Antonio Carluccio

Pick-me-up

Tiramisú

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
An Invitation to Italian Cooking
An Invitation to Italian Cooking

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 1986

  • About

‘This is one of my favourite desserts, made with that killer of a cheese, mascarpone. There are many recipes for tiramisu, which translated means “pick-me-up” or “lift-me-up”, due obviously to the large amount of calories - and caffeine! - in it. This recipe is my version of the original.’

Ingredients

  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 tbsp caster sugar
  • 1 tsp

Method

Put the egg, sugar and vanilla sugar in a bowl and mix gently to a creamy consistency. Add the mascarpone and fold in to obtain a cream.

Put the coffee in a bowl with the coffee liqueur. Dip the biscuits for a second or two in the coffee mixture, letting them absorb just enough to keep firm but not fall apart. Starting with the biscuits, arrange in four individual dishes alternating lay