Tiramisu birthday cake

One can never have too many birthday cakes... nor too many guests in the house. The best way to spend your birthday is to be surrounded with your friends and loved ones. For a Leo woman that is the best birthday present one can give - your time! <3

This year, I ended up baking myself delicious gluten-free tiramisu in layer cake form to accompany a ready-made sacher cake. I made two different versions, one based on the traditional Italian tiramisu. But since some do not like the mix of Amaretto liquor and coffee so much, I used Italian chocolate liquor spiced up with peperoncino for the other one - tasted amazing with such rich flavors! Truly worth trying.

To make it look like a cake, I made a normal fluffy cake layer with cocoa powder as the bottom layer. For the following layers I used the gluten-free ladyfingers, aka Savoiardi. All the layers are soaked with the rich liquor-coffee syrup. To the filling, I added some extra flavor by adding dulce de leche in the first layer, and then fresh strawberry slices accompanied with the traditional mascarpone-whipped cream mousse in all layers. 

The dulce de leche I used was caramelized condensed milk. I decorated the top, along with the mascarpone mousse and sprinkled cocoa powder, with fresh strawberries and raspberries, and some chocolate chips.

The taste was simply heavenly accompanied with some sparkling wine - no wonder both cakes were finished in no time. If you want more details, please do not hesitate to ask.

Have a great weekend! :)