How to bake a Lenten cake recipe. Lenten cake: recipe at home. Semolina filling
Mar 16, 2017
A wonderful Lenten Orange cake can be prepared during Lent for a birthday or any other holiday.
Ingredients:
For the test:
- 1 banana
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar,
- 3 tablespoons honey,
- 300 ml strong tea (preferably Earl Gray),
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil,
- 2.5 cups flour,
- 1/2 teaspoon salt,
- 3/4 cup walnuts,
- 1 teaspoon baking powder,
- 1/3 teaspoon of soda.
For filling:
- 2 bananas
- 3 oranges,
- 10 pieces of dried apricots,
- 2 teaspoons agar-agar,
- about a glass of walnuts for decoration.
Preparation:
1. Turn on the oven to 180 degrees.
2. Prepare the dough. Place banana, sugar, honey, vegetable oil, and half the flour in a blender. Add pre-brewed, lukewarm bergamot tea. Whisk.
Mix the rest of the flour with baking soda, baking powder and salt. Add to the blender bowl. Rub everything until smooth. Stir in nuts.
3. Divide the dough into two halves and place in two small molds (20-23 cm), the bottom of which is previously covered with baking paper greased with vegetable oil.
4. Place the cakes in the oven for 40 minutes (check readiness with a toothpick).
5. Prepare the filling.
Prepare agar-agar according to the instructions on the package.
Pour boiling water over the dried apricots to soften.
Remove the zest from the oranges using a fine grater. Peel the oranges from films.
Using a blender, grind the softened dried apricots with zest, oranges and banana until pureed. No need to add sugar.
Gradually whisk the warm agar-agar into the orange mixture.
6. When both cake layers have cooled, coat them with orange “cream”, fold the cake and decorate it with nuts and oranges.
Bon appetit!
How to make a Lenten 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 enjoy something tasty. But almost all cakes and pastries contain either kefir, eggs, or butter. This means that these tasty dishes are prohibited. But there is a way out! We will tell you now how to prepare a Lenten cake. Interesting recipes are presented below. You can also find photos of Lenten cakes in our review.
Lenten carrot cake
To create this delicacy you need to have:
- 150 g of premium sifted flour;
- 90 g walnuts;
- 190 g sugar;
- 150 g carrots;
- 150 ml sunflower oil;
- baking powder (10 g);
- 220 ml with pulp;
- a pinch of salt.
So, let's prepare a Lenten carrot cake. First, roast the nuts in the oven. Then mix sugar with butter, pour the resulting mixture with juice. Next, chop the carrots using a small grater and add to the base mixture. Using a blender, chop the nuts (keep a couple for decoration), but not too finely.
Add chopped nuts to the juice mixture and stir. Pour the dough into the mold and cook the pie for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. Then cool the cake, cut it into two halves, and then coat it with any jam and garnish with the remaining nuts.
Cake "Spring Tale"
Let's look at the recipe for making another amazing Lenten cake. Its aromas are simply crazy! The “Spring Tale” cake is relevant for the March 8th holiday. The delicate aroma of spices and orange, the sourness of lingonberries and the taste of fruit are incredibly combined here. To prepare this Lenten cake you need to buy:
- two oranges;
- flour (350 g);
- 200 ml sunflower oil;
- 100 ml sparkling water;
- sugar (200 g);
- cinnamon (1 tsp);
- 0.5 tsp. ground cloves;
- 100 g raisins;
- 60 g walnuts;
- baking powder (2 tsp)
Ingredients for cream:
- 4 tsp. lingonberry jam (or sugar to taste);
- 300-500 g lingonberries;
- semolina (1 tbsp).
You will also need apricot jam, one orange and one kiwi. So, soak the raisins in boiling water for a couple of minutes, drain the water, and dry. Chop the nuts, not very finely. Sift the flour into the bowl with the spices.
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 the sunflower oil and sugar. Add to liquid ingredients and stir. Next, stir in the nuts and raisins. Now gradually add flour and knead the dough.
