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Happy Valentine’s Day! This day last year I made Mr. molten lava cake. This year, I made a Tiramisu and I would like to share the recipe of this easy-to-make dessert with you. This recipe can fill a cake pan sized 8 in x 8 in x 2 in deep.

Traditional recipe calls for mascarpone cheese, but it’s not available at all grocery stores. I replace it with cream cheese because it’s more common. The flavour of cream cheese was masked by other ingredients so it’s not over-powering. I also added some Kahlua to spice it up!

Tiramisu

Ingredients

Ingredients for Tiramisu

• 250 g cream cheese
• 200 g lady fingers
• 250 ml whipping cream
• 4 egg yolks
• 1 cup coffee (room temperature)
• 4 tablespoons icing sugar
• 1.5 teaspoons gelatine
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 4 teaspoons Kahlua (coffee flavoured liqueur)
• A few drops vanilla extract

Preparation

1. Beat the egg yolks, icing sugar and vanilla extract at high speed until creamy
   

   Egg yolks, icing sugar, vanilla extract

2. Dissolve the gelatine powder in a small amount of water; add in the solution to the egg mixture and beat for 1-2 minutes
   

   Egg mixture

3. Add the cream cheese in the mixture from step #2. Beat at high speed into a mayo-like mixture. Put it in the fridge.
   

   Adding cream cheese

4. Whip the whipping cream until stiff (I did actually put it above my dad’s head to check!).
   

   Whipped cream

5. Take the cheese mixture from the fridge and fold in the whipped cream until nice and creamy. You can add some Kahlua to the cake mixture too for an extra kick!
   

   Folding the whipped cream

6. Pour the coffee into a flat container; add the Kahlua for flavouring. One at a time dip the lady fingers in the coffee and place them in the cake container.
   

   Arranging soaked lady fingers

7. After filling the first layer of lady fingers, pour a nice layer of cake mixture from step #5. Add another layer of lady fingers and top it with the cake mixture.
   

   Layering lady fingers and cake mixture

8. Wrap it with aluminum foil (do not use plastic wrap as it sticks to the cake mixture) and chill it in the fridge for at least 4 hours.
   

   Topped with cake mixture

9. Take the cake out of the fridge. Sprinkle cocoa powder on top to finish.
   

   Cocoa powder to finish

In this case, I found a heart-shaped container and a heart-shaped cookie cutter to be more fitting for the festivities.

Tiramisu

Mr. gave me a thumbs-up so I hope you guys would enjoy this recipe too!