The dream of any sweet tooth is an appetizing and tasty dessert. Vegetarian cake is an excellent dish for everyone who does not consume certain foods because of an allergy or for personal convictions, but wants to treat himself to sweets.
Features of cooking vegetarian cakes
Vegetarian cakes are cooked without the usual eggs; in addition, dairy products are not used in vegan recipes. Instead of the usual gelatin, agar-agar, a plant substance from algae, is used as a thickener. Egg white in recipes perfectly replaces aquafab - a viscous liquid from a decoction of legumes.
Many cakes with the usual name are not forbidden to cook in a vegetarian way. You can adhere to food restrictions while enjoying the goodies.
Vegetarian Napoleon
Products
Into the dough
540 g of flour;
· 240 g butter;
· A third of a glass of water;
· A full tablespoon of lemon juice.
In cream
· 1.2 liters of milk;
· 125 g of flour;
290 g of oil;
280 g of powdered sugar;
Package of vanillin.
Cooking
1. For the dough, chop the flour and butter to make small crumbs.
2. Add water with lemon juice.
3. Knead until smooth and divide into 5-9 identical parts, depending on the size of the baking tray.
4. Roll the balls and put them in the refrigerator for 2 hours, placing them in a covered pan.
5. For cream, combine flour and a little milk, grind into a homogeneous mass.
6. Pour in the remaining milk, boil for a couple of minutes.
7. Cool the mixture, add sugar and butter, vanillin. Stir to make the cream homogeneous.
8. Remove the chilled dough from the refrigerator, roll it out as thin as possible.
9. Place the cakes on a greased baking sheet.
10. Bake at 180 degrees, they cook very quickly.
11. Cool the cakes, coat with cream. Hold the veggie cake in the cold for several hours before serving.
Vegan Nut Cake with Chocolate
Products
A glass of hazelnuts;
· 8 dates;
2 bananas
1 avocado
70 g of cocoa;
· 4 tablespoons of honey;
· 1.5 teaspoons agar-agar;
Half a glass of water;
Half a glass of raspberries.
Cooking
1. Grind nuts and dates in a blender, combine.
2. At the bottom of the form, lay parchment paper, lay the resulting mass.
3. Grind bananas and avocados with a blender.
4. Combine the fruit with honey and cocoa, knead.
5. Boil the agar, boil for 30 seconds.
6. Remove from heat, pour into the fruit mixture with cocoa.
7. Quickly mix and distribute on nuts and dates.
8. Top with raspberries, gently squeeze them into the mixture. The mass freezes quickly, so decorate immediately.
9. Before use, place the dish in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Vegetarian Orange Pie
A good option for fans of desserts with sourness. Orange, if desired, can be replaced with blueberries or other not very juicy berries or fruits.
Ingredients
· 3 oranges with thin skin;
· 240 g of powdered sugar (for filling);
· 240 g butter from cream;
390 g of flour;
90 g of powdered sugar (for dough);
· A teaspoon of soda;
40 ml of water.
Work stages
1. Wash the oranges for the filling. Do not peel, cut each fruit into 8 parts. Remove only the upper parts (buttocks), bones and dense white areas inside the fruit. Grind in a blender until smooth.
2. Pour sugar in mashed potatoes and mix. Put the mixture in the refrigerator.
3. For the test, combine granulated sugar with soft butter, salt and soda. Mix well, add flour and pour in room temperature water.
4. Hand mix the resulting mass. Water sometimes needs a little more or less, it should turn out not liquid, not hard, soft dough.
5. Separate the fifth of the tortilla from the tortilla, pack it in a food film and put it in the freezer.
6. Place the rest of the dough on an unlubricated baking sheet, evenly stretching it along the bottom. Along the edge of the cake, make the sides of the dough a couple of centimeters high.
7. Pour the filling on the cake.
8. Remove the rest of the dough from the freezer, grate it on a medium grater and sprinkle on top of the pie.
9. Bake the cake at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes.
10. Remove the finished product. Cutting is best when it cools.
Vegetarian Bird Milk
This recipe is suitable for a wonderful festive feast. The cooking process takes a lot of time, but an amazing result will surely surprise guests and delight the household.
Products
In cake
· 2 incomplete tablespoons of flour;
· A small spoon of cocoa;
A quarter of a teaspoon of soda;
· 100 g of condensed milk;
25 g of homemade yogurt or sour cream;
A pair of drops of food essence.
Strawberry layer
· 270 g of strawberries (can be frozen);
· 125 g butter from cream;
· Two tablespoons of condensed milk;
150 g of aquafabs;
· A small spoonful of juice from lemon;
· 170 g of powdered sugar;
· 0.1 l of water;
1.5 g agar-agar.
Chocolate layer
130 g of chocolate (bitter);
125 g of oil;
· Two tablespoons of condensed milk;
150 g of aquafabs;
· A small spoonful of juice from lemon;
· 170 g of powdered sugar;
· 0.1 l of water;
1.5 g agar-agar.
