Traditional Christmas recipes - Tiramisù

It consists of layers of sponge cake (usually substituted by English style biscuits or ladyfingers) soaked in coffee, interspersed with a mascarpone cream and then sprinkled with dark chocolate. But the original recipe admits many variations.

Ingredients (4 servings): 

250g mascarpone200g fresh cream1 egg white2 tbsp sugar25 pistachios20 cherriesBrandy - 1/2 glass1 package of Ladyfingers (sponge finger biscuits)1 cup milkCinnamon

Preparation method:

Whip the cream and fold the mascarpone into it. Add the sugar and the previously whisked egg whites. Divide the mixture in three thirds. Wash the cherries, remove the seeds and roughly chop them to be now mixed with one third of the whisked cream. Do the same with the pistachios.

Set aside these two mixtures - the cream with cherries and the cream with pistachios. Mix together the milk and the Grappa (if impossible, cognac) in a bowl where you will rapidly dip the biscuits.

Take one of the cups in which the tiramisù will be served and, at the bottom of it, spoon a the cream with pistachios then lay over some of the soaked biscuits.

Spoon over a bit of the mascarpone "white" cream, make another layer of soaked biscuits and, finally, spoon the cream with cherries.

Finish by sprinkling some cinnamon and garnishing with some cherries if desired. Place in freezer for two hours and serve it. 

Lucious!