers, and so on.

Put the tiramisù cake in the refrigerator for about three hours. Before serving, put sprinkling abundant bitter cocoa over the entire surface of the dessert. Use a sieve to sprinkle the cocoa on top, to obtain a compact and very fine powder. You can also accompany the dessert on the plate with strawberries as decoration.

Variants of tiramisù cake recipe

One of the characteristics that make this dessert appreciated is its simplicity which leads to countless variations of the recipe. Italians love to make it with ingredients such as ricotta cheese instead of mascarpone, Nutella cream, fruit such as strawberries or pineapple, nougat, matcha tea, pumpkin, and almonds.

Those who can’t use coffee or eggs invented many different recipes not to renounce to prepare their tiramisù cake.

Over time, one of the adaptations of the classic and original recipe of tiramisu was the use of Italian Pavesini biscuits to replace the Savoiardi.

Even if the original recipe is with simple coffee, a drop of liqueur is enough to transform a classic tiramisù into a dessert with an edge. Choose your favorite liqueur, brandy, cognac, or even marsala. We suggest you add a little marsala liqueur to give the egg and mascarpone cream a more delicious taste.

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