This is an old recipe back from when I was a young mom trying to use up Girl Scout Cookies. At the time, putting them in a reduced calorie Tiramisu recipe seemed like a good idea, but I'm not so sure I'd do it now because Girl Scout Cookies are expensive. Plus there are lighter cookies, such as the traditional ladyfingers. Soft or hard should work.
Reduced Calorie Tiramisu
I'll keep the recipe here because it's pretty good for a reduced calorie, convenience version of Tiramisu. It calls for fat free sweetened condensed milk, sugar free pudding mix and whipped topping. My notes say it also tastes like pudding mix, sweetened condensed milk and Cool Whip, so if you grew up eating eating more sophisticated desserts and things like Dirt Cake and Dream Pie didn’t darken your door, well….this is not for you. My notes say that this is not as good as the old standy Eclair Cake, but maybe with a different cookie it will be.
This is one I think I'll make again with a different cookie and update the photo.
Reduced Calorie Tiramisu
½ cup cold water
3 tablespoons sugar free instant pudding mix (half of a 1.5 oz box)
½ (14-ounce) can fat-free sweetened condensed milk
4 oz of reduced fat cream cheese, softened
½ (8-ounce) tub frozen reduced-calorie whipped topping, thawed plus more
¼ cup hot water
3 tablespoons Kahlúa (coffee-flavored liqueur)
½ tablespoon instant espresso or 1 tablespoons instant coffee granules
1 package Girl Scout Cookie Shortbread or ladyfingers
1 ½ tablespoons unsweetened cocoa, divided
Have ready an 8 inch square glass dish (3 quarts)
Stir water, pudding and condensed milk together in a mixing bowl; cover with plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
Remove plastic wrap, and add softened cream cheese. Beat with a mixer at medium speed until well-blended. Fold in half a tub of whipped topping.
Combine hot water, espresso powder and Kahlua. Lay 16 shortbread cookies over bottom of dish and drizzle with a few tablespoons of the Kahlua mixture** or just enough to soak the cookies. Spread one half of pudding mixture evenly over cookies; sprinkle with half the cocoa powder. Repeat, making a second layer of cookies and topping it with the pudding mixture. Cover and chill for 8 hours. Before serving or earlier, spread some more whipped topping over top and garnish with rest of the cocoa powder.
Makes 6 servings
**I didn't use all of the Kahlua coffee mixture.
Jeanine says
Anna,
Any suggestions for something low-carb (Whole wheat, low fat and low sugar)in place of the Girl Scout cookies. I'm on the South Beach Diet and all the ingredients for this were great until I got to the Girl Scout Cookie part. Thought it might be worth asking in case anyone had any ideas. Thanks!
Anna says
Follow-up: Todd loved this. He didn't notice that it had low fat ingredients, but commented over and over how great it was. So if you cook for someone who likes pudding desserts (aka dirt cake, Dream Pie, eclair cake), this should be a hit.
Abbie says
That looks absolutely swoon-worthy.
I am officially drooling over my keyboard.
Heather - Ghost Baker says
I recognize Portmeirion plates!
clumbsycookie says
I made tiramisu today as well, but the full fat kind ;). I also like to do tiramisu with other things other than ladyfingers. Today I've used cake crumbs that I had left from carving a cake, but I love the idea of making it with cookies!
zestycook says
WOW very impressive I must say. I love your blog as it is my first time commenting. I will be back for sure.
zesty
Louise says
It gets high marks for appearance, but I just bought a couple containers of mascarpone at a great price, so I think I'll hold off making this one. @;-D
Katrina says
Great house-wifey dessert. 😉
Lisa says
Okay, I have to buy GS cookies from about 10 girls we know so I will make sure I get some shortbread. Might be a good superbowl dessert.
Tyler (Raspberry Runner) says
oh my gosh that looks so good!!! i'm going to order the shortbread girl scout cookies this for the purpose of making this!
p.s.- i just found your recipe for maple pecan chocolate chip cookies. my roommate and i had to make them immediately! they are in the oven right now 🙂