Eggless Tiramisu with Rusk/No alcohol/No ladyfingers– Eggless and alcohol free Tiramisu made with rusk, instant coffee and cream cheese. If you are making eggless tiramisu with store bought lady fingers or savoiardi cookies, then its not truly an eggless recipe as these cookies are made with eggs. Since I was making tiramisu for my friends who don’t eat eggs, I searched for an alternate to egg free lady finger cookies and finally decided on using Brittania Suji Rusk instead of the Savoiardi cookies. I thought of a few different options- graham crackers were too thin, nilla wafers didn’t have the right size and Parle G, Digestive cookies all had a very distinct taste, which would not go with the coffee-cocoa flavor. So I finally decided on suji rusk and all my friends, including the ones who do eat eggs, loved the tiramisu.
Also, the size of the rusk is similar to the lady finger and readily available in every home. I made this a few times -with mascarpone cheese and cream cheese. Cream cheese is readily available, is half the price of mascarpone cheese and honestly I didn’t find any significant difference in taste or texture between the two. So I would say, use what’s available-mascarpone or cream cheese. I used instant coffee granules, but you can brew a strong cup of coffee or use espresso. Since we are making it with suji rusk, It is very absorbent and a good dip in the coffee is not only recommended but needed. Also, its a must to assemble the tiramisu and leave overnight for the rusk to completely soften up.
Keep the cream cheese-whipping cream filling at the soft peak stage. This helps the rusk to absorb the cream Its important to use the egg beater at the lowest setting as it can quickly turn from soft peak to butter if we keep beating at high speed. I always had a little bit of cream filling left over as my dish is not very deep. I recommend a deeper dish so you can use all of the filling and in fact if you use a deeper dish and you like your tiramisu, extra creamy, you can increase the quantity of cream to 2 cups instead of 1.5 cups.
This Eggless Tiramisu with Rusk is enough for 12-15 people and is an absolute favorite. Create this exquisite Italian dessert with readily available Rusk and get ready for compliments.
Some other easy, eggless dessert recipes to try are-
Eggless Blueberry Crumble with only 5 ingredients
Pistachio Chocolate Eclair Dessert-No Bake Recipe
Instant Apple Crisp-5 minute and only 4 ingredients
Pistachio Chocolate Eclair Dessert-No Bake Recipe
Eggless Cheesecake-No Bake Recipe
Here is the written recipe followed by the step by step pictorial one-
Eggless Tiramisu with Rusk/No alcohol/No ladyfingers
Equipment
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1 medium shallow bowl for coffee/espresso
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1 large bowl for whipping, cream
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1 medium bowl for whipping, cream cheese
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1 rectangular dish 2.2 quarts Pyrex
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1 egg beater
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1 sieve
Ingredients
- 1 package Brittania Suji Rusk Toastea 11 oz/305 grams
- 1.5 cups Heavy whipping cream chilled
- 8 oz cream cheese/mascarpone cheese 226 gms at room temperature
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 tbsp instant coffee
- 1.25 cups lukewarm water
- Cocoa powder for dusting on top
Instructions
For filling
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In medium bowl, beat cream cheese with the egg beater at lowest speed for few minutes till smooth. Set aside.
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In large bowl, add the chilled heavy whipping cream and 1/2 the sugar and beat at lowest setting for a few minutes. add the remaining half of the sugar and vanilla and continue to beat till we get slightly thick cream, BUT BEFORE SOFT PEAK stage.
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Add in the beaten cream cheese and continue to beat the cream cheese-whipping cream mixture at lowest speed setting till we get soft peaks. Place the mixture in refrigerator.
Coffee for dipping
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In medium shallow bowl, combine lukewarm water with the coffee and mix till coffee granules dissolve
Assembling Tiramisu
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Dip each rusk in the coffee mixture, flipping and dipping both sides of the rusk. Place in a single layer in a square or rectangular dish. break a rusk if needed to fill in.
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Put half the cream cheese-whipping cream filling on the 1st layer of coffee dipped rusk. Smoothen the filling with a spatula.
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Place a second layer of coffee dipped rusk on top of the filling. Break some rusks if needed to fill in and complete the layer. If any coffee mixture is left, drizzle it over the rusk. Top with remaining filling. Smoothen with spatula.
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So we will have 4 layers- rusk, filling, rusk and filling.
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Cover with foil or lid and place in fridge overnight or a minimum of 12 hours.
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When ready to serve, remove from fridge, remove foil/cover and put some cocoa powder in a sieve and dust on top. Cut and serve immediately. Tastes best when served cold.
Notes
Here is the step by step pictorial recipe-
Ingredients(with Mascarpone cheese)
Ingredients(with cream cheese)
In medium bowl, beat cream cheese with egg beater on low speed, till smooth
Set aside
In large bowl, beat the chilled heavy whipping and half the sugar and vanilla extract and beat at the lowest setting for few minutes
Add remaining half of the sugar and continue to beat till we get slightly thick cream, BUT BEFORE SOFT PEAK stage
Add in the whipped cream cheese to the whipping cream and continue to whip using the lowest setting, till soft peaks form
Place in refrigerator
In a medium, shallow bowl, combine lukewarm water with instant coffee granules
till coffee dissolves
Dip each rusk into the lukewarm coffee, flipping and dipping both sides
and place in a single layer in rectangular or square dish. Break a rusk, if needed to fill in
Place half of the cream cheese-whipping cream mixture and smoothen with a spatula
Place a second layer of coffee dipped rusk on top of the filling. Break some rusks if needed to fill in and complete the layer. If any coffee mixture is left. drizzle it over the rusk.
Top with remaining filling. Smoothen with spatula. So we will have 4 layers-rusk, filling, rusk and filling
Cover with foil or lid and place in refrigerator overnight(preferably) or minimum 12 hours
When ready to serve, put some cocoa powder in a sieve and dust on top. Serve cold.
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Madhu
What an awesome recipe! The layers are perfect and I love that you used Rusk instead of lady fingers. Makes it so easy as ladyfingers are not readily available. Couldn’t tell the difference at all.
Aanchal Gupta
Thanks a lot for sharing your feedback. My friends loved the tiramisu as well. I love to use readily easily ingredients. Rusk is available in every Indian home.
Sabita
I love this recipe. Best part is it’s eggless and I like that we can use rusk. Taste was too good.
Aanchal Gupta
Thank you, so glad to hear you liked the taste. Rusk is so readily available and so inexpensive. It’s a great substitute for lady fingers. And you don’t miss eggs in the recipe