Fasting or dieting will be much more enjoyable if you occasionally make delicious lean cakes without eggs, milk, or butter. Here's a selection of step-by-step recipes for the very best vegetarian desserts!
1. Lenten Napoleon cake
Lenten "Napoleon" tastes almost the same as the original, but it is much easier to cook it.
You will need:
Dough: 1 cup soda water, 1 cup refined vegetable oil, 4.5 cups sifted flour, 0.5 tsp. salt, 0.25 tsp. citric acid.
Cream: 250 g semolina, 180 g almonds, 1.5 liters of boiling water, 0.5 cups of sugar, 1 bag of vanilla sugar, 1-2 lemons.
Preparation:
1. In a bowl of flour, pour in sparkling water, sunflower oil, add salt and citric acid, knead a homogeneous dense dough.
2. Divide the lump of dough into 12-13 pieces, roll them into balls, cover with foil and refrigerate. Take out one ball at a time, roll it into a thin round layer and bake immediately.
3. Peel the almonds, grind in a blender and pour into boiling water, add sugar, and then add semolina in a thin stream.
4. Remove the zest from the lemons using a special grater, peel the fruit from the white skin, cut the pulp into pieces. Combine zest and pulp, as well as vanilla with cream.
5. Transfer the cakes with the cooled cream, sprinkle with crushed almonds and citrus zest.
2. Lean chocolate cake
Vegetarians are not without the pleasure of feasting on delicious chocolate desserts, since plant-based products are enough to prepare them.
You will need: 1.5 cups sifted wheat flour, 4-5 tbsp. l. cocoa, 220 g sugar, 1 tsp. baking soda, 0.25 cups of refined oil, 3 tbsp. l. lemon juice or apple cider vinegar, 1 sachet of vanilla sugar, 1 pinch of sea salt, 200 ml of water, 1.5 tsp. instant coffee, 1 glass of apricot jam.
Preparation:
1. Beat water with a mixer with butter, coffee, lemon juice, sugar and vanilla, combine with flour, cocoa, salt and soda. From the resulting dough, bake a pie.
2. Cut the cooled chocolate blank into two or three cakes, spread with apricot (or any other) jam.
3. Lean chocolate cherry cake
Such a cake can be safely prepared for the festive table. The top of the dessert is covered with a special lean glaze, and you can decorate it with candied fruits and nuts.
You will need:
Dough: 0.5 cups of water, 1 cup flour, 2-3 tbsp. l. cocoa, 3 tbsp. l. odorless vegetable oil, 180 g of sugar, a pinch of salt and 1 tsp. baking powder.
Cherry cream: 1 cup rich cherry compote, 2 tbsp. l. semolina, 5-6 tbsp. l. Sahara.
Glaze: 1.5 st. l. sugar, water, vegetable oil and cocoa, 50 g of any nuts, 50 g of candied fruits.
Preparation:
1. Place the components for the dough specified in the recipe in a deep container and beat with a mixer. Pour the mass into a mold, bake in the oven.
2. Pour sugar and semolina into boiling compote or juice, cook until thick, then cool and beat with a mixer.
3. Cut the baked and cooled chocolate crust into two parts. Put the first layer on a plate, distribute the cream, cover with the second. Cover with glaze, sprinkle with nuts and candied fruits.
4. For the glaze, mix water with sugar, cocoa and butter, bring to a boil, cool until warm.
4. Lean Strawberry Coconut Cake No Bake
In taste and appearance, this cake resembles the famous cheesecake, but it contains neither cottage cheese nor cream cheese.
You will need: 135 g of almonds and pitted dates, 285 g of cashews, 150 g of strawberries, 1 pinch of salt, 2.5 tbsp. l. lemon juice, 4-5 tbsp. l. sugar, 1 bag of vanilla sugar or vanilla on the tip of a teaspoon, 110 ml of coconut milk, 1 bag of coconut.
Preparation:
1. Soaked almonds overnight, grind in a blender along with a pinch of salt and dates. Put the resulting mass in a mold, distribute and tamp with a spoon. Put it in the freezer.
