Yogurt mousse for cake: recipes

Cakes are a treat not for every day, but for special occasions. Base, impregnation, cream and glaze - all this makes the dessert extremely high-calorie. Nutritionists say that such a snack is a blow to the pancreas. And the less often you allow yourself such liberties, the better. But there is a worthy alternative. Yogurt mousse for cake is a tender, tasty mass, a source of healthy protein and fiber. And in combination with a light biscuit, it turns into a great option for completing a gala dinner.

Dessert Benefits

Every housewife wants to feed her family not only tasty, but also as useful as possible. Do not forget about this during the holidays. It is best if the dessert contains a lot of fruit, but fatty creams should be excluded altogether. Yogurt mousse for cake is very helpful. And that's why:

• The porous mass is quite voluminous, from a relatively small number of products you will make a huge cake.
• If you compare by caloric content such combinations as honey cake with sour cream, puff pastries with butter cream and a biscuit with yogurt mass, the latter wins in all respects.
• Unlike most desserts, yogurt cake can even be called useful. It contains cottage cheese or yogurt, fruits and berries, gelatin. If you use a moderate amount of sugar, you get a great dessert, which you can please yourself (and without extra calories).
• Cooking yogurt mousse for a cake is a pleasure. No need to hang around in the kitchen for hours. It is enough to cook one cake of biscuit and beat the lush mass for the base. And some recipes even do without baking.

But these are common points. Let's look at a few proven recipes so that you can choose for yourself an option for the upcoming festive events. The main thing is to master how yogurt mousse is prepared for the cake. The composition can be changed at your discretion without harm to quality.

Treat for beginners

This option is suitable for students who want to please their mother. Husbands can use it by March 8th. If you just consider yourself not a very experienced chef, then yogurt mousse for a cake is an ideal choice. The recipe is very simple, but it also has its own subtleties, which we will tell in detail about. And most importantly, it is time-tested and tested by dozens of hostesses. And the result is stably excellent:

• This is delicious.
• A great alternative for those who do not want to cook traditional cakes because of their calorie content, duration or complexity of the process.
• This is a low-calorie cake, only 166 kcal per 100 g of product. Most cakes are much "heavier" - 600 kcal per 100 g.
• It cooks very quickly - in just 30 minutes.
• We need simple and inexpensive products.
• Berry yogurt cake mousse is ideal for summer. You can use seasonal berries and fruits.
• At the same time, dessert can be called all-weather, since the possibility of using frozen or canned fruits and berries is not ruled out.

Essential Ingredients

To make yogurt cake without baking, you need the following set of products:

• Any cookies (for the base) - 200 g.
• Butter (for base) - 80 g.
• To prepare the yogurt layer, you need fruit - 200 g. In this case, peaches.
• Drinking yogurt - 700 g. You can take it with fruit additives.
• Gelatin - 30 g.
• Water - 150 ml.
• Condensed milk - 200 g.
• Cream cheese - 200 g. You can take ordinary cheese of good quality and beat in a blender. Get a great cream.
• For decoration, you can make fruit jelly, grated chocolate or cut fruit.

Cooking method

Now let's take a closer look at how to cook yogurt mousse. The cake should harden for some time, so prepare a split mold. Without it, it will be difficult to make it high, with beautiful and even edges.

• Pour gelatin with water and leave to swell.
• We take out the oil from the refrigerator so that it is soft.
• The sides of the form must be wrapped with a special border tape or regular film. This is necessary in order to carefully remove the cake and not to crush the delicate edges.

Now we need to prepare the basis for our dessert. There is nothing complicated about it. You just need to grind cookies in a blender and add butter to it. Stir thoroughly and distribute this mass along the bottom of the mold, lightly tamp. That's all, the sand cake is ready. Put it in the refrigerator.

Main part

It's still simpler here. The composition of yogurt mousse is indicated above, and now we will be engaged in its preparation. To do this, pour yogurt into a bowl, add cottage cheese and condensed milk. Mix thoroughly with a whisk. Now the fruit. They need to be cut into small plates or cubes. In this case, we use peaches, but you can take any fruits and berries. Further actions:

• If the choice fell on apples, then they are pre-baked and peeled.
• Canned or frozen fruits and berries must first be put in a colander and allowed to drain excess moisture.
• The fruit portion can be distributed over the cake or mixed with the yogurt portion. Here the choice is yours.
• Dissolve the swollen gelatin in a water bath and mix with yogurt. Now gently pour the contents of the cup into the mold and send it to the refrigerator for several hours.
• Free the cake from the mold and decorate with fruit slices or chocolate.
• Judging by the reviews, everyone gets such a cake. He is quite large, very tender, not cloying. But the field for experiments is wide, feel free to change the fillers and get a healthy treat every time.

