This delicious sweet tiramisu flavored with Amaretto sweet syrup is layered with Mascarpone cream, fresh sliced strawberries and topped with almonds and crushed amaretti.
This is a wonderful dessert to serve for Easter or any special holiday. It also makes the perfect summer dessert especially when strawberries are in season.
Strawberry Mascarpone Cream Tiramisu Recipe
The steps for making this tiramisu are listed in order.
Sponge Cake
Ingredients:
3 large eggs
1 cup sugar
5 tbsp water
1 tsp almond extract
1 1/3 cup sifted cake flour or
1 cup sifted all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
How to Make the Sponge Cake:
Heat oven to 375 degrees.
Line a 15 x 10 x 1-inch with parchment paper and spray with cooking spray.
Beat eggs in a small bowl with electric mixer until very thick and fluffy for 5 minutes at high speed.
Add sugar gradually and beat very well after each addition. Turn mixer speed to low and beat in water and almond extract.
Sift the flour before measuring, then spoon it lightly into a dry measuring cup and level it off with the back of a knife.
Sift measured flour, baking powder and add to egg mixture.
Beat on low speed until smooth, scraping down the sides of the bowl often.
Pour into prepared pan and spread evenly with a rubber scraper.
Bake for12 to 15 minutes or until top springs back when touched lightly in the centre.
Remove cake from oven and loosen cake around the edges.
Place a clean tea towel over a large cake rack and invert the rack and towel on top of the cake. Turn the cake, towel and rack back over and carefully lift the pan off the cake. Strip the paper off the cake. Let cool.
Position cake horizontally and cut into three equal sections.
Amaretto Flavored Sweet Syrup
Ingredients:
2 cups water
1 cup sugar
1 sliced lemon
1/4 cup Amaretto liquor
How to Make the Amaretto Flavored Sweet Syrup:
Place all ingredients except the Amaretto in a medium sauce pan. Stir to mix.
Let the mixture boil until liquid is reduced to a syrup consistency.
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