When I got
fed up with the coffee and chocolate tiramisu which you find in every nook and
cranny on the Italian peninsula, I picked up the best lemon tiramisu recipe.
Enormous success! The recipe came from a friend of mine called Anna Benetti who
lived in Bologna. She was the one who called it Sorrento Dream.
Sorrento Dream Ingredients
4/5 people
- 120 gr (4.5
ounces) of lady finger biscuits
- 250 gr ( 9
ounces) mascarpone
- 100 gr (
3.75 ounces) of fresh cream
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 and a
half little liquer glasses of limoncello (about 50 ml or 3 tablespoons)
- 100 gr
(3.75 ounces) sugar
- Juice of one large lemon or more,
according to taste
Preparation
First
prepare the mix for dipping the biscuits in.
Put 50 grs
of sugar in about two glasses of water with the lemon juice. Boil it just for a
few minutes. Then, when it is cool, put in about one little glass of
limoncello. Then dip the biscuits, (flip
flop) very quickly, one by one and lay them in the dish. Some liquid is always
left over but resist the urge to pour it over the biscuits as they will be too
soggy!
Beat the
egg yolks with about 50 grms of sugar. Then add in the mascarpone. Then add in
about half a glass of limoncello. Keep beating gently with the mixer as you do
this. Taste it now and add in some extra lemon juice if it is not lemony
enough.. I sometimes add in a drop or two of limoncello but you have to be
careful here as it will get too alcoholic. (Some people would actually love
that!). Lots of finger licking going on here, all in the name of culinary
science!
Beat the
cream apart. When it is fairly stiff, spoon it into the mascarpone nice and
gently, rather than beating it in which makes it too liquidy. You should now have a delicious creamy mix.
Just smooth it all over the biscuits and pop in the fridge for at least 3
hours.
For the
decoration, you can just grate the rind of the lemon over it at the last
minute. Adds a bit of colour, but entirely optional.
Another
decoration is to dry fry gently some flaked almonds and add them on top to give
some extra colour and texture.
Try this
and you will soon see why I have called it the best lemon tiramisu recipe. Dead
simple to make. Kids and adults love it!
