I made a version of traditional Italian tiramisu without eggs or alcohol because I have a little child and I adore it! Fresh strawberries, cream cheese, and whipped cream are the main ingredients in my make-ahead tiramisu.
| Prep Time: | 45 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr |
| Servings: | 50 |
| Yield: | 50 cookies |
Ingredients
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons baking powder
- 1 (18 ounce) can koshi an (sweetened red bean paste)
- ¼ cup evaporated milk, or as needed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease 2 baking sheets.
- Beat sugar and butter with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth and creamy. Beat eggs, 1 at a time, into creamed butter until smooth; add vanilla extract and beat well.
- Sift flour and baking powder together in a bowl. Gradually stir flour mixture into butter mixture, mixing well after each addition, until dough is smooth.
- Generously flour your hands. Make walnut-size balls from the dough and press into 4-inch circles on a floured surface, making the circles thicker in the center and thinner on the edges. Spoon about 1 1/2 teaspoons koshi an in the center of each dough circle. Gather the edges together and pinch dough around the filling until sealed. Place dough balls, pinched-side down, on the prepared baking sheets about 2 inches apart. Brush dough balls with evaporated milk.
- Bake in the preheated oven until tops are lightly browned, about 15 minutes.
- A battery-powered cookie press with piping tip simplifies the filling of the manju. Simply load the koshi an into the barrel of the press and squeeze it onto the pastry circles.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 141 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 23 g |
| Cholesterol | 25 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 114 mg |
| Sugars | 8 g |
| Fat | 4 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I added honey and lemon juice into this and cut in cold butter with a pastry cutter like you would for a pie crust. Then I chilled the rolled out dough and cut circles with a biscuit shape, folded the dough over the bean paste and made crescent shape. My family loved these!
These turned our super good. I loved that they weren’t overly sweet,but still really yummy.