Great cake. Wonderful flavor, but labor-intensive and a little difficult to put together. I made this for Father's Day. My biggest problem was that the layers were too thin a nd they started to crumble and break apart during assembly even though I took one reviewer's advice to freeze them before assembly. I froze them in plastic wrap for 4 hours and the middle layer still cracked and my cake came out like the Leaning Tower of Tiramisu. I surrounded them with piroueetes and tied them with a ribbon, pulling the ribbon tight to try to get the cake to stop leaning, but it didn't work. I used one reviwer's maescopone substitute and it was WAY WAY too much filling, so halve that substitute recipe. I put about 3x as much Kahlua as called for and doubled the amount of instant coffee. I also doubled the amount of brewed coffee, and subbed espresso besides. I took one reviewer's advice about melting a bag of semisweet choco chips with shortening and refrigerating them in a rectangulaur container and then using a veggie peeler for curls. 16 oz. chips was way too much. 8 oz. plus 1 T. shortening would suffice for curls on top. Do make this a day ahead of time and put all the ingredients in the fridge to harden them up before assembly or you may have a runny mess.
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