Melt in your mouth, perfectly flavored and miraculously rich tiramisu cake with ladyfingers. Classic tiramisu recipe without alcohol and guess what? no raw eggs involved! Need to eat more coffee? try these moist coffee cupcakes.
Tiramisu
This is the best tiramisu recipe I've ever made. An authentic tiramisu recipe with a twist for non alcoholic people. An tiramisu that is fluffy, rich, & irresistible. This is how do you make no raw egg tiramisu.
So what is Tiramisu cake?
In case you do not know, Tiramisu is an Italian trifle that is creamy and ethereal. It is made by dipping Italian Savoiardi cookies (Ladyfingers) in espresso and layering them with a magical, creamy filling. Finally it is dusted with cocoa powder and chilled for few hours in the fridge. You'll end up with a cake-y textured cookies flavored with espresso and topped with a lightened up, fluffy and cloudy custard like top. So delicious.
The bad news is, I've never really tasted the classic Tiramisu as the cloudy dreamy cream usually contains some sort of alcohol, usually rum and traditionally Marsala ... how unfortunate is that!
A couple of months ago, or may be more, I've had my first experience with Carbonara sauce. It was not a good one though, and I am sure this was not because of the recipe but rather the recipient of the recipe :). Knowing that it had raw eggs, that is supposed to be cooked with the heat from the pasta, made it hard for the pasta to go all the way through to my stomach 🤣.
I am not totally against consuming raw eggs, it has some rules you need to follow, but somehow this puts a pressure on me. Although, I do not have this issue when licking a cake batter or cookie dough!
I've had Tiramisu, the easy way, many times as I've this amazing friend who makes a delicious "fake tiramisu" as we call it. She usually makes it with plain cookies like Marie, and she uses condensed milk, cream and cool whip for the cream. It was delicious, but I really wanted to taste the classic one so I googled a recipe with no alcohol and I came across really very good recipes but all of them used the raw egg method.
Getting rid of the alcohol was not hard at all, actually the espresso and the cocoa along with some pinches of vanilla powder was more than enough.
How do I dry my ladies fingers?
I was unable to get a hold of hard large Savoiardi cookies, all what was there in the stores was those packages of mini soft ladyfingers. If this is your case as well then you’ll need to harden those before using by either arranging them on a baking sheet, cover with kitchen towel and let it air dry overnight OR heat your oven to 250F, then turn off heat and place the baking sheet and leave it there until they harden, took me about 20 minutes.
Can I make tiramisu the day before?
Sure, make it without the cocoa powder, wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate for up to 2 days. Just take care that nothing will squish the domes. Take it out and finish the top as directed.
How long does tiramisu last in the fridge?
Tiramisu can survive for up 4-5 days in the fridge.
Can I put my tiramisu in the freezer?
Yes you can, I've done it several times. Tiramisu can keep up in the freezer for up to 3 months. I usually store left over in portions in the freezer, just to get it away from me or else I will probably finish it off in no time.
How do you make tiramisu?
For the raw eggs, we'll cook the egg yolks over a water bath, this was enough to keep my mind at ease and kept the hunting carbonara memory away 😟. So without further ado let's see what is happening here:
- Over a double broiler or a water bath mix egg yolks and sugar. keep stirring and cooking over low flame until it turns pale yellow as shown above.
- Remove from heat and stir for a couple of more minutes to make sure that the mixture is no more grainy, set aside.
- Then beat the Mascarpone cheese to loosen it a bit then add the whipping cream. Beat until hard peak forms.
- Now fold in the cooked egg yolks gently until everything is well combined.
- Quickly dip ladyfingers in the coffee and let excess coffee drip.
- Place cookies side by side and continue until one layer is formed.
- After finishing the first layer add cream, level and layer another dipped cookies on top.
- Continue layering cream and cookies until you end up with a nice smooth layer of cream. My 13x9 pan was filled to the top just after two layers of cookies and two layers of cream.
