Sweet tooth, enough with fear to get up on the scales and starve yourself! Do not be afraid of going to the store: shelves with cookies, sweets and cakes are better to really bypass. But the products from which you can easily and quickly prepare low-calorie desserts yourself are worth a closer look.
We offer several tasty and light dishes that will replace the usual and often unhealthy sweets. A great option is to cook a curd cake with a jelly layer. Such a dish can be done at least every day. Make low-calorie desserts at home to surprise your family and guests. Bright healthy dishes will decorate the festive table without much hassle.
Curd cake is cooked simply and quickly
To prepare a beautiful cake, take:
- a pack of ordinary cookies;
- a pack of cottage cheese (150 grams);
- half a liter of sour cream;
- 120 grams of sugar;
- packaging of instant gelatin (10 grams);
- a bag of vanilla sugar;
- lemon or lime;
- jelly with your favorite taste;
- decorations (frozen or fresh berries, pastry topping, coconut) as desired.
Turn the cookies into crumbs and form the bottom layer. We spread a mixture of cottage cheese, sour cream and gelatin on it.
How to cook a curd layer?
Gelatin should be dissolved in 100 milliliters of hot, but not boiling water. Do not forget to stir the mixture vigorously. If gelatin does not dissolve, heat in a water bath. But do not overdo it: if the mixture begins to boil, then the gelatin will lose its properties and become unpleasant in taste. When the solution becomes homogeneous, add regular and vanilla sugar to it.
Make cuts on lime or lemon and squeeze the juice. Which citrus to choose is up to you, but each of these fruits gives a unique flavor and aftertaste to the cake. To make the dessert homogeneous and tender, the curd must be passed through a meat grinder. Add it with sour cream to other ingredients and mix.
Now prepare the top layer
Here we will not reinvent the wheel and prepare jelly according to the recipe, which is indicated on the package. There is one caveat: we reduce the amount of water by a quarter, or even a third. Then the jelly layer of low-calorie cottage cheese dessert will be more dense. Cooked the top of the cake and let it cool to room temperature.
The most important part of preparing a simple culinary masterpiece is to pour jelly on the frozen layer with cottage cheese. In order not to spoil the appearance of the dish, put a tablespoon on the cake and gently pour jelly on it onto a snow-white curd-sour cream base.
We send the dessert to the refrigerator until completely frozen. When the jelly sets well, you can decorate the cake if desired. However, even without decor, it looks great!
Dessert decoration options
There is another way to prepare such a low-calorie dessert. If you have a silicone cake mold, then use it. First you need to make a jelly layer and let it harden. And from above carefully add the cream-curd mixture. When the cake hardens, remove the form from the refrigerator and gently turn it over to a large dish.
Show your imagination and prepare portioned sweets for your family and guests.
Fruit low-calorie desserts: recipes with photos
Since nature has "rewarded" you with a tendency to gain weight from store-calorie desserts, treat yourself to the gifts of nature, valuable vitamins and amino acids. And your body will say thank you for a wholesome and very tasty snack. Such sweets never get boring.
One of the easiest low-calorie desserts is fruit salad. You can cook it completely from any fruit that you have at home. For example, cut slices or cubes of apple, pear, mandarin, orange, kiwi, banana. In summer, be sure to supplement the salad with a berry note - dessert will only benefit from this. For dressing, instead of fat cream, take a more wholesome product - natural yogurt.
It is better to cook fruit salad in small portions so that the ingredients do not have time to oxidize and acquire an ugly appearance.
Garnish the dish with a handful of pomegranate seeds or nuts. You got a vitamin bomb. What could be better after a long winter?
Children will ask for supplements
Boys and girls are not always able to persuade to eat even a delicious dish. Therefore, for adults, a useful dessert option is fruits and berries on a skewer.
What exactly to include in the composition of such a “shish kebab”, is decided by the chefs. But be sure to make it bright, at the same time check if your child remembers the names of the flowers.
For adults, you can cook fruit barbecue on the grill. For marinade, take honey and lemon juice, dilute them with water. Cut the fruit into large slices. Put on the skewers. And literally grill for five minutes. Do not forget to pour sweet-sour marinade.
