A fabulous make ahead dessert – rich and creamy with minimum effort. This version uses a gluten free and vegan sponge layered with chocolate, coffee and vegan cream.

Vegan Gluten Free Tiramisu Pots

Overview

Serves 4

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 30 minutes

 

 

What’s Good About It?

A wonderful make ahead dessert ideal for entertaining friends and family. You can make this lighter by switching the cream to thick vegan yogurt instead.

 

  1. For this dessert you will need 4 glasses. Alternatively you could make this in a small rectangular dish and then cut to serve.
  2. Preheat the oven to 180C, Gas mark 4.
  3. Grease and line a 8inch / 20 cm square cake tin.
  4. Place all the ingredients for the sponge in a food processor and blitz until smooth and creamy.
  5. Pour the batter into the cake tin and smooth the surface. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes until golden and cooked through. Leave to cool.
  6. Make the chocolate coffee filling. Place the chocolate in a small pan with the coconut oil and melt over a low heat. Stir in the milk and coffee and beat well. Pour into a jug to cool.
  7. Whisk the cream in a bowl until it starts to stiffen. Add the icing sugar and cream cheese and briefly whisk again to form soft peaks.
  8. Using a cookie cutter that is the size of the diameter of your glass cut out circles of cake. You will need 2 circles of cake for each glass.
  9. Place the coffee liquid with the sugar in a shallow dish. Dip the cake slices into the coffee liquid. Place one cake circle in the base of each glass.
  10. Pour over a little of the chocolate and then top with the cream. Repeat the layers finishing with the cream
  11. Dust a little cocoa powder over the top. Chill before serving.

Did You Know?

Want a lighter higher protein dish?  Replace the cream filling for thick vegan yogurt. Place the vegan yogurt in a small bowl and beat in a scoop of vanilla protein powder. Then use this to replace the cream layers.

Sponge Cake

120g gluten free plain flour

75g xylitol or caster sugar

1tsp baking powder

1tsp bicarbonate of soda

1/2 tsp xanthum gum

zest of 1 lemon, optional

1tsp lemon juice

30ml olive oil

150ml soy milk or coconut milk

 

Coffee liquid for dipping

100ml prepared warm coffee

2tsp caster sugar

 

Chocolate layer

100g vegan chocolate chopped (or use chocolate chips)

2tsp coconut oil

2tbsp cool coffee

3tbsp soy milk or coconut milk

 

Vegan Cream layer

200ml vegan cream

100g vegan cheese

2tbsp icing sugar