How to cook lean homemade cake? What ingredients are needed for this? You will find answers to these and other questions in the article. During fasting, everyone wants to enjoy something delicious. But almost all cakes and pastries in their composition have either kefir, or eggs, or butter. So, these tidbits are forbidden. But there is a way! We will tell you now how to make a lean cake. Interesting recipes are presented below. You can also find photos of lean cakes in our review.
Lean carrot cake
To create this goodies you need to have:
- 150 g of sifted flour of the highest grade;
- 90 g walnuts;
- 190 g of sugar;
- 150 g carrots;
- 150 ml of sunflower oil;
- baking powder (10 g);
- 220 ml of peach juice with pulp;
- a pinch of salt.
So, prepare a lean carrot cake. First, brown the nuts in the oven. Then mix sugar with butter, pour the resulting mixture with juice. Next, grind the carrots with a small grater and add to the base mixture. Grind nuts with a blender (leave a couple for decoration), but not too finely.
Add chopped nuts to the juice mixture and stir. Pour the dough into the mold and cook the cake for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. Then cool the cake, cut into two halves, and then coat with any jam, jam and garnish with the remaining nuts.
Cake "Spring Tale"
Consider the recipe for another amazing lean cake. Its aromas are just crazy! Cake "Spring Tale" is relevant for the holiday on March 8. Here, the delicate aroma of spices and orange, the acidity of lingonberries and the taste of fruits are incredibly combined. To make this lean cake you need to buy:
- two oranges;
- flour (350 g);
- 200 ml of sunflower oil;
- 100 ml of sparkling water;
- sugar (200 g);
- cinnamon (1 tsp);
- 0.5 tsp ground cloves;
- 100 g of raisins;
- 60 g walnuts;
- baking powder (2 tsp)
Ingredients for Cream:
- 4 tsp lingonberry jam (or sugar to taste);
- 300-500 g of lingonberry;
- semolina (1 tbsp. l.).
You will also need apricot jam, one orange and one kiwi. So, soak raisins in boiling water for a couple of minutes, drain the water, dry it. Crush the nuts, not very finely. Sift the flour into a bowl of spices.
In the dishes in which you will knead the dough, remove the zest from one orange. Then squeeze the juice of two oranges. Now add mineral water and baking powder. Shuffle. Beat the sunflower oil with sugar a little. Add to liquid components, mix. Next, mix the nuts and raisins. Now gradually add flour and knead the dough.
Put the dough evenly on the form (approximately should be 21 cm across). There is no need to lubricate the form. Bake the cake in a preheated oven for about an hour. First bake at 180 ° C, and 10 minutes before completion, increase the heat. Cool the finished cake on the wire rack.
Agree, this recipe for homemade lean cake cooked is very simple. To create a cream you need to place lingonberries in a saucepan. Here you can put sugar or lingonberry jam for sweetness. You can pound berries with a pusher so that juice stands out from them. Now put the pot on the fire. Cook the berries for 5 minutes. Add semolina and cook for another 5 minutes. Next, leave the pan to cool.
Cut the finished cake into two. Put the bottom cake on a dish and brush with cream, leaving a little to grease the sides of the cake. Cover it with the top cake and gently grease the sides of the product. The top cake can be poked with a toothpick and soaked in juice ½ part of an orange, the second part is useful for decoration.
Now grease the top of the product with apricot jam. For decoration, use kiwi and ½ part of an orange. Cut two circles from an orange and form a figure eight from them. From a kiwi, cut a couple of leaves and lay near the figure eight. On the edge of the cake, lay out the halves of the orange rings, make a kiwi side. Bon Appetit!
Lenten Cake Recipe (Classic)
So, prepare the dough for the cake. To do this, mix these components: two pinch of salt, four tbsp. l cocoa powder, 400 g flour, a glass of sugar (preferably brown). To this mixture add eight tablespoons of sunflower oil, soda (1 tsp), slaked in three tsp. lemon juice, one and a half glasses of water.