2.Chop two-thirds of the strawberries in a blender, adding 1 tbsp each. l. sugar and lemon juice. Purée separately the soaked and washed cashews (225g), leftover sugar, vanilla, coconut milk, and lemon juice.
3. On the hardened almond-date layer, pour half of the cashew cream, mix the remaining half with the strawberry puree, distribute in a third layer. Put it in the freezer for two hours.
4. Sprinkle coconut on the well-set nut and berry cake, garnish with the remaining strawberries and cashews.
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5. Lean citrus berry cake
Soft cakes with orange aroma and berry juice cream are a real bliss of taste. Be sure to bake this lean cake at least once!
You will need:
Dough: 150 ml of orange juice with pulp, 160 g of sugar, 70 ml of refined oil, 30 ml of water, 30 ml of apple cider vinegar, ½ tsp. salt, 210-220 g sifted flour, 1 tsp. baking soda.
Cream: 300 ml of berry juice (black currant, strawberry, raspberry, etc.), 2 tbsp. l. semolina, 4-6 tbsp. l. sugar, 2 tbsp. l. powdered sugar and cocoa, 1 pack of jelly.
Preparation:
1. Whisk the orange juice with sugar, salt, oil and vinegar, gradually adding twice sifted flour. Pour in water with soda dissolved in it. Bake the cake at 180 degrees.
2. Mix berry juice with semolina and sugar, cook for 5 minutes after boiling. Whip the cooled jelly-like cream with a mixer.
3. Cut the cake into two or three parts, spread with cream, garnish with powdered sugar mixed with cocoa powder, pieces of fruit and jelly.
6. Lean carrot cake
Delicious cake with coconut milk and orange flavor. Carrots are added to the dough to give it a beautiful caramel orange color.
You will need:
Dough: 200 g flour, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1.5 oranges, 130 g sugar, 0.5 tsp. saffron, a pinch of salt, 70 ml of unscented sunflower oil, 1 carrot, 30 ml of apple cider vinegar, 2 tbsp. l. water, 1 tsp. soda, 0.5 tsp. ground cinnamon.
Cream: 410 ml coconut milk, 1 cup sugar, 2 tbsp. l. potato starch, 3 tbsp. l. almond petals.
Preparation:
1. Mix twice sifted flour with saffron, salt, cinnamon. Squeeze juice from oranges, dissolve sugar in it, combine with oil and vinegar, pour into a bowl with dry ingredients, add carrots grated on a fine grater. Dissolve soda in water, pour into the dough and beat with a mixer. Bake at 180 degrees for 30-35 minutes, and then another 25 minutes at 160 degrees.
2. In a cup, dissolve the sugar and starch in a little coconut milk, pour the rest into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add the starch mixture in small portions to the boiling liquid.
3. Cut the carrot cake into three cakes, shift with cream, garnish with almond petals, you can add any nuts, dried fruits or candied fruits.
7. Lean pancake cake
First, bake fluffy pancakes from yeast dough, and then spread them with a banana-almond layer. It will turn out to be a real culinary masterpiece that you can feast on even during fasting!
You will need:
For pancakes: 400 ml of water, 7 tbsp. l. sifted flour, 6 tsp. sugar, 1 tbsp. l. odorless vegetable oil, 1 pinch of salt, 2 g of pressed yeast.
For banana nut cream: 400 ml of water (coconut or soy milk), 100 g of crushed almonds, 2-3 ripe bananas, 1 bag of vanilla sugar, 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, 3-5 tbsp. l. cocoa.
Preparation:
1. Beat the components for the dough with a mixer or a whisk, bake thin pancakes, cool and spread with cream. Refrigerate for an hour.
2. To prepare the cream: pour almonds into boiling water (or vegetable milk), remove from the stove and mix with finely chopped bananas, butter, vanilla and cocoa powder. Purée the mass with a blender, if it turns out to be liquid, then in the process of beating, add cornstarch or flour.
8. Lean coffee cake with prunes
Chocolate-coffee cakes smeared with prune mousse, such a cake will delight not only vegetarians, but also the most sophisticated gourmets!
