Napoleon's calorie content: take note for sweet tooth

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

Many people love 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.

Cake "Napoleon" classic

The famous sweet dessert always delights with its delicate taste, delicate aroma of fresh cakes and soft texture. Enjoying it is nice, but some people regret eating the cake after a few days, because their weight suffered from it - usually increased.

It is not surprising, because the dessert contains white wheat flour, margarine, sugar, milk and eggs. Together, all this is a kind of carbohydrate-fat bomb, which can make up a fair share of a person’s daily requirement for these substances.

Napoleon calories per 100 grams of dessert

The classic recipe for a finished custard cake has roughly the following set of ingredients:

• puff pastry (premade or homemade);
• eggs;
• nuts;
• flour;
• milk;
• sugar;
• vanilla sugar.

There are many variations on the theme of making cream: from whipped cream to butter composition, so the calorie content of the Napoleon cake largely depends on the ingredients of the cream.

In the classic recipe, the calculation of proteins, fats and carbohydrates is presented in the following quantities:

Content of proteins, carbohydrates and fats in 100 g of cake

Proteins	8, 6
Fats	19, 2
Carbohydrates	37, 2

The calorie content of "Napoleon" in this case is 315.8. When changing the cream, the calorie content can increase to 500 kcal per 0.1 kg of cake. Therefore, when they talk about the calorie 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 100% is to stop eating sweets. But not everyone is ready for this. Therefore, there are a couple of ways to reduce the “danger” of Napoleon’s high calorie content:

1. Firstly, calculate your individual norm of KBJU 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 other volumes of food).
2. Secondly, try to reduce the calorie content of "Napoleon" as much as possible by changing the quantity and quality of some ingredients.

If everything is clear with the first point, what can be proposed for the second point? To begin with, we minimize the calories in the recipe, that is, instead of butter cream, we choose custard. Then you can cut the amount of sugar - instead of the full rate in the recipe, put half. It will not affect the taste of the finished dessert much. In extreme cases, sugar is completely replaced with a sweetener.

Alternatively, you can experiment with milk: take cow's milk with a lower percentage of fat or completely replace it with a mixture of coconut and soy.

If you use your own homemade dough for making a cake, then it will be an ideal option to replace wheat flour with bran, whole grain or oat flour.

In general, it is clear that even while on a diet, you can treat yourself to something sweet. The main thing is to correctly calculate the calorie content of the Napoleon cake and please yourself with dessert no more than 2 times a week.