Strawberry Yogurt Cake Mousse

Sponge cake, fresh berries and natural yogurt - what could be better? Only if all this together, in one cake. The mousse is perfect, and when combined with a biscuit, it's just a cloud. By the way, according to the prescription, they do not soak it. At first glance, it seems that it will be a little dry, but in reality it turns out a very harmonious duet.

To make a biscuit you will need:

• Eggs - 3 pcs.
• Flour - 90 g.
• Sugar - 90 g.

For mousse:

• Gelatin - 15 g.
• Water - 6 tbsp. l
• Natural Yogurt - 500 g.
• Sugar - 80 g.
• Vanilla, zest of one lemon.
• Cream - 300 ml (33% or more).
• Fresh strawberries - 300 g.

Now we begin to prepare our strawberry cake with yogurt mousse.

Instruction manual

The first thing to do is bake a biscuit. Best if you do it in the evening. During this time, the biscuit will acquire a certain elasticity, while once it is very soft from the oven, it is easy to damage it. But the choice is yours. So, to prepare the biscuit, you need to separate the yolks from the proteins. Beat the yolk with sugar, protein with a pinch of salt. Combine both parts and add flour. Bake in a pan at 180 degrees for approximately 15 minutes. Let the cake cool completely without removing it from the mold.

Now it's up to the second part. Cake with strawberries and yogurt mousse will surely win the hearts of your family members, so get ready to repeat this recipe very soon. So:

• Pour gelatin in advance with water.
• Beat yogurt with zest, half sugar and vanilla. Whisk cold cream separately until soft peaks.
• Put half the berries on a cold biscuit, the second must be cut and added to yogurt.
• Dissolve gelatin in a water bath and mix all parts.
• Pour onto a biscuit and refrigerate for several hours.

It remains only to decorate the cake with berries - and you can call family members at the table. If cooking for the first time, then do it all according to the recipe. Fans of wet biscuits may add a little impregnation next time.

Summer cake

In season, you can buy a huge amount of fruits and berries on the market, and if you have a summer residence, then such desserts should become permanent in the kitchen. How to cook yogurt cake (with mousse)? The recipe can be changed at your discretion, finding each time even more successful variations. In this case, we prepare a delicate cake without a base and cream. You will need:

• Yogurt - 500 g. You can adjust for fat content, choose a thicker or lighter.
• Gelatin - 25 g.
• Sugar - 4 tbsp. l
• Fruits or berries - 300 g.

Pour gelatin with water or fruit juice and let swell. For now, let's take care of the rest of the ingredients. Wash fruits and berries and cut into slices. Pour the yogurt into a cup and beat with sugar. Dissolve gelatin in a water bath and mix with yogurt. Now you can put the fruit in the form first, and the rest of the mixture on top. The second option is to simply mix them immediately with yogurt and pour them into a mold together. You can put it in the refrigerator directly in a cup or saucepan, and then turn it on a dish. After cooling, decorate with berries. It turns out a very light and tasty dessert. Yogurt mousse without cream is no worse, and its calorie content is lower.

Greek Yogurt Cake with White Chocolate

This creation is perfect for the role of a festive cake. Especially if there is a children's birthday ahead. Kids are very fond of delicate desserts, and the combination of yogurt with fruit is very successful. In this embodiment, apples and canned peaches are selected as fruits.

For cooking, you need Greek yogurt. It can not be bought at all stores, but it is easy to make at home by yourself. In order to get 250 g of the product, you need 400 g of ordinary yogurt. Wet, squeeze and fold the cheesecloth three times, line it with a colander and pour your sour-milk product. After 6 hours, get real Greek yogurt. You can make it even simpler: buy sour cream of medium fat content. Calorie content will be slightly higher, but you don’t have to waste time, you can immediately start cooking the cake.

Biscuit

There are hundreds of recipes for its preparation, but each is different from the other. Therefore, here we present the author's version. It is the best suited for the tasks. You will need:

• Butter - 20 g and a little more to lubricate the mold.
• Flour and starch - 75 g each
• Eggs - 4-5 pcs.
• Sugar - 150 g.
• A pinch of salt and vanilla.

It is best to bake the cake one day before assembling the cake. Then it dries slightly, this will facilitate cutting. First of all, turn on the oven at 150 degrees. We grease the form with oil and cover it with parchment. Dissolve the oil in a separate cup, it will be needed a little later. Beat eggs with sugar in a lush foam. Add flour and starch and mix. This requires accuracy so as not to crush the proteins. Now separate a little mass and mix it with butter. Then put it back and mix again. Move the biscuit dough into a mold and bake for 15-20 minutes. Check readiness with a dry splinter.

