Lenten cake: recipe at home

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

How to cook a lean cake at home? What ingredients are needed for this? You will find answers to these and other questions in the article. During fasting, everyone wants to eat something tasty. But almost all cakes and pastries contain either kefir, or eggs, or butter. So, these delicious dishes are banned. But there is a way out! 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.

Lenten Carrot Cake

To create this treat you need to have:

• 150g sifted premium flour;
• 90g walnuts;
• 190g sugar;
• 150g carrots;
• 150 ml sunflower oil;
• baking powder (10 g);
• 220 ml peach juice with pulp;
• a pinch of s alt.

So, we are preparing a lean cake with carrots. Roast the nuts in the oven first. Then mix sugar with butter, pour the resulting mixture with juice. Next, chop the carrots with a small grater and add to the base mixture. Chop the nuts in a blender (reserve a couple for garnish), but not too finely.

Add chopped nuts to the juice mixture andstir. 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 spread with any jam, marmalade and garnish with the remaining nuts.

Cake "Spring Tale"

Let's take a look at the recipe for another amazing lean cake. His fragrances are just crazy! Cake "Spring Tale" is relevant for the holiday of March 8. It incredibly combines the delicate aroma of spices and orange, the sourness of lingonberries and the taste of fruits. To prepare this lean cake you need to buy:

• two oranges;
• flour (350 g);
• 200 ml sunflower oil;
• 100ml sparkling water;
• sugar (200 g);
• cinnamon (1 tsp);
• 0.5 tsp ground cloves;
• 100g raisins;
• 60g walnuts;
• baking powder (2 tsp)

Cream Ingredients:

• 4 tsp lingonberry jam (or sugar to taste);
• 300-500 g cranberries;
• semolina (1 tbsp.).

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. Chop the nuts, not very finely. Sift the flour into the spice bowl.

In the bowl 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. Stir. Lightly beat sunflower oil with sugar. Add to liquidingredients, mix. Next, stir in the nuts and raisins. Now gradually add flour and knead the dough.

Spread the dough evenly over the pan (should be about 21 cm across). There is no need to grease the mold. 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 a wire rack.

Agree, this homemade lean cake recipe is very simple. To create a cream, you need to place lingonberries in a saucepan. You can put sugar or lingonberry jam here for sweetness. You can crush the berries with a pusher so that the juice stands out from them. Now put the pot on the fire. Boil the berries for 5 minutes. Add semolina and cook for another 5 minutes. Next, set the pan aside to cool.

Cut the finished cake into two. Put the bottom cake on a dish, and grease with cream, leaving a little for greasing 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 with juice of ½ part of an orange, the second part is useful for decoration.

Now brush the top of the product with apricot jam. Use kiwi fruit and ½ part orange for garnish. Cut two circles from the orange and form them into a figure eight. Cut a couple of leaves from kiwi and lay them near the figure eight. Lay the halves of orange rings along the edge of the cake, make a side of kiwi. Bon appetit!

Lenten cake recipe (classic)

So, we are preparing the dough for the cake. To do this, you need to mix the following components:two pinches of s alt, 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 lean thick dough into a form greased with sunflower oil. Bake until done in the oven. It should be chocolate cake. When it has set, cut it in two.

Now let's make lean cream for the cake. To do this, melt a bar of bittersweet (the composition should not contain milk, egg powder or lecithin) or vegetarian chocolate in the microwave in a container. Then take it out, stir in the melted hot chocolate coconut milk (50 ml) and 50 g brown sugar.

This homemade lean cake recipe is loved by many. But we continue further. Soak one part of the cake with apricot jam syrup and brush with cream. Place the second piece of cake on top. If there is cream left, brush it on top of the cake. You can grease the top of the cake with apricot syrup. Decorate the cake with fresh berries and almond flakes.

Lenten Custard

For a change, you can make a different kind of lenten cream. To do this, fry wheat flour in a pan until golden brown (a couple of tablespoons with top). Next, mix a glass of sugar with a glass of water and vanilla on the tip of a knife. Mix with flour so that there are no lumps.

Now put the mixture in a water bath to prepare. The cream will be ready when it becomes thick. No 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, fruit or berry puree to this cream.

Lenten honey cake with nuts and berries

Ingredients for this cake you need to have the following:

• one packet of cream (dry, purchased);
• three pinches of coconut;
• one glass of blackberries;
• one glass of cherries (pitted);
• soda (1 tsp);
• a pinch of s alt;
• one glass of walnuts;
• half a glass of sunflower oil;
• 1, 5 cups of water (boiled, warm);
• honey (3 tbsp.);
• one glass of brown sugar;
• two cups of wheat flour.

First you need to bake the cakes. Mix honey, water, sugar, butter and s alt. Add flour and soda to this. Mix everything well and pour into the mold. Bake at 180 degrees for half an hour, checking readiness with a toothpick. The first cake is ready. Bake the second one in the same way. Cut each lengthwise into two thin ones.

To prepare the cream, milk should 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 while stirring. Cool the cream and brush the cakes with it. Top with berries and sprinkle with nuts and coconut.

Cake"Napoleon" (lean)

Everyone will love dieting with this cake. To create it you need to have:

• 4, 5 cups flour;
• one glass of sunflower oil;
• one glass of sparkling water;
• s alt (0.5 tsp);
• 0, 25 tsp citric acid.

For cream you will need:

• 250g semolina;
• sugar (0.5 kg);
• 170g almonds;
• 0, 25 tsp vanilla extract;
• 30g vanilla sugar;
• 1, 5 pieces lemon.

So, pour the flour into a large bowl. Pour in sunflower oil, sparkling water, add s alt and citric acid. Mix first and then knead the dough thoroughly 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, 30 cm in diameter, and return the rest to the refrigerator.

Now preheat the oven and put the dough on a baking sheet, giving it the desired shape. The blank for the cake should acquire a slight blush. Repeat the same steps for each cake.

How to make cream?

So, let's continue to create the Napoleon cake. The cream is its main part. First, peel the almonds and blanch them in 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. Remove the zest from the lemon and cut into pieces both the zest and the lemon itself. Grind togetherthese pieces and combine with lean cream. Add vanilla sugar to this and beat. You can also add vanilla extract here.

Further, grease each cake with cream, and then lay one on top of the other. Grind the last cake, and sprinkle the last layer of cream with crumbs. The cake should stand for half a day for impregnation, and then it can be served on the table. Bon appetit!