Recipe - Familys Favorite Tiramisu

1 Storebought yellow pound
cake
Or 1 box of ladyfingers
1 16 Ounces co ricotta cheese
One half cup Plus 2 tablespoons sugar
One half cup Heavy cream
8 ounce Semisweet chocolate chips
1 One half cup Strong coffee
Unsweetened cocoa powder

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Put a medium bowl in freezer. Cut pound cake into One half inch slices. In a
second medium bowl, combine ricotta with One half cup sugar. Remove bowl from
freezer and add the cream and beat with electric mixer on high until it
holds stiff peaks. With a rubber spatula, fold whipped cream into ricotta
mixture. Fold in chocolate chips. Line bottom of a deep glass serving
bowl with slices of pound cake, cutting the cake as needed to cover the
bottom. Stir remaining sugar into coffee.
Dip pastry brush in the coffee and dab cake until it is soaked through.
Using a rubber spatula, spread One fourth of the ricotta mixture gently over the
first layer of the cake. Arrange another layer of cake over the ricotta
mixture and use pastry brush to soak it with coffee. Cover cake with
another layer of ricotta mixture. Repeat until you have 4 layers of each,
ending with the ricotta layer. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
Sprinkle cocoa powder on top before serving.
Posted to EATL Digest 05 Sep 96

Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 14:18:20 0500

From: LD Goss ldgoss@METRONET.COM