Dirty Chai Tiramisu Food

DIRTY CHAI TIRAMISU

Steps:

• To Make Dirty Chai: place chai tea bags, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, star anise, brown sugar, and espresso powder into a pot of water; bring to a boil and steep.
• To Make Cream Filling: in a bowl whisk heavy cream and until they become soft peaks.
• Add mascarpone cheese, mix more.
• To Build Tiramisu: Strain the dirty chai mixture.
• Dip and soak lady fingers in the mixture.
• Line the bottom of a serving bowl (trifle bowl is recommended) with the lady fingers.
• Add a layer of the whipped cream/mascarpone mixture.
• Add another layer of dirty chai-soaked lady fingers.
• Add a 2nd layer of the whipped cream/mascarpone mixture.
• Add a 3rd layer of dirty chai-soaked lady fingers.
• Pipe the remaining whipped cream/mascarpone mixture on the top.
• Sift with cocoa powder.

ITALIAN MOCHA TIRAMISU

Steps:

• Stir together instant coffee, sugar and water. Set aside.
• In a large mixer bowl, beat cream cheese until light and fluffy (2-3 minutes).
• Add powdered sugar and whipping cream.
• Continue beating until stiff peaks form (6-8 minutes).
• By hand, gently stir in 2 tablespoons of coffee mixture.
• Split ladyfingers in half lengthwise.
• Place half of ladyfingers in bottom of 9-inch square pan, cutting to fit, covering the entire bottom of dish.
• Sprinkle ladyfingers with more of the coffee mixture, reserving half.
• Top with half of cream cheese mixture.
• Sprinkle with half of grated chocolate.
• Repeat layers, ending with grated chocolate.
• Cover; refrigerate 2-4 hours.

EASY NO-EGG TIRAMISU

Steps:

• -Mix the mascarpone and confectioner's sugar until creamy **.
• -in a shallow bowl, combine coffee and liqueur.
• -have your ingredients ready to assemble.
• -quickly dip ladyfingers (one at a time, right before using) in coffee mixture, and layer them on your pan (in my case, a wine glass). Layer soaked ladyfinger, mascarpone, a sprinkle of cocoa powder, and repeat. (soak, layer, mascarpone, chocolate, soak....).
• -Make it about 5 or 6 layers tall, and finish with a generous sprinkle of chocolate.
• -Chill for at least 30 minutes, preferably a couple of hours.
• -Garnish with chocolate shavings.
• *vanilla wafers or sliced pound cake could work.
• ** Try adding whipped cream to the mascarpone mix for a fluffier texture.