Tiramisu

Name: Tiramisu
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 3 drops good-quality vanilla essence; 50 ml Tia Maria or similar coffee liqueur; 100 g caster sugar; 100 ml water; 1 x 25 cm Vanilla Sponge Cake; 4 medium eggs, separated; 20 g ground coffee; 1.2 kg mascarpone cheese; 50 ml water; 215 g caster sugar; 10 g instant coffee; 40 g cocoa powder

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Ivy

By AA Gill and Mark Hix

Published 1997

About

A classic Italian pudding that Ivy regulars love. They protest when it is taken off the menu. Everyone does it in almost the same way — at least, they use the same ingredients but the results are different.

Ingredients

50 ml water
215 g caster sugar
4 medium

Europe
Italy
Dessert
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

First, place all the ingredients for the syrup in a saucepan with 100 ml water, bring it to the boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and leave the syrup to infuse for 10 minutes. Strain it and put to one side.

Then bring the 50