Spread the dough evenly onto the pan (it should be approximately 21cm across). There is no need to lubricate the mold with anything. Bake the crust in a preheated oven for about an hour. First bake at 180°C and increase the heat 10 minutes before completion. Cool the finished crust on a wire rack.
Agree, this homemade Lenten cake recipe is very simple. To create the cream, place the lingonberries in a saucepan. You can add sugar or lingonberry jam here for sweetness. You can crush the berries with a masher until the juice comes out. Now put the pan on the fire. Cook 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. Place the bottom cake on a plate and brush with cream, leaving a little to grease the sides of the cake. Cover it with the top cake and carefully grease the sides of the product. The top cake can be poked with a toothpick and soaked in the juice of ½ part of the orange, the second part is useful for decoration.
Now brush the top of the product with apricot jam. For decoration, use kiwi and ½ part orange. Cut two circles from the orange and form them into a figure eight. Cut a couple of leaves from the kiwi and place it near the figure eight. Place halves of orange rings along the edge of the cake, and make a side of kiwi. Bon appetit!
Lenten cake recipe (classic)
So, let's prepare the dough for the crust. To do this, you need to mix the following components: two pinches of salt, 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 the lean thick dough into a mold greased with sunflower oil. Bake in the oven until done. You should get a chocolate cake. When it hardens, cut it into two parts.
Now let's make it. To do this, melt a bar of dark chocolate (the composition should not contain milk, egg powder or lecithin) or vegetarian chocolate in the microwave in a container. Then take it out, stir coconut milk (50 ml) and 50 g of brown sugar into the melted hot chocolate.
Many people like this homemade Lenten cake recipe. But let's continue further. Soak one part of the cake with apricot jam syrup and brush with cream. Place the second part of the cake on top. If there is any cream left, spread it on top of the cake. You can grease the top of the cake with apricot syrup. Decorate the cake with fresh berries and almonds.
Lenten custard
For variety, you can prepare a different type of lean cream. To do this, you need to fry wheat flour in a frying 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. Combine with flour so that there are no lumps.
Now place the mixture in a water bath to prepare. The cream will be ready when it becomes thick. There is no need to bring it to the state of a thick porridge, because during cooling it will become even denser. You can add nuts, poppy seeds, fruit or berry puree to this cream.
Lenten honey cake with nuts and berries
The ingredients you need for this cake are:
- one package of cream (dry, purchased);
- three pinches of coconut flakes;
- one glass of blackberries;
- one glass of cherries (pitted);
- soda (1 tsp);
- a pinch of salt;
- one glass of walnuts;
- half a glass of sunflower oil;
- 1.5 glasses of water (boiled, warm);
- honey (3 tbsp);
- one glass of brown sugar;
- two glasses of wheat flour.
First you need to bake the cakes. Mix honey, water, sugar, oil and salt. Add flour and soda here. Mix everything well and pour into the mold. Bake at 180 degrees for half an hour, checking with a toothpick for doneness. The first cake is ready. Bake the second one in the same way. Cut each one lengthwise into two thin slices.
To prepare the cream, milk must be replaced with water, and butter with sunflower oil. 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, stirring. Cool the cream and spread it over the cakes. Place berries on top and sprinkle with nuts and coconut.
Cake "Napoleon" (lenten)
Everyone will love going on a diet with this cake. To create it you need to have:
- 4.5 cups flour;
- one glass of sunflower oil;
- one glass of sparkling water;
- salt (0.5 tsp);
- 0.25 tsp citric acid.
For the cream you will need:
- 250 g semolina;
- sugar (0.5 kg);
- 170 g almonds;
- 0.25 tsp vanilla extract;
- 30 g vanilla sugar;
- 1.5 pcs. lemon
So, pour the flour into a large container. Pour in sunflower oil, sparkling water, add salt and citric acid. First mix, and then knead the dough carefully, but at a fast pace.
Roll the dough into a ball and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour. Next, divide it into 12 parts. Roll one part into a pancake with a diameter of 30 cm, and return the rest to the refrigerator.
