Many people love the Napoleon cake. And everyone knows that he, like all sweets, is considered a very high-calorie product. What determines its calorie content and can it be reduced? This needs to be considered in more detail.
Classic Napoleon Cake
The famous sweet dessert always pleases with a delicate taste, delicate aroma of fresh cakes and a soft texture. It’s nice to enjoy it, but after a few days some people regret that they ate the cake, because their weight suffered from this - as a rule, it increased.
It is not surprising, because the dessert contains white wheat flour, margarine, sugar, milk and eggs. In the complex, all this is a kind of carbohydrate-fat bomb, which can make up a significant fraction of the norm of a person’s daily need for these substances.
Calorie "Napoleon" per 100 grams of dessert
The classic recipe for a custard cake has approximately the following set of ingredients:
- puff pastry (ready-made or home-made);
- eggs
- nuts
- flour;
- milk;
- sugar;
- vanilla sugar.
There are many variations on the topic of cream preparation: from whipped cream to butter composition, therefore the calorie content of Napoleon cake largely depends on the components of the cream.
In the classic recipe, the calculation of proteins, fats and carbohydrates is presented in such quantities:
The content of proteins, carbohydrates and fats in 100 g of cake| Squirrels | 8.6 |
| Fats | 19.2 |
| Carbohydrates | 37,2 |
The calorie content of “Napoleon” in this case is 315.8. With a change in the cream, calorie content can increase to an indicator of 500 kcal per 0.1 kg of cake. Therefore, when they talk about the caloric content of Napoleon (per 100 grams), they mean the average value (approximately 400 kcal).
Napoleon for dieters
What to do for those who love sweets, but want to change their weight or improve the quality of the figure? The answer that will solve this problem is 100% - stop eating sweets. But not everyone is ready for this. Therefore, there are a couple of ways to reduce the "danger" of high calorie content "Napoleon":
- Firstly, calculate your individual KBZhU norm for a day and eat a small piece of cake without exceeding the established norm (you need to understand that this will lead to a decrease in the remaining volumes of food).
- Secondly, try to minimize the calorie content of “Napoleon” by changing the quantity and quality of some ingredients.
If everything is clear with the first paragraph, then what can be proposed for the second paragraph? First, we minimize calories on the recipe, that is, instead of butter cream, choose custard. Then you can cut back the amount of sugar - instead of the full norm, put half in the recipe. To taste, this will not greatly affect the finished dessert. In extreme cases, sugar is completely replaced with a sweetener.
Alternatively, you can experiment with milk: take a cow with a lower percentage of fat content or completely replace it with a mixture of coconut and soy.
If you use your own dough to make a cake, then it will be an ideal option to replace wheat flour with bran, whole grain or oat flour.
In general, it can be seen that even while on a diet, you can treat yourself to sweets. The main thing is to correctly calculate the calorie content of the Napoleon cake and please yourself with a dessert no more than 2 times a week.