Lent has a hard time for those with a sweet tooth. After all, the bulk of their favorite desserts are far from lean. Baking is mainly made with milk and eggs, desserts without dough are usually prepared with cream, even milk and butter are added to chocolate.
In fact, fasting is not a reason to give up sweets. You can make excellent cupcakes and muffins without using eggs, and make delicate milk soufflés and jellies completely lean. We have collected 7 excellent recipes for Lenten desserts, both quite labor-intensive and very simple.
Chocolate Lenten Cake
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- 3 cups flour
- 2 cups unrefined sugar
- 1 tsp. soda
- 1/3 pack of cocoa
- vanilla
- 3 tbsp. l. vinegar
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- 2 glasses of iced coffee
For the glaze
- 3 tbsp. l. cocoa
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 tsp. vegetable oil
- 3 tbsp. l. water
Step 1. Combine salt, soda, flour, sugar, cocoa and vanillin. Mix.
Step 2. Whisk coffee and vegetable oil, add vinegar. Mix with dry ingredients. Grind until smooth.
Step 3. Place in a mold greased with vegetable oil and place in the oven, heated to 180 degrees.
Step 4. Bake for 50 minutes.
Step 5. Remove and leave in pan until completely cooled.
Step 6. For the glaze, mix the ingredients and simmer over low heat.
Step 7 Remove the cake from the pan and pour hot glaze over it.
Coconut-strawberry jelly
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- 250 ml coconut milk
- 20 g agar-agar
- 200 g strawberries
- 2/3 cup sugar
- vanilla
- coconut crumbs for decoration
Step 1. Open the coconut milk and leave it in the refrigerator for a few hours to thicken.
Step 2. Grind the strawberries into a puree, add most of the sugar. Add agar-agar and heat everything for 5-7 minutes.
Step 3. Place strawberries in bowls and cool until jelly is obtained.
Step 4. Mix coconut milk with sugar and vanilla, beat a little with a whisk, although it should already be quite thick.
Step 5. Spread coconut milk cream on top. Sprinkle with coconut crumbs.
Berry crumble
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- 1 cup coconut flakes
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- a couple of pinches of salt
- 1/3 cup dates
Filling:
- 2 cups lingonberries
- 1 cup of sugar
- pinch of cinnamon
Step 1. Grind the ingredients for the dough in a blender into coarse crumbs.
Step 2. Divide the defrosted berries into three parts. Puree one part in a blender, adding cinnamon and half the sugar.
Step 3. Place the berries in a mold, add whole berries and add sugar.
Step 4. Sprinkle thickly with crumbs.
Fruit and cereal bars
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- 1 cup cereal flakes
- 2 apples
- 2 bananas
- 50 g raisins
- 50 g walnuts
- 2 tbsp. l. sunflower seeds
Step 1. Grate the apples, mash the banana into a puree.
Step 2. Finely chop the walnuts and pour boiling water over the raisins for 5 minutes.
Step 3. Mix all ingredients.
Step 4. Line a baking sheet with parchment and place the mixture on it.
Step 5. Bake at 180 degrees for half an hour.
Step 6. Cut into bars while the layer is hot.
Lenten muffins with chocolate and cherries
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- 1 cup flour
- 300 g pitted cherries
- 2 tbsp. l. cocoa
- ½ tsp. baking powder
- 1 tbsp. l. cocoa
- cinnamon
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
- vanilla
- powdered sugar
Step 1. Defrost the cherries. Collect the released juice in a glass and add boiling water to 2/3 glass.
Step 2. Mix flour with baking powder, cinnamon, cocoa.
Step 3. In another container, mix vegetable oil, honey, cherry water, sugar.
Step 4. Combine liquid and dry ingredients, stir very quickly.
Step 5. Stir cherries into the dough.
Step 6. Fill the molds with dough and place them in the oven at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
Step 7 Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.
Halva
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- 500 g nuts
- 300 g honey
- 1 cup raisins
- 3 tbsp. l. sunflower oil with flavor
Step 1. Fry the nuts in a dry frying pan, grind them with a blender, but not into dust.
