Tiramisu Cookies ~ little nibbles of Italian bliss. A delicately thrilling addition to your holiday cookie lineup.
All right folks, I have a confession to make. This is my newest cookie recipe for the holiday season. When I dreamed up these Tiramisu Cookies, I believed myself to be the first person to ever think of something SO WONDERFUL.
Alas, Google always shatters the dreams of a person who expects to be an original. I found (after the fact) that Martha Stewart has a Tiramisu Cookie Recipe. SWEARS… lots of swears!
After looking at her recipe, I have to believe mine is better. Surely I have SOMETHING on that woman other than “not been to jail.”
So here is my not-as-original-as-I-thought-but-still-completely-fabulous Tiramisu Cookie Recipe. The cookies are tender boozy pillows filled with rich creamy mascarpone and espresso filling. Each sandwich is kissed with a sprinkling of unsweetened cocoa powder to mimic traditional Tiramisu.
Please enjoy the cookies and excuse the mini rant. *wink*
Happy Holidays!
Cook’s Notes:
In the past, I’ve had an aversion to boozy extracts. I figure if you want something to taste like brandy, why not just add brandy. In this case, you simply can’t get a strong enough rum flavor without using an extract. You’d have to add so much rum that it would effect the texture of cookie dough.
To make the cookies uniform, I like to roll them into equally portioned balls, then flatten them with the bottom of a glass.
Pipe the mascarpone filling onto the bottom of each sandwich cookie and top. Allow the cookie to sit out for a while so the filling will set.
Recipe: Tiramisu Cookies
Ingredients
For the Cookies:
- 2 cups AP flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 2 sticks softened butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar + extra for rolling
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 tsp. rum extract
For the Mascarpone Espresso Filling:
- 8 oz. mascarpone cheese
- 3 Tb. softened butter
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp. instant espresso (1 tsp. instant coffee)
- 2 cup powdered sugar
- Unsweetened cocoa for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- For the rum cookies: Using an electric mixer, cream the butter, sugar, vanilla, and rum extract together until light and fluffy–3-5 minutes. Add the egg and beat until combined.
- Add the baking powder and salt, then slowly add the flour to the mixture until well combined.
- Scoop small 1 – 1 1/2 tsp. portions of dough and roll into balls. Place a little extra sugar in a small bowl and roll each ball in sugar before placing on a baking sheet.
- Use the bottom of a glass to press the dough balls flat. Bake for 9-10 minutes.
- For the mascarpone espresso filling: Wash the mixer bowl and dry well. Then place the mascarpone and butter in the bowl and beat to combine.
- Pour the vanilla extract into a small bowl. Add the instant espresso powder and mix to disolve. Beat into the cheese mixture. Slowly add the powdered sugar until light and fluffy.
- Place the filling in a large zip bag and cut a tiny hole off the corner. Turn half of the cooled cookies over and pipe 1 tsp. of filling onto the bottom cookies.
- Top each cookie sandwich and sprinkle with cocoa powder.
Preparation time: 30 minute(s)
Cooking time: 10 minute(s)
Number of servings (yield): 30 – 40 sandwich cookies
These are delightful! Love these little guys
I bet yours are better!
These are beautiful and perfect and the flavor – wow! Ad I very much enjoyed your mini rant
it’s official. i’m in love with these.
Dang martha. I hate when I *think* I’ve created something… and then come to find out SHE kinda already did. I bet, a lotta money, yours are a TON better!!!!! They looks SUPER good!
Ha! Hugs to Martha, I sorta love her and hate all at the same time. She definitely gives the rest of us a run for the money.
These look wonderful! Quick question- how long do you think they’d keep? I’m assuming in the fridge and then brought back to room temp to serve? Is the texture of the cookie affected by making ahead? I’d love to add these to my Christmas Eve dessert tray
Pattie
Generally I keep any frosting out on the counter for several days with no issues. If you want to store them longer, wrap them well and place in the fridge.
Wonderful. I was going to ask the same question. Plan on making these for Christmas gifts – that is, if there are any left from my taste testing ;->
Oh these look so good!! Yes….google is good for that. Happens to me to!
I think these are very original, and the cocoa powder on the top is SUPER tiramisu, which Martha’s lacks. Points to you!
Now THESE are some cookies I could get serious about.
Oh my goodness. I LOVE these!
These look so fabulous! My husband LOVES tiramisu but I’m not quite ready to attempt the traditional cake yet. This sounds like the perfect way of easing us in!
These are da’bomb. I also have to say that your pictures are in my top 5 of blogs I read, always just love them.
Ahhhhhh! They’re so cute! Must eat them all!
Those look so fantastic! What a brilliant idea!
