Name: Tirami Su (Whip-me-up)
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 400 g (14 oz) mascarpone or full-fat soft cheese; sugar; 2 large egg whites (size 1–2) (optional); 50–75 g (2–3 oz) bitter or plain chocolate, grated; 1 fatless sponge cake; 270 ml (8 fl oz) black coffee made from medium roast beans and lightly sweetened; 2 × 15 ml spoon (2 tablespoons) rum or brandy; 4 large egg yolks (size 1–2); 100 g (4 oz) caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cooking of the Mediterranean

By Jane Grigson

Published 1991

About

The engaging name of this Italian pudding groups it with fools, trifles, whim-whams – in other words you can whip it up in a few minutes, it’s nothing, a trifle, any fool can do it. Such puddings depend for their success on rich ingredients set off by some sharp or bitter flavour that lifts them out of the childish. In this case, mascarpone, the beautiful full-fat soft cream cheese of Italy, and eggs, spiked with bitter coffee, a hint of rum and shavings of bitter chocolate to provide the c