I did it.. I FINALLY went through all my saved posts and recipes to make myself make a dessert for our church community group a couple wednesday’s ago! Most of the things I save are super easy , “can’t-mess-this-up”, recipes. It boggles me that my mother was such a great cook, yet I somehow struggle EVERY time! I grew up on 90% home cooked meals. But my personality growing up was all tomboy, so I didn’t want ANYTHING to do with sTeReOtYpIcAl DoMeStIc things like standing in a kitchen for hours on end slaving over meals for your husband and children! Absolutely not! {gosh how badly I wish I could turn back time}
Now here I am at the scary age of almost 30 wishing cooking came as naturally to me as it did my mother!
But I digress, I am now working my way up to her caliber of cooking by diving into easy work first, and challenging myself a little more every day!
When me and andy were first married, he had made this AMAZING tiramisu. {andy loves to cook} somehow I had actually never had tiramisu till that exact moment and it was LIFE CHANGING. Here in des moines, smokey row has a delicious tiramisu I used to order often prior to body building. It has ever since been one of my all time favorite desserts! So naturally, my younger self had at some point saved a no bake 10-minute tiramisu recipe! I will tag and credit the original inspiration HERE
now, knowing myself.. when I read “10-Minute Recipe!”, I read “1 Hour minimum recipe!” 😂 nothing goes as planned for me. BUT the nice part about this is it forces me to improvise and play with flavors thus creating my very own recipe! however, becuase of this I can no longer claim this as a ten minute recipe.. BUT I will call it a (mostly) no bake 😏
ingredients:
9×13 serving dish/pan
a carton whipping cream {we used a whole one and had a ton left over, but It depends on your pan size}
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon bulleit bourbon {any bourbon works}
1/3 – 1/2 cup of sugar {to taste}
2 cups of cold black coffee
1 large container of Madeleines {typically, tiramisu uses lady fingers, which would allow for no baking at all. I couldn’t find any, so we made due with these. you can also replace them with pound cake or something similar in density and sweetness}
cocoa powder for dusting the top
directions:
step 1- {if you’re using lady fingers, you can skip this step} bake your Madeleines at 200° to crisp up the outside
step 2- while Madeleines are baking, whip your whipping cream, sugar, vanilla and bourbon until whipped cream creates stiff peaks
step 3- {skip if using lady fingers} while your mixer is whipping, or after whipping, place your Madeleines in the freezer to rapidly cool them down. Warm Madeleines would soften the whipped cream.
step 4- add your cold black coffee to a bowl and dunk Madeleines into the coffee for 5 seconds or so. you don’t want them soggy, just long enough to let the outter layer soak up the coffee.
step 5- add the Madeleines or ladyfingers to the bottom of the dish close together to create the first layer
step 6- scoop and spread evenly your whipped cream across the top of the coffee soaked Madeleines/lady fingers
{repeat the last two steps if you wish to have multiple layers. we just did two: Madeleines and whipped cream}
step 7- fill a ziplock bag with whipped cream and cut the corner. pipe on 1 inch dollops over the top of the entire dish to add a decorative touch {you can also do this with a piping bag}
step 8- with a dusting spoon or dusting wand {I used an empty spice bottle and filled it with cocoa powder 😂} and dust a layer over the top of your dollops evenly
step 9- place in the fridge to set for at least 3 hours
shockingly mine turned out pretty decent for my first try while improvising along the way! they were a hit at our community group with friends ☺️ let me know in the comments how you made yours and what happy improvising you ended up making!
