Teaching my son to like different things is like climbing mount everest! Even though I realized that the amount of vegetables ( only raw ons though ) our son is eating is not common at all ( which makes my poor soul a little bit proud ) nevertheless I keep fighting for a wider diet – with little success I have to admit.
Only recently he discovered tiramisu at our local italian ( who is actually from sri lanka ) and liked it a lot. But foolish me had no better idea to teach him how to make it. If only I’d known better…
We made it in our holidays in sardinia, I haven’t made a tiramisu since in was a teenager. Tiramisu used to be my standard contribution to school parties.
Anyway everything went fine till he got to taste the cream. The mascarpone we bought had quite a strong cheese flavor and the whole cream tasted quite strong of sweet cheese. My little chef was rather disgusted. A little bit vanilla and some lemon zest fixed the problem but I think till this day he remembers this and so far hasn’t eaten a tiramisu with the same love he had before.
Funny thigh is we developed a new appetite for it. I started experimenting with it and came up with quite a nice recipe.
You’ll need:
250gr mascarpone
2 egg yolks
2 tbs sugar
1/4 tb vanilla seeds
zest of 1/2 lemon
2 dl whipped cream
1.5 cups strong black coffee mixed with
2 tbs brandy
Savoiardi biscuits
some cocoa powder and black chocolate
Beat the egg yolks and the sugar till light. Add the mascarpone, vanilla seeds, lemon zest and mix well. Then add 2-3 tbs of the expresso- brandy mixture. Beat the cream and add.
Dip the biscuits on both sides into the expresso brandy and place them on the bottom of a plate or an oven tray. Cover with a approx. 2 cm layer of the mascarpone mixture. Then comes an other layer of biscuits and one more mascarpone.
Let it rest in the fridge for at least 3 hours.
Dust it with cocoa powder and some grated frozen dark chocolate.
Teaching my son to like different things is like climbing mount everest! Even though I realized that the amount of vegetables ( only raw ons though ) our son is eating is not common at all ( which makes my poor soul a little bit proud ) nevertheless I keep fighting for a wider diet – with little success I have to admit.
Only recently he discovered tiramisu at our local italian ( who is actually from sri lanka ) and liked it a lot. But foolish me had no better idea to teach him how to make it. If only I’d known better…
We made it in our holidays in sardinia, I haven’t made a tiramisu since in was a teenager. Tiramisu used to be my standard contribution to school parties.
Anyway everything went fine till he got to taste the cream. The mascarpone we bought had quite a strong cheese flavor and the whole cream tasted quite strong of sweet cheese. My little chef was rather disgusted. A little bit vanilla and some lemon zest fixed the problem but I think till this day he remembers this and so far hasn’t eaten a tiramisu with the same love he had before.
Funny thigh is we developed a new appetite for it. I started experimenting with it and came up with quite a nice recipe.
You’ll need:
Beat the egg yolks and the sugar till light. Add the mascarpone, vanilla seeds, lemon zest and mix well. Then add 2-3 tbs of the expresso- brandy mixture. Beat the cream and add.
Dip the biscuits on both sides into the expresso brandy and place them on the bottom of a plate or an oven tray. Cover with a approx. 2 cm layer of the mascarpone mixture. Then comes an other layer of biscuits and one more mascarpone.
Let it rest in the fridge for at least 3 hours.
Dust it with cocoa powder and some grated frozen dark chocolate.