• Prepare the Coffee and allow it to cool
• Start preparing the cream: whisk the egg yolks with the sugar and the vanilla.
• Bring the bowl and keep whisking on hot steaming water untillit thickens .
• Remove from the steaming water, add the milk and keep whisking till it cools.
• Mix the mascarpone till creamy.
• Add the egg yolks and sugar mixture to the mascarpone and mix to combine.
• Beat the heavy cream until stiff peaks form.
• Fold the heavy cream into the mascarpone cream.

Assembly:

• If you like to, add the alcohol to the coffee.
• Dip the ladyfinger biscuits briefly into the coffee and layer them on the dish.
• Cover with the first layer of the cream.
• Cover with a layer of the unsweetened cocoa powder and repeat the layers.
• To have some texture, add the half of the rest of the cream, and fill the rest in a piping bag.
• Pipe the rest of the cream and add a last layer of cocoa powder.
• Allow it to set in the freidgw bwfore serving.