Dairy-Free Tiramisu
Today is my boyfriend’s birthday. He loves Italian food (well, to be perfectly honest he just loves food). So for his birthday, I wanted to make him tiramisu for dessert. However, he has a serious dairy allergy, so I had to get creative!
Sainsbury’s sponge fingers are dairy-free (unlike those in most other supermarkets) and I found coconut milk cream cheese and soya cream in Waitrose. He can’t have things that “may contain milk”, so I need to be extra careful.
Dairy-Free Tiramisu
Equipment
- Rectangular Dish
- Whisk
- Shallow Bowl
Ingredients
- 170 g Vegan Cream Cheese
- 60 g Caster Sugar
- 100 ml Soya Cream
- 1 Pack Sponge Fingers
- 1 Cup Strong Coffee cooled
- Mini Bottle Cognac
- 1 Pack Dairy-Free Dark Chocolate or Cocoa Powder
Instructions
- Whip the cream cheese, sugar and soya cream together.
- Add a splash of cognac and mix well.
- In a shallow bowl, pour some strong coffee and add a splash of cognac. Dip a sponge finger in this mixture then put the slightly soggy sponge finger into a Pyrex dish.
- Repeat this until the base of the dish is covered in a layer of sponge fingers (you may need to top up your coffee/cognac mix).
- Spread half of the cream cheese mixture over the sponge finger layer.
- Make another layer of soaked sponge fingers and top with the other half of the cream mixture.
- Grate over a generous layer of chocolate.
- Cover and refrigerate for 2-4 hours.
The tiramisu was a huge hit! I wonder what I’ll make for him next year?
This morning I thought I would try out a recipe I found in Pinterest for Chocolate Chip American Pancakes. I haven’t yet finished converting cups into grams, but when I have I’ll update the post.
The pancakes were lovely and fluffy, but it was quite hard to work out the temperature and cooking time. After some trial and error, I recommend a medium to low heat with a lightly oiled frying pan. Carefully turn them over when you see bubbles on the surface.
The recipe (with my slight adjustments):
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups of Plain Flour
- 3 1/2 tsp of Baking Powder
- 1 tsp of Salt
- 1 tbls Caster Sugar
- 1 1/4 cups of Semi Skimmed Milk
- 1 large Egg
- 3 tbls of melted Butter
- 200 grams of Milk Chocolate Chips (or 1 cup)
Instructions
- Mix the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a mixing bowl.
- Whisk together the milk, egg and butter in a separate jug.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and whisk until there are no visible dry ingredients.
- Mix in the chocolate chips.
- In a frying pan (over a medium heat with a little oil) place level tablespoons of mixture. I could get 3 pancakes cooking at a time.
- When they begin to bubble on the surface, flip them over and cook until browned.
This easily made 18 pancakes (and I could only manage to eat 2! So we have plenty for breakfast in the week as well).
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