The Sweetest Italian Recipe.

Knock Knock, who's there?

Tira-mis.

Tiramis - who? 

Tiramisu! 

Get it? I heard this knock knock joke from the one and only, Gordon Ramsey, long long ago and have not stopped using it since. Cheesy? Absolutely. One of the best jokes ever? Yes! 

Above are my two attempts at putting a creative twist, a little cute design, on top of my completed tiramisu dishes. All I did was sketch an outline of a cute animal on a blank sheet of paper, cut it out, placed it over my tiramisu, and sprinkled cocoa powder over it. Once done, I just peeled off the outline and ta-dah! 

I'm about to share one of my favorite Tiramisu recipes of all time from the one and only allrecipes.com. It's the only one I've been consistently using for more than a few years now and always makes people smile. 

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TIRAMISU:
Ingredients 

Original recipe makes 1 - 7x11 inch dish

6 egg yolks
3/4 cup white sugar
2/3 cup milk
1 1/4 cups heavy cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pound marscapone cheese
1/4 cup strong brewed coffee, room temp
2 tbsp rum
2 (3 ounce) packages ladyfinger cookies
1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder

1. In a medium saucepan, whisk together egg yolks and sugar until well blended. Whisk in milk and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture boils. Boil gently for 1 minute, remove from heat and allow to cool slightly. Cover tightly and chill in refrigerator 1 hour.
2. In a medium bowl, beat cream with vanilla until stiff peaks form. Whisk mascarpone into yolk mixture until smooth.
3. In a small bowl, combine coffee and rum. Split ladyfingers in half lengthwise and drizzle with coffee mixture.
4. Arrange half of soaked ladyfingers in bottom of a 7x11 inch dish. Spread half of mascarpone mixture over ladyfingers, then half of whipped cream over that. Repeat layers and sprinkle with cocoa. Cover and refrigerate 4 to 6 hours, until set.

Source: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/tiramisu-ii/detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Title&e11=tiramisu&e8=Quick%20Search&event10=1&e7=Home%20Page