Greetings, my dear readers. Cake is the first thing nutritionists advise you to forget about when they talk about losing weight. Meanwhile, a diet is not at all a reason to deny yourself the pleasure of eating sweets.
There are a huge variety of baking recipes designed for those who are watching their figure. And today we will talk about such a popular dish as dietary curd cake, find out why it is good for your figure and look at several simple recipes for its preparation.
Read about the effect of cottage cheese on the body in my article “Does cottage cheese work for weight loss - the secrets of a popular product”
Lenten carrot cake with nuts and orange cream
Ingredients
For the cakes:
- 250 g flour;
- a pinch of salt;
- 2 teaspoons baking powder;
- 300 g carrots;
- 120 g sugar;
- 100 ml vegetable oil;
- 50 ml water;
- 100 g walnuts + for decoration.
For cream:
- 1 orange;
- water - as much as needed;
- 60 g semolina;
- 50–100 g sugar.
Preparation
Sift the flour along with salt and baking powder. Grate the carrots on a fine grater, add sugar, oil and water and make the mass homogeneous. Add flour in portions, mixing thoroughly. Fry the nuts in a dry frying pan, chop with a knife and add to the dough.
Line the bottom of a 22 cm diameter mold with baking paper. Place a third of the dough, level it and place in an oven preheated to 180°C for 20–25 minutes. Prepare two more cakes in the same way.
You can bake all the dough at once, and then cut it into three parts. The baking time in this case will be approximately 40–50 minutes.
Grate the orange zest on a fine grater and squeeze out all the juice from the fruit. Pour enough water into the juice to make 500 ml. Add the zest and stir.
Combine semolina and sugar in a saucepan. The more sugar, the sweeter the cream will be. Pour in the citrus water and, stirring constantly, bring the cream until thickened over moderate heat. Boil it for another 2-3 minutes and cool. While the cream is still slightly warm, puree it with a blender.
Flatten the cooled cakes, trimming the tops slightly. Grind the trimmings into crumbs. Connect the cakes, coating each of them and the edges of the cake with cream. Sprinkle the sides and top around the perimeter with crumbs. Decorate the cake with nuts and refrigerate for 1-2 hours.
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