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The BEST Vegan Tiramisu


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Description

The ULTIMATE coffee dessert for all to enjoy. This Vegan Tiramisu is light, creamy and absolutely delicious! 

Perfect for a 10 x 8 dish.


Ingredients

Units Scale

Ingredients for the lady fingers

  • 180ml of aquafaba (chickpea brine)*
  • 12g of cream of tartar
  • 180g of caster sugar
  • 60ml of sunflower oil
  • 20g of dairy-free vanilla yogurt
  • 80g of coconut cream*
  • 2 teaspoons of vanilla bean paste
  • 2 teaspoons of baking powder
  • 300g of plain flour

Ingredients for the mascarpone cream

  • 250g of dairy-free block butter (softened)*
  • 420g of icing sugar
  • 2 teaspoons of vanilla bean paste
  • 50g of dairy-free vanilla yogurt

Coffee (for dipping)

  • 4 tablespoons of coffee granules (caffeinated or decaffeinated)
  • 8 tablespoons of hot water

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  • 1 pot of Elmlea Plant Based Double Cream (or any good quality whipping cream)
  • 200g of dairy-free cream cheese
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla bean paste
  • Cocoa powder (for dusting)

Instructions

Method (ladyfingers)

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C fan, and line 2 baking trays with greaseproof paper. This recipe will make around 3-4 trays, so you’ll want to bake 1 tray at a time.
  2. Pour the aquafaba (chickpea brine) into a medium / large mixing bowl and whisk on low, adding in the cream of tartar. You will want to use an electric hand whisk or stand mixer with a balloon whisk attachment. Whip on high speed for 5-8 minutes until soft peaks form. 
  3. While the aquafaba mixture is still whipping on high speed, sprinkle in 150g of the sugar, a little at a time until it’s all in the bowl. Allow this to whip for 5-8 minutes until stiff peaks form. If you can hold the bowl upside down and the meringue doesn’t move or slide out of the bowl, it’s ready.
  4. In a separate bowl, combine the oil, yogurt, coconut cream, vanilla bean paste and remaining sugar. Whisk this together to combine.
  5. Use a spatula to carefully fold the meringue mixture into the yogurt mixture, do this in 2-3 stages as you don’t want to and deflate the air we made in the meringue.
  6. Sift in the baking powder and flour, carefully fold this in to combine. Fold until there is not dry ingredients visible, be-careful not to over mix.
  7. Transfer the mixture into a piping bag fitted with a large round tip nozzle.
  8. Pipe lines of the mixture (around 4 inches / 10cm long) onto the lined trays, making sure to space them out as they will spread in the oven.
  9. Place 1 tray at a time into the middle of the oven and bake the ladyfingers for 15 minutes, making sure not to burn them. You will know they’re ready when the edges of the ladyfingers turn golden brown.
  10. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the tray before peeling them off the paper and placing onto a wire rack to cool down fully.. Repeat until you’ve used up all the mixture.
  11. Once cool, keep all the ladyfingers fresh before using in the tiramisu, but placing them in a sealed container at room temperature. You will want to use them on the day of making, or the next day. Don’t leave them too long in the container or they could soften.

Method (mascarpone cream)

  1. In a large mixing bowl, add in the dairy-free softened butter. Using a hand whisk or stand mixer with balloon whisk attachment, whip the butter for 5-8 minutes until pale.
  2. Sift in the icing sugar and add in the vanilla bean paste. Whip on high speed, adding in the yogurt. Keep whipping for around 5 minutes. The mixture will turn very thick and creamy. If your mixture looks like it is splitting, keep whipping it! It will come together.

Assemble

  1. Add the coffee granules into a bowl and pour over the hot water. Allow the water to melt the coffee until smooth. Give it a little stir.
  2. Dip the ladyfingers into the coffee (making sure not to over dip them, or they will become soggy), place into your desired dish to make the first layer. 
  3. Spread half of the mascarpone cream evenly over the first layer of ladyfingers. Use an offset spatula to spread it into an even layer.
  4. Repeat the ladyfinger layer and mascarpone layer 2 / 3 more times until you’ve used up all of your mixture.
  5. Whip up the Elmlea cream (or any good quality dairy-free double cream) with the cream cheese and vanilla bean paste, until thick, add into a piping bag fitted with a large round tip nozzle and pipe blobs all over the top of the dessert.
  6. Dust the entire dessert with cocoa powder, wipe the rim of the dish with kitchen paper,  then place into the fridge for 6-8 hour or overnight to chill (my preferred method is overnight as it makes sure everything is set).
  7. Using a sharp knife, carefully slice chilled tiramisu into squares / servings. TIP: Wipe the knife clean between each cut with kitchen paper, this makes for neat slices. 
  8. To lift the tiramisu out of the dish, use a flat spatula, it really helps to get underneath the tiramisu and lift it up without damaging the dessert too much. The first slice is always the trickiest to get out of the dish.
  9. Serve the tiramisu with a swirl of dairy-free cream, or a scoop of ice-cream.

Notes

What is aquafaba? Aquafaba is the water from a can/tin of chickpeas. The chickpea water or brine as it’s called, acts as an amazing egg substitute for cakes, cupcakes and delicious meringue buttercream. You can also get aquafaba in a carton for easy use.

What coconut cream to use? To get thick white coconut cream, you’ll want a tin of coconut milk. Pop it in the fridge overnight, pour out the liquid and just use the thick cream.

What vegan block butter to use? My two favourites are Naturli Vegan Block and flora Plant Based Block.

To store: Store this tiramisu in a sealed container in the fridge. Allow to come to room temperature before enjoying.

  • Prep Time: 30 minutes
  • Cook Time: 15 minutes
  • Category: Cake
  • Method: Baking
  • Cuisine: Italian