The other night I had a dream about someone. Not someone I know personally and it was someone that I didn’t really care for either way. It was Ryan Gosling. Now I know that rational men and women will willingly throw their underwear at this specimen of man-dom but I was one of those few that watched Drive and left nonplussed and bored.
Until I had a dream about him one night in which he was utterly charming and lovely and now, I think he’s kind of fabulous. Which got me to thinking, wouldn’t it be a great idea if you could somehow insert yourself into someone else’s dreams? If you wanted to be the object of affection or lust and somehow you could make them dream wonderful things about you? I scarcely remember the dream now but all I do remember is that he was down to earth and charming (two things he really wasn’t in Drive) and suddenly, I’m less “meh” and more “hello!” And once I had a dream about a rather unappealing colleague and the next day, I saw him through new eyes. It even scared me and I’m sure it confused him a great deal.
Which brings me to food dreams which I have from time to time. Sometimes, companies ask me to develop recipes for them and I was asked to create one for Cloud 9 frozen yoghurt which ended up coming to me in a dream. I had three flavours to play with: one was Limoncello Bliss with a come hither lemon curd swirl (as good as it sounds); one was Strawberry Dream with biscuit and strawberry pieces (divine!) and Vanilla Heaven with raspberry ribbons and chocolate fudge bits (my other favourite). It’s as if Ben and Jerry’s chunks mated with frozen yoghurt and made a super version.
I was one of the lucky ones that got my tub of Cloud 9 sent up into the clouds. Above is a lovely little video of the journey of my tub of Limoncello Bliss. Of course, not every tub is made like this (although how fab would that be?). My tub had a camera attached to it before being sent up into the clouds and after freezing in the atmosphere at -47C it parachuted its chubby bottom down-mine into a filed of wheat. Apparently, mine ended up travelling the furthest and off the map-ha! I shan’t read anything into that shall I?
A while back, I was toying with the idea of a frozen tiramisu but sort of left it when winter came and I abandoned the idea. Then I got two tubs of each of the three flavours and a couple of nights later, I dreamt of a black forest tiramisu. I’m sure everyone knows and loves tiramisu but this version is made quicker because you don’t need to make the mascarpone and egg mix and because there is no raw egg, it is suitable for everyone to eat. You could make it ahead of time with the preparation taking 15 minutes from beginning to end if you use pitted sour cherries.
Another plus is frozen yoghurt is lower in fat than regular ice cream and this is smooth and true to flavour and two tubs will make a tiramisu large enough to feed at least a dozen people. If you prefer it sweeter of course you could use an ice cream . Either way, just be sure to leave it in the fridge for about 30 minutes before you serve it so that it takes on cloud-like proportions.
So tell me Dear Reader, have you ever had dreams that tell you what to do and do you listen to them? And has a dream ever changed your opinion of someone? And are you team frozen yoghurt or ice cream?
Easy Black Forest Tiramisu
An Original Recipe by Not Quite Nigella
- 2 x 900ml tubs of Cloud 9 frozen yoghurt in Vanilla Heaven
- 8 tablespoons or 1/2 cup cherry jam
- 8 tablespoons or 1/2 cup kirsch or liqueur or your choice (or lemonade if you’re keeping this non alcoholic)
- 250g packet sponge finger biscuits
- 500g/1 pound cherries (fresh, but make sure to pit these, or pitted sour cherries in a jar)
- 3 tablespoons cocoa or chocolate shavings
1. Firstly, line a 20x20cm or 8×8 inch square tin with cling film laving some overhanging so that you can cover the tiramisu at the end. Pit the cherries so that they’re ready (unless you’re using pitted sour cherries which is even easier). Make sure that there is room in your freezer for this and take out the two frozen yoghurts so that it can soften. Have a small angled palette knife ready.
2. In a small food processor or blender, blend the jam and the liqueur together. Then place the liqueur in a bowl and dip the sponge fingers in these soaking well (leave them for a little longer as they’ll go straight into the freezer and won’t have time to soak as they do with a traditional tiramisu which is set in a fridge). Lay these soaked fingers out in a layer in the prepared tin. Spoon a few tablespoons of the liqueur mixture over too. Then add half the cherries in a layer on top of the sponge fingers.
