It’s finally here. Well, live.  The recipe that we made that is our closest approximation at home of the fabulous and amazing Chocolate Tiramisu at Sabatini’s Restaurant on the Caribbean Princess cruise ship. This chocolate tiramisu recipe has the same flavors, but it’s in a mini trifle form, because trifles are fun and mini trifles are even more fun.  I think I could spend a month trying to recreate all of the fabulous and delightful foods we enjoyed aboard that ship this fall! 

Double Chocolate Tiramisu Mini Trifles –

Ingredients

1 package of cream cheese, softened to room temperature

2 tbs. unsweetened cocoa powder

1 ½ C. hot water

½ C. semi-sweet chocolate (I use chocolate chips for this recipe)

1 ½ C. heavy cream

¾ C. sugar

1 24 ct package of lady fingers, any brand (I hunt for these as I’d never bought them before – ask the bakery section at your local grocer and save yourself some time! 🙂 )

4-5 mini trifle dishes

Directions –

#1. Heat the 1 ½ C. of water in a glass dish in the microwave. Once it is heated through, add the cocoa powder to the hot water and mix well. Set aside.

#2. In a small microwavable dish, melt the chocolate chips and ¼ C. of the cream. Heat in 30 second increments, stirring every 30 seconds until melted.

#3. Next, combine the melted chocolate & cream, sugar and cream cheese – beat using a hand mixer for several minutes until fluffy – it will take on a ‘pudding-like’ consistency.

#4. Time to start layering the mini trifles! Add about 1-2cm of the chocolate mixture to the bottom of each mini trifle dish

Dip the ladyfingers 1-2 at a time in the cocoa/hot water mixture (quickly as they dissolve fast!) and then lay them on top of the chocolate mixture. I found that 2 lady fingers dipped in the chocolate mixture with a size for the mini trifle dish (see photo).

Next, cover with some chocolate mixture.

Add 2 more lady fingers dipped in the chocolate/water mixture and then top with more chocolate mixture.

Garnish with a few extra lady fingers on top and some cocoa powder. Yum!!

Set in the fridge for several hours – overnight even, to set up completely.

*Makes approximately 4-5 mini trifles. You can also make one large trifle if you would prefer using the same amount of ingredients.

Princess Cruise Lines have partnered with Master Chocolatier Norman Love to offer Chocolate Journeys℠, an industry-first, premium chocolate experience onboard its fleet of 18 ships. The program will offer guests a variety of opportunities to taste the inspired creations crafted by Love. It will be on all Princess ships by January 1, 2015. Chocolate isn’t just about dessert anymore…although in this case, it’s totally about dessert. YUM.

Thanks to Princess Cruises for inviting me and a guest to enjoy a 5 day Western Caribbean cruise aboard the Caribbean Princess ship.