Now preheat the oven and place the dough on a baking sheet, giving it the desired shape. The crust preparation should acquire a light blush. Repeat these same steps with each cake.
How to prepare cream?
So, let's continue creating the Napoleon cake. The cream is its main part. First, peel the almonds and scald them with 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. Peel the lemon and cut both the zest and the lemon into pieces. Grind these pieces together and combine with the lean cream. Add vanilla sugar to this and beat. You can also add vanilla extract here.
Next, grease each cake with cream, and then place one on top of the other. Crush the last cake layer and sprinkle the crumbs over the last layer of cream. The cake should stand for half a day to soak, and then it can be served. Bon appetit!
Well, let's bake a Lenten cake today, which will turn out very tasty! Yes, yes, don’t think that if the recipe is lean, it won’t be tasty. I thought so too, until a certain time. When I found this recipe, at first I didn’t believe that it was possible to make fluffy cream and sponge cake without cream and eggs.
I became interested in the recipe and immediately started baking this wonderful Lenten cake at home and taking photos. Moreover, the food set is minimal, and almost always available to every housewife. I would like to note that I prepared the cake very quickly, I didn’t even notice how, can you imagine?
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When my masterpiece cake was ready, I couldn’t wait for it to cool down, I tried it right away. The taste, I tell you, is amazing, honestly! Chocolate-cherry Lenten cake according to this recipe is simply “bomb”! The sponge cake turns out to be delicate, porous, with a light airy cream, similar to whipped whites. Even tastier than traditional cakes that contain animal fats.
Therefore, without any doubt, and with great desire, I share this recipe with you, my dear housewives. Be sure to prepare this incredibly delicious Lenten cake with airy cream at home. And no one will even guess that the cake is lean, of course, unless you say so yourself.
Lenten cake recipe
Products used:
For the test:
- Flour – 250 gr.
- Sunflower oil – 100 ml.
- Cherry syrup or juice – 300 ml.
- Cocoa powder – 2 tbsp. l.
- Sugar as needed.
- Baking powder – 15 gr.
- Vanillin.
For cream:
- Cherry syrup or juice – 400 ml.
- Semolina – 2 tbsp. l.
- Lemon juice optional.
- Cherry.
How to make Lenten cake:
At the very beginning, we take the cherries in syrup, place them on a sieve, and press the berries a little so that the syrup drains well. I use canned cherries, in which the syrup is very concentrated, so during the cooking process I will dilute it with water to the required volume. But you can take absolutely any cherry and replace the syrup with ready-made juice. For example, defrost frozen berries, put them in a strainer, and strain. You can also dilute the resulting juice with water, but not too much; there should be a cherry note in the cake. Trust your taste; in the future, when preparing such a Lenten cake, you will understand what concentration the juice should be.
So, first we cook the cream, so as not to wait until it cools down. Pour cherry syrup into a saucepan, put on fire, add sugar if necessary. Try it and make it to your liking. The liquid boils, pour in the semolina little by little so that it doesn’t form lumps, stir constantly. Cook until the cereal is ready for about ten minutes. The liquid thickened and became like jelly. Be sure to taste for sweetness and decide whether to add sugar or not. It turned out too sweet, also add squeezed lemon juice to your taste, but if the cherry juice is already sour, this is not necessary. Cover the pan with a lid and set aside to cool to room temperature.
Now, let's do the dough. In a separate container, mix flour, sugar, baking powder, cocoa, vanillin. The amount of sugar depends on the sweetness of the juice you use. I don't add it at all, my syrup is quite sweet anyway. Mix the syrup with the butter, add to the flour mixture, and stir well. The dough will turn out runny, don’t worry, that’s how it should be. Cover the bottom of the mold (diameter 21 cm) with baking paper, grease with oil, and pour the dough into it. Place in a preheated oven at 180°C and bake for 45 minutes.
Now let’s get to the fun part, whipping the cream. When I prepared such a Lenten cake for the first time, for me, I think, like you now, this process was mysterious. How can ordinary cherry semolina porridge turn into airy cream? It turned out to be very simple. So let's see this magic. The cream has cooled down, look how thick it has become. Beat it in with a mixer for just a few minutes. That's all!