3. Once the frozen yoghurt has softened a little so that it can be spread, spread a layer of it onto the fruit and biscuits and use the angled spatula to smooth it over (it’s not strictly necessary to have it smooth but it helps to push it down and make it the layers firmer).
4. Repeat the sponge finger, cherry and frozen yoghurt layers once more and then cover with the cling film. Freeze until needed. You can serve this frozen or you can thaw this in your fridge half an hour before serving and it will be soft, like a regular tiramisu.
This recipe was sponsored by Cloud 9
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It is beautiful! A wonderful idea.
Cheers,
Rosa
Fabulous recipe you have created. Black forest cake for me brings up childhood memories. The real sour kirsh cherries rule! Love it in a tiramisu. Well they say dreams in your subconscious filling away information you accumulate. It may not think the same way as your conscious state.
love this idea! the flavors sound excellent together!
Yum! I love Black Forest desserts! This one sounds fantastic! What a great job you’ve done.
Looks sensational! Love black forest cake and I don’t mind tiramisu, so the combination is a winner.
Gorgeous! This looks SO delicious, love those cherries.
How strange to see you talking about dreams. Last night I dreamt about a friend and wrote to my friend first thing this morning, describing the dream. My friend responds with a link where dreams are interpreted: http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary
My dream was strange, the interpretation most unwelcome. Hope yours has a better verdict:)
Gorgeous! LOVE this dessert, and from your description would love to taste ALL the flavours! YUM!
Ryan Gosling is Canadian and he is indeed a lovely person.
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http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/ryan-gosling-reportedly-pulls-woman-oncoming-cab-165952000.html
I virtually never remember my dreams. It’s a shame too because I think they are entertaining.
this looks so delicious!! that’s why i like reading your blog at breakfast time–im imagining my porridge is tiramisu
That tiramisu looks amazing, Lorraine! PS. Watch The Notebook and you’ll fall madly in love with Ryan Gosling.
Yum! This looks fabulous. I am team icecream but would happily eat this frozen yoghurt treat.
That’s got to be the best looking tiramisu I’ve ever seen. And I love how it cuts so perfectly. What a great way to serve frozen yoghurt. And this looks quite festive too! xx
What a genius idea! The freezing makes the layers so clear and pretty. I tried the strawberry cloud 9 frozen yogurt and fell in love! As well as with Ryan Gosling when I watched Crazy Stupid Love
What a great idea Lorraine!!
I receive mine today
Can’t wait. Hope I don’t eat it all at once!
Looks divine! And so much more simple and interesting than a regular tiramisu. Would make a great Christmas dessert.
Aww, I am definitely frozen yoghurt team! And this tiramisu is a dream, really. I had to pinch myself to make sure I am not sleeping. Some years back, when I just got married, I was learning to make desserts from a professional cake maker. One day we made cake very similar to this one, except she used other ingredients instead of yoghurt. About a week ago I had a dream, where I served this cake to my family and friends. I woke up thinking of that cake, found a recipe and made a shopping list to buy all ingredients. How fun is that?! Do spiritual connections exist? – I wonder now…
Fabulous new look at a tired dish. I tend to shudder whenever anyone mentions Black forest anything but this looks great and is a wonderful twist. GG
Frozen yoghurt all the way! And I’m not telling about my dreams. They are all kinds of crazy!
Your timing is impeccable! Headed home to Melbourne this evening and it’s already a scorcher. This will be perfect for guests tomorrow night along with 20 degree air conditioning. May use the strawberry one too.
I am going to make this for Christmas Dessert! It looks so delicious!
Beautiful images too, I love your styling.
WOW.
What more do you need to say…well, maybe..wow,wow,wow.
That looks absolutely fantastic and the Cloud 9 frozen yoghurt sounds great. oooh.. Limoncello is one of my favourite flavours and I make a great Limoncello Tiramisu – but think this frozen one has just taken its place.
Thanks also for the buyers tip will make the extra trek to Coles to get some.
This is a great idea Lorraine . Its the perfect way to use frozen yoghurt in my books.
Wow dreaming certainly is an inspiration my friend
This twist on tiramisu and Black Forest cake is incredible!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
I am totally with you on Drive. I barely made it through the whole movie, I thought it was terrible.
