Cottage cheese tiramisu cups
15 min · 22 g protein · 219 cals / serving
Tiramisu in a glass, with the mascarpone cream rebuilt from cottage cheese blended silky with a spoonful of real mascarpone and vanilla. Espresso-soaked ladyfingers, a thick, tangy-sweet cream and a heavy dusting of cocoa: after a night in the fridge the layers melt together into proper tiramisu.
Ingredients
- 2 cups cottage cheese (1%), 1 % milkfat
- 2 tbsp mascarpone
- 1/4 cup casein protein powder, vanilla or unflavoured
- 1/4 tsp + 1 pinch stevia, pure stevia powder, or sweetener equal to 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 pinch salt
- 6 tbsp espresso, strong, cooled; the ladyfingers drink all of it
- 12 ladyfingers, crisp Italian savoiardi
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder, unsweetened, for dusting
- 1/4 oz dark chocolate 70-85%, finely grated
Steps
- Blend the cottage cheese, mascarpone, casein, stevia, vanilla and salt for a full minute, until completely smooth and thick, like softly whipped cream cheese.
- Pour the cooled espresso into a shallow dish. Break the ladyfingers in half and dip each piece for 1–2 seconds per side, so they share the espresso between them; any longer and they collapse. Put 3 soaked halves in the bottom of each of 4 glasses and spoon over half the cream.
- Repeat with the remaining 12 halves, 3 per glass, and the rest of the cream. Sift the cocoa thickly over the top and finish with the grated chocolate.
- Cover and chill at least 4 hours, ideally overnight, so the ladyfingers turn soft and cakey and the cream firms.
Good to know
Can I add alcohol?
A tablespoon of marsala, dark rum or coffee liqueur in the espresso is classic. It adds a few calories and a lot of tiramisu flavour.
Can I leave out the mascarpone?
Yes, at about 65 instead of 57, but keep it if you can: those two spoonfuls are what make the cream taste like tiramisu rather than sweet cottage cheese.
Why casein?
Blended cottage cheese is a little looser than mascarpone cream, and a little casein thickens it so the layers hold. A vanilla casein doubles as the sweet vanilla note.
Alternative
Per
- Calories
- 128
- Protein
- (40%)
- 13 g
- Fat
- (29%)
- 4 g
- Carbohydrates
- (31%)
- 10 g
- of which sugar
- 5 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 330 mg
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As written, 877 kcal goes into the pot and 684 g of ingredients comes out as about 684 g of food: 128 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.