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This no-faff tiramisu swaps the savoiardi sponge fingers for digestive Biscuits and the coffee soak for a biscuit-tea one. You steep Tetley Digestive Biscuits tea into warm milk, cool it, and dip the biscuits in that, so the whole thing tastes gently of malty biscuit rather than strong coffee, and there is no caffeine hit before bed.
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The mascarpone layer is made the proper way, folded with a little whipped cream, then it is just dip, layer, dust and chill. An easy weeknight pudding for four.
You'll need
- 2 tea bags of Tetley Digestive Biscuits
- 250ml warm whole milk (warmed to 80C)
- 12 Tetley Digestive Biscuits (the biscuits, not the tea bags)
- 250g mascarpone, at room temperature
- 100ml double cream, whipped to soft peaks
- 50g caster sugar
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder, for dusting
- 1 small 1L glass dish
- 1 medium bowl, 1 shallow bowl for the soak
Method
- Heat the milk to about 80C, drop in the two tea bags, cover and steep for four minutes.
- Lift out and squeeze the bags.
- Cool the tea-infused milk quickly by standing the bowl in cold water for about ten minutes.
- Beat the mascarpone with the sugar and vanilla until smooth.
- Fold the whipped cream gently through the mascarpone.
- Dip six digestive biscuits briefly into the cooled soak, about a second each side, so they take up flavour without collapsing.
- Lay them in a single layer in the bottom of the dish.
- Spread half the mascarpone cream over the biscuits.
- Dip and layer the other six biscuits the same way, then top with the rest of the cream.
- Dust with cocoa, cover and chill for four hours before serving.
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Brewed with: Tetley Digestive Biscuits, 40 Tea Bags 80g
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