Recipe / Tiramisu

Finally I could prepare one of my favorite desserts here in Seoul, to surprise my husband Gabriel coming from his business trip. The recipe is really fast and easy! 

So here it comes:

Ingredients (4 persons):

Lady finger biscuits (about 2 packages)

250gr of mascarpone (one portion from the supermarket)

4 eggs

60gr of sugar

A fingertip of salt

Lemon juice

Coffee

Cocoa

optional (Contreau, Grand Manier or a similar sweet liquor)

1. Make the coffee first so it can cool down. If you make a strong one you can dilute it with water. Add sugar if you want.

2. Divide the yolk from the egg white and put them in separate bowls.

3. Mix the yolks with the sugar and the mascarpone until you have a smooth cream.

4. If you like add two tablespoons of the liquor of your choice

5. Mount the egg whites adding a little bit of salt and a hint of lemon juice to help the process

6. With a spoon mix carefully the whites into the rest until you get an homogeneous cream.
7. Put the coffee into a flat container and if you want dilute it with water
8. Take the ladyfingers one by one and immerse them into the coffee just enough that they don't break
9. Adjust the biscuits into a rectangular bow
10. After one layer of biscuits cover the entire bowl you can distribute evenly the cream until you can't see the layer of biscuits anymore.
11. Repeat the layering one or two times more depending on how deep your bowl is.
12. Distribute the cocoa on top of your last layer of cream.
13. Put the Tiramisu in the fridge for about an hours before you serve it.

And then ... Enjoy it!

Tiramisu in Italian means "Pull me up", sort of wake me up. I guess the name comes from the fact that it has coffee in it! So...actually you can eat tiramisu for breakfast since it has a lot of good ingredients to make you start the day.
My mother would prepare it for dinner and we would them keep a part of it for the next moorning. Believe me, it's awesome to start the day with a good tiramisu!