This month's Daring Bakers' challenge was called 'heaven on a dessert plate' and boy was it ever!The official lines - The February 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and Deeba of Passionate About Baking. They chose Tiramisu as the challenge for the month. Their challenge recipe is based on recipes from The Washington Post, Cordon Bleu at Home and Baking Obsession.
I've never really been a fan of tiramisu but I know now that's only because I hadn't tasted the real deal. Apart from the light-as-air ladyfinger biscuits the filling for this version contains four different elements - homemade marscapone, zabaglione, vanilla pastry cream and whipped cream. Whew. No wonder it tastes so good!
The homemade marscapone was a revelation. Never again will I buy marscapone knowing just how easy it is to make and how delicious. We're not keen on marsala so I flavoured the zabaglione with coffee which resulted in a wonderful latte coloured cream. The hint of lemon in the pastry cream worked beautifully with the coffee flavours.
The taste test ...
Oh. My. God. Absolute perfection. I think I uderwhipped the cream so the filling was a little soft but otherwise this truly was heaven on a plate. I won't bother ordering it at a restaurant, I don't think it could ever match up to this!Thank you Deeba and Aparna for a wonderful recipe this month. I think this is my favourite DB challenge so far!
Love the star! I enjoyed this too, and was amazed at being able to make mascarpone. As a friend said to me, "I thought it was more exotic than that!"
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous job! I love the cocoa star on top - its absolutely adorable! I'm so glad that you loved this challenge - I did too!
ReplyDeleteDoes look tasty. The star on top is perfection. Great job.
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