I was recently invited by Erin from dessert girl to contribute my favourite dessert recipe to her guest blog - I chose Tiramisu and was inspired to create this illustration to accompany the recipe.

I wanted to evoke the colours of the dessert and the meaning – ‘tira mi su’ loosely means “pick me up” or “lift me up” in Italian and the dessert was intended as a cheering dish to be eaten when feeling low. I also referenced the Italian origin of the dessert by imagining the illustration in the context of a 1930s Italian Art Deco poster, the sort you might see in a café.

[zaraillustrates.com]