Food Fact Friday: Tiramisu

One of my all time favorite desserts is Tiramisu. I love the coffee taste combined with the light sweetness of mascarpone and the texture of the ladyfingers...yum...I'm starting to drool on my keyboard, not good! I researched Tiramisu and turns out it's a pretty recent invention. Here is some info about this Italian delight...



Legends state Tiramisu (which is loosely translated to "pick-me-up") was invented in the 1600s in Tuscany, but mascarpone was not yet brought to Italy. Other legends say it was invented during the 1800s in Turin, but there is no documentation to support it.


The first written acount of Tiramisu is from the 1980's, in a cookbook called "I Dolci del Veneto” (The Desserts of Veneto). It was said to be invented in the 1970's in a restaurant in Treviso, Italy called Le Beccherie. It became so popular, that other restaurants in Italy began copying it. It made it's way to San Francisco in the early 1990's and now it's popular all over the United States.

CLICK HERE for the classic Tiramisu recipe!

Titanic Tiramisu: The world's largest tiramisu was created in April of 2007 in Italy, weighing in at over 674 lbs.