A Simple Recipe for Plant-Based Tiramisu

This simple recipe for vegan tiramisu (Rainbow Nourishments) is by an Aussie baker, who knows how to make the flavours pop, but gets it that most people are not going to have the time and inclination to find, buy and use all the different ingredients in this popular Italian dessert. So revert to those plastic pots in supermarkets.

Tiramisu is a coffee/chocolate dessert that is Italian for ‘pick-me-up’. Unlike most vegan versions, Anthea’s recipe requires no soaking of nuts, nor needing sponge fingers (which can be difficult to find or fiddly to make).

Instead, it uses a simple base of vegan cookies (look in stores for Rhythm 108 which are both vegan and free from palm oil), and then replaces dairy with coconut cream (not milk).

Avoid caffeine for pregnancy/nursing. Read more on food safety for people and pets (chocolate, nuts and many other ingredients are unsafe near animal friends). 

For tinned ingredients, pop lids inside cans (or pop ring-pulls back over holes) to avoid wildlife getting trapped).

Chocolate is one of England’s most popular dessert foods. And supermarkets everywhere sell millions of chocolate cakes and puddings. But it’s very easy to make your own from simple plant-based affordable ingredients (choose Fair Trade chocolate, as cocoa is grown in the world’s poorest regions).