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Lady Fingers for Tiramisu (8” Round)

Yellow Cake

Ingredients
  • 9oz Butter, room temp
  • 3 cup Sugar
  • 6 Eggs
  • 1 cup Sour cream
  • 1.5 tsp Vanilla
  • 3 cup Flour
  • .25 cup cornstarch
  • 1tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Baking Soda
Directions
  1. Heat oven to 320 degrees. Line 2 – 8” cake pans with parchment
  2. Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl. Mix on high speed until light and fluffy.
  3. On medium speed add eggs, 2 at a time. Then add sour cream and vanilla.  Scrape down the sides and stir until smooth
  4. Sift together flour, cornstarch, salt, and baking soda in a bowl. With the mixer on low add the flour mix to the butter mix until combined.
  5. Fill the pan with batter. Bake 20-30 minutes. Cool to room temp and refrigerate before using

Zablaglione Custard

Ingredients
  • 1.9 cups Marsala
  • .5 cups sugar
  • 1.1 cups egg yolks
Directions
  1. Combine sugar and egg in a large bowl, then add Marsala and cook over a double boiler. Whisking constantly until it reaches 160°F.
  2. Cool for 4+ hours, stirring occasionally.
Ingredients
  • 2# Mascarpone cheese – room temp
  • 1-quart heavy cream
  • 1 cup confectionary sugar
Directions
  1. Whip cream with sugar and set aside.
  2. In another bowl with a paddle, mix mascarpone slightly, mix in cool Marsala custard all at once and pulse in the mixer.
  3. Then gradually add whip cream, scraping the bowl.

Assembly of Tiramisu

Directions

  1. Use cool cake layers, on a parchment-lined cake pan, place the top side of the cake down. Brush with coffee syrup
    • .5 cup coffee
    • ¼ cup sugar
    • .5 cup coffee liquor
  1. Add half the bowl of filling on top of the cake and spread evenly
  2. Sift cocoa over the top.
  3. Add 2nd layer of cake and brush with syrup and top with remaining bowl of filling.
  4. Cocoa on top, then freeze.
  5. Warm sides, tap the cake out of the cake pan
  6. Adhere lady fingers around the side of the cake with whip cream, and finish off the top with whip cream.
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