Hooked on cooking – Jess makes a Tower

It would be rude not to offer Grandad a dessert so here's The Tiramisu Tower, based on the Orange Tiramisu mentioned previously. This time it's the lemon version using our now famous smoothie cups.

Lemon Tiramisu

Lemon syrup

(4 tbsp lemon juice, 100g icing sugar)

20 fl oz whipping cream

Madeira cake

4 tbsp caster sugar

8oz Mascarpone

Lemon curd to fold into Mascarpone mixture

To make the syrup put the lemon juice and the icing sugar into a small saucepan and heat gently so that the sugar dissolves. Set aside to cool. Decant the syrup into a squeezy bottle.

Mix the cream carefully with the caster sugar and mascarpone, gently fold lemon curd through the mixture.

Cheflet's privilege!

Slice the cake lengthways as thinly as possible and then using cutters, cut into shapes that fit the smoothie cups.

Layer the cake shapes in the cups and drizzle with syrup, then add a layer of the mascarpone mixture, repeat. Decorate the top of the tiramisu with a circle of Maltesers and place a wafer roll through the hole in the lid of the cup.

Here's the masterpiece :

Grandad's verdict – delicious!