The February 2010 Daring Bakers challenge was hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and Deeba of Passionate About Baking. They chose Tiramisu as the challenge for the month. Their challenge recipe is based on recipes from The Washington Post, Cordon Bleu at Home and Baking Obsession.
We always have plenty of time to complete the challenge. Even so form time to time I manage to do it at last minute. So it happened this month. I just started yesterday, too late! Because this challenge required about 2 to 3 days preparation time (including refrigeration) to the time the Tiramisù is served. Do you see the dilemma?
Psst, with some cheating, I managed to finish the challenge. As requested I did bake the ladyfingers. Of course the batter was too liquid and once in the oven it smelled like omelet. I mentioned this in the DB forum. Aparna was so kind calming me down. She wrote the smell of eggs will disappear in the finished Tiramisu. Then I prepared the zabaglione with Amaretto and the vanilla pastry cream, both without any problem. Of course there was no time to make the Mascarpone. Luckily I can buy it here and honestly making Mascarpone has nothing to do with baking, so I feel only a bit guilty I didn’t make it. ;-)
It’s marked Jack Daniels on the glasses I used Amaretto though! ;-)
Thanks to Aparna and Deeba for hosting!
To see the recipe please head over to the Daring Kitchen Headquarter. There you will also find all the Tiramisù my fellow Daring Bakers made.
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December 2007 Challenge – Yule Log
January 2008 Challenge – Lemon Meringue Pie
February 2008 Challenge – French Bread
March 2008 Challenge – Perfect Party Cake
April 2008 Challenge – Cheesecake Pops
May 2008 Challenge – Opéra Cake
June 2008 Challenge – Danish Braid
July 2008 Challenge – Filbert Gateau
August 2008 Challenge – Chocolate Eclairs
September 2008 Challenge – Lavash Crackers
October 2008 Challenge – Pizza
November 2008 Challenge – Caramel Cake with Caramelized Butter Frosting
January 2009 Challenge – Tuiles
February 2009 Challenge – Flourless Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Valentino
March 2009 Challenge – Lasagne of Emilia-Romagna (Lasagne Verdi al Forno)
April 2009 Challenge – Cheesecake with Lemon Curd Topping
Mai 2009 Challenge – Banana Strudel
June 2009 Challenge – Bakewell Tart
July 2009 Challenge – Milan Cookies
September 2009 Challenge – Vols-au-Vent
October 2009 Challenge – Macarons
November 2009 Challenge – Cannoli
December 2009 Challenge – Gingerbread House
January 2010 Challenge – Nanaimo Bars
More entries and recipes in English.
I love those Jack daniels glasses… Nice presentation and yummy-looking Tiramisu!
Cheers,
Rosa
Nice glasses. I was about to cheat on the mascarpone, too, because mine was way too firm. I ended up using it anyway. And I’ll give the mascarpone another try…
Tiramisu looks wonderful in those lovely glasses. Good one!
It looks great and the perfect serving size! I used Amaretto too–yum!
Mmm…yum!
I would let this get through, you definitely did the challenge! They look delicious and you should try making your own mascarpone just for fun.
Beautiful tiramisu! I love the little Jack Daniels glasses, even if they don’t match what’s inside the tiramisu. Great job with this challenge!
I love those Jack Daniels glasses!
it’s one of my fave desserts, looks so good Zorra!
Looks very good, Zorra. I hope you liked it. Did the egg small disappear in the Tiramisu?
Thanks for baking with us.
Hola Zorra, well you just proved that time isn’t an issue with Tiramisu ;-) It looks just perfect in those big glasses! And I am very impressed that you did everything in just one day! I hope you set and the end of the day with your divine dessert and your feet high up on the sofa :-)
Un fuerte abrazo,
Lara
Love the glasses and love how beautiful your Tiramisu looks. Gorgeous Zorra!
zorra these are lovely looking tiramisu – but your glasses give me an idea – jack daniels and tiramisu? hmmnn!
REPLY:
I know the story very well, Zo, we truly are plenty of time but come to the end of the month with most challenges undone or half executed!
I had more than DB expiring today but could not attend all.
Never mind, we are human and with a real acrive life outside the blog too!
But this month DB challenge was really luxury and elegant, and your glasses are gorgeous!
But do try homemade mascarpone once, it is really worthwhile!
Besos!
Das sieht ja hammermäßig lecker aus! Und sehr schön fotografiert!