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Chocolate Orange Easter Tiramisu Party

March 30, 2013

Baking disasters happen to everyone. That’s what I told myself as the double layer chocolate orange cake I was planning to make stuck to the tin in a magnificent fashion. The only way to get it out was to hack it up into bits – and so it became a Chocolate Orange Easter Tiramisu. Lesson 1 – don’t forget to grease and line the tin. Lesson 2 – never throw a broken cake away, you can always turn it into a tiramisu or a trifle. You can use any chocolate cake or chocolate loaf cake for this recipe.

Easter-Tiramisu

To make an authentic tiramisu, you should really use Savoiardi biscuits, sometimes called Lady Fingers – but ‘stuck to the tin’ chocolate cake works just as well, in my book. I make my tiramisu to a recipe my Italian brother-in-law taught me many moons ago – egg yolks with sugar, then vanilla, mascarpone cheese and finally, whipped egg whites to lighten it up. You can also soak the biscuits in liquour, or marsala wine, but I just used orange juice and also grated in some extra orange zest. Always finish with a good dusting of cocoa. Finally, invite your friends and family over and tuck in – this makes a lovely Italian-inspired ending to any Easter meal.

Tiramisu 

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Easter Party

After I had made this, I saw another post by Guilia who writes at Jul’s Kitchen from Tuscany – she very cleverly split two Easter eggs and filled the shells with tiramisu. So you could fo that, too and make Easter Egg Tiramisu.

Easter

Easter Tiramisu

I hope you all have a really lovely Easter weekend!

Happy Easter

More Easter baking

Leftover Mini Egg Brownies

Raspberry and White Chocolate Cupcakes

Jacqueline’s post on BabyCentre – Creme Egg Brownies and an Easter Tea Party

My Polish Kitchen

Update: I’ll be filling my new site My Polish Kitchen with lots of recipes and reviews over the Easter break. You can see my post on egg decorating and our Polish Easter basket here. Traditionally, we would also bake a Babka or a Mazurek cake – there is a lovely recipe for an Orange and Almond Mazurek Cake here which is in From a Polish Country House Kitchen.

Finally – a little shout out – of you are in Manchester on Easter Sunday and fancy a Polish Easter experience, singer Katy Carr will be singing at The Old Abbey Inn at the launch of Manchester’s first Polish gastro pub!   

What are you doing over the Easter weekend?

Filed Under: Baking and Desserts, Easter10 Comments

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About Ren

Ren Behan is a British-born food writer of Polish descent. She is a mum to three young children (13, 10 and 5) and spends lots of time with them in the kitchen. Ren writes about seasonal, family-friendly food on her blog www.renbehan.com. She also contributes recipes and articles to online and print food publications, such as Food52.com, GreatBritishChefs.com, Huff Post Food and JamieOliver.com. She holds a Diploma in Food Journalism with Distinction and has completed a Food Styling course at Leiths School of Food and Wine.

Ren’s cookbook, Wild Honey and Rye: Modern Polish Recipes, draws upon her Polish heritage and regular travels to Poland.

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Comments

  1. Caroline Taylor says

    April 2, 2013 at 1:15 pm

    Great way to use up that cake! These look lovely.

    Reply
    • Ren says

      April 3, 2013 at 6:29 pm

      Thanks Caroline!

      Reply
  2. kellie@foodtoglow says

    March 31, 2013 at 8:01 am

    Lots of fab recipes are borne from potential disasters & this is one of them. I would’ve had a wee hissy fit and chucked it – tin and all – into the bin! Btw the images look so professional. And your model is very cute too! Happy Easter 🙂

    Reply
    • Ren says

      April 3, 2013 at 6:29 pm

      Aah hopefulyl save caked next time if it ever happens! My little model loves helping and my little boy also ‘styled’ his first Easter table with all his eggs and chicks, much to my amusement!

      Reply
  3. Jacqueline says

    March 30, 2013 at 11:42 am

    This tiramisu is serendipity at it’s best! I love that you made something so spectacular out of you baking mishap. It looks divine.
    Thanks for the shout out too 🙂

    Reply
    • Ren says

      April 3, 2013 at 6:28 pm

      A second, humongous bowl was made the next day!

      Reply
  4. Dom says

    March 30, 2013 at 10:15 am

    Gorgeous idea to use chocolate cake. These are beautiful x

    Reply
    • Ren says

      April 3, 2013 at 6:28 pm

      Thanks Dom!

      Reply
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