Tiramisu

Gordon Ramsay recipes Quick tiramisu recipe

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Date Published:
29/01/2010

Try this classic Italian dessert from Gordon Ramsay's Cookalong USA

Serves 4

Ingredients

  • 225g mascarpone
  • 35g icing sugar
  • 4 tbsp Marsala, or sweet dessert wine such as vin santo
  • 1 vanilla pod, or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 170ml double cream
  • 225ml cold strong coffee
  • 4 sponge fingers
  • Piece chocolate, to grate as garnish

Method: How to make tiramisu

1. Sift the icing sugar into the mascarpone. If using a vanilla pod, split it open and scrape out the seeds. Add the vanilla seeds (or vanilla extract) and Marsala to the mascarpone and mix well.

2. In a separate bowl, whisk the cream until you reach the soft peak stage.

3. Mix the cream and mascarpone together and refrigerate if possible.

4. Break the sponge fingers in two and very briefly dip them in the cold coffee. Divide them into the bottom of the serving glasses and spoon over the mascarpone mixture.

5. Grate a little chocolate on top before serving.

Not quite the pud you were looking for? Try one of these:

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  1. to gordan your recipes are great and i am achully going to try them and before i don't forget i am a kind and i do loe cooking see you on your next show well i won't be there but i'll watch on tv and i do like your cookalong chow stephanie
    Posted by stephanie47316273 on 06/02/2010 10:12:51
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  2. elwood - Have you thought about copying and pasting into a word page and then printing that? This is what I do.
    Posted by Dougalsmum on 03/02/2010 16:31:44
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  3. Does anyone know what 250g of marscarpone cheese converts to in US measurements? Thanks also for the Baileys tip.
    Posted by Denise on 11/01/2010 00:19:08
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  4. 10 minute tiramasu
    Posted by Leah McCrone on 04/01/2010 19:45:15
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  5. Love the new Cookalong Show... Great recipes and personalities!
    Posted by Foodfan on 19/12/2009 03:44:53
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  6. It's a real crock you can't just print the recipe without getting 3 other pages of needless garbage, epsecially when you think about the cost of ink and the waste of paper during this the time of the "Green generation"
    Posted by elwood on 16/12/2009 22:21:23
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  7. The problem with some recipies are the ingredients. Take for instance this recipe. I have never heard of mascarpone, don't know what it is or even where to get it. The show also did not say how much of each ingredient to use so it was very hard to follow.
    Posted by Michele720 on 16/12/2009 03:03:34
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  8. thx for the recipe I manage to pass my home economics with flying colours I'm a secondary 2 in Singapore and I. Find this web site useful.if you screwed up your mixture or if it's too wet and runny just continue doing then the final product you keep it in the fridge until it thickens or you can put your runny mixture into the fridge first then when it thickens you pour it over the soaked biscuits. There is not really a need to use coffee liquer as it taste good by itself . If you really want a coffee liquer but do not have I suggest you replace with a coffee syrup(3tsp coffee powder+1tsp hot water ) hope that helps=)
    Posted by Kekster on 18/10/2009 14:01:55
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  9. Quote from Makaijin: "Whatever you do, DON'T overbeat the mascarpone mixture." First of all, if you read the recipe, your not supposed to beat the two together. It says mix. No wonder why you got a soup. The recipe works like it should.
    Posted by blknght on 12/09/2009 21:43:04
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  10. if u dnt put the masala wine..duz it still taste as gud ???
    Posted by aleah on 06/07/2009 18:28:11
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  11. What was the name of the bird that was a "pest" on this episode? Is it the same as "crows" in Canada? Would love to get rid of a few on our farm.
    Posted by jay on 12/04/2009 16:20:05
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  12. hi...can anyone please tell me how far in advance can I make this?
    Posted by Al on 26/03/2009 08:36:24
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  13. tia maria is better than masala in tiramisu. gives it a much richer taste
    Posted by michelle on 10/02/2009 17:04:47
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  14. hiiiiiii
    Posted by fenton on 09/01/2009 11:24:01
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  15. I love your show Gordon, and my cooking has come a long way following your receipes! My husband and kids love it too!!!!
    Posted by Lina on 21/12/2008 18:48:29
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  16. This is great but i had no Masala and tried Bailey's. Wow it was fabulously yummy
    Posted by Jan on 18/11/2008 17:58:39
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  17. Tyr 12tbsp marsala ans 2 tbsp tia maria , lot nicer , and for the brave 4 egg yolk and 1 whole egg , mix in bain marie to sabyon , fold into mascapone mix, nice , lot nicer and richer
    Posted by jamie on 15/11/2008 19:34:30
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  18. Sainsbury's has Marsala wine for £4.29
    Posted by Ian on 13/11/2008 15:54:16
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  19. I bought my Marsala wine from my local Oddbins store. There's a tip i need to mention to those attempting it for the first time. Whatever you do, DON'T overbeat the mascarpone mixture, same applies to the cream as well. I learned it the hard way, but if you overbeat or over whisk the stuff, it turns into a glossy liquid. Basically the mixture goes from unmixed to a matt looking, gel-spongy consistency, which is what you want. If you overbeat it (I tend to overdo things) it'll turn into a glossy looking liquid which is NOT what you want.
    Posted by Makaijin on 11/11/2008 06:19:23
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  20. Fantastic program, fantastic Gordon. However guests not so fantastic. Patsy Kensit was mildly funny to a point, however Amanda Holden was trying to be something she's not. If it wasn't for Gordon I would have switched off. Please select guests who are entertaining without resorting to bad language and inuendos, someone who wants to be there to take part, reflecting Gordon's excellence in the kitchen.
    Posted by Jax Adders on 09/11/2008 17:48:14
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  21. what shops available to buy marsala(masala)wine. as unable to find anywhere in scotland. if not any other substitutes that would be suitable for your puddings thanks x
    Posted by kathleen mcdowall on 09/11/2008 02:00:10
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