A Little Italian - Zuppa Inglese

Hello Guys!

Here is my second choice of desserts! It is an Italian dessert, although its name might sound like it's an English soup or something. IT IS ITALIAN, and according to the cook book, it is very much liked in Italy.

Let's see how it's made!

We need the following ingredients:
- 5 dl milk
- 1 vanilla stick
- 4 egg yolk
-12,5 dkg sugar

- 2 tablespoons of flour

- 30 dkg sponge or you can use 'ladyfinger'
- 0,8 dl rum or use aroma if you wish
- 3 dkg dark chocolate
- 5 dkg chopped, roasted almond

Step 1:

- We need to butter a fairly big glass bowl.
- Put one layer of ladyfingers on the bottom of the bowl, and sprinkle the ladyfingers with the rum.

Step 2: 

- We need to slice the vanilla stick and scrape out what is in the inside.


Step 3:
- We should boil the vanilla stick, the inside of the vanilla stick and the milk together.

Step 4:
- While the milk boils together with the vanilla, we mix the sugar, flour and the egg yolks.

- When the flour, sugar and egg yolks are mixed together, we take out the actual vanilla stick from the boiled milk.

- Then, we mix the vanilla milk with the sugary cream and stir it until it becomes a thick cream. (still on the oven, so it stays warm)

Step 5:
- We've already put down one layer of ladyfingers and sprinkled rum over it. Now it's time to put 1/3 of the cream on top of the ladyfingers.
- Then, we need to repeat this process of layering two more times.
- When it's done, we can file the chocolate on top of the last layer of vanilla cream. And we can also add the almond as decoration.

MINE TURNED OUT LIKE THIS! I left out the almonds, because the family is not a big fan... so we'll see how it tastes in a couple of hours.

ACCORDING TO THE RECIPE: We need to cool the dessert for about 4 hours, so when it's done we can put it into the fridge! And in about 4 hours time : BUONO APPETITO!

/I honestly have no idea how to say it in Italian, but gave it my best try. :) /

PS: I hope you liked this recipe also. Please keep me updated if you try any of these!
Thank you!

PSS: Also, it was my first try at this dessert... so I hope it turned out well....