Tiramisu Layered with Chocolate Cake

Once you hear the word Tiramisu, the first thing that you could imagine is a perfect coffee based dessert. Well literally Tiramisu is an Italian word means “to pick me or lift me up”. Since it’s espresso (some pastry chefs use espresso for stronger flavor and effect) or coffee based Tiramisu can really be in a good help for some nightwalkers or have not enough time to sleep so they can be picked up! J

I reconstruct my recipe of Tiramisu, well the tradition way of making this is it will be layered by Lady Fingers and some uses liquors for their Tiramisu like Baileys (Coffee Based Liquor), Kahlua, Brandy, Marsala Wine, etc. In my recipe I omit the liquors since my family is not a fan of those and since my sister really loves chocolate (like so obsess with chocolate) I layered it with chocolate chiffon cake. This is a hit to everyone the taste is well balanced, no taste of wine, really good for people who don’t enjoy Tiramisu with the taste of Liquors.

Yield: 9 inch Cake Pan

Ingredients

For Chocolate Chiffon Cake

98g         Cake Flour or All Purpose Flour

20g         Cocoa Powder

75g         Granulated White Sugar

1/2tsp     Salt

6g          Baking Powder

53g         Vegetable Oil

70g         Egg Yolks

110ml     Water

1tsp        Vanilla

98g        Egg Whites

45g         Granulated White Sugar

1tsp       Cream of Tartar

For Tiramisu Filling

10pcs         Egg Yolks

60g            Sugar

270g          Cream Cheese / Mascarpone Cheese

4 Sheets     Gelatin, soaked in cold water (Half a cup of Water)

600g           Whipping Cream

80g             Powdered Sugar

For Coffee Syrup

2Tbsp      Plain Coffee (You can use Stronger Coffee, whatever you prefer)

2Tbsp      Granulated White Sugar

2Tbsp     Water

Procedure

Make first the Chocolate Chiffon Cake.

Pre heat Oven to 350 Degrees Fahrenheit.

Ready your 9 inch Springform Pan.

In a bowl, mix Flour, salt, Baking Powder and the 75g Granulated Sugar.

In a separate bowl mix Oil, egg yolks, water and Vanilla.

Pour wet Ingredients to Dry Ingredients and Mix well with whisk until Lump free.

In other bowl whip your egg whites til you reach the shampoo stage (many small bubbles appears).

then add the other Sugar and Cream of Tartar, whisk until you reach the Stiff Peak Stage of Egg whites.

When you reach that stage, fold the Egg Foam to the Chocolate mixture using spatula. Important here is to follow the folding technique, using spatula dip to the bottom of the bowl and by the spatula facing horizontally lift up and fold it to the top of the mixture, same process til completely mixed.

When completely mix. Pour the Batter to the Springform Pan and Bake for 25 minutes at 350 Degrees Fahrenheit.

When done, unmold to springform pan, and let it cool for a minute. Once Cool, cut horizontally to have 2 slabs of Cake.

After making the Chocolate Cake, Prepare the Tiramisu Filling.

Whip the Cream and Powdered Sugar in a bowl until thickens. Store in Chiller until ready.

In a bowl whip eggyolks, Sugar, 1Tbsp Coffee Syrup (just Mix the ingredients for Coffee Syrup) and place on a Bain Marie (to know how to Bain Marie see my instruction in my Oreo Cheesecake Recipe https://justforfats.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/oreo-cheesecake/)

Cook in Bain Marie until  the Egg Mixture thickens and  becomes lighter. Dont put in Bain Marie too long it may cook the eggs.

After that remove from Bain Marie and soak the Gelatin and mix well til the Gelatin melts.

In a mixer bowl, soften the cream cheese by using a mixer, mix til the cheese become smooth. Then add the Egg Mixture to Cream cheese and mix well until Lump free.

Get the Chilled Whipping Cream and do the folding technique. Fold the Cream to the Egg and Cheese mixture.

When Comletely folded. place a slab of Chocolate Chiffon cake on the 9 inch Pan. get a pastry Brush and brush some Coffee Mixture into the chocolate chiffon cake, and pour some Tiramisu Mixture. then same process to another slab of Chocolate chiffon. Make sure to cover the whole Cake with Tiramisu Filling.

Freezer it overnight or until becomes firm so you can remove it from the Springform Pan.

Then Put Some Cocoa Powder on top of your Tiramisu Cake!

ENJOY! Put some comments for questions!