Look how it turned white, increased in volume, became thick and airy. Incredibly, the cream became similar to whipped whites and acquired, one might say, a marshmallow taste with a fruity note.
The baking time has passed, take out the cake and check for doneness with a thin wooden stick (toothpick). We insert it in the middle of the cake, then take it out, it is dry and clean, which means our sponge cake is ready. Without removing their shape, leave them until they cool completely, then carefully remove them. Cut off the top and set it aside; we will need it later. We cut the rest of the sponge cake into two layers, look how tender and soft the sponge cake turned out without eggs - just a miracle. Well, now, put the bottom cake on a dish, install a culinary ring, or a ring of the mold in which it was baked, but you can form it without it.
Place about half of the cream on the cake, level it, spread the cherries on top, cover with another cake layer, and apply the cream again, leaving a little for coating the sides. Place the cake in the refrigerator for half an hour. Grind the part of the biscuit that was cut into crumbs with a blender. After 30 minutes, take out the cake, carefully remove it from the mold, coat the sides with the remaining cream, sprinkle biscuit crumbs on top and sides, then put it in the refrigerator for several hours. But if you really can’t wait to try the chocolate-cherry Lenten cake with airy cream, as I did, then cut off a piece, put it on a plate, and try it with pleasure, I assure you it’s very tasty even without soaking.
I don’t easily advise, and even insist, be sure to prepare such a Lenten cake. You will not regret it! Look how beautiful it turned out? Oh, how delicious mmmmm, you'll lick your fingers...
Hurry up, put it on the table, and invite the whole family for a cup of tea. Don’t say that you baked a Lenten cake, you’ll see, no one will even understand what it’s made from. Well, if you don’t have the patience and really want to say something, then do it after you’ve eaten your fill. I'm sure everyone will be very surprised and will ask for more. So, cook without a doubt, treat, and eat with pleasure! Bon appetit!
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Not everyone thinks it is possible to bake such a culinary masterpiece as a Lenten cake! How could this be? It turns out that it is quite possible if you approach this matter with the proper imagination and some culinary skills. Your guests won’t even notice that they are actually drinking tea with a Lenten (vegetarian) cake!Preparing the dough for the crust
First, let's prepare the crust. For it you need to mix one ingredient after another: flour (400 grams), four tablespoons of cocoa powder, two pinches of salt, a glass of sugar, preferably brown. To the dry mixture add eight tablespoons of vegetable oil, one and a half glasses of water, a teaspoon of baking soda, slaked in three teaspoons of lemon juice.
Gently mix these ingredients together. Pour the thick mixture into a greased (vegetable!) form. Bake in the oven until done. You should get a chocolate cake. When it cools down, you need to cut it into two halves.
Lenten cream for cake
Now we make the lean cream for the cake. To do this, melt a bar of vegetarian or dark chocolate (the ingredients should not contain milk and egg lecithin or egg powder) in a container in the microwave. Take it out, stir coconut milk (50 ml) and 50 grams of brown sugar into the hot melted chocolate.
Soak one half of the cake with apricot jam syrup. Grease half of the cake with cream. Cover with the other half of the cake. If there is any cream left, spread it on top of the cake. If all the cream has gone into the first cake layer, brush the top of the cake layer with apricot syrup. Decorate the cake with almond petals and fresh berries on top.
Lean custard cream for cake
To add variety to this same type of cake, we offer you this type of other lean cream.
A very simple custard that will be the most delicate mousse addition to almost any cake. To prepare this cream, fry wheat flour (two heaped tablespoons) in a dry frying pan until golden brown. Combine a glass of water, a glass of sugar and vanilla on the tip of a knife. Mix with flour so that there are no lumps in the mixture. Place the mixture in a water bath to cook. Cook the cream until it thickens.
Keep in mind. This cream will thicken even more when you remove it from the water bath. Therefore, do not bring it to a state of thick porridge.
You can add nuts, poppy seeds, berry or fruit puree to this custard if desired.
