Ghetto Tiramisu

Total Time: 12 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 12 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 3 eggs, separated
• 5 tablespoons sugar
• 6 ounces mascarpone cheese
• 12 ounces vanilla wafers
• 1 cup triple sec
• 1 cup espresso or 1 cup very strong coffee
• 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, grated with vegetable peeler
• 1/3 cup unsweetened dutch cocoa

Recipe

• 1 combine yolks and sugar in large bowl and beat well.
• 2 in second bowl, beat egg whites on low, then increasing speed until stiff peaks form.
• 3 in the bowl with the yolk mixture, add mascarpone cheese, then gently fold in the egg whites with rubber spatula, moving from center to outside of bowl in circles.
• 4 arrange 1/2 wafers in 13 x 9 glass pan. drizzle 1/2 espresso and 1/2 liquor.
• 5 layer mascarpone mixture, most of the grated chocolate (reserve 1 tablespoon), and roughly 2/3 of the cocoa.
• 6 add layer of remaining wafers and drizzle remaining liquor and espresso.
• 7 refrigerate overnight, or 12 hours.
• 8 dust with remaining cocoa and remaining grated chocolate, and serve.