OREO CHEESECAKE

Oreo Cheesecake is one of the most popular Cheesecake in the world, almost everybody loves the cheesecake however cheesecakes are quite expensive compare to other ordinary cakes that are available in the bakeries. Maybe because of it’s ingredients are really quite expensive especially the cream cheese well it depends what brand of the product because  there are cream cheese that are flavorful and the price are really high and the wisest cream cheese are the average price but with perfect taste for the cheesecake. What I usually use is PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, this is really good and the taste is really perfect for making Cheesecake! My advice is when you finish reading this recipe don’t buy in those stores anymore sometimes they over price, you can make your own Cheesecakes with different varieties.

This recipe of Oreo Cheesecake is a baked cheesecake, if you’re gonna browse my old posts you can notice that I already posted an Oreo Cheesecake recipe but its unbaked, but this one is we’re gonna bake this cheesecake, way more tastier and way more Cheesecake than Unbaked one! So grab your whisks and spatulas and were going to start BAKING!

Ingredients

100g       Oreo Cookies Crushed

60g         Butter, Melted

450g       Cream Cheese, at Room Temperature

90g         Sour Cream

155g       Sugar

8g           All Purpose Flour

3pcs       Eggs

3pcs       Egg Yolks

4ml         Vanilla Extract

14pcs     Oreo Cookies for toppings

Procedure

In a 9-inch Springform pan cover below with Aluminum Foil

To make the crust, combine the Crushed Oreo Cookies to Melted Butter, combine well and press the mixture to the pan

and then put in freezer until ready to use.

Softened the Cream Cheese by passing it to mixer until smooth.

Add in Sugar and mix for a while. Add Sour Cream, flour, then the eggs (drop per piece, beat well) follow the yolks, slowly apply on the batter mixture. Add Vanilla

Keep on mixing till smooth and combined well.

Get the crust and pour the batter over crust.

Bake 300 degrees Fahrenheit for 30-45 minutes using Bain Marie (How to do it: Get a baking pan (I used pyrex Pan) that can hold your 9inch cheesecake springform pan, then place it there and on that extra pan of yours on where the 9inch was placed fill it with BOILING water in it, you don’t worry about the cheesecake batter to be wet inside, remember you have put the aluminum foil outside the 9inch springform pan, that is to protect the inside batter to be wet by the boiling water outside it)

To check for the Doneness, use a cake tester or just a tooth pick, pierce the cake and when the stick comes out clean no sticky batter then it is already done!

Unmold to pan, and sprinkle some Crushed Oreos on top and fill the top with whole oreos, design by your desire!

Enjoy your Oreo Cheesecake!!

Banana Bread

Banana Bread is one of the best quick bread recipes of all time, the taste is very delicious and the aroma is fantastic that’s why everyone loves this bread. Banana Bread is made with mashed fully riped bananas. It is often a moist, sweet, cake-like quick bread. Obviously it’s made from banana, everybody loves banana so why everybody wouldn’t love this. This awesome bread recipe is easy to make, in like less than 30 minutes you can have this already, and well that’s why it’s been categories as quick breads. People asking for what kind of banana would be best for this, Cavendish Banana will be a good banana to use for its sweetness adds flavor to the bread and the aroma is the best.  One of the secret in making this is to make sure that our banana is fully riped, on where the starches turns to sugar already, you can see on the banana that it almost turns brown.

Ingredients

2 cups Allpurposeflour

½ cup of Brown Sugar

1/4 tsp Baking Soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 tsp ground cinnamon

2 large eggs, lightly beaten

1/2 cup unsaltedbutter, melted and cooled

1 cup of smashed riped Bananas

1 tsp Vanilla Extract

30g of Chocolate Chips

Procedure

Preheat oven for 350 degrees Fahrenheit

In one bowl combine Allpurpose Flour, Cinnamon,  Salt, and Baking Soda mix and set aside.

In Separate Bowl combine the wet ingredients, Butter, Eggs, Sugar, Vanilla Extract and the smashed bananas. You can use fork in smashing the Bananas, see on how i did it unto my Bananas.

Once You have already mix the wet ingredients combine this into the dry ingredients, and mix it with your spatula or spool, dont over mix it so the bread will not be tough. We want soft bread here. Another if you have Nuts, peanuts you can just combine it into the batter.

Then oil the loaf trays you have and put the batter on your trays. I used some Tart Pan for styles.

Once you have panned it Bake it for like 40-60 minutes until golden brown or try using a toothpick once you try to insert it inside there should be no any sign of the batter in the pick once you pulled it out.

Enjoy your sweet cakelike Banana Bread!