- If you wanna get that fancy domes look, just pipe some cream through a piping bag, no tips is necessary as you can see in the video.
Now brew yourself a nice cup of coffee, set back beside your fireplace and .... enjoy a piece... or may be two :).
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No Alcohol Tiramisu.
Ingredients
- 8 large egg yolks.
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract optional.
- 1 1/3 cup sugar.
- 1 1/2 cup mascarpone cheese room temperature.
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream.
- 3- 7 oz packages Italian Ladyfingers cookies Savoiardi.*
- 1 1/2 cup espresso/coffee freshly brewed .**
- Cocoa for dusting.
Instructions
- Start by making the espresso and leaving it to cool to room temperature.
- In a deep bowl, mix egg yolks and sugar and vanilla if using, on top of a water bath. Stir and keep cooking for 10 minutes.
- Remove mixture from heat and stir for another 2-3 minutes until mixture is not grainy and have a pale yellow color.
- In a separate bowl, beat the mascarpone cheese for a minute then pour in the whipping cream and beat until hard peak forms.
- Gently fold in the egg yolk mixture until everything is well combined.
- Dip the cookies one at a time in the espresso to get them wet and arrange in a 13x9 dish to form one layer.
- Spoon almost one third of the cream mixture and level the surface.
- Repeat dipping and arranging the rest of the cookies to form the second cookies layer.
- Spoon another half of the cream mixture and level.
- Fill a piping bag with the rest of the cream, cut the tip and pipe domes on top of the cream to get that fancy look.***
- Cover and refrigerate 4 hours and preferably overnight.
- Dust with cocoa powder just before serving.
- Enjoy!
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I'm not an experienced baker but I love to try. I was so scared to try tiramisu just for the fact that I love this dessert beyond anything in this world. This was Fantastic! Very well balanced and easy to make. I followed the recipe as is. Now I know what to do when the tiramisu craving hits.
ohhh this is great Mary, and to hear that from a tiramisu fanatic just doubles my joy. Thank you
What is a water bath? Is it necessary? Do you have a video full of instructions?
Ayesha, a water bathe is simply cooking something over a pan of hot water. It is done to make sure that the eggs are cooked but not in an omelet style :). The video is right at the top after the first paragraph. Check it out and let me know if you have any more questions.
The measurements here are great, but DO NOT FOLLOW ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS. Do this instead: Prepare the egg/sugar mixture as stated. Mix your room temp mascarpone into the mixture. Prepare your whipping cream separately, and then GENTLY fold the whipped cream into the egg/sugar/mascarpone mixture. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WHIP THE MASCARPONE ALONG WITH THE WHIPPING CREAM INTO STIFF PEAKS. Your mascarpone will almost definitely curdle and become trash like my first attempt did. I attempted to salvage it using a couple different methods, but it never became light and airy again. Mascarpone is not like egg whites or whipping cream. It will never form stiff peaks. I’ve never seen another tiramisu recipe tell you to whip the mascarpone with the cream, and I regret doing it, because I wasted everything. That said, the rest of this recipe is perfect.
Thank you Nooreen for your input, glad you've found a way that worked for you. Hope my readers will benefit from your method.
I was so excited to try this as I love Tiramisu but can't have a "normal" one with alcohol. I followed the instructions exactly and was a bit nervous when I first put it in the fridge but after sometime I checked on it and it had set and was perfect. My sister said the flavour got better with time. Can't wait to try more recipes from the lovely Amira
Glad you enjoyed this Andrea! Making fancy desserts sometimes is overwhelming, but you've got this gril.Thank you for letting me know and thanks for the IG pictures too.
HELP! I followed instructions...the mascarpone and whipping cream started to form soft peaks, so I continued to mix it, soon after it was liquid with crumbles! What did I do wrong?
Cielito, seems that you over mixed the whipping cream, sorry about that but no worries... here is how you can fix it. I hope this helps, let me know if you need further assistance.