This is not a tiramisu. This is a sponge cake with a filling.
This isn’t even what Olive Garden Tiramisu looks like. Olive Garden serves an actual tiramisu. It’s baffling to refer to this as a copycat of Olive Garden tiramisu specifically when it in fact has nothing to do with any tiramisu at all, Olive Garden or otherwise. The most distinct feature of Olive Garden Tiramisu seems to be the extra thick top layer of mascarpone, which is completely absent in this “”“”“"Authentic”“”“”“ ”“”“”“”“"Olive Garden”“”“”“”“” “”“”“”“”“”“”“"Tiramisu”“”“”“”“”“”“”“. This should be considered libel.
Again, this is a sponge cake. The instructions call for sponge cake instead of ladyfingers. Not just that, but the mascarpone is replaced with cream cheese, and the egg yolks are omitted entirely.
It isn’t even a homemade sponge cake. You have to buy a storebought one. This isn’t a recipe, it’s a set of assembly instructions.
"Tiramisu is known as an icy Italian dessert.” Girl what? Icy? ICY??? There is nothing in there that can get icy. Not even in this bastardized version. If you meant “it’s served chilled” just say that.
“Normally bakers use brandy in this Italian dessert.” Actually the alcohol isn’t in the traditional recipe, but even in the common version which does use alcohol, it’s typically Marsala wine.
“The cake will get too mushy if left longer than [2 days].” You mean, if you leave this monstrosity in the fridge long enough, it might actually get the soft and moist texture it was supposed to have?
Also, in this version, only the bottom half of the cake gets moistened, and the top half is left dry.
“This recipe strays just a bit from the classic tiramisu but the wonderful flavor remains the same.” GIRL.
What on earth is up with this pic?
Look at that. Why is it so green? It didn’t look that green on the recipe page. Seriously, I copypasted this image and on the recipe blog, it looks normal, but anywhere I paste it, it suddenly turns this sickly green color. But nevermind that. Why did they slice the cake into slices as well as lengthways if they were just going to shove it back together? How much trouble was it trying to spread filling over a row of half-slices of cake? Why is it only sliced 2/3 of the way along and then left intact at the end? I may have answered my own question there. Why would you even include this image instead of hiding the evidence of your mistake? For that matter, why would you post this at all?
