Healthy Tiramisu Cake
A lightened up version of tiramisu cake that is whole grain and low sugar.
Servings: 9
Calories: 156kcal
Ingredients
- 1 egg beaten
- 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk (120 g)
- 1 tbsp any neutral oil, I use avocado oil (14 g)
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar (48 g)
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry or all purpose flour (120 g)
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup hot water
- 1 tbsp or more instant coffee
- 4 oz neufchatel cream cheese* in room temperature 112 g
- 1/4 cup greek yogurt, I use 2% but all kinds should work (56 g)
- 2-4 tbsp unsweetened almond milk (30-60 g)
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup powdered sugar (60 g)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F and line an 8×8 baking pan with parchment.
- Blend egg, milk, vanilla, sugar, oil together.
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt.
- Fold the two until no big clumps of flour remains.
- Pour into baking pan and bake for 20 minutes until the cake is fully baked.
- While the cake is cooling, prepare the coffee liquid and the cream by beating the softened cream cheese (I used a hand mixer), beating in the yogurt, beating in the milk (use enough milk to make it pourable, I used 4 tbsp but this quantity will depend on how wet your yogurt is), and finally vanilla and sugar until smooth.
- When the cake has cooled, slice horizontally in two layers.
- Place first layer down, wet with the coffee liquid (you won’t need all of if, just enough to moisten the cake).
- Layer with half the cream. Repeat with the second layer, coffee, cream and dust with cocoa and shaved chocolate if you prefer.
- Let the cake set in the fridge for a few hours at least, ideally overnight. Slice and enjoy!
Notes
(*) Neufchatel is just a lower fat cream cheese. You can use regular cream cheese if you don’t have access to neufchatel. For a similar nutrition info use 3 oz cream cheese and increase yogurt by 2 tbsp. Or just use 4 oz cream cheese and don’t sweat it 🙂
Nutrition
Calories: 156kcal