Tiramisu

First up for the Recipe Page is my ever favorite Tiramisu! 🙂

I’ve tried different ingredients and preparations for Tiramisu but I decided to stick to this one. Simple but deli-sh.

Ingredients: (for the cake)


4 eggs
115g (4oz) sugar
100g (3.5oz) plain flour
15g (0.5oz) corn flour
25g (1oz) butter, melted

Ingredients for Filling:


115g (4oz) plain chocolate, grated
150ml very strong coffee (i prefer espresso)
100ml coffee liquor, Tia Maria or Kahlua
300ml double cream
2.5ml vanilla essence
50g sugar
3x250g cartons mascarpone cheese
cocoa powder (to decorate)

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F. Grease and base line a 22cm (8.5 inches) spring-form cake tin. Place eggs in a bowl and whisk while slowly adding sugar. Whisk until pale, thick and creamy. The mixture should be thick enough to hold a trail when the whisk is pulled from the surface.

2. Sieve the flour and cornflour together and lightly fold in half with the mixture using a metal spoon. Fold in half of the melted butter, then repeat with the remaining flour and butter. Fold in lightly to avoid knocking the air from the mix.

3. Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden. Turn out and leave to cool overnight if time allows.


4. Mix the coffee and the coffee liquor together. Cut the cake into 3 layers.

5. Line the base and sides of the cake tin with clear film and base it with non stick baking parchment. Place one sponge layer in the base. Sprinkle over a bout a third of the coffee mixture.

6. Whip the double cream, vanilla and sugar together until it forms soft peaks. Fold in the mascarpone cheese. Mix well. Spread 1/3 of the mixture over the sponge. Sprinkle over half of the grated chocolate. Top with another layer of sponge. Drizzle over half of the remaining coffee mixture. Top with half of the remaining cheese mixture and all the grated chocolate. Top with the last sponge and press down slowly and lightly. Finish with a final layer of cheese mixture. Chill for 2-3 hours.

7. Release form the tin, peel off the clear film and transfer to a serving plate. Spread the reserved cheese mixture around the edges. Sprinkle with chocolate, dust with cocoa powder and serve.

Kablog!

Boredom simply means one person is not capable of living his or her life in same routine anymore.

This applies to me.

Since this is my first entry, I want to tell you what pushed me to make this blog. Actually, this is not the first time I did the blogging thing. I made a food blog before and then I got bored and I stop. It was the upshot of my cooking auxiliary activity and my “Ningas Cogon” hullabaloo. Yes, sa una lang ako hyper. After that deadma na!

A lot of things happened to me these past few months. Nonsense and extraneous things kept whamming inside my head and writing a diary seems so old school for me. I felt that I’ve been a little too sensitive to every stimulus and I came to a point that I cannot control myself anymore. In short, I’m bitching every single person in my personal circle. (Sorry!)

Boredom is the culprit.

Okay, I need an outlet. Some told me I should go back to photography. Some offered a volunteer job. Some told me to go to the gym. I want to do all these things but I can’t find my “feel-good-fairy-godmother”. I’m lazy and I chose to be lazy. It seems that the world is moving fast and it’s leaving me behind. So, I decided to make a personal blog about EVERYTHING. Yes, everything and anything that my subconscious is telling me to post here. I’m not a writer nor a slick-highly-opinionated-writing-aficionado. I’m just me. A monotonous superhero who wish to save the world but cannot save herself.

Welcome to my World.