Strawberries & Cream Tiramisu

Italy meets the UK in this delicious dessert.

3 hours cook

Serves 5

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Ingredients

    For the strawberry syrup & biscuits:
  • 800gstrawberries, hulled
  • 150gcaster sugar
  • 200mlwater
  • 100mlstrawberry liqueur
  • roughly 60lady finger biscuits
  • For the mascarpone cream:
  • 5 eggs
  • 100gsugar
  • 1/4 tspsea salt
  • 800gmascarpone
  • Other bits
  • 500gfresh strawberries, halved
  • to tastedried strawberry powder

Nothing says British summer like strawberries and cream. Think lazy afternoons watching tennis surrounded by hounds in your rotting ancestral country house.

Method

  • In a saucepan, heat the strawberries, caster sugar and water together. Cook until the strawberries have broken up and the sugar has dissolved. Remove from the heat and stir through the liqueur.
  • Find an 8 by 12 inch baking dish. Dip the biscuits two at a time in the strawberry liquid, then arrange them to fill the bottom of the dish.
  • Meanwhile, prepare a hot water bath with a pan of hot water with a glass heatproof bowl over it. Add the eggs, sugar and salt and whisk. Use a digital thermometer to check the temperature of the eggs - keep whisking until it hits 71°C.
  • Remove them from the heat and use an electric whisk to whisk the eggs until the whisk leaves a trail behind it. At this point, beat in the mascarpone a large spoonful at a time.
  • Spread a third of the mixture over the soggy fingers, then top with halved strawberries. Repeat, until you have three layers of biscuits.
  • Pipe the remaining mixture on top and scatter with the strawberry powder.
  • Pop in the fridge for at least an hour.
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