Proper lean pastry is no less tasty than regular cakes, pastries and cupcakes.
Russian culinary traditions have long adapted traditional recipes to food taboos during numerous posts.
One has only to wonder how many delicious and varied recipes of one lean cupcake exist!
It can actually be baked without eggs, butter, cream and milk. Surprisingly, the taste is not affected. Ingredients can be vegetables, fruits, dried fruits, honey, berries, chocolate, poppy seeds, ginger, seeds, nuts. Variants of taste and aroma are limited only by fantasy and personal preferences.
A lean cupcake is obtained airy, tender, fluffy. To bake it is very simple, but more benefits. Bake on health at least every day!
Lenten Cupcake - General Cooking Principles
Delicious muffins are baked on the same principle. First you need to mix dry bulk products: flour, sugar, soda, poppy seeds, cocoa, etc. Then liquid components are introduced. In addition to water for lean muffins, an odorless vegetable oil is used.
To raise the dough, you need a good soda or quality baking powder. The process of carbon dioxide emission as a result of using these components ensures that the baking will be airy, will bake well.
Other components that affect taste and aroma are added last. The dough must be well mixed so that the ingredients are distributed evenly.
You can bake muffins in special, regular, large forms or in small muffin tins. Silicone forms are very convenient: they will not burn a cupcake, it will be very easy to take out. If the shape is large, then you need to bake a cupcake for up to fifty minutes, or even more. The average temperature for baking cakes is from 180 to 200 degrees. It all depends on the characteristics of a particular oven.
Muffins in small tins are baked faster, in about thirty minutes. Check their readiness is very easy. Crust need to poke a match or a wooden toothpick to the center. If the surface of the stick is dry, the cupcake is ready. If pieces of dough are stuck, you need to hold another ten or fifteen minutes in the oven.
Lenten carrot-nutcake with dates
Useful and very tasty lean cupcake from carrot juice, dates with the addition of whole-grain flour has a delicate taste, pleasant texture, beautiful color.
Ingredients:
• 350 ml of fresh carrot juice;
• 150 grams of peeled ripe dates;
• two tablespoons of powdered sugar;
• two hundred milliliters of oil;
• two glasses of white flour;
• a glass of whole grain flour;
• one and a half teaspoons of baking powder;
• one hundred grams of any peeled nuts.
Cooking Method:
Their five or six juicy carrots squeeze juice.
Remove dates from the seeds, grind in a blender to a state of uniform mashed potatoes.
Mix both types of flour.
Add baking powder, powdered sugar to the flour, mix.
Combine carrot juice and date puree.
Put the fruit filling in the dough.
Pour the right amount of vegetable oil.
Knead the elastic dough.
Chop the nuts.
Add the nuts to the dough, knead it again.
Grease the form.
Heat the oven.
Put the dough and bake a cupcake.
Remove the cooled cupcake from the mold, decorate with icing sugar or icing juice and icing sugar.
Lenten-Fast Lean Cake
Wonderful cinnamon flavor and light apple sourness make this version of a lean cupcake fabulously delicious.
Ingredients:
• four glasses of white flour;
• two glasses of granulated sugar (you can reduce the amount of sugar to taste);
• ordinary odorless faceted glass of oil;
• a glass of walnuts peeled nuts and small raisins without stones;
• two glasses of broth from fresh or dried apples;
• salt;
• baking powder (or a teaspoon of soda);
• teaspoon ground cinnamon.
Cooking Method:
Prepare apple broth.
Chop the nuts with a knife.
Grind the butter and sugar.
Flour mixed with soda and salt.
Pour broth, butter with sugar into the flour base, knead the dough.
Add the remaining ingredients to it, mix everything again.
In a preheated oven bake a cupcake. Usually he is baked for forty minutes.
Lenten cupcake with “Coconut-poppy”
Sweetish, slightly moist, lean cupcake with coconut chips, peanut muesli and poppy seeds turns out very tasty. An interesting combination of tastes will delight kids and adults. Ingredients:
• a glass of white flour;
• one glass of muesli and different nuts;
• a tablespoon of baking powder;
• one glass of sugar;
• two hundred grams of coconut shavings;
• one hundred grams of steamed confectionery poppy;
• incomplete glass of vegetable oil;
• A small jar of forfeits.
Cooking Method:
Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, muesli.
Pour the oil and fanta into the mixture gradually, in small doses.
Knead the dough, similar in consistency to thick sour cream.
Preheat the oven.
The form is well oiled, sprinkled with oatmeal flakes.
Bake 45 minutes.
Chilled cake sprinkled with coconut flakes.
Lenten Sunny Sunny Orange Cake
A wonderful lean cupcake with oranges, candied fruits, zest has a fantastic flavor and a very rich taste.
Ingredients:
• two glasses of white flour;
• a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice;
• fifty grams of black raisin and one hundred grams of yellow;
• a tablespoon of baking powder;
• half a cup of oil;
• fifty grams of nuts;
• vanilla sugar or vanilla bag;
• two handfuls of candied orange.
Cooking Method:
Mix dry ingredients.
Add oil and juice, knead homogeneous dough.
Nuts chopped.
Connect nuts, candied fruits, raisins.
Put the raisin-nut filler in the dough, mix.
Preheat the oven.
Smear the form with butter and sprinkle with semolina or ground breadcrumbs for breading.
Bake in shape 24 size forty-five minutes.
You can remove the cake only when it is completely cooled, otherwise it will crumble.
Fast Apple-rye cupcake
Very useful and tasty is a lean cupcake from rye flour. It takes a minimum of ingredients.
