Recipe - Tirami Su Pick Me Up Cake

2 Egg yolks
One half cup Sugar
1 cup Mascarpone Cheese
1 pt Whipping cream, chilled
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 Genoise (sponge cake) cut or sliced up
Into 3 layers
One fourth cup Sugar
Three fourths cup Espresso or Strong Coffee
1 ounce Rum
2 tablespoon Cocoa powder

The first set of ingredients is for the filling.

1) Whisk egg yolks and One fourth cup of sugar together. Whisk in the Mascarpone
cheese. 2) In a seperate bowl, whip the cream, the rest of the sugar and
the vanilla until almost stiff no peaks. 3) Fold the Mascarpone cheese
mixture in to the whipped cream and continue to whip, until stiff. Set
aside. 4) Make a fully dissolved syrup with One fourth cup sugar, 2 tbs water,
espresso and rum. 5) Brush a layers of sponge cake with the espresso
mixture. with a spatula, smooth about a One half inch thick layer of the
mascarpone cheese mixture on top. Brush the second layer with espresso, and
place it espressso side down on the first layer. Brush the top with
espresso. Spread on another One half inch of the mascarpone cheese mixture.
repeat the procedure with the third layer of cake. Cover the top and sides
of the cakes with thin layer of the mascarpone filling. 6) With a sieve and
a spoon, sprinkle the top of the cake with cocoa powder. Cover the sides of
the cake with chocolate shavings. Refrigerate at least three hours. This
cake does not hold up well when exposed to any heat, so keep it cool.

From the book; La Cucina di Andrea's by Author Chef Andrea Apuzzo