Step 2. Add raisins to the nuts and chop them together.
Step 3. Add butter and melted honey to the nuts and raisins.
Step 4. Place the halva on a baking sheet, shape it and wait for it to cool. Then you can cut into diamonds or squares.
Lenten meringue
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- 4 apples
- 1 cup fine sugar
Step 1. Peel the apples without cutting them. Bake in the oven.
Step 2. Cut out the cores and rub the apples through a sieve.
Step 3. Pour ice into a large basin, place a bowl in it and add applesauce and sugar.
Step 4. Beat with a professional mixer at low speed until the mixture turns white, thickens and looks like whipped egg white. It will take about 2 hours.
Step 5. Cover a baking sheet with paper, spoon the apple mixture onto it to form small meringues.
Step 6. Bake at 150 degrees until the cakes are hardened.
If suddenly your household asks for something tasty for tea, and you have neither the energy nor the time to cook something intricate, whipped up cookies can always help you out, and by the way, they are very suitable. They can be made from different ingredients, both sweet, which can be served with tea, and salty, serving as an alternative to chips.
Everyone has different tastes and you can always choose something for yourself from many different options. In any case, having at least a few recipes in your culinary arsenal is a must for any housewife.
So, in today’s article, let’s look at the best quick cookie recipes, which you can easily prepare in the future, both for friends and for your loved ones! And in addition, I would like to advise you
Ingredients:
- Flour - 300 gr
- sour cream - 100 gr
- butter - 150 g
- egg white - 1 pc.
- sugar
- salt - 1 pinch.
Cooking method:
First of all, sift all the flour into a deep bowl, put butter and a pinch of salt there. Then, using a fork, mix everything well.
Now roll out the dough, square or rectangular, into a thin layer, while sprinkling it with flour, 3-5 mm thick.
Then we divide it into horizontal strips of approximately 10 cm and then divide them into vertical strips 4 cm wide.
Then we spread, preferably thick jam or jam, on each piece. If the filling is liquid, then you need to add starch to bind it.
Take the cookies and carefully connect the edges with your hands.
Then we give it the shape that you like best and place it on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Using a pastry brush or bandage, brush each piece with egg white. If desired, you can also sprinkle with sugar and place in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 15-20 minutes, until golden brown.
We take the finished cookies out of the oven, let them cool a little and treat them to our household.
Shortbread recipe
Very tender and tasty shortbread cookies made in half an hour using only three ingredients. In fact, it takes longer to go to the store than to prepare it!
Ingredients:
- Butter – 170 gr
- flour - 250 gr
- sugar - 100 gr.
Cooking method:
Place softened butter in a deep bowl, add sugar and mix well.
Then add the sifted flour in parts and mix it until smooth.
Now, from the resulting dough, we make a sausage shape and roll it out on a cutting table in sugar.
After that, cut the sugar-filled dough sausage into small rounds, approximately 1-1.5 cm wide and place them on parchment paper lined on a baking sheet and place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 15-25 minutes until lightly browned.
The cookies are ready, eat to your health!
Delicious kefir cookies
Ingredients:
- Kefir - 1 glass
- butter - 100 g
- sugar - 1 cup.
- flour - 2 cups.
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon
- salt - a pinch.
Cooking method:
Pour kefir into a deep bowl prepared earlier and add sugar.
Now pour in the butter that was melted (in this case) in the microwave and mix again.
Add baking powder or slaked soda, sifted flour to remove lumps and dirt and bring until smooth. The dough should be neither liquid nor thick.
Using a tablespoon, place the pieces on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or on a silicone mat.
If the dough turns out to be runny, then the pieces will spread, and if you overdo it with flour, then the cookies will turn out to be hard.
Place a baking sheet or silicone mat in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 15-25 minutes until golden brown.
The finished cookies are soft and quite fluffy. Enjoy your tea!
Cookies made from simple ingredients cooked in a frying pan
Ingredients:
- Egg yolk – 1 pc.
- sugar - 80 gr
- sour cream - 3 tbsp. l
- butter - 3 tbsp. l
- flour - 240 gr
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon.