Ingredients:
• a glass of rye flour;
• half a cup of sugar;
• a quarter cup of oil;
• half a glass of water;
• spoon baking powder;
• pinch of ground cinnamon;
• three medium apples.
Cooking Method:
Rye flour, sugar mix with baking powder (or slaked soda).
Peel off an apple, grate large, sprinkle with cinnamon.
Pour water into the oil, mix.
Knead the dough by pouring the liquid components into the flour mixture.
Put in the dough apples.
Prepare the oven and form. Bake for about fifty minutes.
Remove the cooled cupcake.
Lenten “Pumpkin” muffin with prunes and zest
Pumpkin can be an excellent base for a lean cupcake. Baking turns out lush and tender. The recipe allows a third of flour to replace the decoy.
Ingredients:
• 350 grams of finely grated pumpkin;
• a glass of sugar;
• soda or baking powder;
• a glass of flour;
• a quarter cup of oil;
• eight to ten nuts;
• one hundred grams of prunes pitted;
• rind of one lemon.
Cooking Method:
Freshly grate a fresh pumpkin.
Pour pumpkin puree sugar, wait for the separation of juice.
Chop the nuts.
Mix flour, sugar and all remaining ingredients except prunes.
Knead the dough.
Prepare the oven.
Put out the test form, oiled.
From above spread half halves prunes.
Bake for forty minutes.
Fast Honey Cake
Small honey cupcakes are extremely tasty. Bake them better in silicone tins.
Ingredients:
• one and a half glasses of white flour;
• a glass of warm water;
• two spoons of linden or flower honey;
• half a cup of sugar;
• half a cup of vegetable oil;
• baking powder bag.
Cooking Method:
Dissolve honey and sugar in water.
Combine honey water, oil.
Combine the flour with baking powder and enter it into the liquid through a sieve or a sieve.
Knead homogeneous dough.
Bake muffins for about twenty minutes.
“Chocolate-cherry” Lenten muffin
Magic chocolate-cherry flavored lean muffin is very easy to make. He will definitely become your favorite homemade recipe.
Ingredients:
• half a kilo of frozen cherries;
• two glasses of flour;
• half a cup of oil;
• two tablespoons of cocoa powder;
• half a cup of sugar;
• spoon baking powder;
• to taste cinnamon and vanilla;
• two tablespoons of natural honey.
Cooking Method:
Put a colander on the pot, put berries in it.
Sift flour and mix with sugar, cocoa, baking powder.
The juice from the cherry, released during thawing, topped up with water to the desired volume. It should make a glass of liquid.
Dissolve honey in the juice, pour in oil, add vanilla and cinnamon if desired.
Knead the dough. Put berries into the dough, whole or pureed in a blender.
Bake in a prepared oven for fifty (large form) or twenty (small form) minutes.
Remove when the cupcake is completely cool.
Lenten cupcake “Chocolate duet” in a multicooker
It is very convenient and quick to cook a cupcake in a slow cooker. Fresh citrus aroma, mixed with chocolate, makes such baking very tasty.
Ingredients:
• two tangerines;
• two teaspoons of cocoa powder;
• one teaspoon of instant coffee;
• two tablespoons of sugar;
• the same amount of vegetable oil;
• glasses of white flour;
• a teaspoon of baking powder.
Cooking Method:
Grate tangerine zest.
Purified tangerine rid of seeds, disassembled in slices, put in a blender.
From the second mandarin squeeze juice.
Send coffee and cocoa, sugar and zest to tangerine.
Mix the tangerine base with oil, tangerine juice.
Mix flour with baking powder.
Knead homogeneous dough.
Grease the bowl with oil.
Put the dough into the slow cooker.
Bake according to the program (“Cupcake” or “Baking” button).
Lenten cupcake “Tea and Ginger”
Strong tea and ginger give cupcake a nice color and fresh aroma. If there is no fresh root, you can take ground ginger.
Ingredients:
• a glass of strong, freshly brewed tea;
• half a cup of sugar;
• seven tablespoons of flour (with a hill);
• three spoons of any homemade jam;
• as much oil;
• a tablespoon of baking powder;
• a pinch or half a spoon of grated ginger;
• on the tip of the spoon cinnamon;
• that grams of raisins;
• some icing sugar for decoration.
Cooking Method:
Mix all dry (including baking powder) ingredients.
Pour the butter and tea into the flour mixture.
Knead the dough.
Put the remaining components in the dough.
Knead again.
Bake from half an hour to forty minutes.
Lenten cupcake - tricks and tips
- To make muffins without eggs and dairy products tasty, you must use high-quality flour. This is exactly half the battle.
- Flour must be sifted to saturate with oxygen. Baking get more air.
- Flour must be at room temperature. If it is stored in the cold, it must be kept in the room before cooking.
- It is best to use non-vinegar baking soda, namely baking powder. He makes the dough really loose when baking, whereas with soda it is difficult to achieve the same result.
- Baking powder is a mixture of soda, starch and citric acid. If it is not, you can bake cupcakes with soda, but fulfilling some mandatory conditions. Soda should be non-expired. It can not be extinguished in the old manner, pouring vinegar in a spoon - this is wrong. You need to mix soda and flour, and for 250 grams of flour you need half a spoonful of soda. The role of vinegar will be performed by acidifying ingredients: fruits, citrus.
- Do not arbitrarily change the amount of ingredients indicated in the recipe. Cupcakes do not forgive any liberties. The only thing you can afford is to increase or decrease the amount of filler, or replace one filler with another.
- It is not necessary to knead the dough for a long time. Its components are mixed quickly and well. With prolonged kneading the result becomes worse.
- For lean baking, it is better to use small forms. In them the dough must be baked. Cupcakes in the form of American muffins, baked in silicone forms, are especially successful.