It’s funny I once had a dream that my husband had done something terrible and I woke up so angry with him! I don’t think I’ve ever dreamed of a great idea but I often wake up with one (hmm maybe I do dream it but don’t realise until I’m awake?).
Love the idea of a frozen tirimisu although in the photo of layering I thought the biscuits were sausages for a minute!
Oh wow! How beautiful. I mean, tiramisu is usually tasty enough, but never really pretty. This looks wonderful. Although I do love frozen yogurt and even sorbets, my heart truly sings with fattening, fat-filled rich ice cream.
I love dreams and dream symbolism, and yes, I have gotten “answers” or at least direction from my dreams before.
Gorgeous – perfect time of year for ice cream cake too.
Absolutely fantastic! Froyo, black forest and tiramisu. You really are a star in the kitchen, Lorraine. What a great recipe and creative idea. WOW
Have you seen the movie “Crazy, stupid love”? Ryan Gosling’s in it and OMG he is the epitome of charming. Soo hot! It’ll make you even more keen on him. Maybe watch it eating the Tiramisu? Using frozen yogurt is such a good idea!
Ice cream cake tiramisu – what a great idea! So fitting that it arrived in a dream
Sounds perfect for summer.
Yum. Looks amazing, especially as the temperature in Sydney is climbing into the 30s and higher for the weekend! Frozen yoghurt and icecream…love them both. And dreams…all the time…I’m never quite sure if I should tell people about their appearances in my dreams (sometimes i do, depending on who and what!!!)
yum! perfect for this 40 degree weather we’re having at the moment.
i discovered cloud 9 a few months ago and love the limoncello version… mmmm, so definitely team frozen joghurt.
my dreams are always too surreal to take much notice of
Ahh-Dreams! Don’t get me started! I’ve never woken up without having a dream or 2,& it’s always about some new recipe concoction of food to make! I’m more of an Ice cream person but having seen,read and cyber tasted your combined one Lorraine, I think I’m sold on Yoghurt Ice cream now! Perfect for a girl’s get together watching chick flicks! Can’t wait to try the Chocolate Fudge bits one!!! mmmm
This is creative! Wonderfully different ice creams are purely a delight! The perfect end to an evening is digging, ceremoniously, into a bowl of colder than cold ice cream. Your tiramisu offering looks very tempting and oh so easy. Dreams are par for the course and my imagination works overtime whilst sleeping!
Two of my bf’s fav things in one- black forest and tiramisu..hmm not sure he’d like the ice-cream part though. Maybe I should try it and se
I would insert my books into publisher’s dreams like the BFG did and get all my stories published!
@Three-Cookies: I much prefer, “The Dream Book: Symbols for Self Understanding”, by Betty Bethards. It is a small but deeply insightful guide and I’ve used it for so long I’ve got most of it memorized. None of her interpretations are negative, only helpful.
This is the best grown-up ice cream,(ok, froyo) I’ve ever seen! Gorgeous.
I had CRAZYASS dreams last night, and was so grateful to wake up from them because no thank you, I don’t want to go over a cliff in a car with my brother because a tidal wave came out of a mountain shaped like a dragon.
Also, I really, really, really don’t get the Ryan Gosling thing. AT ALL.
Dream about people ALL the time, TRUE!
Dream in color, remember most of it too!
LOVE this idea as an alternative to tiramisu!
Is now on the list in the future to do!
Wide variety of colorful characters enter my dreams, those I know and not!
AM team frozen yogurt, especially when it is this hot!
WOW! I love this so much – the flavours in black forest are delicious. This is perfect for our summer
This recipe looks so good… I love tiramisu very much! One of my aunts dreamt some numbers (several times) and she used them to buy lottery numbers and ended up winning the first or second prize. Too bad it wasn’t me!
Yes Ryan Gosling and a bath tub of this perhaps ? Dreamy…
Simple, clever and tasty!!
Team ice-cream all the way.
