About three years ago if you had asked me to cook you something I would have thrown piece of chicken in the oven with some salt and pepper and olive oil and baked it. I hated cooking and wasn't very good at it. After I got married I started experimenting with cooking by following simple recipes, I started to enjoy watching my husband's face light up and gauged a recipe by how many MMMMM's I got from my husband. It just began to evolve from there........

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Tiramisu

This desert went along with the gnocchi dinner for my sister's birthday. I didn't change a thing. I snagged this little gem from Sandra Lee on the food network.......


Ingredients

  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 3/4 cup sugar, divided
  • 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, at room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 (7-ounce) package ladyfingers
  • 1 cup strong black coffee
  • 1 teaspoon cocoa powder

Directions

Have 4 (8-ounce) wine glasses ready.

In a chilled bowl combine 3/4 cup of heavy cream and 1/4 cup sugar. Whip with a hand mixer until soft peaks form. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.

In a large bowl combine the cream cheese, 1/4 cup heavy cream, vanilla and the remaining 1/2 cup of sugar. Whip with a hand mixer until light until fluffy.

Reserve 4 ladyfingers for garnish. Using1 lady finger at a time, snap or cut in half, then dip it quickly into the coffee, and drop it into the bottom of a wine glass. Repeat with the other 3 glasses. Put a heaping tablespoon of the cream cheese mixture on top of the ladyfingers in each glad. Do another layer of ladyfingers dipped in coffee, another of the cream cheese mixture, then 1 more layer of ladyfingers. Top with remaining filling and dollop with the whipped cream. Break the reserved 4 ladyfingers in half and insert 2 halves into the top of each glass.

Put the cocoa powder into a small sieve and tap it gently over each glass to dust the tops. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving.




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