Linda Hayes' Recipe For Tirami Su - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 lb. Mascarpone cheese
1/2 pt. heavy cream
just a little sugar
1 pkg. biscuits or ladyfingers (Stella D'Oro Margherites are fine)
8 oz. chocolate (milk or dark chocolate)
about 6 c. strong coffee or espresso
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Whip the heavy cream, adding sugar, until a little stiff. Whip the Mascarpone cheese, adding vanilla until soft and creamy. Mix the cheese and cream together.
Chop up the chocolate.
Dip the biscuits, in batches of 6, into coffee until not quite soaked. Place the first batch of soaked biscuits in a glass bowl; cover with a layer of the cream-cheese mixture.
Sprinkle with chopped chocolate; toss in some cinnamon.
Repeat the layers of biscuits, cream-cheese mixture and chopped chocolate and cinnamon two to three times, ending with chocolate and cinnamon.