Soaked. Brown. Rug.

That’s how my first attempt to make tiramisu turned out. Yes, it looked that bad, but it tasted really good! Haha. Ali brought some lady fingers last Saturday and I confidently told him that I’ll make tiramisu. Equally excited as I was, he accompanied me to the supermarket the next day to buy my ingredients.

Eggs, check. Sugar, check. Mascarpone cheese, check. Heavy whipping cream, check. Semi-sweet chocolate, check. I made some substitution the coffee liqueur though, I used instant coffee and I skipped the chocolate powder for dusting. I bought Meiji dark chocolate for the shavings.

I based my tiramisu on a recipe I found here. I just listed the down the ingredients and scribbled the procedure on how to cook it. First I split the ingredients in half since I only have a small pan. Then I cooked the yolks as instructed, Ali even helped me with it since we’re simultaneously trying to make a kitchen gadget work so I can whip up the heavy cream. Since my handwriting was a bit messed up and I’m to lazy to go online again and check the recipe, I made a mistake by cooking the marscapone and another mistake by whipping the cream too darn hard. My cream filling came out flat! (-_-;) I tried to save it by chilling it a bit, crossing my fingers that it will have some texture or something. It didn’t. I continued to arrange my ladyfingers-cream(liquid)-ladyfingers-cream(liquid) layers. I pity the ladyfingers, they look like they’re drowning and screaming for help!

Good thing we also bought Milano mint cookies, that’s what we ate since I told Ali that the tiramisu still needs some time to set. Haha.

After breakfast this morning, I ask Ali if he wants to try the tiramisu. I placed it in a bowl. And we used a spoon to eat it. Get the picture? Haha. Ali liked it though. He said it tasted good, it just doesn’t look pretty. He remembered watching “The Next Iron Chef” and one judge there said something about a dish which tasted like wet tissue. Before he could finish, I told him it doesn’t taste like wet tissue, but it sure looked like a soaked rug. He agreed and we both laughed. I’m so happy that he didn’t get mad or anything because the mascarpone is a bit expensive and I messed up the tiramisu. At least it’s still edible and even quite tasty. Modesty aside, it’s even tastier than the regular tiramisus that I’ve tried (maybe they scrimped on the mascarpone). Oh well, maybe next time I’ll be able to nail it. Ja ne!

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