Another hectic weekend. Sometimes I wonder where time goes. My son turned 16 on Sunday - whoever coined the term Sweet Sixteen was definitely not a parent. Had to be one of the kids. Its a terribly tough age and much as I love my kids Sweet is not a word I associate with them in their teens.
I can beat my head asking him what he wants to eat and the answer is always the "Anything". Does anyone know what or how to make Anything :)
So this birthday I decided to make him his favourite dessert in form of a cake - a Tiramisu Cake.
I started this by making a basic vanilla sponge - you can use your favourite recipe. Alternatively you could also use a chocolate sponge - thats a personal choice.
The tiramisu filling is a beautiful mascarpone, cream, coffee egg yolk filling which holds beautifully.
I have to admit that I have alsolutely no decoration skills. After spending time racking my brains on what to do with the designing I remembered some chocolate transfer sheets that were lying around, so I just usedthat around the circumference of the cake and piped some cream on top.
All said and done the cake tasted really good.