Gently mix these ingredients together. Pour a lean thick dough into a greased form with sunflower oil. Bake until cooked in the oven. It should make chocolate cake. When it hardens, cut it into two parts.
Now we’ll make a lean cream for the cake. To do this, melt the bitter tile (the composition should not contain milk, egg powder or lecithin) or vegetarian chocolate in a microwave in a container. Then take it out, mix coconut milk (50 ml) and 50 g of brown sugar in melted hot chocolate.
This recipe for a lenten cake, made at home, is liked by many. But we continue further. Soak one part of the cake with apricot jam syrup and brush with cream. Put the second part of the cake on top. If cream is left, grease the cake on top of it. You can grease the top of the cake with apricot syrup. Garnish the cake with fresh berries and almond petals.
Lean custard
For a change, you can prepare a different type of lean cream. To do this, fry the wheat flour in a frying pan until golden brown (a couple of tbsp. L topped). Next, mix a glass of sugar with a glass of water and vanilla on the tip of a knife. Combine with flour so that there are no lumps.
Now put in a water bath to prepare the mixture. The cream will be ready when it becomes thick. You do not need to bring it to a state of thick porridge, because during cooling it will become even more dense. You can add nuts, poppy seeds, and fruit or berry puree to this cream.
Lean honey cake with nuts and berries
The ingredients for this cake you need to have the following:
- one package of cream (dry, purchased);
- three pinches of coconut flakes;
- one glass of blackberry;
- one glass of cherry (seedless);
- soda (1 tsp);
- a pinch of salt;
- one glass of walnuts;
- half a glass of sunflower oil;
- 1.5 cups of water (boiled, warm);
- honey (3 tbsp. l.);
- one cup of brown sugar;
- two glasses of wheat flour.
First you need to bake the cakes. Combine honey, water, sugar, butter and salt. Add flour and soda here. Mix everything well and pour into a mold. Bake at 180 degrees for half an hour, checking with a toothpick for readiness. The first cake is ready. Bake the second one in the same way. Each cut lengthwise into two thin.
To prepare the cream, milk must be replaced with water, and butter with sunflower. Dilute the purchased cream in half a glass of water. Next, heat 50 g of water and mix it with the resulting mixture. Bring to a boil, stirring. Cool the cream and brush on the cakes. Lay the berries on top and sprinkle with nuts and coconut.
Napoleon Cake (Lenten)
With this cake everyone will like to diet. To create it you need to have:
- 4.5 cups flour;
- one glass of sunflower oil;
- one glass of sparkling water;
- salt (0.5 tsp);
- 0.25 tsp citric acid.
For cream you will need:
- 250 g semolina;
- sugar (0.5 kg);
- 170 g of almonds;
- 0.25 tsp vanilla extract;
- 30 g vanilla sugar;
- 1.5 pcs lemon.
So, pour the flour into a large bowl. Pour in sunflower oil, soda, add salt and citric acid. Mix first, and then knead the dough carefully, but at a fast pace.
Crumple the dough into a ball and put in the refrigerator for half an hour. Next, divide it into 12 parts. Roll one part into a pancake with a diameter of 30 cm, and return the rest to the refrigerator.
Now heat the oven and put the dough on a baking sheet, giving it the necessary shape. The blank for the cake should acquire a slight blush. Repeat these steps with each cake.
How to make a cream?
So, we will continue to create a Napoleon cake. Cream is its main part. Peel the almonds first and scald it with boiling water. Grind the nut and combine it with sugar and 1.5 liters of boiling water. Mix it all well and boil. Next, add semolina to the mixture and cook until the cream thickens. Cut the zest from the lemon and cut into slices and zest, and the lemon itself. Grind together these pieces and combine with lean cream. Add vanilla sugar here and beat. You can also add a vanilla extract.
Next, grease each cake with cream, and then lay one on top of the other. Grind the last cake and sprinkle with crumbs the last layer of cream. The cake should stand for soaking for half a day, and then it can be served on the table. Bon Appetit!