The use of pastries, delicious cakes with a variety of additives and cream improves mood. But all this is subsequently deposited in the form of extra pounds at the waist, in the abdomen and hips.
What ingredients make a high-calorie dessert
Girls, fearing to gain weight, try to limit themselves in the use of sweet desserts. After all, they understand that such delicacies include butter, cream, eggs, sugar, dried fruits and nuts. All this is very high in calories and dangerous for the figure. But it's impossible to give up sweets all your life. Therefore, you need to know the ways in which you can reduce the calorie content of desserts.
The calorie content of the dessert is often given by the filling. For example, choux pastry products themselves are rather light, only 150 kcal, but butter cream, condensed milk almost doubles the number of calories. In this case, it will be more useful to replace the cream with fruit or curd filling.
Desserts with shortcrust pastry are prepared on the basis of flour, margarine or butter, with the addition of eggs, a large amount of sugar, and as an impregnation they are supplemented with chocolate. Therefore, it is better to replace the impregnation with fruit jelly, and sugar with honey.
Ways to reduce the calorie content of desserts
Nutritionists have long proven that processed wheat flour products, in particular sweets, do not benefit the body. But flour forms the basis of many cakes, muffins and pastries, it is best to replace it with other products. Ground almonds, oatmeal, cornstarch and bran are perfect for this. They will significantly reduce the calorie content of the dish, but will not change its taste.
It is better to use refined butter for baking and preparing various desserts. To do this, you just need to heat the butter over low heat, remove the white film and filter it through a sieve. Butter refined in this way significantly reduces the calorie content.
Sugar can be substituted with agave syrup, honey, and fruit to add a sweet flavor to your favorite dessert. It is also recommended to use dark chocolate with a high content of cocoa beans instead of sugar.
Spices: vanilla, nutmeg and almonds will add a new and interesting taste to your favorite desserts. Such additives will perfectly replace sugar in meals.
Thus, in any dessert, you can significantly reduce the calorie content by replacing some of the ingredients. A big plus is that all of them do not reduce the taste of the dish, they can even add piquancy to them. Therefore, you can continue to pamper yourself with your favorite desserts without fear of gaining extra pounds.
