Duchess's Stracchino

Jan 19, 2019
Stracchino della duchessa

INGREDIENTS (10 x 26 mold)

  • 250 g of mascarpone
  • 100 g of sugar (if you like it sweet you can increase)
  • 30 g chocolate chips
  • 30 g chopped almonds
  • 2 eggs
  • bitter cocoa
  • 400 g of ladyfingers biscuits
  • cold mocha coffee

PROCEDURE

  • Stracchino della Duchessa is a dessert that is prepared in a plum cake mold (it therefore resembles the shape of stracchino) and it seems that a noblewoman from the Parma, Modena and Piacenza area was very fond of it.
  • Beat the egg yolks with 40 g of sugar using an electric whisk or a stand mixer until the mixture is light and frothy.
  • Add the mascarpone and continue whipping.
  • Beat the egg whites with the remaining sugar until stiff.
  • Add them to the cream using movements from the bottom up so as not to deflate the mixture.
  • Divide the cream into two bowls. Add the chocolate chips to one.
  • In the other, add cocoa to taste and chopped almonds.
  • Line a plumcake pan with baking paper.
  • Dip the ladyfingers in the coffee and arrange them on the bottom of the mold and along the entire perimeter, upright.
  • Pour the light cream into the mold.
  • Arrange the soaked biscuits on top of the cream.
  • Pour the cocoa cream into the mold and cover with other soaked biscuits.
  • Place in the freezer for 3 hours.
  • Invert the mold onto a serving plate. Sprinkle with cocoa powder.
  • Wait at least 10 minutes before serving sliced.

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