What a beautiful and creative idea of turning the classic cake into the bite sized cookies!
“martha ain’t got nothing on you honey!’ These look amazing!!
I love tiramisu, these look perfect!
I love tiramisu and it is very interesting how you transformed this beauitful sweet to these absolutely adorable little treats!
These cookies look amazing and so tempting. I’m a sucker for anything tiramisu. gotta try your recipe soon.
Oh my, I’m in love with these beauties! They are adrable, and I bet they taste heavenly!
I’m sure that yours are WAY better than Martha Stewart’s! I think it’s a pretty genius idea!
You might try Captain Morgan’s Tattoo Dark Rum, it’s a very highly flavored, black caramelly rum and it’s not spiced like the other Captain Morgan’s rum. Maybe a splash or two along with some rum flavoring, would give the bit of alcohol zing. These look lovely, and yes, I also hate it when I think I’ve come up with something brilliant, then find it later online somewhere.
These cookies look fabulous! I love Tiramisu!
I love these little beauties! They look fabulous!
I’m such a sucker for anything Tiramisu related – - these cookies are bad news … bad news that will make me feel ohhh sooo goooodddd!!
I love tiramisu. My daughter used to send it to me all the time when she lived in Italy. These cookies look so tempting!
These sound amazing, love the Mascarpone Espresso Filling!
Gorgeous cookies, Sommer!
Martha has NOTHING on your boozy pillows!!! Fabulous cookies!!!!
Wow, these look amazing! I love that it has all the flavors of tiramisu in one bite, because my tiramisu portions tend to get, ah, expansive
They look fabulous!
They caught my attention fast! These little guys are perfect for a party. Thanks for sharing.
These look amazing! I know they are just delicious. Come visit. We have a great Kahlua hot cocoa this week and today we are giving away a wonderful Christmas present. A great book and it comes autographed! Come by and register to win.
Omg these are adorable & look incredibly delicious! Best tiramisu in cookie form that I have ever seen. Seriously. Totally making these asap!
Love them – so cute and look fantastic! Hope you had a fabulous time in Hawaii
I was just there for my baby moon.
Oh my god, this may very well be heaven in a cookie! I LOVE tiramisu…never thought to put it in a cookie. What a delicious idea!
These look so good I want to cry. One of my husband’s favorite desserts in tiramisu and I know he would appreciate these cookies. They are beautiful and look delicious!
These are seriously cute, and Martha can go fly a kite. These look so much better
Love these flavors! They are also very cute.
OH wow! What a fantastic idea! This is so great…I would never have thought to do this. Sounds yummy
I could eat a few hundred of these. They look so good! As for Martha, that jail thing is a pretty big one to not have in common with her
Looks really incredible. Martha Shmartha, yours are prettier and I bet tastier!
You know I really love Martha. She’s just always two steps ahead.
lovely dessert looks wonderful
Tiramisu is one of my favorite desserts so I am really excited to see it in cookie form!
I am going to be dreaming of these cookies. Beautiful. Martha always thinks of everything. I will just pretend that you didn’t mention that and give all of the create to you.
Those are gorgeous Sommer! Hope you had a wonderful time on the island.
The cookies look so good. I love tiramisu.
I am all ready a fan of tiramisu…but in cookie form it looks even better!
i will try this recipe…. looks like french macaroons…. perfect recipe for christmas…. happy holidays!
These look totally delicious – sometimes you’re better off not googling and finding out someone else had the idea already
Ignorance is bliss – and I’m sure yours are better anyway!
These look amazing! Can’t wait to make them!
they look cute and a piece of heaven to put in the mouth.
These look so good! I love tiramisu and I love cookies! I’m definitely going to try making these!
Hi there! Delightful blog! I enjoyed reading it, and I love tiramisu, so I have to try these. I was familiar with Martha’s recipe, but they seemed too fussy, so I’m going to give yours a try. I am getting my own personal baking business up and running, and I have a big event next Friday to bake for, so I may give your recipe for these a test drive! Mind if I blog about it? I will give you due credit for the recipe and will even link to your blog, if you’d like. Thanks for the inspiration!
Hi Mark, Thanks for stopping by. You are welcome to blog about them and I appreciate the consideration of linking back. I hope your event is a great success!
Hi would love to make them, I’m in NZ, how much by weight is “2 sticks” of butter please, and does powered sugar mean castor sugar or icing sugar? Fantastic idea, well done
Hi Kerri,
2 sticks of butter is 8 oz., equal to 227 grams. Also powdered sugar is the same thing as icing sugar. Happy Baking!
I was looking up original tiramisu’ recipe and I found yours! It looks amazing!! Care to link up to my newest bloghop on tiramisu’?