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Some people consider this dessert - tiramisu with savoyardi cookies - humiliating, since it belonged to the lower class of people. But in the modern world it is considered as a festive expensive cake. It is served in expensive cultural institutions, restaurants. Despite its history, tiramisu occupies a leading position among the cakes of Italy. In order to feel the whole taste of dessert, it is eaten in small pieces, according to tradition. And every Italian knows firsthand the tiramisu.
Not everyone can afford going to restaurants, so this article describes how to cook tiramisu with savoyardi cookies, what ingredients it combines with and how to change its composition in case you don’t have the right products.
Various products were discovered in the Italian dish: mascarpone, eggs, savoyards, coffee. Almost all the ingredients are available and known, but the first of them still needs to be found, because this is a special cheese, characterized by a high percentage of fat content. It has a very delicate and unique taste. Savoyardi is easier to find, as it is a simple cookie made from biscuit. It is it that forms the basis of the dish. In addition to the store option, you can use your own cookies. There are many ways to make tiramisu with savoyardi cookies.
Savoyardi cookies at home
Ingredients:
- icing sugar - 50 grams;
- cane sugar - 30 grams;
- chicken eggs - 4 pieces;
- wheat flour - 6 tablespoons.
The Savoyardi cookie recipe for tiramisu is very simple. The following sequence of actions must be observed:
- Put the eggs in the refrigerator - this will help to easily separate the yolk from the protein.
- Separate the egg components - yolk and protein.
- Beat the protein with salt until foamy.
- Beat the yolk until creamy.
- Connect the whipped components together.
- Add flour to them, mix thoroughly until a biscuit batter is obtained.
Using a special syringe, type and then squeeze the prepared dough onto a baking sheet in the form of stripes with a thickness of not more than three centimeters. Put to bake for ten minutes.
Now you know how to cook savoyardi cookies for tiramisu, the photo of which is presented above.
Cooking dessert: fast and tasty
Here is one recipe for Tiramisu cake with savoyardi cookies, chocolate and banana. First you need to make cookies or buy it in a store. There is one condition - cookies must be fresher, otherwise the cake will not be soaked properly. To make a dessert you will need:
- white chocolate - 50 grams;
- banana - 700 grams;
- milk with a low fat content - 250 ml;
- rum - 1 teaspoon;
- cookies - 600 grams;
- chocolate syrup;
- sugar - 100 grams;
- vanillin - 1 teaspoon;
- cocoa;
- brewed coffee - 180 ml;
- mascarpone cheese - 400 grams.
The following procedure:
- Heat the milk, add the finished coffee, then sugar and rum.
- Put cookies on the mold and fill with the resulting liquid.
- Cut the banana into small circles.
- Stir the mascarpone cheese and add the chopped banana. Then sprinkle with powder, but do not whisk.
- Put the soaked cookies on the form, on top of it - the resulting cream and sprinkle with cocoa.
- Garnish with the rest of the banana cake.
So easily you can make Tiramisu cake with savoyardi cookies at home.
Making strawberry cake
To do this, you will need:
- mascarpone - 500 grams;
- strawberries - 400 grams;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- fruit liqueur - 80 ml;
- orange juice - 120 ml;
- Savoyardi cookies - 300 grams;
- icing sugar - 40 grams
Tiramisu with savoyardi cookies and strawberries is very easy to prepare. Follow the instructions below:
- Divide the eggs into squirrels and yolks.
- Add the mascarpone to the yolks and mix.
- Then add whipped proteins to the same mass obtained.
- Mix juice and liquor in a separate bowl.
- Chop strawberries.
- Pour the mixture obtained from juice and liquor onto cookies.
- Top off the finished cream and spread the strawberries.
- Let the cake soak. You can safely serve it on the table.
Dessert Cooking Tips
Distribute cookies and cream into several layers. Pick fresh strawberries. Cake can be sprinkled with chocolate crumbs. Never use vodka for syrup.
Classic Italian Cake Recipe with Ingredients Replacement
Tiramisu cake is usually made with mascarpone cheese and savoyardi cookies, but what if these ingredients are hard to get? Of course, all this can be replaced with other products. This recipe shows how to replace missing foods. To do this, you will need:
- oblong biscuit cookies in the form of fingers - 500 grams;
- amaretto - 100 grams;
- dark chocolate - 80 grams;
- canned pineapple - 1 can;
- orange zest - 30 grams;
- coconut flakes - 50 grams;
- milk - 1 liter;
- oil - 120 grams;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- powdered sugar - 1 cup;
- flour - 4 tablespoons;
- salt - 2 pinches.
How to cook?
You need to cook a regular custard. To do this, take a pan, beat the eggs and add to it, and also pour flour, sugar and salt. Beat everything with a mixer at low speed and pour milk. Boil the contents in a water bath until completely desolate. The cream should not boil. Then pour coconut flakes into the mixture and mix.
After 20 minutes, put the butter in the cream. Then beat again with a mixer. Add chocolate, orange zest to the cream and mix. Cream the cookies and pour the amaretto. Spread everything in layers and garnish with pineapple slices. Then put in the refrigerator for 6 hours. This type of dessert is perfect for decorating a festive table.
To make tiramisu with savoyardi cookies, you can use rum, cognac, brandy, liquor. You can replace the cheese with a curd product or cream. You can choose any cookie, the main thing is that it fits in shape. That's the whole Savoyardi cookie recipe for tiramisu (with photo).
Another way to make delicious cake cookies
Separate the whites from the yolks very carefully. Beat the honey and yolks with a mixer for five minutes. Slowly introduce sugar into the proteins, whisk with a mixer until a white cream is formed. Next, add the protein to the yolk and mix with a wooden spoon. As a result, a light air cream should form. Sift the flour and add starch to it.
Slowly introduce the egg mixture into the flour. Shuffle. The result is a dough that should keep its shape well. Put it in stripes on a baking sheet and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Preheat the oven and set the cookies to bake for 12 minutes at 200 degrees. Remove the finished cookies from the oven, and after cooling - remove from the pan. Now you can use it for further preparation of the cake
Cooking Almond Dessert
To do this, you will need:
- biscuit cookies - 500 grams;
- sugar - 100 grams;
- milk - 200 grams;
- yolk - 4 pieces;
- almond liquor - 30 ml;
- fat cream - 280 ml.
- mascarpone - 300 grams;
- almond flakes for decoration - 20 grams.
Make caramel from sugar. Put it on fire, bring to brown. Remove from heat and pour milk into the mixture. Stir so that the caramel dissolves. Pour the finished syrup through a sieve. Add liquor to it and mix again.
Next, you need to prepare the cream. To do this, it is worth making a water bath (or steam). In a steam bath, beat the yolks with sugar and liquor until a lush, homogeneous mass is formed. Remove from the steam bath and add the mascarpone to the yolk mixture. Pour whipped cream there.
Next, dipped in biscuit cookies in caramel syrup and put it in one layer in a baking dish. On top of it, spread half the cream, then lay out the second layer of cookies and cover with cream again. Sprinkle almond flakes on top of the dessert. Let the cake soak - put in the refrigerator for about 8 hours. Then you can safely start your meal. Enjoy your meal!