When you have a dinner party to prepare for, you want to make the day of as stress-free as possible. So get dessert done first by making Alex Guarnaschelli‘s tiramisu recipe the day before. It’s meant to be made ahead of time and Guarnaschelli even says in her segment from Food Network’s The Kitchen, “You want this to sit in the fridge overnight if you can.”
The best thing about this recipe (besides the fact that you can make it a full day in advance) is that you can start with store-bought ladyfinger cookies. Guarnaschelli likes the cakey version, which she dries out in the oven before dunking in a mixture of coffee, cognac, and a dash of sugar. The dunked fingers then go into a baking dish that’s been dusted with cocoa powder — arrange them in a single layer so they look like a layer of cake.
Then it’s time to add a layer of that iconic creamy tiramisu filling. Guarnaschelli’s recipe calls for six egg yolks whisked with granulated sugar cooked slightly over a double boiler. “All we’re doing here is cooking the eggs because I think you have to have that eggy note in a tiramisu, but you don’t want raw eggs,” Guarnaschelli explained to her fellow Kitchen hosts.
Once cooled, fold the egg mixture in with whipped cream that has been whipped with vanilla and mascarpone. “You don’t need to be too delicate,” she continued. “You really do want this layer mixed together.”
Spread a layer of that creamy filling over the lady fingers in your baking dish, dust with more cocoa powder, and then repeat the layering process until your pan is loaded to the brim. Dust with one final coat of cocoa powder before tossing the dessert into the fridge to cool and marinate.
“It’s got a lot of dairy in it, so whenever you have something that’s high in dairy, it absorbs other flavors in the fridge,” Guarnaschelli explains. “So you definitely want to wrap it [before placing it in the fridge].”
So the next time you have guests coming over, do yourself a favor and make dessert the night before. Grab Guarnaschelli’s full tiramisu recipe here and get ready to lull your guests into heaven with this decadent yet light dessert.
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