New Year Lenten cupcake, chocolate with orange - a delicious dessert for many fasting people, recipe and photo by Ekaterina. I think that the Lenten cupcake, despite its name, will appeal to many sweet tooth lovers! A spicy cinnamon cake is prepared in vegetable oil and water.

Lenten cupcake, the recipe includes the following simple and affordable products:

Orange (zest and juice) - 1 pc.
Granulated sugar - 1 glass,
Cocoa powder - 3 tablespoons,
Vegetable oil - ¾ cup,
Water - ¾ cup,
Flour about - 2 cups (to the consistency of thick sour cream),
Soda - 1.5 teaspoons,
Baking powder - 1 teaspoon,
Cinnamon - 2 teaspoons,
Vanilla sugar - 1 small packet.

Decorating a New Year's cupcake or cake

I saw it in one program, I hope it will be very useful before the holidays.

Paper,
Scissors,
Confectionery sprinkles,
Chocolate glaze,
Powdered sugar.

How to make Lenten Chocolate Cake

Combine vegetable oil, orange juice and soda, mix well. Foam should form, don't be alarmed!
Add orange zest, granulated sugar, cocoa powder, water, cinnamon, vanilla sugar.
Mix the flour with baking powder and gradually, stirring with a whisk, add it to the mixture for the lean pie.
Place the finished lean cake dough in a multicooker pan, greased with olive oil and sprinkled with semolina or flour, and set for 1 hour in the “Baking” mode (for a Panasonic or Redmond multicooker).
Remove the finished Lenten cake from the multicooker, cool and decorate.

Christmas decoration for cupcake, pie or cake

Take a sheet of paper and cut out a Christmas tree or something New Year's, for example, like my chocolate Lenten cupcake in the photo.

Wet a sheet of paper (the stencil without the inside) and place it on top of the cooled cake.
Cooking thick chocolate glaze :

sugar - 3 tablespoons,
3 teaspoons cocoa powder,
some water

bring until dissolved.

Dissolved a teaspoon of starch in
¼ glass of water

and added it to the chocolate glaze, stirring slowly, bringing the mass to a dense thickening.

According to the design, use a brush to spread the glaze not very evenly, giving the volume of the “branches” of the Christmas tree, sprinkle with confectionery powder, let the glaze harden and remove the stencil.
Place the cut out paper Christmas tree on top of the chocolate one and sprinkle everything with powdered sugar, remove the stencil.

Time: 70 min.

Servings: 6

Difficulty: 2 out of 5

Cooking Lenten baked goods in a slow cooker

Lent is not a reason not to pamper yourself with a variety of goodies, even without animal fats. Today we will show you what meatless dishes you can prepare in a slow cooker, ideal for dessert.

Or maybe you are a vegetarian? Our recipes are perfect for you too. Each dish is accompanied by a photo of the cooking process to make it easier for you to navigate when you decide to recreate our recipes in your kitchen.

Here are two options for a delicious dessert, after which no one will be able to say that lenten baking in a slow cooker is not tasty.

Lenten cupcake with apples. You don’t need many ingredients to prepare this dish, and almost every housewife always has them all in her kitchen.

Ingredients:

Step 1

Sift the flour in a deep bowl. Add cocoa to it (which it would also be advisable to sift), sugar, cinnamon and baking powder.

Gently mix the dry ingredients of the cake, and add vegetable oil and water so that the dough is not too thick.

On a note: If you want the recipes to be not only lean, but also dietary, feel free to replace sugar with honey or fructose. True, if you decide to use honey, it is added to the already liquid dough. And don't forget to melt it in the microwave if it's sugared!

Step 2

Wash the apples, remove the core and stem. If you wish, you can grate them or chop them into small cubes, as shown in the photo below.

Combine the dough with apples, knead well so that the apple pieces are distributed evenly.

Lubricate the bottom and walls of the multicooker bowl with a silicone brush soaked in vegetable oil, and place the future lean cake in the multicooker.

Select the “Baking” cooking function and bake the delicacy for 1 hour. After the cooking time has passed, carefully remove the delicacy using a steaming container and let it cool at room temperature. The finished cake can be sprinkled with powdered sugar.

On a note: Like all our recipes, this baking option can be customized to suit your tastes. For example, add washed raisins with candied fruits or walnuts to the dough with apples. Or you can mix a grated apple and a small carrot for juiciness - the color of the dessert will only benefit from this.

Photo recipe second

Lenten cherry manna in a slow cooker. This dish is a little more complicated than the first, but with the right skill, you will definitely succeed, because you can cook almost all baking recipes in a slow cooker. We will need the following baking ingredients

Semolina – 250 grams.
Sugar – 150 grams.
Cherry – 300 grams.
Water – 150 grams.
Baking powder – 15 grams.
Powdered sugar and cinnamon - to taste.
Vegetable oil - for lubricating the multicooker bowl.
Whole grain flour - 2 tablespoons.

