Description
A light and fruity twist on the classic tiramisu, made with fresh strawberries and mascarpone.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups fresh strawberries (diced)
- ¾ cup water
- 3 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Pinch salt
- 8 oz mascarpone (room temperature)
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream (cold)
- ⅓ cup pure maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Pinch salt
- ¼ cup strawberry soak
- 20–24 ladyfingers
- 2 cups fresh strawberries (thinly sliced)
- 1 package freeze-dried strawberries (blended into a powder)
Instructions
- Add strawberries, water and maple syrup to a small saucepan.
- Simmer on medium-low for 10-15 minutes, gently pressing the berries with a fork or potato masher.
- Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla extract.
- Strain the mixture into a shallow bowl and cool completely before dipping. Save berry pulp for layering!
- In a large bowl, whisk room temp mascarpone, maple syrup, vanilla, strawberry syrup and salt until smooth. Don’t over-mix! You want it to be combined fully but not over beaten where it starts to separate, should take about 60 seconds. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl, whip the cold heavy cream to medium-stiff peaks. About 1-2 minutes.
- Gently fold the whipped cream into the mascarpone mixture until light and fluffy. Do not overmix — you want to keep it airy!
- Quickly dip both sides of each ladyfinger into the strawberry soak (1–2 seconds only — don’t soak).
- I used an 8×12 baking dish, but you can also use a 9×9. Layer in this order: soaked ladyfingers, cream layer, sliced strawberries + strawberry pulp, cream layer one last time!
- Cover and refrigerate at least 4 hours, preferably overnight. This allows the cookies to soften and flavors to meld.
- Dust with freeze-dried strawberry powder and top with fresh strawberries before serving. To make freeze dried strawberry powder blend the freeze dried strawberries to a fine powder.
- Enjoy!
Notes
- If you want more intense strawberry flavor, add more freeze-dried strawberry powder on top before serving.
- Feel free to substitute other berries if desired.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: No-Bake
- Cuisine: Italian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 piece
- Calories: 300
- Sugar: 22g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 20g
- Saturated Fat: 12g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 30g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 80mg