There is always time for experimentation in the kitchen. Instead of “shish kebabs”, canapes can be prepared from fruits and berries. This is ideal for an office or children's party. Quick, easy, tasty, and you won’t get your hands dirty! The dream of any hostess.
For an afternoon snack - apples with honey and cinnamon
We offer recipes for low-calorie desserts and recipes with calories.
Already you can’t look at fresh apples, which satisfy a slight hunger during the day or eat at night to starve the worm? Then take the recipes for low-calorie desserts with calories.
Bake in the oven
From the aroma of honey mixed with cinnamon, the appetite will certainly break out. The combination of available ingredients will turn bored apples into a delicious and healthy snack. He is quite satisfying, so you will not stay hungry.
The recipe does not require special culinary skills, effort and time. And in one hundred grams of dessert, only 60 kcal. Even a child can cook it. Of course, under your strict control.
You will need:
- three medium-sized apples;
- three teaspoons of honey;
- one teaspoon of granulated sugar;
- a quarter of a teaspoon of ground cinnamon, but you can add more - it will turn out even tastier and more aromatic.
Let's start preparing a low-calorie dessert with a photo. Wash apples first. Now you need to cut the core. Put a spoonful of honey in the recess. By the way, you can add a little raisins. Sprinkle with sugar, but this is not necessary, you can do without it. Sugar in the oven turns into caramel. Sprinkle cinnamon on top of the apple.
Preheat the oven to two hundred degrees. Apples will be baked for half an hour. When cooked, remove from the oven. If desired, you can sprinkle the dish with cinnamon.
Other snacking options made from apples, honey and cinnamon
In a couple of minutes you can prepare the perfect breakfast or a healthy snack. By the way, such a drink can be prepared in the evening, so as not to waste precious time, going to work. A delicious smoothie is rich in vitamins and minerals, but there are few calories in it.
To make two servings of smoothie, take:
- 100 grams of cherry (remove the seeds);
- one large apple;
- 200 grams of natural (Greek) yogurt;
- 1 tablespoon of honey;
- 1 pinch of cinnamon.
In two servings of such a drink will be only 179 kcal.
How to make a smoothie:
First wash my apple. Cut the peel and remove the core with seeds. Cut the fruit into small pieces and transfer them to the blender bowl. My cherry, if necessary, get the seeds. Add the berry to the apple slices.
Now fill the filling with natural yogurt. To add a spicy taste to the drink, add a little cinnamon. A spoonful of liquid honey will help smooth the smoothies. If you do not like this product or you are allergic to it, you can replace it with agave syrup or Jerusalem artichoke.
A little more effort: you need to grind all the ingredients. To do this, turn on the blender at high speed. Then the drink will be homogeneous and tender.
Turn off the blender and pour the smoothies into glasses.
You can decorate the drink with a sprig of fresh mint. In hot weather, you can add a couple of ice cubes. Alternatively, cool the yogurt, cherry and apple in the refrigerator before making the smoothie. You can also experiment with berry filling: replace cherries with those that grow in your country house or in the forest.
Let's cool berry sorbet
Photos of low-calorie desserts look appetizing, right? And here everything is extremely simple and fast. And only 81 kcal per hundred grams of goodies! Why not treat yourself to such homemade ice cream?
To make berry sorbet, take:
- 300 grams of frozen raspberries;
- 250 grams of frozen cranberries;
- 250 ml of chilled boiled water;
- 150 grams of granulated sugar;
- a bunch of basil;
- a sprig of fresh mint for decoration.
Let's get started! Cooking sugar syrup: heat water and sugar until sugar dissolves. Wait until the mixture cools down. At this time, finely chop several basil branches, we do not use stems. Add to sugar syrup.
Beat the frozen berries in a blender until a uniform consistency is obtained. Then, if desired, rub raspberries and cranberries through a sieve. Pour sugar syrup with basil into the berry puree. It remains to beat again with a blender.
The final touch - we send a delicious mixture to the freezer, an hour and a half will be enough to freeze the sorbet.
Put the dessert in a bowl. Garnish with fresh raspberries, basil and a sprig of mint.
Made sure that sweets can not spoil the figure? Then rather choose a dessert to your taste, experiment and enjoy healthy dishes! Enjoy your meal!