Step 1

Mix semolina with sugar and water and let it swell. Manna recipes usually don’t specify the time period for swelling – on average, it will take about 1 hour. Some brave souls leave semolina on all night.

Then add sugar to the resulting mass (as in the previous recipe, you can replace it with liquid honey or fructose), baking powder and a little flour. The manna dough should not be too tight.

Step 2

Fresh berries must be washed, sorted, and the stems and seeds removed.

And if you use frozen cherries, then you need to defrost them in advance - and it is best to do this in a colander over the sink so that excess liquid drains from the cherries.

Lubricate the bottom and walls of the multicooker with vegetable oil using a pastry brush or paper towel.

Pour half of the dough into a multi-cooker bowl, and sprinkle the cherries on top. Fill them with the rest of the dough. Activate the “Baking” function, select the cooking time – 1 hour.

On a note: if after 1 hour, the cherry manna seems too pale and unbaked, you need to carefully remove it from the multi-cooker bowl using a steaming basket and place it “head” down. Let's leave it to bake for another 30 minutes, and then our manna in the slow cooker will definitely be ready.

See another version of this dish:

Those who fast need meals that are simple in ingredients and not labor-intensive every day. To prepare such a lean cake in a slow cooker, you will need the most ordinary products: flour, sugar, vegetable oil and either a ready-made compote of dried fruits, or simply poured boiling water over any available dried fruits for 10-15 minutes. For a glass of boiling water - at least a third of a glass of any dried fruits or a mixture of them. You can also take note of preparing drinks and make dough based on them.

This time I had five prunes and an incomplete handful of raisins, and I especially liked the cake based on dried apples with cinnamon added to the dough.

It is better to take vegetable oil that is odorless.

To prepare a lean cake in a slow cooker, prepare the ingredients according to the list for the recipe.

Mix sugar with vegetable oil.

Pour the compote liquid into this mixture and stir.

Add flour mixed with baking powder and a pinch of salt.

Mix the ingredients until smooth.

Mix whole small and chopped large dried fruits into the resulting lean cake dough.

It is very convenient to use silicone molds or foil molds for baking in a multicooker. Choose the ones that fit the diameter of the bowl. Place the pan with the dough in the multicooker bowl.

If there are no molds, then pour the dough into a bowl greased with vegetable oil.

Set the multicooker to “bake for 1 hour.”

After the beep, carefully remove the finished cake. Multi-cooker cupcakes are usually pale on top, but this one is also sticky... You can make the appearance more attractive to your liking. I had some ground walnuts and they came in handy for sprinkling.

A lean compote cake baked in a slow cooker is fluffy, aromatic and really quite tasty!

We still have a post on the calendar. And this feat will last until April 7, because this is the last day of fasting, the eve of the Holy Resurrection of Christ. The second week is not as scary as the first. But I want something tasty. And if you want, let’s not deny ourselves. After all, recipes for Lenten baking are available in huge quantities. So I suggest baking a lean chocolate cake with berries in a slow cooker.

My next baking recipe contains no eggs, no butter, no milk. Therefore, this fragrant chocolate cake will be an excellent consolation for those who are fasting, and for anyone who is trying to eat healthy, or who does not have eggs in the refrigerator, and so on.

Why do I put berries in a cupcake? And you will see what pleasant sourness cranberries, currants or viburnum can give!

Cooking time: 20 minutes for kneading and 65 for baking

Complexity: slightly above average, because adding vegetable oil to cake dough is not easy

Ingredients:

sugar – 250 g

salt - on the tip of a knife

baking powder for dough – 1 tbsp.

vegetable oil (refined) – 80 ml

water – 250 ml

chocolate icing - 1 sachet

How to cook a lean cake in a slow cooker:

Let's measure out the required amount of cocoa and put it into a bowl in which we will knead the dough for a chocolate cake. Add flour to cocoa. But first, let's sift it through. I did this directly over a bowl of cocoa.

Mix these ingredients well. We need to add the rest of the bulk. Add salt, vanilla sugar and baking powder.

Mix everything again and add sugar. We face the same task - to mix everything well.

Our next step is adding water and oil. What to pour in first? I added water first. Knead it very well with a spatula until smooth. And only then added oil. And here you will have to work hard to mix it into the dough. Now I understand that I could have mixed everything in a mixer - quickly and efficiently. But I still succeeded.

I took the berries out of the freezer - I like to make preparations in the summer. I added them to the dough.

After mixing everything, I poured the dough into the multicooker bowl, which I had previously greased with vegetable oil.