Cooking method:
Pour the above amount of sugar into a deep bowl, add chicken yolk and three tablespoons of sour cream. Then, using a mixer, beat well.
Now roll the dough into a sausage with a diameter of about 5 cm and cut it with a knife into pieces approximately 2-3 cm wide.
Afterwards, we roll each piece into balls and give it some shape, or you can use special molds.
Place each piece in a preheated, dry frying pan and fry (keeping an eye on it constantly so as not to overcook) for 2-4 minutes, over medium heat, on each side.
After that, serve for tea!
Cookies without butter and margarine (video)
Enjoy your tea!!!
We offer simple recipes for making delicious cookies from dough without butter or margarine. Such products are less caloric and more healthy, which will be especially appreciated by those who care about their figure and adhere to a healthy diet. One of the recipes does not contain eggs or other quick ingredients and is therefore suitable for a Lenten menu.
A simple recipe for soft cookies with sour cream without butter and margarine
Ingredients:
- sour cream – 245 g;
- large chicken eggs – 2 pcs.;
- wheat flour – 255 g;
- granulated sugar – 125 g;
- baking soda – 5 g;
- vanillin – 1 pinch;
- table salt – 5 g;
- for registration.
Preparation
Cookie dough without butter or margarine is ready in minutes. Beat eggs into a bowl, add sour cream, add granulated sugar, mix and sift flour into the resulting mass, add vanillin, baking soda and salt. We knead, achieving a non-sticky, but soft texture of the dough. If desired, you can add steamed raisins, nuts or chopped dried fruits. Now we roll it into balls a little larger than a walnut and place them on a baking sheet covered with a piece of parchment.
We heat the oven to a temperature of 180 degrees and send the products into it for baking. After about thirty minutes, when the cookies are browned, remove the baking sheet from the oven, let the products cool, and sprinkle them with powdered sugar.
Quick cottage cheese cookies without butter and margarine - recipe
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese – 375 g;
- wheat flour – 165 g;
- chicken egg yolks – 4 pcs.;
- granulated sugar – 115 g;
- baking powder – 15 g;
- vanillin – 1 pinch;
- table salt – 5 g.
Preparation
To prepare the dough, grind the cottage cheese with egg yolks, granulated sugar, vanillin and a pinch of salt, achieving maximum homogeneity, and then sift the flour into the curd mixture in small portions, kneading well each time. Having obtained a non-sticky dough texture, roll it into a ball, place it in a bag or wrap it in film and leave it in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
After some time, roll out the ball until a layer is approximately five millimeters thick, covering it with cling film, and then cut out the products of the desired shape and place them on a parchment sheet placed on a baking sheet. To bake cookies, place them in an oven preheated to 185 degrees for twenty to twenty-five minutes.
Lenten cookies without margarine and butter on beer
Ingredients:
- beer – 245 ml;
- filtered water – 365 ml;
- refined vegetable oil – 365 ml;
- baking powder – 15 g;
- granulated sugar – 400 g;
- wheat flour – 1 kg;
- chopped hazelnuts – 180 g;
- halves of walnut kernels – 180 g;
- a glass of chopped hazelnuts and whole kernels
- table salt – 5 g.
Preparation
Mix six hundred grams of flour with refined oil, a pinch of table salt and beer until smooth. After this, sift the remaining flour and baking powder into the mixture and finally knead the dough. After this, we pinch off a little dough from the general lump, roll it into a ball, press it on the palm of our hand until we get a flat cake, 
Place half a walnut kernel on it, bend the edges and roll it into a ball again. Place the pieces on a sheet of parchment on a baking sheet and let them brown at 200 degrees for twenty minutes.
Now mix granulated sugar with water and heat to a boil, stirring and boiling for fifteen minutes over low heat.
Let the finished golden “balls” cool, then immerse them in the prepared sugar syrup for a minute and a half and roll them in ground hazelnuts. Place the finished products on a dish and let it brew for three hours.
Three recipes for cookies with milk, familiar from childhood
Shaker-puri: shortbread, fatty cookies with milk
This recipe seems to be created for small children - hearty cookies that can be dissolved in milk, water or juice. Moreover, these cookies are not expensive and are easy to prepare in 20 minutes.
