Low-calorie biscuits are the ideal option to keep their delicate shapes and at the same time allow yourself to enjoy delicious and all kinds of desserts made from natural products.
Oatmeal cookies
Light, tasty lean cookies are moderately sweet and crunchy.
Diet biscuits can be stored in a sealed container for more than 6 months.
Ingredients:
- 1 glass of kefir (0.5% fat);
- liquid honey (to taste);
- 200 g of oatmeal;
- vanillin;
- raisins;
- cinnamon;
- apples (optional);
Recipe:
Pour kefir into a deep container, mix with oatmeal and leave to swell for 40-60 minutes. During this period of time, the flakes will soften and the taste of the cookies will be softer. Prepare the raisins, wash and cover with hot water for 20 minutes. Then combine raisins with kefir mixture, add loose honey. Mix well, add cinnamon, vanillin. Optionally, you can add a small amount of apples, pre-cut into thin cubes, to the dough.
Spoon the cooked dough on a parchment-lined baking sheet, placing the portions a little spaced apart. Bake the cookies for 30 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 ° C.
Ricciarelli macaroons
Richerelli - soft almond cookies are traditionally served at Christmas in the Italian city of Siena. One serving contains only 89 kcal.
Cookie Ingredients:
- 250 g of almonds;
- 300 g of sugar;
- 1 protein;
- vanillin;
- 25 g of honey;
- 1/2 lemon zest;
- 90 g icing sugar;
- 30 g of olive oil;
Recipe:
Crush the blanched almonds in a blender. Then mix it with sugar, sift the mixture through a sieve. Pour in liquid honey, chopped lemon zest, add vanillin. In a food processor, combine the ingredients into coarse crumbs. Transfer the almond mixture to a bowl.
Beat the egg whites separately until they are firm. Then add it to the almond mass and knead a soft dough. Sprinkle the working surface of the table with powdered sugar, on which roll the dough into a layer about 2 cm thick. Dip a knife in the powdered sugar and divide the dough into figures measuring 7 * 4 cm.
Lay parchment on a baking sheet, brush with oil. Spread the almond cookies and bake in the oven at 140 ° C for 15 minutes. Keep them light and soft and not darkened. Sprinkle icing sugar over the cooled cookies and garnish with lemon zest. You can store Ricciarelli in a tin can with a lid, lined with oiled paper.
"Tile" chocolate biscuits with fresh fruit
French pastries are delicate chocolate-nut bowls filled with cream or low-calorie whipped cream and fruit.
The cocoa powder included in the instructions is virtually fat free. It is excellent, replacing chocolate, endows products with the most delicate delicate taste and excellent aroma of natural chocolate.
Ingredients:
- 50 g flour;
- 2 eggs (large);
- 70 g of sugar;
- 50 g cocoa powder (sugar free);
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract;
- a glass of almond nuts;
- butter;
Cookies:
Grind the almonds in a blender, save some nut crumbs for garnish. Beat eggs in a deep container, add sugar, vanilla, mix again. Toss cocoa, flour and chopped almonds separately. Combine the almond mixture with the egg mass and mix thoroughly until smooth.
Grease a baking sheet with butter, spread out the dough in portions of 2-3 tablespoons. Keep some distance between portions, taking into account that the cookies will increase in volume when baked. After rolling the dough into flat cakes with a diameter of 10-15 cm, spread a thin layer of nuts on all discs.
Bake for 10 minutes in the oven at 175 ° C. Place the baked goods, while still hot, on inverted cups and press down gently with the edges down. Leave the workpieces to harden for a few minutes. Fill the chocolatey nut cups with fruit, cream, or whipped yogurt.