What a heavenly dessert. Definitely worth dreaming about. xoxo Mum
Ohhh I’ve heard so much about Cloud 9 Frozen Yoghurt but haven’t tried ~ I love this idea of a frozen black forest!! You’re so smart
I’m definitely going to try this out soon! I’m team anything COLD with sugar hahaa
I have some really weird dreams and sometimes I really do dislike or like a person more if I’ve had a good or bad dream about them
I understand you there completely! I’ve definitely had dreams involving people I’ve hardly known before, and it makes me feel very intrigued towards them, although they remain none the wiser! The most confusing aspects of dreams, for me at least, are the re-appearances of locations and even whole cities that don’t exist in real life! It’s like your mind is filled with such potential that you can’t consciously pull out. On the rare occasion that I can convince myself I’m dreaming without waking up, it’s actually possible to will things to happen in your dream, like magic spells, etc. Needless to say, I wake up feeling a bit self-satisfied. xD
That tiramisu looks absolutely divine! Especially with the fruity twist thrown in; I can almost taste it in my mouth!
Wow Lorraine – and I’m doing Dukan sniff
I like the Tang and slight tartness of frozen yogurt, but I love ice cream too- don’t make me chose between them Lorraine!
Beautiful recipe indeed, I have some gorgeous cherry balsamic that would add a great extra something if it was blended with the jam as well. I’ll just have to give it a try
I often have dreams about recipe creations, I keep a notebook by the bed too not them in. One of my latest involved roasted apricots and amaretti…. stay tuned!
Lovely combination of flavours.
Make something else with the Strawberry Dream ice cream! That one sounded amazing.
Oh I love your tiramisu, the cherries and kirsch are a perfect addition!
I LOVE the idea of black forest tiramisu – I have to try this!
WOW! I was planning on making the Masterchef black forest cake for my partners birthday dinner tomorrow. I was so surprised and pleased to see this post today … This looks like a fabulous recipe and will save me hours pf time and lots of washing up tomorrow. Tuamotu once again!
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Oh how divine! This summer I will be making frozen yogurt Lorraine
This looks delicous, thanks Lorraine! Have bookmarked this to make for NYE when we have everyone over, very excited perfect summer dessert!
Do you think this would be okay to freeze a week in advance?
That has so happened to me with dreams! I am always happy to hear all these weird things that happen to you and know I am not the only “weird” one… no offense. hehe
It looks fabulous. I am not judgemental – I will eat gelato, ice cream and frozen yoghurt. It’s all yum!
Ooh! What a fantastic – yet considerably LESS fattening – dessert! I’m more of an ice cream girl than a fro-yo person, but I would gladly dig into a slice of your confection.
I wonder how much sleep Ryan Gosling would get if we all could project ourselves into someone else’s dreams? lol (that sent my mind on a wild tangent for a few minutes…ok back to the yummy looking dessert!
Oh, that looks so very tempting!
I thought I would never stray from the traditional Tiramisu, but I was wrong, and oh, so weak.
Dream are so strange sometimes. I had dreams with people that I didn’t know, well, I guess I should was that person in some point of my life, but it’s strange.
Soooo wonderful and classy! Hubs is a fan of both black forest and tiramisu. What a lovely idea.
what a glorious incarnation of tiramisu! it leaves the traditional stuff in the dust.
sometimes i find mr gosling utterly irresistible and other times i wonder what all the fuss is about.
Charlie did a frozen tiramisu too so it must be an omen that I should make one this weekend to beat the heat. This looks yummy.
and so much better when there is no coffee in tiramisu – sounds delicious
I sometimes have the opposite with dreams – when people do odd things in them and then I feel dubious about these people because the dreams cast a shadow over them – but I love dreams that are lovely about people
I’m tea ice-cream all the way but this looks fab!!
Heidi xo
You are a genius Lorraine! This looks so amazing. As soon as I’m allowed to eat sugars etc again I want to try this
At first I thought those biscuits were sausages and I was so shocked… but after all the bacon ice-cream and muffins, I guess it’s not so shocking!
And I’m team froyo all the way
This looks incredible…like a cross between tiramisu, rocky road and icecream cake! All the good things!
i want some NOW!!!
How wonderful! I would love to try some!
Lorraine that looks wonderful! A large square please
What a great use for frozen yoghurt. Looks divine and actually pretty ‘cool’ as a Christmas dessert idea.
Oh wow this looks amazing…. love your cake recipes Lorraine!! x
That’s so lovely! How long can we make this in advance leading up to Christmas? & How long is the storage life? Thanks!
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