Did you know Italy’s most beloved dessert is also said to be a powerful aphrodisiac? Laced with sugar and booze, tiramisu is a potent energy bomb that not only tantalises taste buds and lifts the spirit – but can also apparently provide a certain physical excitement.

That’s what can be surmised from tiramisu’s decidedly kinky backstory, anyway. There are many tales charting the dessert’s origins, but the most intriguing says it was a prostitute’s treat made inside brothels in the gorgeous northern town of Treviso, in the Veneto region. It was served to reinvigorate clients and keep the sex business ticking over.