Pumpkin cakes can be eaten at least every day, because they are light and healthy. During fasting, prepare a dessert without eggs and dairy products; for the holiday, you can bake an orange-chocolate cake, and even gourmet gourmets will appreciate the pumpkin pie with a delicate cream cream.
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Pumpkin is famous for its useful properties, excellent taste, it is perfectly stored. From it you can cook not only soups, cereals, stews, but also amazing desserts.
Classic pumpkin cake
This dessert has shortbread dough, so from the first bite it is unlikely that anyone will guess that this is a vegetable dish. It is a classic for many nations. According to a similar recipe, cakes have been long since created by the French, and Arabs, and Slavs. But still, it is the Americans who hold the primacy. After all, they have a pumpkin - a patron of family holidays, Halloween, Thanksgiving.
To try this overseas dessert, take:
- 200 g of flour;
- 100 g butter;
- 2 tbsp. l granulated sugar for dough;
- 2 eggs;
- 500 g of pumpkin pulp;
- 200 g of milk;
- 100 g of sugar for the filling;
- a pinch of salt;
- 1 g of cinnamon.
- Sift flour, add salt, sugar, butter warmed at room temperature. Pouring flour on it periodically, chop the mass with a knife, then dip your palms in the flour and rub the shortbread dough between them. You should get crumbs. Now you can add 2 eggs to it and mix well. Put the dough in a bag or wrap in cling film and place in the refrigerator.
- After 30 minutes, remove the fruits of your labor. Place the dough in a thin layer in a greased pie bowl.
- To keep the baking surface flat, use the following trick: cut a circle from the glassine into its size, place it on the dough. Sprinkle beans or beans on top. Without paper, only the edges along the edges will remain. They are needed so that then the filling does not flow out. Place the cake in a preheated oven for about 20 minutes.
- While this happens, you will prepare the filling. Cut the pulp of the pumpkin into cubes, fill it with milk, add sugar, cinnamon, put the container on the fire. Cook for 30 minutes, do not forget to stir occasionally.
- Adding milk will make the filling more tender, and cinnamon will add flavor. If desired, you can add grated lemon zest to the cooled filling if you want homemade pastries to be fragrant with citrus fruits.
- Beat eggs. Grind the cooled filling with a blender. Enter prepared eggs here.
- Stir to make a homogeneous mixture. You put it on baked cake. Put the dish in the oven, where it will be baked a little more than half an hour at 160 ° C.
Lenten Recipe
If you are fasting, then the next easy recipe is right for you. It is also phased, so cooking should not cause difficulties. Despite its simplicity, such homemade cakes look wonderful, as it consists of golden and chocolate cakes.
Take:
- 200 g of peeled pumpkin pulp;
- 50 g of water;
- 2 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
- 0.5 tbsp. l 9% vinegar;
- 120 g of flour;
- 110 g of granulated sugar;
- 1 tbsp. l vanilla sugar;
- 2 tbsp. l cocoa;
- zest of one orange.
Here's how to make this interesting cake. A step-by-step description and a successful recipe will contribute to the creation of a wonderful dessert dish.
- Bake pumpkin pulp cut into cubes in a microwave or oven. Remove this vegetable, add water to it and grind it with a blender.
- It was the turn of vegetable oil and vinegar. Add them to the mass as well. Then pour sugar, flour, vanilla sugar here and mix well.
- Divide the pumpkin dough in half, add cocoa in one part and orange peel in the other. First, put the chocolate dough in the prepared form, and put yellow on it. Bake for about 30 minutes in the oven at 180 ° C.
Garnish the cake with icing sugar before serving. If you wish, you can cover this pumpkin dish with chocolate icing. But even so, the cake is very tasty. It is light and has a low calorie content, so it is suitable not only for fasting, but also for those who follow the figure.
Sour Cream Dessert
The next successful recipe will be appreciated even by gourmets. After all, pumpkin goes well with dairy products, and sour cream is a real find for this dessert.
To then enjoy the culinary masterpiece, first prepare the necessary products. For the test you will need:
- 200 g of flour;
- 2 tsp baking powder;
- 200 g of pumpkin pulp;
- 2 eggs;
- 110 g of refined vegetable oil;
- 100 g of granulated sugar;
- zest of one orange;
- a pinch of salt.
The cream consists of:
- 400 g of fat sour cream (at least 25%);
- 100 g of granulated sugar;
- juice of one orange;
- 3 tbsp. l Sahara.
- Start cooking a delicious homemade pumpkin cake. To do this, beat the eggs with granulated sugar. Then pour the oil here and whisk the mixture a little more. Add bulk products, these are: baking powder, a pinch of salt and flour. Stir the dough.
- It remains to put here the chopped orange zest and grated pumpkin, mix. From this mass, bake two cakes in different forms. They are prepared in an oven preheated to 180 ° C until golden brown. Baked cakes are taken out, wrapped in cling film and cooled.
- Here's how to make sour cream. This fermented milk product will make the cake tender, turning a regular pumpkin pie into a gourmet dessert. To make such a cream, add sugar to the orange juice, boil the syrup for 10 minutes. Then this citrus sauce needs to be cooled, and then put in the refrigerator for half an hour to cool.
- High fat sour cream must be cooled and whipped. Then sugar is poured into it, whipped for a short time, so that the grains dissolve. Without turning the mixer off, start pouring a thin stream of orange syrup into the cream. The mass should be light and magnificent. Then finish the process of creating sour cream.
- It is time to remember the cake. From them you need to remove the upper parts, then layer the tiers of the cake with sour cream. And chop the tops of the cakes with a grater, and then decorate with them the sides of the dessert and the edges of the upper tier along the perimeter. Now the pumpkin cake needs to be refrigerated so that it is infused.
After 2 hours, you can call home to the table or amaze guests with this vegetable dessert.