Tiramisù
Tiramisù is the most famous italian dessert. The Italian translation for tiramisu is "pick me up." It is a pudding-like dessert that usually consists of sponge cake or ladyfingers dipped in a liqueur and coffee, then layered with grated chocolate and rich custard. The present day version of tiramisu was said to have been created in 1960s in a restaurant in Treviso, located northwest of Venice on Italy's northern Adriatic coast, called Le Beccherie by a pastry chef called Loly Linguanotto.
Traditional tiramisu contains a short list of ingredients: finger biscuits, egg yolks, sugar, coffee, mascarpone cheese and cocoa powder. In the original recipe there is no liquor or egg whites.
The original shape of the cake is round, although the shape of the biscuits favors the use of a rectangular or square pan, spreading the classic image "to tile". However, it is also often assembled in round glasses, which show the various layers, or pyramid. Modern versions have as a rule the addition of whipped cream and / or whipped egg combined with mascarpone cream, in order to make it lighter, thick and foamy. Among the most common alcoholic changes includes the addition of Marsala. The cake is usually eaten cold. Over time, replacing some of the ingredients, mainly coffee, there arose numerous variants such as tiramisu with chocolate, amaretto, berry, lemon, strawberry, pineapple, yogurt, banana, raspberry, coconut, and even beer.