No Bake Tiramisu Layer Cake

This is what a coffee lover’s chocolate paradise tastes like. No Bake Tiramisu Layer Cake is not only incredibly simple to make, but tastes out of this world, and looks like you’ve slaved away for hours, when in reality it only took about ten minutes. Perfect right?

I sprinkled instant coffee grounds on top of the whipping cream before mixing it up. The coffee sort of melted into the cream and then I whipped it up just like regular whipped cream, what came out at the end was the most delicately flavored coffee cream and I instantly thought I needed to make this into some kind of cake.

My mother in law had shared a recipe with me several years ago that was called Chocolate Eclair Cake. It involved layering graham crackers between layers of pudding and whipped cream then topping it all with a chocolate topping. What happened to those graham crackers was always amazing, they became like cake in their consistancy. I knew I wanted to incorporate this method to this easy cake. I also knew I wanted to use Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans on the top instead of chocolate shavings like in a traditional tiramisu. Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans are found in the most obscure of places. They always seem to have them at Starbucks, but I typically find them near the other chocolate coated nuts on a special display with dried fruits and chocolate dipped pretzels in my grocery store. Of course Trader Joe’s and Amazon has them too. Check out the link for Amazon: http://amzn.to/2Desfqv If you think a 1lb bag will go to waste, don’t fret, those beans will make a great stash in your pantry to nosh on when you need some chocolate after dinner. At least that’s what I did with mine.

I used an 8″x11″ Emile Henry Ruffled Casserole Dish that is one of my very favorites. They don’t make it in this color combo anymore but they do still have the ruffled casserole dish. Williams Sonoma still carries it in the size I have. I love the Azure Color and mine is the small size. You can check it out at this link: https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/emile-henry-large-rectangular-ruffled-baker/ This is one of those incredibly forgiving recipes and you can use whatever size pan you like. An 8×8″ square pan would work just fine! Your whipped cream layer will be thicker and I can’t see how that could be bad. If you use a larger size pan you will only need two layers, instead of three.