Further preparations

The next day, you can easily cut the cake into two halves, while on the first day this would cause serious problems. Now let's get impregnated. In this embodiment, the cake is moderately moist, very tender and tasty. Therefore, lovers of juicy biscuits - join. We make the impregnation for cakes the simplest: 50 g of sugar and 50 teaspoon of rum per 50 g of water. Warm in a saucepan, then cool and can be applied to cakes. It is recommended to do this with a silicone brush or spray gun.

For filling:

• Apples - 4 pcs.
• Canned Peaches - 6 pcs.

Apples must be peeled and pre-baked in the oven for 20 minutes. Now cut them into cubes and add peaches. Gently move the fruit to half the biscuit pre-soaked in syrup. Do not forget that the assembly must be carried out already in the form in which the cake will solidify. On top we lay the second half of the biscuit and also soak it well with syrup.

Cooking Mousse

Sponge cake with yogurt mousse is almost ready. It remains to make mousse and leave our work of art to solidify. For the final layer you will need:

• Gelatin - 12 g.
• Milk - 250 ml.
• Sugar - 100 g.
• Yolks - 3 pcs.
• Grated zest - 1/2 lime.
• White Chocolate - 100 g.
• Greek Yogurt - 250 g
• Fat Cream - 300 g

The composition is clear that losing weight when using such a cake does not work. But still it turns out not so high-calorie as purchased. In fact, this is a variant of the English cream, but in a slightly different variation:

• Soak the gelatin first.
• Mix milk with half sugar and bring to a boil.
• Lightly beat the yolks with the second half of sugar. This is a very important point. If you simply pour sugar into the yolks and leave them for a few minutes, then the mass will curl. Therefore, the cream then turns into curled lumps. Just pour sugar over the rain and constantly work with a whisk, then there will be no problems.
• So, milk has begun to boil in our country, which means that we can continue. Pour half the contents of the pan into a cup and connect with the yolks, then pour it back and put on fire. Heat to 80 degrees and remove from heat. Filter through a sieve.
• Enter the dissolved gelatin, add the crushed chocolate.
• We place a bowl of cream in a pan with cold water or ice and, stirring with a whisk, bring to a temperature of 35 degrees.
• Beat cold cream separately.
• We connect all the parts and put it in a mold, on a biscuit.

Judging by the reviews, this recipe is somewhat more complicated than the previous ones. But the result is a huge, beautiful and very tasty cake. If you are looking for an option for the holiday, it is better not to find.

Autumn cake

In August - September, a period of mass collection and sale of apricots and blueberries begins. The former grow in the southern regions, the latter in the north. Therefore, the cake combines almost two poles. Few people manage to get both berries fresh. Therefore, you can take a good apricot compote and frozen berry. Cake with yogurt mousse, apricots and blueberries is an original solution that will surely please your guests.

The rest of the recipe is identical to the variant with strawberries, so we will not repeat it. You can make mousse with cream or cottage cheese, it only depends on your preferences.

Using yogurt as a cream

This option has a lot of advantages over all other fillers. Desserts soaked and decorated with such a mass are surprisingly delicate in taste, but at the same time they have a relatively low calorie content. Judging by the reviews, yogurt cream for cakes is gaining more and more popularity. It is used to make cakes and pastries. There are quite a few options:

• Yogurt-curd dessert. You will need 0.5 liters of thick yogurt and 400 g of cottage cheese, 5 tbsp. l sugar and vanilla. Beat everything in a lush cream and leave it in the cold for a while. After that, you can start the product.
• Creamy yogurt cream. It turns out even more gentle and airy. You will need 250 g of thick yogurt, cream - 300 ml, powder - 100 g. All the ingredients need to be cooled, whip the cream until soft peaks and gradually add all other components.
• Yogurt cream with gelatin. This is just the mousse that we have already considered.

Instead of a conclusion

Today we looked at quite a few ways to make a delicious yogurt mousse for a cake. Each of them can become the basis for your experiments. You can change the cooking method (with or without baking), the basis (sand or biscuit). Feel free to experiment with fillings, various combinations of berries and fruits. Then the baking will be bright and interesting every time. Decoration is a separate issue. Based on the remaining berries or fruits, you can make sweet jelly and cover it with a cake. It will turn out bright, original and sweet. Children are usually delighted with such supplements. At the same time, you can be sure of the naturalness and safety of such a glaze.