Low Fat Tiramisu

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 4 eggs, separated
• 4 tablespoons flour, sifted
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3 tablespoons instant coffee
• 1/4 cup hot water
• 1/2 teaspoon amaretto extract (*)
• non-fat cooking spray
• 1 (3 1/2 ounce) package vanilla instant pudding mix
• 1/2 teaspoon citric acid (lemon juice is fine)
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese (**)
• cocoa powder

Recipe

• 1 to make the cake:.
• 2 beat egg whites until foamy.
• 3 gradually add sugar, one tablespoon at a time.
• 4 beat until sugar dissolves and egg whites are glossy.
• 5 add the egg yolks and beat well.
• 6 sift the flour with the baking powder once and fold into the egg whites.
• 7 spray a jelly roll pan with cooking spray and layer it with parchment paper.
• 8 spray the parchment paper.
• 9 bake at 350°f for about 15 minutes, but watch carefully because this cake turns brown fast.
• 10 when golden brown, remove from pan and let cool.
• 11 place the cooled cake in a glass dish.
• 12 dissolve coffee and the extract in hot water.
• 13 prick the cake with a toothpick and sprinkle coffee mixture all over cake.
• 14 to make the cream:.
• 15 beat the cream cheese with milk until well blended, or pulse it in a food processor.
• 16 add the vanilla pudding and mix until blended, 30 seconds or so.
• 17 add the lemon juice and whirl it until thick.
• 18 for a more fluffy cream you can fold in whipped topping, depending on how much volume you want.
• 19 put the cream cheese mixture on top of the cake and sift cocoa powder over it in an even layer.
• 20 for a more elegant look, use a vegetable peeler to shave curls off of a bar of baking chocolate and sprinkle on top.
• 21 place in fridge until set which should take about 2 hours.
• 22 *rum extract could be substituted.
• 23 **if you can find fat-free farmers cheese, it works better, omit the lemon juice then because farmers cheese is a bit sour on its own.