Many people love all kinds of sweets, but not everyone can afford them, especially when there are problems with being overweight. It is extremely difficult to completely abandon the sweet, because it is also necessary for our body. Here low-calorie cakes can come to the rescue. Recipes of such delicacies have long been invented by culinary specialists. It is impossible to recover from such desserts if you use them in moderation.
Yogurt cakes
What are low-calorie cakes? Desserts recipes are varied, one of the dietary options are yogurt cakes. They are now sold quite a lot in stores, as they are in serious demand. This is not surprising, because with a minimum of calories, dessert has excellent taste. However, it is quite possible to cook such a low-calorie cake yourself. It is not difficult to reproduce the recipe at home.
In order for yogurt desserts to be light and low-calorie, it is customary to replace chocolate and condensed milk with fresh fruits, coconut, jelly, fruit chips, and dietary yogurt, custard, cream or sour cream replaced the cream. Also do not use soufflé, jam, nuts in light cakes. The main stake is on fresh fruits.
There is very little dough in yogurt cakes. As a rule, there is only one cake that acts in the role of the base, spread the yogurt mixture, jelly and fruits on it.
Yoghurt cake (low-calorie) on a dry biscuit
How to make low-calorie yogurt cake? A recipe with photos will help you figure this out.
So, for cooking we take the following ingredients:
- Eight eggs.
- A glass of flour.
- A glass of sugar.
- A liter of yogurt for the filling.
- 60 g of gelatin.
To prepare the biscuit cake, you need to separate the yolks from the proteins. Then beat the yolks with sugar (it should dissolve). Proteins are first cooled and then whipped with sugar until they become lush. Then the finished yolk mass should be mixed with proteins. Pour the whole mixture into a baking dish covered with parchment. And send to bake in the oven for thirty minutes. Let’s do yogurt ourselves. Add powdered sugar or sugar into it and mix. Gelatin should be poured with cold water, and then heated to dissolve, but not bring to a boil. Pour the finished solution into yogurt. By this time, a biscuit should already be ready. Yoghurt mass is poured onto it and sent to the refrigerator for further solidification. Usually these cakes are decorated with jelly fruits on top.
Low calorie chocolate cake
The recipe for such a dessert will please all the sweet tooth. So, for cooking we take the following ingredients:
- Milk - 250 ml.
- Egg - 4 pcs.
- Sugar - one glass.
- Liquor - 4 tbsp. l
- Coconut flakes - one pack.
- Butter - 100 g.
- Cocoa - 4 tbsp. l
- Soda.
- Wheat flour - 3 tbsp. l
Separate the whites from the yolks. One tablespoon of sugar should be added to the yolks and beat thoroughly. And add five tablespoons of sugar to the proteins and beat thoroughly. Next, combine the proteins with the yolks and mix with flour, soda and cocoa.
Put the whole mixture in a baking dish, which should be greased with oil. Cook the cake must be at least half an hour.
Meanwhile, in a saucepan you need to mix milk, butter, sugar and coconut. Boil the whole mixture until thickened, then remove from heat.
Once the chocolate cake is ready, it must be cut into two parts. Soak each of them with diluted liquor. Next, one half should be greased with the mixture and cover with a second cake. Grease the finished cake on top. To make it, mix cocoa, sugar and milk. Boil the mixture until thickened. Add oil to the slightly cooled icing and grease the sides and top of the cake with it.
Mocha Cake
For those who are very carefully monitoring their diet, low-calorie cakes are suitable. Recipes with calories - a great option not to eat too much.
Low-calorie Mocha cake is a good dessert: a delicious and dietary option. One serving contains only two hundred and forty kilocalories.
Ingredients:
- Fat cream - 250 g.
To make a biscuit:
- Eggs - 4 pcs.
- Flour - 125 g.
- Starch - 35 g.
- Cocoa Powder - 45 g.
- Sugar - 160 g.
To prepare the filling:
- Gelatin - 10 g.
- Low-fat cottage cheese - 0.5 kg.
- Sugar - 75 g.
- A little prune.
Sponge cakes are baked in the oven at a temperature of two hundred degrees. From these ingredients, two biscuits are obtained.
For each of them you need to beat two eggs and eighty grams of sugar. Then flour, starch and cocoa are added. Knead the dough. Cake is baked in a form that can be covered with parchment.
