green tea tiramisu

soooooooo......... on the flight home from japan, gareth's meal came with a green tea tiramisu but because i have the vegetarian meal, i get boring stuff. airlines assume that cause you're a vego it automatically means you're a vegan and that means no dairy and no eggs grrrrr! so, ate half of gareth's green tea tiramisu and was pleasantly surprised at how much i liked. so much so that i came home and googled the recipe!

so, i found this recipe off this woman's blog "http://chezannies.blogspot.com/2007/01/green-tea-ramisu.html" however i didn't find it as easy to make as she had made out but it was still delicious...

ingredients:

1 - 1 1/2 cups of strongly brewed green tea (i used 3 teabags but next time i think i'll use 4)

2 - 3 packets of ladyfinger biscuits depending on whether you want to do the fence

3 egg yolks

1/2 cup sugar

250g mascarpone cheese

1 cup heavy cream (i didn't know what heavy cream was so i used thickened cream but next time will use 1 1/2 cups instead)

1 tspn vanilla extract

2 tspns matcha (green tea powder)

* beat the egg yolks and sugar in stainless steel bowl over pot of simmering water until the mixture is pale and double in size (now i had a little trouble with this trying to figure out when it was ready)

*cool the mixture in an ice water bath (i didn't do this, i just left it to cool whilst doing the other stuff)

*in a mixer, beat the mascarpone cheese until smooth and creamy

* add the match powder small amounts at a time. mix to blend well but don't over beat

* fold the mascarpone cheese into the egg yolk mixture

* in a seperate bowl, whip the cream till soft peaks form. add vanilla.

* fold the marscarpone mixture into the whipped cream and gently mix.

* dip each ladyfinger quickly into the brewed green tea and line the base of a cheesecake tin (if you want to do the fences, then line the side of the tin with ladyfingers that haven't been dipped)

* spread a layer of the cream over the top and then repeat with soaking and layering the ladyfingers (be careful not to soak them too much, dip them quickly so they get moist but that's it)

* the recipe said 3 layers of biscuits and 3 layers of cream but i only got 2 layers (however that could be cause i used thickened cream or cause i didn't beat the egg yolks enough - who knows)

* refrigerate overnight.

level of difficulty: read a few times and make notes before you try

time: free parking in shopping centre almost up

end result: hi fives all 'round

enjoy! we did!

ky xx

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