You will need:
For cakes: 260-330 g of sifted flour, 290 ml of freshly brewed natural coffee, 1 tsp. baking soda, 6 tbsp. l. water, 1 tsp. apple cider vinegar, 3-4 tbsp. l. flax seeds, 110 g sugar, 4 tbsp. l. cocoa, 4.5 tbsp. l. sunflower oil.
For the cream: 250 g of prunes, 430 ml of water, 4.5 tbsp. l. semolina, a pinch of ground cinnamon.
Preparation:
1. Grind flax seeds in a coffee grinder into powder, fill with water (cold), leave for 15-20 minutes. Mix with coffee and vegetable oil, combine with flour, cocoa and sugar, add soda quenched with vinegar. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 45-55 minutes, cool and cut into three parts.
2. Pour the pitted prunes with hot water for 35-40 minutes. Meanwhile, pour semolina into cold water (430 ml), stir and cook until the mass thickens, add squeezed prunes, puree with a blender.
3. Brush each cake with cream, garnish with prune slices, sprinkle with ground cinnamon.
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9. Cake "In Lent" without flour and eggs
The main plus of this dessert is its health benefits, as it contains a lot of natural fruits, nuts and seeds. Plus, this lean cake doesn't need to be baked.
You will need: 2 ripe avocados, 200 g dried pears, 0.5 kg pitted cherries, 100 g pitted dates, 3 bananas, 8 tbsp. l. honey, 2 tbsp. l. agar-agar, 210 ml of water, 120 g of pumpkin seeds, 3 tbsp. l. flax and cocoa seeds, 200 g of chocolate, 2 tbsp. l. pine nuts.
Preparation:
1. Pour dates and dried pears with water for two hours, mince together with pumpkin seeds, add 1.5 tbsp. l. honey and ground flax seeds. Roll out the resulting dough and place on the bottom of the mold, put in the freezer.
2. The pulp of one avocado, bananas, puree in a blender along with 2 tbsp. l. honey and cocoa powder, mix with half a serving of agar-agar prepared according to the instructions. Pour the banana mass into the form with the already solidified first layer, put it back in the freezer.
3. The remaining honey, avocado pulp and cherries are chopped in a blender, add a second portion of agar-agar, pour the cake, send to freeze in the freezer for 30-40 minutes.
4. Fill the finished product with melted chocolate, sprinkle with pine nuts.
10. Lean truffle cake
Almond milk can be substituted for soy milk or coconut milk in this lean dessert.
You will need: 300-330 g flour, 260 ml almond milk, 350 g dark chocolate, 135 ml odorless olive oil, 150 g sugar, 1 tsp. baking powder, 3.5 tbsp. l. cocoa, 0.5 tsp. salt, 1.5 tbsp. l. lemon juice, 275 ml of strong tea, 180 g of thick jam.
Preparation:
1. In warmed milk, dissolve 50 g of dark chocolate, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Mix with butter and flour, pour in lemon juice. Crust baked from the resulting chocolate dough, cut lengthwise into two parts.
2. In hot tea, dissolve the pieces of the remaining chocolate, place the container in a bowl of ice water and whisk into a fluffy cream.
3. Grease the first tier of the cake with jam, and then with chocolate mousse, cover with the second layer of biscuit. Cut the top and sides with an even layer of tea and chocolate cream.
11. Lenten Blueberry and Dates Cake
A very simple and delicious lean cake that does not require fiddling with dough or baking cakes.
You will need: 275 g of seedless blueberries and dates, 200 ml of coconut milk, 0.3 bunch of mint, 250 g of almond flour, 250 g of cashews, 50 g of cocoa.
Preparation:
1. If no almond flour is found, you can grind the dried almonds in a coffee grinder. Mix nut powder with blended dates, cocoa and 1/2 mint. Tamp the mass in an even layer into a split form.
2. Pass the blueberries, the remaining mint and cashews through a meat grinder, beat with a blender with coconut milk, cover the date layer with the resulting cream.
12. Lean cherry mousse cake
This amazingly tasty and mouth-watering cake consists of a soft sponge cake baked with orange juice and a fluffy cherry mousse.