Bake on the “Baking” mode for 1 hour 5 minutes. Remove the lean chocolate cake and place it on a steamer basket. I greased the soft, fluffy, tasty, aromatic cupcake on top and sides with icing (store-bought - diluted a bag with water according to the instructions).

After this, sift the flour so that it is enriched with oxygen. The sifted flour is added to the container and mixed with a whisk. If possible, it is better to use a mixer for mixing. Whisk until the mixture thickens a little.

Then start preparing the walnuts. To make them have a richer taste and aroma, they can be slightly calcined in a dry frying pan or in the oven at a temperature not exceeding 180 degrees.

After roasting, the nuts are finely chopped with a knife or crushed with a rolling pin and added to a container with carrots and flour.

Take a baking pan and line it with parchment. Place the dough in the mold and place in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for baking.

Bake for 1 hour. In order to check whether the carrot cake with nuts is cooked, you need to take a wooden skewer or toothpick and pierce the middle of the cake with it. If the wooden stick is wet, then this is a sign that the cake is not ready yet and more time is needed to bake it. If the toothpick is dry, it means the baked goods are ready.

After making the carrot walnut cake, leave it in the pan to cool completely. If you remove the baked goods while hot, the carrot cake with walnuts may break and its appearance will deteriorate.

After the pastry has been removed from the mold, pour it with glaze, which is prepared by mixing 100 g. powdered sugar with 2 tbsp. l. hot water.

You can replace the frosting with whipped cream. To prepare them you will need 1 chicken egg white, 50 g. sugar and a small pinch of salt. All ingredients are mixed and whipped until thick foam.

The baked goods are decorated with walnut halves.

Lenten carrot cake

Quite often, during the period of observing church fast, many housewives want to please their loved ones with aromatic and tasty pastries. It is during this period that you can prepare lean carrot cake , the recipe of which does not include chicken eggs and milk, which are prohibited during the fasting period.

This culinary delight can amaze even experienced sweet tooths. An abundance of dried fruits, nuts and honey create a unique taste, against which the absence of milk and eggs is not even noticeable.

Ingredients:

Carrots - 2 pcs.;
Dried apricots - 100 g;
Raisins - 100 g;
Pineapple juice - 400 ml;
Bee honey - 100 ml;
Walnuts - 100 g;
Wheat flour - 2 tbsp;
Baking powder for dough - 2 tsp;
Soda -0.5 tsp;
Lemon - 1 pc.;
Lemon juice - 1 tsp;
Butter for greasing the mold.

Ingredients for glaze:

Powdered sugar - 100 g;
Lemon juice - 50 ml.

Preparation

The first step in preparing carrot cake is cutting dried fruits: dried apricots and raisins.
Then pour pineapple juice over them and leave for 10 minutes.
Peel and rinse the carrots, grate on a coarse grater.
Remove the zest from the lemon and add it to the grated carrots.
Then honey and sunflower oil are added to the container. The last ingredient is necessary to ensure that the cake does not stick to the pan while baking in the oven.
After this, peel the walnuts and roast them in a dry frying pan for 5 minutes to give them a richer aroma.
The chopped nuts are mixed with a small amount of flour. This is done so that they are then evenly distributed throughout the dough.
Add dried fruits in pineapple juice and nuts to a container with grated carrots.
Then gradually add flour and baking powder, constantly stirring the dough so that no lumps form.
After kneading the dough, quench the soda with lemon juice and mix it again.
The dough is placed in a baking dish, which is pre-greased with butter. If the pan does not have a non-stick coating, then it is better to sprinkle the bottom with semolina. Semolina will allow you to remove baked goods from the mold without damaging it.
Place the mold in a preheated oven at 180 degrees.
Bake the dish for 50 minutes. Check the readiness of the baked goods with a wooden skewer.
After the cake is cooked, remove it from the pan and let it cool.
The glaze is prepared at the request of the hostess. But I would like to note that with icing the cake looks more appetizing. The glaze is prepared by mixing powdered sugar and lemon juice.
Fill the finished baked goods with glaze and serve.

Curd and carrot cake

Curd and carrot cake is not only a tender and aromatic pastry that amazes with its taste, but also a real storehouse of vitamins necessary for human health.

Such a dish will become a lifesaver for mothers of children who categorically refuse to eat a source of calcium - cottage cheese. The cupcake will appeal not only to children, but also to adults, and the taste and ease of its preparation will make it one of the most popular and favorite dishes in the family.

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 250 g;
Butter (fat content 72.5%) - 150 g;
Sugar - 280 g;
Chicken egg - 4 pcs.;
Ground cinnamon - 0.5 tsp;
Carrots - 2 pcs.;
Cottage cheese - 300 gr.;
Vanilla sugar - 1 sachet (15 g).

