This quick and easy strawberry tiramisu tastes just like summer and is the perfect dessert for your next summer bbq! It’s a playful twist on a beloved classic, requires only a handful of ingredients and just twenty minutes of hands on time. You’ll want to pick up extra pistachio cream and lady fingers during your next grocery run, and prepare to make this no bake cake for every family event for the rest of the season (and beyond)!
Strawberry Pistachio Tiramisu
This quick and easy no bake dessert is light, slightly sweet and sure to be a massive hit at your next summer party. With less than thirty minutes of hands on time, you'll be able to set it and forget it until it's time to dig in!
1 9×13 dish feel free to make these into individual cups, or in any shape dish you'd like to serve it in!
stand mixer or hand mixer for ease of whipping the cream
Ingredients
500ml35% whipping creamcold
1/4 cupvanilla jello pudding powder, blue box not low fatyes this is halal 🙂
1/3 cupicing sugar
453gmascarpone cheeseroom temperature
1/4tspsalt
1//2tspvanilla extractSimply Organic has a wonderful alcohol free extract
3454g containersfresh strawberriesyou'll use about 1 3/4 for filling, a few for decorating and the extras to eat while you're prepping things because why not 🙂
1/4 cuppistachio creamI use Pisti cream, which is different from pistachio butter
2 cupsmilkcold
2 packslady fingersthis cake is 3 layers, I use 5 1/2 inner packs of lady fingers
Instructions
Thoroughly wash, dry, and finely dice the strawberries. Set aside. Investing in a food chopper is one of the best thing's I've done. I'll add a link to the one I use in case you'd like to get one!
Pour the cream into a large bowl or stand mixer. Whisk using a hand mixer or the whisk attachment, on medium speed until the cream beings to thicken.
Add in the pudding powder and icing sugar.
Whip to soft peaks. The cream will be fluffy but not completely stiff. When scooped up with a whisk, the cream will. not drip off the whisk, but it also won't hold it's shape as it would at stiff peaks.
Add in the mascarpone cheese, salt and vanilla extract.
Whisk until well combined.
Pour one cup of the milk into a shallow bowl.
Dip the lady fingers in to the milk, one at a time, for 2 seconds per side. Be careful not to soak them too much or the cake will be wet and soggy.
Place the lady fingers into the baking dish, until the bottom of the dish is covered.
Spread a third of the mascarpone cream over the lady fingers.
Spoon over half of the diced strawberries over the mascarpone cream.
I skip adding pistachio cream to the first layer, if you prefer add one layer here. Heat the pistachio cream in the microwave for 20 seconds to soften it up and make it easier to drizzle.
Lay another layer of soaked lady fingers over the strawberry layer, repeat the previous step.
Place one final layer of soaked lady fingers over the second layer of strawberries/pistachio cream.
Spread the remaining third of mascarpone cream over the lady fingers, drizzle horizontal lines of pistachio cream across the cake about 2cm apart. Using a wooden skewer or chopstick, make vertical lines 1 1/2 inches apart in the same direction.
Repeat making vertical lines, in the opposite direction, in between the lines made in the previous step to create a lovely design.
Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 6 and up to 12 hours.
Before serving, remove from the refrigerator and garnish with strawberries as desired.
Notes
Personal preference: I skip one layer of pistachio cream inside the cake, feel free to add cream to every layer!
Feel free to play with the amount of sugar you add to the mascarpone cream mixture. Â Everyone enjoys this cake for it’s light, airy feeling and low sugar content but food is fun and you’re always welcome to adjust to your liking!
Skipping the pistachio is also totally okay! Â My first version of this recipe was sans pistachio cream and everyone loved it! Â So again have fun and do it your way!
The pudding powder acts as a stabilizer and adds a unique flavour to the cream mixture. Â It’s something I add any time I am whipping cream for desserts!
Can you sub cream cheese for the mascarpone? Â I’ve seen it being done, but I personally feel the taste and texture of mascarpone is lighter than cream cheese so I would not recommend it in this case. Â If you must, you’ll likely have to adjust (increase) the amount of whipping cream.
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This recipe is a delightful twist on the tres leche cake, incorporating Ras Malai flavours and pistachio cream for a unique and flavorful dessert. It is super easy to make and a very impressive dessert to make at your next party.
This recipe is a delightful twist on the tres leche cake, incorporating Ras Malai flavours and pistachio cream for a unique and flavorful dessert. It is super easy to make and a very impressive dessert to make at your next party.