Tiramisu Cake

For the whisky tasting I was ordered to make tiramisu. :) 

Yes, people already told my that tiramisu looks different and that THIS could not be something as simple as tiramisu... Well, they are right. Somehow. This cake contains strawberries, so it is no ordinary tiramisu :)

What you need is:

200 g cookies (simple sugar cookies, lady's fingers,...)

125 g butter (melted)

500 g mascarpone

200 g cream cheese (e. g. philadelphia)

100 g sugar

2 egg yolks

Kahlua

400 g raspberries

lady's fingers (I needed 11)

cocoa powder

Crumble the cookies a finely as possible and add the melted butter. Spread the mixture onto the base of a spring form (24cm) and press it into an even crumb crust. 

Mix mascarpone and cream cheese until combined. Add sugar and yolks and stir until all ingredients form an even mass. Stir in some Kahlua if desired.

Cut the lady's fingers in half and line the spring form with them (see picture). Fill in the strawberries, then fill in the mass and refrigerate until needed. 

Finally, strew cocoa powder over the 'cake'. Ready :)

19th of December

Next, next, next...

This wild cherry tea is composed of several black teas (India, China and Ceylon) flavoured with cherries and red cornflower blossoms. Very cherry-y :) Yummie...

18th of December

Next...

Today's tea is called 'Karl-Heinz'. Karl-Heinz is composed of different black teas (from Ceylon, China and India), fennel, cloves, orange peel, lemon peel, cinnamon and anise. On the one hand it is a very strong tea, but a very little bit herbal and fruity as well. Love it :)

Oh, by the way, when I remembered taking a photo, the tea pot was already almost empty, thus the tea in a glass today (none of my tea cups is made of glass, so I chose the glass...). 

Non-edible Cupcakes

Oh, what's this?

This was a Christmas present. Actually, it is a soap :) People really must think I'm a baking maniac :)

Christmas

Some Christmas impressions at our home. 

The Christmas tree. His name is Bert. He is our second Christmas tree. The first one  was called Eduard. Sure, you are asking why our trees have got names. Well, after having bought our first Christmas tree, my husband said, 'May I introduce you to Eduard?'

 The table.

 

The main course. (No pictures of the soup though...) Napkin dumplings, zander and brussel sprouts.

 

 The dessert.

17th of December

Time for the next one...

Today's tea is called 'Winterzauber' and consists of rooitea, cinnamon, almonds, cardamom and flavours. It tastes of autumn/winter, as do all the cinnamon teas I had before, but this is a rooitea instead of fruit or black, as has been before, so it is a bit different than the others. Like it :)

Cheese, Whisk(e)y and Stew

Lately, my husband invited some friends for a whisk(e)y tasting. I made Irish Stew and Tiramisu (recipe will follow in another post) for a start and then served cheese for the tasting.