Grind the butter in a bowl with powder, eggs, milk, soda and vanilla. Sift the flour there and knead a thick dough.
Roll it out with a rolling pin into a layer 1-1.5 cm thick, cut out cookie shapes with special molds, a knife or a glass.
Grease a baking sheet with oil and bake for 20-25 minutes in an oven preheated to 220-250°C. On top of the cookies you can sprinkle with powder, spices or pour over chocolate melted in a water bath, sprinkle with crushed nuts.
Brushwood recipe: fried egg cookies with milk
Crispy, airy and melt-in-your-mouth cookies are just what you need for tea on a cold evening.
Products:
1 tbsp. flour and milk;
2 table. l. granulated sugar;
Half a cup of powdered sugar;
Oil for frying.
Separate the yolks from the whites. Grind the yolks with granulated sugar until the grains disappear. Then add milk and pour all the flour mixture. Knead until smooth. Carefully place the whites whipped into a snow-white foam on top and mix carefully. Pour oil into a metal container in advance, a layer of two fingers. When it is hot, pour a portion of the dough into it in a thin stream, crosswise, to form a grid.
For convenience, you can use a small funnel. By inserting a stick into the funnel, it is easier to dose the dough. You need to press the mesh with a slotted spoon, immersing it in the fat for one minute.
When the color turns golden, catch the brushwood and place it on a paper napkin. Sprinkle with powder and fry the next portion.
Cookies with milk cooked in a waffle iron
In order to prepare dietary, soft, heart-shaped cookies at home, you need:
100 g each of sugar and melted butter;
250 g flour;
100 ml warm milk;
1 tsp baking powder.
Beat eggs with sugar, adding butter, milk, flour and soda alternately.
These cookies are prepared in a roasting pan. It can be electric or regular, designed for a gas stove. The mold must be greased on both sides with oil. Then spread the dough into a thin layer on one half. It increases in volume very much. Close tightly, bake on gas for 10-15 seconds on each side.
Serve cookies with whipped cream, jam, soft caramel or chocolate.
Culinary tricks
1. Instead of the flavorings that are put in factory-made cookies, you can add fragrant and warm cinnamon, cardamom, and ginger to yours.
2. Butter cannot simply be melted in the microwave, as the consistency of the batch and the quality of the baked goods will change. It is first left in a warm place for 2-3 hours to soften, and only then rubbed with sand.
3. The batter is kneaded by pouring the liquid into the flour. Medium consistency and dense - on the contrary.
This recipe will probably appeal even to those who do not recognize cottage cheese in its pure form. And you will undoubtedly like it, thanks to the fact that you can bake cottage cheese cookies without butter quickly and without any hassle.
So cottage cheese cookies prepared according to our recipe can be a real godsend when you want something tasty for tea, but time is short.
In order to prepare cottage cheese cookies without butter and margarine, prepare the necessary ingredients. For your convenience, immediately measure out the amount of ingredients required for the recipe, placing them in separate bowls.
Place the cottage cheese in a separate convenient container.
Add sugar here too. Grind these components using a wooden spatula.
I would like to note that the advantages of wooden kitchen utensils over others mainly lie in the fact that such spatulas do not scratch the dishes and also do not distort the taste of the prepared dishes. However, remember that their service life is not long.
Add an egg to the cottage cheese with sugar.
Mix the above ingredients thoroughly.
Add flour here.
Knead the dough. Place the dough in the refrigerator for half an hour.
After the specified time, take out the dough and roll it out using a rolling pin on a floured table. When rolling out the dough, try to ensure that the sheet is not too thin, but not too thick. It is convenient to use special cookie cutters for cutting out cookies.
Place future cookies on a greased baking sheet.
Bake the cookies in an oven preheated to 180 degrees until they are golden brown. It will take you about 20 minutes. Remove the baking sheet with the finished cookies from the oven.
Cottage cheese cookies without butter are ready; they can be decorated with special sprinkles.
Place the baked goods on a plate.
Now it's time to put the kettle on the stove. Bon appetit!
