This recipe comes from the book ?A Passion for Fruit? by Lorzenza de?Medici. Similar to Lynne Mullins? book ?produce?, it has chapters on each fruit with an introduction and then some recipes.

There are many recipes for various berries, but one that caught my eye was Strawberry Tiramisu.

The book has suggestions for making the tiramisu as one large dish or individual dishes using trifle sponges cut into circles. I decided to make individual tiramisu with the usual savoiardi biscuits.

The flavour was obviously good enough as they all went very quickly.

Strawberry Tiramisu

Ingredients:

50 g sugar
300 g whipping cream
200 g mascarpone cheese
180 g sponge fingers
200 ml sweet white wine (or 1 cup water with ½ teaspoon of rosewater) 300 g strawberries, hulled
Icing sugar to dust.

Method:

Place the sugar in the TM bowl and grind for 10 seconds on speed 9. Place the butterfly over the blades and add the cream and beat for 1 minute on speed 3.

Remove the butterfly, scrape down the cream, add the mascarpone and beat for 20 seconds on speed 5.

Place quarter of this mixture onto the base of a serving bowl. Dip the sponge fingers briefly into the wine (or water mixture) and arrange them over the mascarpone. Place another quarter of the mascarpone mixture on the biscuits and then top with half of the strawberries. Cover this with another quarter of the mascarpone mix and then repeat the procedure with the sponge fingers and remaining mascarpone mixtu...