Once the biscuits are ready, you can start collecting our cake. To do this, take a bowl shaped dome. We lay out its bottom in portioned slices carved from biscuit.
Next, soak the gelatin. Cottage cheese needs to be whipped with sugar. Dissolve gelatin in a water bath until completely dissolved, and then add it to the curd mass. We mix the prunes there. All received filling should be laid out to biscuits and leveled. And from above all this is covered by a second cake. Our container with dessert needs to be covered with something, for example, a dense lid or a film. Then the cake should be put in a cold place for four hours.
When finished, the cake is turned onto a dish and decorated on top as desired.
Low Calorie Cream Cake
Low-calorie desserts recipes are based on the use of dietary ingredients. So, for example, a regular cake can be made easier by replacing the usual greasy cream with a low-calorie one.
We want to offer you a light cream recipe. For its preparation you will need such products:
- Five egg yolks.
- The zest of one lemon.
- Potato starch - 20 g.
- Cream (necessarily fatty, at least 35%) - 0.5 l.
- Powdered sugar - 100 g.
- Lemon juice - 100 ml.
So, let's start cooking the cream. Mix cream with lemon zest and juice. Heat the mixture on the stove, but do not bring to a boil. While it cools, beat the yolks with starch and powdered sugar. Then add the cream to the eggs and beat everything again. The resulting mixture needs to be slightly warmed over a fire, but at the same time do not let it boil. Next, the cream should stand and cool. Then add cream whipped with sugar into it. Mix everything again. Here is our cream and ready. It remains only to put it in the refrigerator. This dessert can be used as an independent dish, or you can smear cakes with such a cream, preparing low-calorie cakes. Recipes for such desserts are now becoming increasingly popular.
Cakes without baking
Another quite interesting invention of culinary specialists is recipes for low-calorie cakes without baking. This dessert is a great option for those who do not know how to bake or simply do not have such an opportunity. In addition, quick cakes without baking are usually low-calorie. It is this fact that provides them with such popularity.
And you don’t always want a greasy cake. Very often in the summer or during the New Year holidays, the soul asks for something sweet, but light and airy. This dish is low-calorie cakes (recipes are quite diverse) without baking using fruits.
Curd Raspberry Dessert
Alternatively, try making raspberry-curd cake. This is a delicious dessert.
Ingredients for making cakes:
- Oatmeal cookies - 0.56 kg.
- Butter - a pack.
Ingredients for Curd Cream:
- Sugar - 135 g.
- Cottage cheese - 0.5 kg.
- Raspberries - 0.4 kg.
- Vanilla.
- Sour cream (the amount of sour cream will depend on the humidity of the cottage cheese. The wetter it is, the less sour cream will be needed) - about 200 g.
- Gelatin - 25 g.
For the upper layer of jelly:
- Raspberry syrup - ½ cup.
- Gelatin 15 g.
Cookies need to be ground in a blender to a crumb state. Next, molten oil is added to it. Everything is thoroughly mixed, and cake is formed from the resulting mass . It is laid on the bottom of a detachable shape covered with parchment and sent to cool in the freezer for fifteen minutes.
Meanwhile, we will begin to prepare the cream itself. Dissolve twenty-five grams of gelatin in a water bath. Beat cottage cheese with sugar, adding raspberries and sour cream. You should get a homogeneous mixture. Pour gelatin into it and mix everything again. Half the cream, fill the cake. On top lay a layer of fresh raspberries. Once again, fill it with cream. And send the cake to the freezer for half an hour.
Now let's move on to preparing the top layer of gelatin dessert. To do this, it is soluble in the bath. Then, having cooled, we will add it to independently made raspberry syrup. In total, half a liter of liquid should turn out.
With it we pour our cake, after laying out raspberries on top for decoration. Here is our dessert and ready. It only remains for him to thicken in the refrigerator, and you can proceed to the tasting.
Instead of an afterword
Do not despair if you are very fond of sweets, but you cannot. Modern chefs have taken care of those who are on a diet, inventing a lot of low-calorie cakes. Sometimes pampering yourself with such desserts, you will not break your diet and at the same time get a lot of pleasure. Low-calorie cakes are not inferior in taste to fat cream sweets.