Pumpkin cakes can be eaten at least every day, because they are light and healthy. During the fast, make 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 tender sour cream.
Pumpkin is famous for its useful properties, excellent taste, it is perfectly stored. It can be used to cook not only soups, cereals, stews, but also amazing desserts.
Classic pumpkin cake
This dessert has shortbread dough, so from the first bite, hardly anyone will guess that this is a vegetable dish. It is classic for many peoples. According to a similar recipe, cakes have long been created by the French, the Arabs, and the Slavs. But all the same, it is the Americans who have the primacy. After all, they have a pumpkin - a regular at family holidays, Halloween, Thanksgiving.
To try this overseas dessert, grab:
- 200 g flour;
- 100 g butter;
- 2 tbsp. l. granulated sugar for dough;
- 2 eggs;
- 500 g pumpkin pulp;
- 200 g of milk;
- 100 g sugar for the filling;
- a pinch of salt;
- 1 g of cinnamon.
- Sift flour, add salt, sugar, butter heated at room temperature. Periodically sprinkling flour on it, chop the mass with a knife, then dip your palms in flour and rub the shortbread dough between them. You should have a crumb. Now you can add 2 eggs to it and mix the mass well. Place the dough in a bag or wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate.
- After 30 minutes, take out the fruits of your labor. Place the dough in a thin layer in a greased baking pan.
- To keep the baking surface even, use the following trick: cut a glassine circle to its size, place it on the dough. Sprinkle beans or beans on top. Without paper, only the sides along the edges will remain. They are needed so that the filling does not flow out later. Place the crust in a preheated oven for about 20 minutes.
- While this is happening, you will be preparing the filling. Cut the pumpkin pulp into cubes, fill it with milk, add sugar, cinnamon, put the container on fire. Cook for 30 minutes, remember to stir occasionally.
- Adding milk will soften the filling and the cinnamon will add flavor. If you wish, you can add grated lemon zest to the cooled filling if you want your homemade baked goods to smell of citrus.
- Beat eggs. Grind the cooled filling with a blender. Enter prepared eggs here.
- Stir to make a homogeneous mixture. Put it on the baked cake. Place the dish in the oven, where it will bake for a little over half an hour at 160 ° C.
Lenten recipe
If you are fasting, then the following easy recipe will work for you. It is also a phased one, so preparation should not be difficult. Despite the simplicity, such homemade pastries look wonderful, as they consist 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 flour;
- 110 g granulated sugar;
- 1 tbsp. l. vanilla sugar;
- 2 tbsp. l. cocoa;
- zest of one orange.
This is how this interesting cake is made. A step-by-step description and a successful recipe will contribute to the creation of a wonderful dessert dish.
- Bake the diced pumpkin pulp in the microwave or oven. Take out this vegetable, add water to it and grind with a blender.
- It was the turn of vegetable oil and vinegar. Add them to the mass as well. Then add sugar, flour, vanilla sugar and stir well.
- Divide the pumpkin dough in half, add cocoa to one part and orange zest to the other. First put the chocolate dough into the prepared form, and put the yellow dough on it. Bake in oven at 180 ° C for about 30 minutes.
Decorate the cake with powdered sugar before serving. If you wish, you can cover this pumpkin dish with chocolate icing. But even so, the cake turns out to be very tasty. It is light and has a low calorie content, therefore it is suitable not only for those who are fasting, but also for those who follow the figure.
Dessert with sour cream
The next successful recipe will be appreciated even by gourmet 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 foods. The test will require:
- 200 g flour;
- 2 tsp baking powder;
- 200 g pumpkin pulp;
- 2 eggs;
- 110 g of refined vegetable oil;
- 100 g 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 granulated sugar;
- juice of one orange;
- 3 tbsp. l. Sahara.
- Start making delicious homemade pumpkin cake. To do this, beat eggs with granulated sugar. Then pour in the butter 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 the chopped orange zest and pumpkin grated on a fine grater here, mix. From this mass, bake two cakes in different forms. They are cooked in an oven preheated to 180 ° C until golden brown. The baked cakes are removed, 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 delicious 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.
- Sour cream of high fat content must be cooled and whipped. Then sugar is poured into it, beat for another short time so that the grains dissolve. Without turning off the mixer, start pouring orange syrup into the cream in a thin stream. The mass should be light and fluffy. Then finish the sour cream making process.
- It's time to remember about the cakes. You need to remove the top parts from them, then layer the tiers of the cake with sour cream. And you grind the tops of the cakes with a grater, and then decorate the sides of the dessert and the edges of the upper tier around the perimeter with them. Now the pumpkin cake needs to be refrigerated to infuse.
After 2 hours, you can call home to the table or amaze guests with this vegetable dessert.
Pumpkin pie with kefir
The photo shows how the next dessert turns out. A simple and straightforward recipe will help make pumpkin cake perfect. Take for a test:
- 300 g pumpkin pulp;
- 200 g granulated sugar;
- 220 g of kefir;
- 3 eggs;
- 3-2.5 cups flour;
- 1 tsp. vinegar and soda.
- And for the cream you need:
- 200 g sour cream with a fat content of 30%;
- 5 g vanilla sugar;
- 4 tbsp. l. icing sugar.
- Pour the diced pumpkin pulp with a glass of boiling water, adding 50 g of sugar here. Cook for a quarter of an hour, then drain the liquid, and turn the stewed pumpkin into a homogeneous mass using a blender.
- Beat eggs with the remaining sugar, pour in kefir and add pumpkin puree. Turn on the mixer again, mix this mass at low speed. The same speed is needed when you knead the dough by adding flour here. Separately extinguish the soda and vinegar, pour this liquid into the pumpkin mass and stir.
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C and bake the cake for about 40 minutes. Check its readiness with a wooden skewer.
- Remove the cake from the mold and cut it in half lengthwise. Whip the sour cream with sugar and vanilla sugar, layer the cakes with this cream.
You can decorate the finished product with physalis or in another way. Looking at the photo, you will understand what this wonderful pumpkin cake looks like.
The value of such dishes is in their undoubted benefits, low calorie content and in the fact that pumpkin is a very affordable vegetable and you can create light cakes from it throughout the year.
