How to make a lean cake at home? TOP 4 delicious and simple recipes with photos. Video recipes.
Yes, lean pastries will not be rich, but there are many such recipes. For example, you can make healthy lean cakes, muffins, or cookies. The main thing is to make a lean dough, and then you can enrich the taste, use fruit and berry fillings, use caramel, jam, nuts, coconut, etc. In this article we will learn how to make a lean cake at home. Despite the fact that at first glance it seems that it is very difficult, we want to debunk this opinion, because baking a lean cake is very simple.
Baking tips and secrets
- The hardest part of making a lean homemade cake is making a crust dough. However, a lean cake will taste good even without the use of eggs, milk, or butter.
- The basis of the lean cake is premium flour or whole grain flour. It is important to sift the flour several times through a fine sieve so that it is enriched with oxygen, and the cakes are airy.
- Usually, cake cakes are prepared unleavened or flaky. Unleavened dough is kneaded in pure water, puff - in sparkling water.
- For a cake with fresh fruits or berries, it is better to cook a custard dough. It withstands a wet layer well.
- Replace the butter in the dough with vegetable or margarine, which contains only vegetable fats.
- Mineral water, pure water or strongly brewed tea will become a substitute for milk.
- Eggs can be successfully substituted for potato or corn starch.
- Knead any lean dough very quickly. Long kneading clogs the dough, and the cakes will be tough. And before placing the dough in the oven, let it rest for half an hour. Then the baked goods will be soft and airy.
- Cook lean cake cream not in cow's milk, but in soy, coconut or almond.
- For the layer of cakes, so that the cake turns out to be tender and not dry, you can use jam, honey, fruit jam.
- Prepare the custard for soaking the cakes on the basis of semolina.
- To brown the baked goods, brush them not with egg white, but with tea leaves.
- Garnish with melted chocolate, crushed nuts, sweet syrups, fresh berries and fruits.
- It is worth noting that products without baking quickly become stale and bake much faster. Therefore, do not be distracted by other matters.
Napoleon cake
When a birthday or any other special holiday falls on the days of fasting, it is quite possible to treat guests to the amazingly delicious Lenten Napoleon cake. You will have to tinker with such baked goods for a long time, but it will be worth it.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 329 kcal.
- Servings - 1 cake
- Cooking time - 1 hour 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Flour - 250 g for dough, 50 g for cream
- Salt - a pinch
- Vinegar 9% - 1 tbsp
- Water - 140 ml for the dough, 300 ml for the cream
- Soda - 0.5 tsp
- Coconut milk - 400 ml
- Brown sugar - 6 tablespoons
- Vegetable oil - 100 ml
- Vanillin - a pinch
Cooking lean Napoleon cake:
- For the cream, pour coconut milk and water into a saucepan, add sugar and vanilla. Stir and bring food to a simmer.
- Pour flour into another container and pour in the milk mixture, stirring constantly. Bring the mixture to a boil and until thickened. Cover the finished cream with cling film and leave to cool.
- For the cakes, combine the sifted flour, salt and baking soda. Pour oil into the dry mixture and crush the food into crumbs. Add water, vinegar and knead the dough. Wrap it in plastic and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Roll the chilled dough into 12 thin equal layers and bake each separately for 5-7 minutes at 180 ° C until the surface of the dough is browned.
- Cool the cakes and collect the cake, brushing them with cream. Also coat the sides, and decorate the cake on all sides by sprinkling with chopped crumbs from the scraps of the cake layers.
- Leave the Napoleon Lean Cake to soak for 4 hours at room temperature, then chill in the refrigerator.
Carrot cake with nuts and orange cream
A delicious treat - lean carrot cake - is made from products that are always available in the kitchen. With a little effort and time, the carrot treat will be a pleasant surprise for the family.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 250 g
- Salt - a pinch
- Baking powder - 2 tsp
- Carrots - 300 g
- Sugar - 120 g
- Vegetable oil - 100 ml
- Water - 50 ml in the dough and how much it will take in the cream
- Walnuts - 100 g for decoration
- Oranges - 1 pc.