Work stages
Dough
1. Combine flour with soda and cocoa.
2. In another saucepan, add condensed milk (yogurt) and essence to the condensed milk.
3. Pour both masses into one container, mix thoroughly.
4. Spread thick dough in the form of a circle on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. To make the shape even, you can pre-draw a circle on the sheet using the usual large pan cover. Place the dough in a circle drawn with a pencil, without leaving the circle.
5. Bake at 180 degrees for approximately 10 minutes.
6. Place the finished cake in a suitable container with high sides.
Strawberry Souffle
1. Cook the strawberry puree in a blender.
2. Beat the butter until it whitens, pour condensed milk to it, knead.
3. Gradually add strawberry puree to the resulting mass, shake until smooth.
4. Make syrup from water and powder (you can take granulated sugar), add agar-agar to it.
5. Simmer for about 15 minutes. At first the mixture foams, then the syrup becomes golden brown and settles. Leave the gel mass.
6. Fluff the aquafu in a blender with lemon juice.
7. Combine the hot gel mass with the aquafab while continuing to whisk.
8. When the mixture cools to 50 degrees, add strawberry cream to the mixer, mix using the minimum speed of the device.
9. Pour into a container with prepared cake when it becomes homogeneous. Do everything energetically, the souffle quickly freezes.
Chocolate souffle
1. Melt the chocolate bar in a water bath.
2. Beat butter with a mixer, add condensed milk, then pour in slightly chilled chocolate with a thin stream, mix.
3. Prepare the syrup and combine with the aquafab (as for strawberry souffle).
4. At a low mixer speed, add chocolate cream to the aquafab. Beat quickly until the mass is about 50-55 degrees (at a temperature of 45 degrees agar-agar will start to solidify)
5. Pour the chocolate mass onto the strawberry souffle. Put the veggie cake in the refrigerator to set it well.
Vegetarian Sour Cream Cake
According to this recipe, the dough is prepared in advance, a day before the cakes are baked.
Products
Into the dough
· 4 tbsp. spoons of sour cream;
0.2 kg of granulated sugar;
· 2 tbsp. tablespoons of honey with a slide;
· A small spoon of soda;
· 310 g of flour.
For cream
200 g of granulated sugar;
250 g of sour cream;
· 310 g butter from cream.
Work stages
1. Make the dough: combine sugar with honey and sour cream.
2. Separately extinguish with soda vinegar or lemon juice, add it to the resulting mass, mix everything.
3. Gradually add flour to the mixture, knead until smooth.
4. Leave the soft dough at room temperature for a day in a covered dish. The next day, continue to cook the cake.
5. Prepare the cream: whip the butter in a mixer, combine with sugar and sour cream.
6. Divide the dough into 4 pieces of the same size. Roll the first cake, lightly adding flour. Place thin cakes on a baking sheet. If necessary, they can be stretched by hands so that they are of the same density.
7. Bake for about 10 minutes at 180 degrees each cake until slightly browned.
8. When the cakes have cooled, lay them down, evenly smearing with cream.
9. Garnish with dried fruit or nuts as desired. Before use, refrigerate for several hours.
Vegetarian anthill
One of the "express" recipes. Cakes will be baked in a short time, and it’s very easy to achieve the shape of the cake necessary for the cake.
Ingredients
Half a glass of sour cream;
· Half a glass of granulated sugar;
· A quarter teaspoon of soda and citric acid;
· 290 g of butter;
4 cups flour;
A package of vanillin;
· a pinch of salt;
400 g of condensed milk;
· A third of a glass of walnuts.
Work stages
1. Combine sugar with sour cream, pour soda, salt and citric acid. Shuffle.
2. In a separate bowl, grind flour with 200 g butter from cream (the rest is for cream).
3. Pour the sour cream mixture into the resulting mass. Knead the dough until smooth.
4. Place small, thin slices of dough on a baking sheet, pinching them off the common cake. You can distribute it with one large cake.
5. Bake cookies (temperature - about 180 degrees) for about 25 minutes, browning well.
6. For the cream, brown the walnuts and bite them into small pieces about half a centimeter long. Rub the remaining piece of butter with condensed milk, add nuts, mix thoroughly.
7. "Cookies" from the dough in small portions add to the cream until it runs out. Shuffle.
8. In the prepared dish, move the resulting vegetarian cake. Tamp lightly and give it the shape of an anthill. Refrigerate for four hours before use.
Vegetarian Cake: Tips and Tricks
· With a vegetarian food system in desserts, it is recommended to actively use various nuts. They have many useful vitamins and minerals. However, it should be remembered that this product is quite nutritious and heavy for the stomach. The optimal daily norm of nuts is about 30 g. It is not recommended to eat more than 100 g of product per day, and for some types the permissible amount is even less.
· When whipping aquafabs, the mixer should be completely clean. Even tiny residues of fat can cause the product to swell poorly.
Dried fruits are a great addition to vegetarian cakes. Prunes, dried apricots, figs, dates, raisins are used both for filling and for decorating sweets.
· When using agar-agar, you need to work quickly. This product hardens at room temperature faster than gelatin.
