Limoncello Tiramisu
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Preparation time: 30 minutes plus overnight setting time
Cooking time: 0 minutes
Serves: 10-12 people
For the cream filling
- 700ml/24flozs. cream
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120g/4ozs. caster or superfine sugar
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500g/1.1lbs mascarpone
- 170g/6ozs. lemon curd (see recipe for home made lemon curd)
For dipping
- 250ml/8.8flozs. limoncello (see recipe for home made limoncello here)
- 200g/7ozs. sweetened condensed milk
To assemble
- 400g/14ozs. savoiardi biscuits (48 biscuits)
- 100g/3.5ozs lemon curd
These quantities are for a large, deep dish 23x33x8cms or 9x13x3.1 inches
Step 1 - Whip the cream with the sugar in a bowl until you get firm peaks. Place in the fridge. In another bowl whip the mascarpone with the lemon curd. Fold into the whipped cream mixture. Spread across the base of the dish and smooth with an angled spatula.
Step 2 - In a shallow wide-ish bowl whisk the limoncello with the condensed milk. Cut open the sponge finger packets and dip the sponge fingers in the limoncello mixture making sure to have it drip off the excess. Place a layer of sponge fingers on the mascarpone cream base and then spoon a third of the cream mixture. Repeat twice ending with the last of the mascarpone cream.
Step 3 - Place the lemon curd in a piping bag and pipe stripes down the top of the cream. Use a skewer to go back and forth perpendicular to the lines to feather the lemon curd. I did this the next day so you can see that the cream dried out a little as the sponge fingers absorbed the moisture from it so I would recommend doing the lemon curd as soon as you finish smoothing the cream over the top and not waiting until the next day.
I never forget when people are kind to me (nor do I forget when people are mean). The Jones's are located in one of the LGAs of concern but their actual suburb hasn't had many cases and it's a terrible feeling to be in a targeted area. For 24 hours the Eastern Suburbs was under lockdown and I felt a deep sense of shame, like I was a social leper.
To cheer her up I sent her a box of my favourite frozen pizza delivery Hank's Hot Box and this limoncello tiramisu was for dessert. There were three pizzas: one for her, her husband Pete and son Will. Pete has a love for pineapple pizzas that nobody else in the family really understands so I made sure there was one in there for him.
I basically dropped the tiramisu off and she had left me a box and we didn't even see each other. I think I set foot in her suburb for a total of 2 minutes. She had left me an enormous box of her home grown citrus, some freshly laid eggs and some Cypriot pastries even though I told her not to give me anything. The Jones family really makes me laugh. By the time I had gotten home Will had already cooked one of the pizzas and she said that Pete was in heaven that evening with his pineapple pizza which he eats along with Tiny Teddies and popper drinks (I haven't seen those in decades and didn't realise that they still made them)!
"You guys should have your own tv show," I said to Valentina. "You'd have the best name too - Keeping Up With the Joneses!"
So tell me Dear Reader, are you feeder and/or eater? Do you remember when people are kind to you (or not so kind!)? Are you a tiramisu or limoncello fan?