Protein Tiramisu | High Protein Dessert

Recipe Note

Did you know that “tiramisu” literally means “pick me up” – in the sense of “cheer me up”? With a wink, our protein tiramisu can definitely be called a little mood booster!

Our tiramisu ingredients

This is what makes our quick tiramisu the best protein tiramisu you can imagine:

• Vegan skyr & quark: These two ingredients replace the mascarpone that’s used in traditional Italian tiramisu. That makes our version not only vegan, but also high in protein. And you won’t notice that anything is “missing”.
• Aquafaba: Aquafaba is unsalted chickpea water that you can buy in many supermarkets or simply make yourself by cooking chickpeas and keeping the cooking water. Alternatively, you can use vegan whipped cream.
  Our (personally) world’s best tiramisu without egg needs an ingredient that brings in lightness – aquafaba is a popular vegan alternative that makes the cream wonderfully fluffy and creamy. Traditional recipes often use raw eggs. Our recipe works without raw eggs – so it’s not only vegan, but also safer and more hygienic (keyword: salmonella).
• Protein powder from Vetain: The protein powders easily increase the protein content of the tiramisu and make it what it is: an incredibly delicious high protein dessert!
• Bitter almond flavor: Tiramisu often contains alcohol – but so that everyone can enjoy it, we skip alcohol in our protein tiramisu and instead use an aroma that brings a similar taste.
• Cashew butter: It gives our light tiramisu with quark a rich and creamy mouthfeel – almost like a “classic” tiramisu.
• Ladyfingers: Many high protein tiramisu recipes use rice cakes or similar alternatives instead of sweet biscuits to get higher protein and less sugar. We decided to keep ladyfingers in our protein tiramisu because, for us, they’re simply part of a good tiramisu. But of course, you can also make a high protein tiramisu with rice cakes!

Protein tiramisu with a twist: the best tiramisu variations

Tiramisu (whether with or without protein) now exists not only in the classic version but also in many other exciting variations. With this tiramisu recipe you can also try other versions – you only need to swap a few ingredients:

• Protein strawberry tiramisu: Instead of espresso & coffee protein powder, use puréed strawberries & strawberry protein powder, and add fresh strawberry slices between the layers.
• Protein matcha tiramisu: Instead of espresso & coffee protein powder, use a matcha protein shake, and add matcha protein powder to the cream instead of vanilla protein.
• Protein chocolate tiramisu: Use a chocolate protein powder both in the cream and in the espresso mixture.
• Protein banana tiramisu: Replace the protein powder in the cream with a banana protein powder and add fresh banana slices between the layers.

Our protein powder: Vetain’s Vegan Protein

Let us introduce: Vetain’s Vegan Protein – the protein powder at a glance:

• 5-component protein: rice, pea, hemp, pumpkin seed and flaxseed as protein sources
• With organic ingredients
• Delicious, natural taste from natural flavors
• Free from many allergens such as soy and lactose as well as artificial additives & sweeteners
• High quality: produced under strict standards in Germany and lab-tested
• Nutritional values at a glance:
  depending on the flavor, around 361 kcal and 66 g protein per 100 g
  per serving (30 g): around 110 kcal, 21 g protein

We might be a little biased, but for us, Vetain’s protein powder is the ideal ingredient in a vegan protein tiramisu recipe. It not only tastes great, but also combines different plant-based protein sources that enhance your dessert both in flavor and nutrition.

Substitution table

How often do we want to recreate a recipe but are missing certain ingredients or don’t like specific components? For that, we’ve created a substitution table so you can adapt the recipe exactly to your taste! Simply swap individual ingredients as you like:

• Aquafaba → (plant-based) whipped cream
• Vegan skyr → (vegan) mascarpone
• Vegan quark → (vegan) mascarpone
• Vanilla protein powder → hazelnut protein powder or other flavors
• Coconut blossom sugar → another sweetener of your choice
• Cashew butter → (vegan) cream cheese, other nut butters
• Coffee protein powder → neutral protein powder or other flavors
• Bitter almond flavor → leave out or replace with a little marsala or amaretto (for an alcoholic version)
• Ladyfingers → rice cakes, gluten-free ladyfingers for a gluten-free version

Our protein tiramisu is vegan – but of course you can also use non-vegan ingredients if you prefer!

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