Tiramisu by Carla Tomini Foresti
Ingredients:
500g mascapone 600ml of cream half a vanilla bean ( 1tsp vanilla essence) 4 espresso coffee shoots 1/2 cup of tia maria 150g sugar 1 cup of milk 1 pkt Savoiard biscuits 250g almonds roasted and crushed pour cream into bowl scrape beans from vanilla pod. add beans and sugar to cream and whip on high for 2mins slowly add the mascapone whip on medium speed for 1 min cream should still be a little runny as it will set in the fridge.
Pour coffee, tia maria and milk into a shallow dish. dip enough biscuits to cover the base of your dish. The Biscuits should be fairly well soaked, but not to much as they will break up. Arrange the biscuits in one tightly layer in the base of the dish. Spread half the cream mascapone mixture over the layer of biscuits then lightly fan a handful of crushed almonds. Add another layer of soaked biscuits and then another layer of the cream mascapone mixture, smoothing the top layer neatly. Fan over the almonds. The flavours will be better developed if you can make the tramisu the night before. Enjoy xox