Tiramisu - Eggless

 The thought of eating raw eggs does not sit well with me at all, not that I have never ever tasted a teeny tiny bit of cake batter etc which has raw eggs in it :) but a plate full of dessert -I can never stomach it. I looked for a really long time for a Tiramisu recipe with no eggs in it and finally came across this fabulous recipe and very easy too.

This recipe is no where close to the traditional recipe as I have not used raw eggs, mascaporne cheese etc but it was really, really tasty.I got this eggless version from Ellie  (Thanks a ton Ellie) who in turn got it from Gordan Ramsay.
Ellie used mascarpone cheese and Marsala and I used cream cheese and rum ;)

Just make sure to share this rich and satisfying dessert with family and friends.

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup heavy cream
• 1 cup cream cheese
  
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 TBS Rum- optional
• Kahlua, to taste- optional
• 9 TBS powdered sugar, divided
• 1 cup strong cold coffee
• 30 ladyfinger biscuits 
• unsweetened cocoa for dusting

Method

1. Whip cream and 6 TBS sugar to stiff peaks and set aside or you could use cool whip.

2. Mix cream cheese with rum, vanilla and a bit of Kahlua to taste. Whisk till medium soft peaks.

3. Fold in the cream cheese mixture with most of the sweetened whipped cream.Make sure to leave a bit for decoration.

4. Combine coffee plus 3 TBS powdered sugar in a shallow bowl.

5. Dip the lady finer biscuits in coffee mixture and place in pan.(I too used a spring foam pan like Ellie but felt that the outside of my Tiramisu did not look neat at all but Ellies looks great.Another way would be to make individual portions in a tall see through glass) .

6. Add a portion of the cream cream mixture and level it out and sprinkle cocoa. Repeat once for  two layers or repeat twice for 3 layer.

7.Refrigerate for alteast 4 hours .

This dessert can be decorated in many ways, with whipped cream, biscuits,chocolate shavings , sprinkle of cocoa or icing sugar etc.

 Enjoy!!