Preparation

Initially, cut the butter into a large container and mix it with 200 g of sugar. Beat the ingredients with a blender until smooth. If you don’t have such kitchen appliances in your home, then wait for the butter to melt on its own and then use a whisk or wooden spoon to mix these two ingredients well.
Then add 3 chicken eggs to the same mixture and beat.
Sift the flour into a separate bowl, which will then need to be mixed with baking powder and ground cinnamon.
Grated carrots are then added to the container with flour.
Mix the resulting mixture with beaten eggs and butter.
Then prepare the curd mixture: cottage cheese, 80 g of sugar and 1 egg are mixed until smooth. After this, vanilla sugar is added to the mass. Remember that if you use vanillin instead of vanilla sugar, then you should add 2-3 times less of it, because an excess amount of vanillin can add bitterness to baked goods.
After the 2 mixtures have been prepared, you can begin to place them in the mold. Initially, the mold is greased with butter so that the baked goods do not stick. Place half of the carrot-egg mixture on the bottom of the mold. Then the prepared curd mass is placed in the middle of the mold. The remaining carrot-egg mixture is placed on top of the curd filling.
The oven is heated to 180 degrees. The cake is baked for 45 - 55 minutes.
After cooking, remove the cake from the mold, cool and decorate with powdered sugar if desired.

There is no need to layer the cake. Both doughs can be mixed and placed in a baking dish. But puff pastries look more appetizing and attractive.

If desired, you can make small balls from the curd mass and place them between two layers of dough. When cut, such baked goods will look very original and unusual.

Carrot and orange cake

Carrot cake is very popular outside of our country. Despite the fact that this type of baking is very easy and simple to prepare, many people are delighted with it. But many housewives have already tried the classic recipe for such a culinary masterpiece. But not many people know about the existence of carrot-orange cake. This is a simple and at the same time original dish that can decorate not only an everyday table, but also a festive feast.

The main signature ingredients of the dish are carrots and oranges, which go together perfectly. It is the last ingredient that gives the dessert a very refined aroma and piquancy, making it a truly festive dessert.

Ingredients:

Margarine - 200 g;
Carrots - 2 pcs.;
Sugar - 200 g;
Chicken egg - 4 pcs.;
Wheat flour - 300 g;
Baking powder for dough - 1 tsp;
Orange - 1 pc.;
Vanilla sugar -10 g.

Preparation:

Grate the carrots on a coarse or medium grater. If the carrot produces too much juice, it is better to drain it. If you do not do this, the baked goods will not be as crumbly and fluffy.
Then you will need to remove the zest from the orange using a special knife.
First melt the margarine a little in a water bath until it becomes soft.
Sugar is added to the melted margarine. All ingredients are mixed using a mixer until the consistency of thick foam.
Then you will need to beat the eggs separately and mix them with the sugar and margarine mixture.
After this, gradually add flour, constantly stirring the mixture so that lumps do not form in the dough.
Orange zest, baking powder and vanilla sugar are added to the finished dough.
After this, grated carrots are carefully introduced into the dough. It is highly undesirable to use a mixer for this. It is better to use a spoon so as not to “plant” the dough.
Place parchment paper in a baking dish. Pour the dough into the mold and place in the oven preheated to 180 degrees. Bake for at least 45 minutes.
Once ready, decorate the dish with orange zest.

You can also decorate the finished carrot-orange cupcake with caramelized orange slices. For this you will need 0.5 kg orange, 200 g. sugar and 250 ml water. Initially, the oranges are cut into slices, then boiled in boiling water for 4-5 minutes, after which they are placed on a paper towel to dry. When they are dry, pour half the specified amount of sugar into the frying pan, and then place the orange slices themselves on it, which are then covered with the remaining sugar and filled with water. Then bring the resulting mixture to a boil, then turn the heat to minimum, on which the slices will caramelize for 1.5 hours. Orange slices can be considered ready when the zest on the fruit becomes soft.

Adviсe:

The cupcake doesn't have to be decorated with frosting. It can be decorated with powdered sugar, melted chocolate or mint leaves. If you are preparing a festive celebration, then marzipan - an elastic mixture of powdered sugar and almond flour - will serve as an excellent decoration. The huge advantage of marzipan is that its texture resembles plasticine, so if a person has imagination, he can mold any figures from “confectionery plasticine” at will.
If desired, nuts in baking can be replaced with candied fruits.
If the cake recipe contains walnuts, then instead of wheat flour for baking, you can use whole grain flour, which will help emphasize the taste of the nuts.
In addition to dried apricots and nuts, you can add flax or sunflower seeds to your baked goods. But it is worth considering that thanks to these components, baked goods may lose their delicate structure.
When filling the mold with dough, remember that it should not be filled to the top. The dough will increase in volume during baking, so do not completely fill the pan.
To add piquancy to baked goods, you can add a little grated ginger.