No-bake tiramisu balls with mascarpone

Name: No-bake tiramisu balls with mascarpone
Yield: About 65 pieces
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 360 g Ladyfingers (sponge fingers); 250 g Mascarpone; 6 tbsp Coffee (brewed); 6 tbsp Rum; 2 tbsp Powdered sugar; 1 tsp Vanilla extract

No-bake tiramisu balls made with crushed ladyfingers, mascarpone, coffee, and rum, then coated in cocoa. Makes about 65; keep refrigerated.

Italian cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 40 min
Servings: About 65 pieces
Difficulty: Easy

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These no-bake tiramisu balls with ladyfingers and mascarpone taste like the classic Italian dessert. Crushed ladyfingers are mixed with mascarpone, brewed coffee, rum, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract, and the mixture can be shaped into balls right away. To coat them in cocoa, place them in a bowl and shake the bowl. The recipe makes about 65 balls. Keep them refrigerated and let them sit briefly at room temperature before serving.

Instructions

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Crush or grate the ladyfingers, or grind them in a food processor. Add the remaining ingredients and mix into a dough that you can shape into balls right away.
Put a little cocoa powder in a bowl, add a few balls, and shake the bowl to coat them.
This recipe makes about 65 balls. Store them in the refrigerator and let them sit briefly at room temperature before serving.
The mixture is easy to shape and coat, and the balls are not overly sweet.

Tip: For an alcohol-free version, replace the rum with the same amount of milk; the mixture will still be easy to shape and coat.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per piece, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 41 kcal
Protein: 0.7 g
Carbohydrates: 4.7 g
of which sugars: 2.7 g
Fat: 1.8 g
of which saturates: 1.1 g
Fiber: 0.1 g
Salt: 0.0 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Tiramisu guľky z piškót a mascarpone – bez pečenia