You will need:
Dough: 300 g flour, 250 ml orange juice, 160 g sugar, 0.5 tsp. salt, 2.5 tsp. baking powder, 100 ml of vegetable oil (refined).
Cherry mousse: 700 ml cherry juice, 20 g agar-agar, 5 tbsp. l. sugar, 3 tbsp. l semolina.
Preparation:
1. Dissolve salt and sugar in orange juice, pour in sunflower oil, add flour and baking powder, use a fork or whisk to knead the dough. Bake a fluffy sponge cake, cool and place on the bottom of a deep mold.
2. Combine 0.5 l of cherry juice with sugar and semolina, cook for 7-8 minutes after boiling, cool a little, then place the container with cream in ice water and beat with a mixer until fluffy.
3. Agar-agar dissolve in the remaining cherry juice, boil on the stove for 2-3 minutes, add to the whipped semolina cream.
4. Pour all the cherry mousse into the biscuit pan and refrigerate.
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13. Lean cake "Bird's milk"
Surprisingly, the porous and fluffy Bird's Milk Cake can be easily made without using egg whites. They will be replaced by liquid from under canned green peas - aquafaba.
You will need:
For the test: 250 ml of filtered water, 125 ml of refined oil, 210 g of sifted flour, 60 g of sugar, 10 g of baking powder.
For soufflé: 170 ml aquafaba, 135 g sugar.
For syrup: 25 ml lemon juice, 165 g sugar, 10 g agar-agar.
To decorate: 4 tbsp. l. coconut flakes.
Preparation:
1. Mix flour, sugar and baking powder, pour in water and vegetable oil, beat with a mixer. Pour the semi-liquid dough into a mold, bake in a preheated oven.
2. Pour aquafaba into a deep bowl, beat with a mixer for 20-25 minutes, add all the sugar, continue beating until a thick white mass similar to a meringue is formed.
3. Mix agar-agar with water, leave to swell for half an hour, then put on fire, add sugar. When it starts to boil, pour in the lemon juice. Gradually add the syrup to the aquafaba whipped cream, whisking at low speed.
4. Place the cooled cake in a split form, level the aquafaba soufflé on top, sprinkle with coconut.
14. Lean cake "Taste of childhood"
A wonderful lean cake with raisins and nuts, which will be a great addition to tea with childhood friends.
You will need: 4 cups flour, 2 cups apple juice, 1 tsp each. soda and vinegar, 1.5 tsp. ground cinnamon, 1 cup walnuts, 1 cup seedless raisins, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup odorless vegetable oil, a pinch of salt, 1 cup apple jam, 3 tbsp. l. poppy seeds, 2 tsp. cocoa.
Preparation:
1. Grind the nuts into medium crumbs, mince the raisins, combine with vegetable oil and sugar. Pour in apple juice, add baking soda, cinnamon and sifted flour several times. At the very end of the batch, pour in the vinegar. Bake in a preheated oven for 40 minutes, cool and cut into two cakes.
2. Grind the cakes with apple jam, poppy seeds and cocoa, whipped in a blender.
15. Lean oatmeal cake
Even from oatmeal, you can bake a delicious lean cake that adults and children will definitely like.
You will need: 1.5 cups flour, 250 g sugar, 1 tsp. salt, 1.5 oat flour, 1 glass of freshly brewed coffee, 1 tsp. baking soda, 80 g of cocoa, 0.5 cups of vegetable oil, 1 tbsp. l. starch, 1 glass of water, 1 tsp. citric acid.
Preparation:
1. Mix flour, soda and oatmeal ground in a coffee grinder with citric acid, salt and 1 tbsp. l. cocoa.
2. Coffee, 100 g of sugar, a quarter of a glass of sunflower oil, 1 glass of water and citric acid, beat with a blender, pour into the dry mixture and prepare the dough. Bake on a baking sheet at 180 degrees, cut into 2-3 layers.
3. For a creamy layer, the remaining sugar, cocoa, 50 ml of vegetable oil, starch, 150 ml of water, place in a saucepan, boil for 25 seconds until the mass thickens.
4. Spread the cakes with cooled cream, sprinkle the top and sides of the cake with seeds, nuts or coconut.