"""Tiramisu"" is a type of what?"
Tiramisu the taste of tiramisu. Tiramisu Tiramisu (from the Italian language, spelled "tiramisù" , meaning "pick me up" or "cheer me up") is a coffee-flavoured Italian dessert. It is made of ladyfingers (savoiardi) dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of eggs, sugar, and mascarpone cheese, flavoured with cocoa. The recipe has been adapted into many varieties of cakes and other desserts. Its origins are often disputed among Italian regions of Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Piedmont, and others. Most accounts of the origin of tiramisu date its invention to the 1960s in the region of Veneto, Italy, at the restaurant "Le
Tiramisu in cookbooks before the 1960s. The Italian-language dictionary "Sabatini Coletti" traces the first printed mention of the word to 1980, while Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary gives 1982 as the first mention of the dessert. There is also evidence of a "Tiremesù" semi-frozen dessert served by the Vetturino restaurant in Pieris, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia, since 1938. This may be the name's origin, while the recipe for Tiramisu may have originated as a variation of another layered dessert, "Zuppa Inglese". It is mentioned in Giovanni Capnist's 1983 cookbook "I Dolci del Veneto". Among traditional pastry, tiramisu also has similarities with many other