The famous Italian dessert has won the love of most sweet fans. It is not difficult to prepare it at home. The only difficulty can be an ingredient such as real Italian savoyardi cookies.
What is Tiramisu?
Tiramisu is the most popular Italian dessert. The history of the cake begins in the 17th century. Then, tiramisu was prepared in the form of a soup. Later, it turned into a delicious dessert with a unique taste.
Translated from Italian, the name of the cake sounds like "take me upstairs." This is due to its lightness and airiness. In addition, the soft taste of coffee and chocolate has an invigorating effect.
For the preparation of the cake, products such as mascarpone cheese, savoyardi cookies and Marsala wine are necessarily used.
How is Savoyardi different from regular cookies?
Savoyardi is an essential ingredient in tiramisu cake. These are elongated biscuit cookies. The top of the cookie is sprinkled with sugar grains. Due to their structure, the biscuits absorb liquid very well and become tender and soft.
How to replace savoyardi?
You won't be able to buy such cookies in any store. The probability that you will find this particular cookie is very small. But, instead of a long search, you can try to replace it with another cookie, or cook it yourself.
An excellent substitute for Savoyardi cookies is the well-known Ladies Fingers cookies. These cookies are similar in structure to savoyardi cookies, but they are made from shortcrust pastry. When preparing a Tiramisu cake, you will have to spend a little more effort to soak the cookies.
But if you still want to taste the real taste of tiramisu, you can cook savoyardi yourself.
To prepare real Italian cookies, you will need: 3 eggs, 100 g of granulated sugar, 70 g of thoroughly sifted flour, 40 g of powdered sugar, salt, butter, margarine.
The first step to cooking is to preheat the oven to 180º.
Then, you need to separate the yolks from the whites. First, we use the yolks.
We take 3 yolks and 70 g of granulated sugar. Mix them, and then beat with a mixer until foam forms. After the foam appears, add flour.
Now it's time to work with protein. The whites of 3 eggs should also be beaten until foam appears, after which the resulting masses should be combined.
Next, grease a baking sheet with margarine and lightly sprinkle with flour. Then, using a pastry syringe, squeeze sticks about 10 cm long onto a sheet. For convenience, you can bake the cookies in one whole layer, and after cooking, cut them into equal sticks.
Before sending the cookies to the oven, sprinkle them with half a mixture of 40g of powder and 30g of sugar. And pour out the rest after 10 minutes.
The appetizing golden look of the cookie will indicate its complete readiness.
