Is Tiramisu a cake or a dessert?

Chef's answer
Tradition tiramisu is a pudding-like dessert that usually consists of sponge cake or ladyfingers dipped in a liqueur, then layered with grated chocolate and rich custard. Tiramisu was originally made as a loose custard. It is only in recent years that using mascarpone cheese has come into fashion..
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Tiramisu (Italian: tiramisu, [?tirami?su]) is a coffee-flavoured Italian dessert. It is made of ladyfingers (savoiardi) dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of eggs, sugar, and mascarpone cheese, flavoured with cocoa..
Type of Alcohol in Tiramisu Marsala is a sweet red wine traditionally used for tiramisu, and my favorite option. What can be used instead of Marsala? If you're looking for a substitution, then dark rum is my favorite, but you can also use brandy, coffee liqueur or almond liqueur.
Tradition tiramisu is a pudding-like dessert that usually consists of sponge cake or ladyfingers dipped in a liqueur, then layered with grated chocolate and rich custard. Tiramisu was originally made as a loose custard. It is only in recent years that using mascarpone cheese has come into fashion..
Substitute for Ladyfingers
  • For 1lb of ladyfingers use 1lb Sponge cake cut into strips and baked for 10 minutes until lightly crisp.
  • OR - Use a 1lb pound cake baked for 10 minutes until lightly crisp. Both of these options are good alternatives for making tiramisu.
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    Two portions of tiramisu supposedly contain enough alcohol to get you in trouble. Still full of juice, I wolf down two individual 90g servings of Iceland's Dolce Mamma tiramisu, which are labelled "alcohol degree 1.8%". My blood alcohol leaps up to 0.4%, but I'm still legally allowed to drive.
    The vodka will add nothing to the tiramisu recipe since vodka is made to be flavorless. As Jefromi mentioned in the comment, there are plenty of other better substitution in terms of flavor you can use. Kahlua is a very common liquor found in tiramisu as it's coffee based..
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