- Semolina - 60 g
- Sugar - 50 g
Cooking Lean Carrot Cake with Nuts and Orange Cream:
- Sift flour, salt and baking powder through a fine sieve.
- Peel the carrots, wash and grate on a fine grater. Add sugar, oil, water to the carrot chips and stir until smooth.
- Pour flour into the carrot mass in portions and mix.
- Fry the nuts in a clean and dry frying pan, chop with a knife and add to the dough.
- Line a baking dish with parchment paper and line out half the dough. Smooth it out and place it in a preheated oven to 180 ° C for 20-25 minutes. Then bake a second crust. You can also bake the whole dough right away and then cut it into 2 pieces. Then the baking time will increase to 40-50 minutes.
- Wash the orange and grate the zest from it on a fine grater, and squeeze all the juice from the fruit and pour in the same amount of water to make the liquid in a volume of 500 ml. Pour the zest into the resulting liquid and mix.
- Pour semolina with sugar into a saucepan and pour in citrus water. Boil the cream over moderate heat, stirring, bringing the cream until thick and boil for 3 minutes. Whisk a little more warm cream with a blender and cool completely.
- Spread the cooled cakes with cream and decorate the dessert with chopped nuts on the edges.
- Place the lean carrot cake with nuts and orange cream in the refrigerator for 1 to 2 hours to soak.
Chocolate cake
Lenten chocolate cake will decorate any festive table. It is prepared quickly and simply, rather than its rich counterparts. At the same time, the dessert will turn out to be not only tasty. It contains very few calories. And to decorate the cake, use fresh berries, pieces of fresh fruit, nuts, etc.
Ingredients:
- Red lentils - 150 g
- Flour - 300 g
- Vegetable oil - 150 g
- Sugar - 170 g
- Soda - 1 tsp
- Water - 1 tsp
- Chocolate - 100 g
- Apple jam - 500 g
Chocolate cake preparation:
- Wash and dry the red lentils in a clean, dry frying pan. Then grind it in a coffee grinder to a flour condition.
- Combine ground lentils with flour and soda.
- Pour sugar into the pan, add water and heat the caramel until the sugar dissolves.
- Pour sugar syrup, vegetable oil into a bowl with dry ingredients and knead the dough. Cover it with plastic wrap and leave overnight.
- Divide the chilled dough into 5 parts and roll out the cakes 5 mm thick. During baking, they will rise to a height of 9 mm.
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees and send the cakes to bake for 15 minutes.
- Break the chocolate into pieces and melt in a water bath. Do not bring it to a boil, otherwise it will acquire bitterness, from which it will be impossible to get rid of.
- Brush chilled cakes with apple jam and cover the cake with melted chocolate.
Orange cake
Make a lean orange cake according to the suggested recipe and make sure that the dessert surpasses all the taste qualities of many common sweet treats. This treat will be especially appreciated by the most thrifty and economical hostesses.
Ingredients:
- Wheat flour - 210 g
- Orange - 2 pcs.
- Sugar - 250 g
- Sunflower oil - 70 ml
- Apple cider vinegar - 30 g
- Soda - 1 tsp
- Water - 2 tablespoons
- Semolina - 2 tbsp.
- Cherry compote - 300 ml
Cooking Orange Cake:
- Squeeze the juice from two oranges into a deep bowl, add vegetable oil and add 150 g of sugar. Beat the products with a mixer until smooth.
- Then add apple cider vinegar and whisk again.
- Pour sifted flour, slaked soda with vinegar into the resulting mixture and mix everything again with a mixer.
- Pour the dough into a parchment-lined mold and place in a preheated oven to 180 ° C for 40-45 minutes. Place a container of water on the bottom of the oven to make the biscuit rise evenly.
- Check the readiness of the biscuit with a wooden toothpick. Leave the finished biscuit in the off hot oven for 15 minutes. Then remove it and cool completely.
- Pour cherry compote into a saucepan, add sugar and semolina. Mix everything well and put on low heat. While stirring constantly, bring the mixture to thicken and let the cream cool completely. Then beat it with a mixer until fluffy.
- Cut the sponge cake in half lengthwise into two cakes and spread with cream. Sprinkle the collected lean orange cake with the remaining biscuit crumbs or crushed nuts.
