Forever Nigella ~ Chocolate and Frangelico Tiramisu

For this month's Forever Nigella the them was Italian.  Originally I was toying with the idea of following Sarah's suggestion and making some gelato but while searching through the various books I stumbled across the recipe that was somewhat of my nemesis at Christmas time.  You see both Nigella and Nigel appeared on TV in the lead up to Christmas preparing recipes that included my most beloved Frangelico.  Ordinarily not a problem except that in this case it had the 'Delia effect' and stocks of Frangelico totally disappeared and my local supplier had a 6 week back order!!!!  You can imagine that finding out the week before Christmas that a batch of my Christmas Cream Liqueur was not going to be available on our table caused a wee bit of a strop.  Bl**dy Nigella!  (We never curse Sir Nigel in this house!)

Now that the Frangelico balance has been restored I felt I was able to forgive Nigella her fopar and graciously I thought I would give her recipe for Frangelico Tiramisu a try and have it for dessert after today's family lunch.  In keeping with the challenge I haven't included the recipe here but you can find it in 'Kitchen'.  The only real change I made to the recipe was to swap the coffee for hot chocolate and I reduced the quantities by half and preparing the tiramisu as individual desserts in glasses.

Sis In Law and I really liked it (she makes a mean tiramisu herself so I was a little worried what her verdict would be!) by Hubby didn't care for it quite so much, oddly enough because the coffee flavour was too strong for him even though there was no coffee in it.  I was surprised to find it did actually have a coffee tang to it, must be the frangelico but it was the lovely nutty side of the flavour rather than the strong bitter side that so often over powers.  Next time I make this I 'll stick to the original quantities and and make it as one large dessert to serve up, it was a bit tricky to make the individual ones look as pretty as they could have been.