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Turn rice cakes into a rich dessert with this Low Calorie Tiramisu recipe. Clocking at 225 calories, this breakfast tiramisu bowl is perfect for your diet. 23 grams of protein per cup!

Last Summer I got an incurable addiction to rice cakes. From breakfast to dinner, I was consuming industrial quantities of puffed cereal cakes. And planning to consume even more, I ended up ordering a convenient box from Amazon. Knowing myself, I should have resisted that temptation.

The Amazon delivery was delayed by two weeks and the moment my package arrived, my obsession had already became boredom. I was tired of rice cakes and didn’t want to eat a single one for the foreseeable future. Or until the moment I ran out of oats, which turned out to be the following weekend.

Back then I still lived in Germany, where all grocery stores are closed on Sunday. As my oat stocks were far too low, I had to find an alternative to protein overnight oatmeal. Well, that was a blessing in disguise because I put to use all those rice cakes and made this tiramisu bowl. Yes, you got me right: low calorie tiramisu with rice cakes! One of my most clever (and delicious) recipes up to now.

And that’s how my dislike for rice cakes turned into obsession once again!

The ingredients
How to make low calorie tiramisu
Recipe tips
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Low Calorie Tiramisu Recipe

The ingredients

Now you may be thinking…“Tiramisu with rice cakes? Are you kidding?! How can this even be possible?”. Well, let me tell you that this is correct. If you have a couple of rice cakes and some yogurt at home, go and make this low calorie tiramisu cup.

Intrigued by the recipe? Keep on reading to learn everything about the ingredients.

Rice cakes: Use your favorite rice cakes, salted or unsalted. As an alternative, you can replace rice cakes with puffed spelt cakes, puffed buckwheat cakes, puffed cereal cakes or oat cakes. Corn cakes instead are not recommended.
Greek yogurt: For a low calorie tiramisu that is packed with protein, this recipe uses nonfat Greek yogurt. You can substitute with Skyr, quark, soy yogurt or any plant based alternative of your choice, ideally it should a firm texture.
Brewed coffee: In the lines of the original recipe, rice cakes are dipped in brewed coffee instead of biscuits. For my breakfast tiramisu cup I utilized filter coffee (“Americano”), but also instant coffee or espresso are suitable. Just keep in mind that espresso is much stronger and therefore I recommend using just one shot diluted with hot water. If sensitive to caffeine, use decaf coffee.
Sweetener of choice: The sweetener is optional but suggested if you want a sweeter tiramisu cup. For a lower calorie cup, this recipe uses erythritol, a sugar-free and calorie-free sweetener. Feel free to replace with honey, maple syrup, coconut sugar, brown sugar or any other granular sweetener of your choice.
Cocoa powder: Use unsweetened cocoa powder as a healthier decoration that will make your low calorie cup taste and look like Tiramisu!

How to make low calorie tiramisu

Step 1: Prepare the coffee. Make the brewed coffee, then pour it in a bowl. If you desire, sweeten to taste.

Step 2: Prepare the low calorie cream. Mix Greek yogurt with your favorite sweetener to taste; for mine I added about 1 teaspoon of erythritol.

Step 3: Assemble the tiramisu bowl. Spread a couple tablespoons of yogurt cream at the bottom of a medium bowl, then dip one rice cake into the coffee and line over the cream. Cover with an additional layer of yogurt and repeat the rice cake dipping process until you run out of ingredients. Finish off with an additional spread of yogurt cream.

Step 4: Refrigerate and enjoy. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours and serve sprinkled with cocoa powder.

Recipe tips

Here are some valuable tips on how to make a low calorie tiramisu breakfast bowl. Don’t skip if you don’t want a soggy and tasteless tiramisu.

Use thick cereal cakes because they have more consistency. This step prevents rice cakes from “melting” into the yogurt and ensures that all tiramisu layers remain neatly separated.
Opt for high quality coffee, sweetened to your likings. As you may already know, a great coffee is key in making a great tiramisu!
Don’t soak, just quickly dip each rice cake into the coffee. Letting the cakes soak for too long will make them soggy and ruin your breakfast.
Choose a yogurt with a thick consistency and sweeten it to taste. I strongly recommend Greek yogurt, quark or Skyr.
Store in the fridge for a maximum of 24 hours, ideally for just one night. The longer it sits in the refrigerator, the soggier it gets.
Sprinkle with cocoa powder only before serving, or it will absorb the moisture from the yogurt (and disappear).

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