Today Tiramisu cake is as popular as Napoleon or Honey cake was once. As a basis, Tiramisu cookies are used, which you can bake with your own hands. If you need to cook a dessert quickly - below are tips on how to use a similar cookie.
Classic dessert is decorated with cocoa powder. Can be decorated with berries and mint leaves.
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Tiramisu cookies - Savoyardi's classic recipe
When cooked correctly with this recipe, you get incredibly delicate, fragile tiramisu cookies.
From the listed number of products, two baking sheets with cookies are obtained:
- 3 eggs;
- 100 g of fine sugar (can be replaced with powder);
- 75 grams of wheat flour;
- a couple of spoons of sugar for sprinkling;
- a pinch of salt;
- ½ tsp lemon juice, a little more.
First, prepare the foam. It is better to use a mixer - this will speed up the process. At the beginning of mixing, the speed should be the lowest. When the protein mass is beaten to a steep, stable foam, which is held on the whisk, add sugar and speed up the whipping a little. The result should be a very dense foam structure.
The next will be the yolks: they need to be beaten first on their own, after a little bit add sugar or powder. After pouring them into proteins, but no longer mix them with a blender, otherwise the protein peaks will settle. Gently mix with a silicone spatula or spoon to distribute the yolks more or less evenly.
At this stage, we begin to add the sifted flour in small portions and mix lightly with a spatula so as not to precipitate the splendor of the resulting mass.
Using a pastry bag, spread the dough on a baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes in a preheated oven at 180 degrees. Cool down.
Cookies can be eaten with tea as an independent dessert or used to make more complex cakes and pastries.
On a note. In the classic Tiramisu recipe, the Savoyardi recipe is used to make the base - the usual biscuit dough, prepared so that it is slightly overdried and very light, porous.
Recipe from Julia Vysotskaya
- 5 eggs;
- powdered sugar;
- ½ powdered sugar;
- 0.5 kg of mascarpone;
- a pinch of salt;
- coffee;
- a couple of spoons of brandy.
Carefully separate the proteins and yolks. We carefully monitor that the yolk does not get to the protein, otherwise it will not work to whip the thick peaks. Leave the proteins in the fridge for a while - they whip better when cold.
Meanwhile, beat the yolk with powdered sugar into a thick mass until smooth. Next, enter the mascarpone and mix gently.
Beat the whites with salt, put in the cheese and egg mass and mix gently.
To prepare the base. Put the prepared biscuit or Savoyardi cookies (according to the previous recipe) to the bottom of the form. Brew strong coffee, the total volume of approximately 200 gr. Add cognac to it, for impregnation. Spoon the base gently with a spoon. Pour cream on top of the cream and send to the refrigerator for solidification.
Before serving, you can pour over chocolate topping or sprinkle with nut crumbs.
On a note. Cognac can be replaced with another alcoholic drink - brandy, rum, aromatic liquor (amaretto).
How to replace savoyardi cookies in tiramisu?
Beginner chefs often use recipes in haste, which significantly speed up the preparation of the dish.
We offer options for replacing the classic tiramisu cookies:
- Savoyardi cookies can be replaced with ordinary ladies' fingers. They look like classic cookies, but more shortbread. Therefore, during the preparation of the dessert, it must be more carefully impregnated with coffee and liquor.
- Also, creamy or ordinary cookies for children are suitable for the base.
- It is worth noting the most popular analogue for the basis of Tiramisu in our area - a simple biscuit. It is soaked well, and the dessert is soft and tender.
All these options are quite suitable, but do not forget - the real taste will only be when using the classic Savoyardi cookies.
On a note. The base must be saturated. Dessert can be prepared in portions, in separate cups. It is very convenient for gatherings with guests - it will be convenient for everyone to take a dessert served in this form.
Tiramisu from cottage cheese and cookies at home
A quick recipe. Perhaps for a big holiday it will not be, by the way, but for gatherings with girlfriends or family tea drinking, what you need!
The recipe for tiramisu from cottage cheese and cookies has an extremely simple combination of products:
- packing shortbread cookies;
- 200 grams of low-fat cottage cheese;
- 100 gr sour cream;
- 50 grams of sugar;
- a pinch of vanillin;
- brewed coffee (or instant coffee drink);
- cocoa.
We brew a small cup of coffee in advance.
From cottage cheese, sour cream, sugar and vanilla, we prepare a cream for dessert. We put everything in a deep container and with a whisk knead a homogeneous cream. You can use a blender - so cooking will speed up at times.
We spread a layer of cookies on a flat dish, dipping it in a coffee drink. We spread the cream with the next layer, then repeat the layer of cookies and again - the cream, until the products run out. The last layer is cream. Sprinkle cocoa on top.
We put the dessert in the refrigerator for a couple of hours to freeze the cream. We set the table.
On a note. The coffee is made very strong, without sugar. Alcoholic drinks enriching the taste with a piquant aroma are added if desired.
Secrets of cooking ladies fingers
Focusing on simple tips, Lady’s fingers will turn out to be light, porous, airy:
- Egg and yolk mass should be beat separately.When connecting, in no case does not use a mixer and a high speed of processing with a whisk.
- It is recommended to use finely ground sugar or replace it with powder, which can be ground in a coffee grinder from regular sugar. Powder will make the mass more resistant.
- For a delicate, delicate aroma, add a little lemon extract to the dough. By the way, it will make the dough lighter, and as a result, after baking, the cookies will get a pleasant golden hue.
- Use only fresh products in recipes. This is especially true for eggs and dairy components.
- Proteins are better whipped if they are pre-cooled.
It is worth noting that in different countries Savoyardi cookies are prepared under various names. "Ladies' fingers" is the name of the dessert that came to us from the UK. The Dutch call it “long fingers” - they cook it in thin long stripes. In Germany, this cookie is wider and is called "spoons." And Brazilians call it “champagne biscuits” - probably for its relative softness and porosity, reminiscent of champagne bubbles.
