My Favourite Pick-me-up

Name: My Favourite Pick-me-up
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 90 ml (3 fl oz, ⅓ cup) strong espresso coffee; Juice of 2 large oranges; 2 tablespoons Kahlua liqueur (or Camp coffee essence); 50 g (2 oz, ⅓ cup) caster sugar; 1 orange, all peel and pith removed, divided into segments, to decorate; 2 eggs; Zest of 1 large orange; 100 g (4 oz, ½ cup) mascarpone; 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier; 8 boudoir sponge fingers or savoiardi, cut into 1 cm (½ in) cubes; 100 g (4 oz, ⅔ cup) caster sugar; 100 ml (3½ fl oz, ½ cup) double cream, semi-whipped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Passion for Cheese

By Paul Gayler

Published 1997

About

This is in fact a frozen version of that astonishingly popular dessert, tiramisù, which means pick-me-up in Italian. It is served with a refreshing orange sauce, but a plain coffee or even chocolate sauce would also be extremely good.

Ingredients

2 eggs
50 g (2 oz, ⅓ cup)

Europe
Italy
Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

Put the eggs, sugar and Kahlua in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water, making sure the water is not touching the base of the bowl. Whisk until the mixture is pale, thick and creamy and has doubled in volume; a hand-held electric beater is useful for this. Remove the bowl from the pan of water and continue to whisk until the mixture is cold.

Warm the mascarpone slightly, then fold i