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When, for one reason or another, baked goods are excluded from the menu, and you want pies so that it is impossible to think about anything else, simple recipes for cupcakes, gingerbreads, will help out. In them, as a rule, some products are easily replaced by others, and the taste does not suffer from this in the least. For example, or curdled milk can be turned into a lean recipe, if instead of dairy products, the dough is kneaded in water or fruit juice, compote. It is even easier to balance the taste of baked goods - add spices, honey, cocoa, dried fruits or fresh, frozen berries. The same recipe for your favorite cake can be varied for at least a week or two, and each time the taste will be somewhat different.

Lenten cherry cake in winter is made from frozen berries or cherries in their own juice, in summer, of course, use fresh cherries. Do not forget to remove the seeds from fresh berries, and do not drain the juice, it will color the dough and add a cherry flavor to the finished baked goods.

Ingredients:

- Warm water - 0.5 cups;
- sugar - 1 glass;
- vegetable oil - 4-5 tbsp. l;
- cherries frozen or fresh, canned - 1 glass;
- flour - 250 grams;
- cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, ground ginger - pinch each (spices optional);
- baking powder - 1.5 tsp (or 1 tsp baking soda + vinegar).

Recipe with photo step by step:

We slightly warm half a glass of water so that the water feels warmer than room temperature to the touch. Pour warm water into a bowl in which we will knead the dough. Pour a glass of sugar there. Stir water with sugar until the crystals are almost completely dissolved.




Pour refined vegetable oil into the water with sugar.




Sift the flour. Add portions to the liquid, stirring the dough after each portion. This is a basic recipe for lean muffins, so there is no spice in it. If you decide to add something, then mix the sifted flour with spices and then cook according to the recipe.




After all the flour has been added and thoroughly mixed in, the dough will have a smooth, creamy consistency.






You can take any cherry for a cake: fresh, frozen, canned. Frozen must be thawed, do not drain the juice. Add to the dough along with the juice. Stir. The juice will begin to color the dough pinkish, so you need to stir until the whole dough is evenly colored. Otherwise, the cake will come out with light stains.




Add baking powder to the dough, mix. The dough will become slightly thicker and less dense.




We take a round cake pan with a recess in the center, or a rectangular one with high sides. Lubricate with oil, fill with dough about two-thirds of the volume.




We put the cake pan in an oven preheated to 180 degrees, bake for about an hour (the time depends on the height of the pan). We check the baking for readiness as usual - we take a wooden skewer and pierce it in the highest place. If the stick comes out dry, the cake is ready. If you can see traces of sticky dough, you still need to hold it in the oven. We leave the finished cake in the form for 10-15 minutes, and when it cools down a little, we take it out and finally cool it on the wire rack.






It is better to cut the cake when it has cooled down, when the excess moisture evaporates and it gains flavor. Bon Appetit!




By Elena Litvinenko (Sangina)

Even a novice cook can make a chocolate cake with cherries exactly as in the photo. One has only to do everything as the recipe indicates.

Ideally, your tea table will be decorated with an airy cupcake with chocolate and cherries. It will be soft and delicious. The recipe is convenient because you can bake a dessert with cherries at any time of the year.

The recipe is truly all-season. You can take frozen berries, canned cherries. But I say for sure that with a fresh berry, baked goods will be the most delicious.

Below is a recipe for how to make a chocolate cherry muffin at home. I supplemented the cooking algorithm step by step with a photo to make it clearer for those who first encounter such baking.

Chocolate homemade cupcake with cherries

In 1 hour you can prepare an amazing chocolate dessert with cherries that all family members will definitely like. It should be noted that the treat is high in calories. In 100 gr. the finished cake will contain 326 calories.

Components:

100 g bitter chocolate (the bitterness percentage should be high, the milk bar is not suitable); 130 g Sahara; 150 g flour (be sure to sift before adding to the dough batch); 2 pcs. chickens. eggs; 40 gr. sl. oils; 260 g cherries; 2 tbsp powdered cocoa (can be replaced with soluble cocoa); 1 tsp baking powder; 30 gr. almonds (chopped into petals); 50 ml solution oils.

Cooking Algorithm:

1. Sl. I send butter and chocolate in a saucepan to the fire. I constantly interfere.
2. Chicken. I interrupt eggs, baking powder and sugar with a mixer.
3. I mix the egg mass with the chocolate one. I add flour, cocoa. I stir it.
4. I add cherries.
5. The oven must be heated to 180 gr. Cover the form with rast. oil. I pour the dough into a mold and bake in the oven for 35 minutes. After the first 20 minutes, sprinkle the cake with almonds.
6. When the dessert is ready, you need to let it stand for 20 minutes in the turned off, but still warm oven. So the treat is better to dry out.

Chocolate and cherry cupcake on kefir

Dessert with cherries will turn out to be less high-calorie than prepared according to the above method. In 100 gr. treats will be 254 calories. And they prepare about the same time.

Components:

180 ml of kefir; 200 gr. flour; 150 g Sahara; 1 PC. chickens. egg; 70 ml solution oils; 1 tsp baking powder; 2 tbsp cocoa (instant or natural - at your discretion); 1 tbsp. cherries.

Cooking Algorithm:

1. Chicken. I beat the egg with a mixer along with sugar. I add kefir and mix.
2. I stir and add flour and baking powder. Then I bring in cocoa and berries.
3. I grease the shape of the rast. oil. I fill it with dough. I heat the oven to 180 gr. I send it to bake for 40 minutes. I check the readiness with a match.

• Rinse frozen cherries, let them defrost and drain the juice. By the way, the juice can be used for compote, jelly or making fruit drinks. But know that it is suitable for this purpose only after defrosting.
• The juice from the canned berries must also be drained. Be sure to remove pits from cherries. The same is required to be done in a fresh berry. Let the fresh berries dry after rinsing. Moisture will prevent baked goods from baking well.
• The dough can be poured not into one large mold, but into several smaller ones. Then you will have small cupcakes. You can use paper baskets, it is easy to get dessert out of them.
• Before serving dessert, it must be allowed to cool.
• You can decorate muffins with cinnamon, chopped nuts, and powdered sugar. You can even make frosting.
• You can supplement the treat with ice cream, it is better to take vanilla or berry to the chocolate dessert. You can also serve a dessert garnished with whipped cream.

I highly recommend making a chocolate cherry muffin at home for every hostess. With such a treat, any tea party will be even more pleasant and comfortable.

You will be delighted to watch the dessert fly away from the table, and your loved ones will get an unforgettable pleasure from such a festive breakfast. I wish you all Bon appetit!

My video recipe

A delicious, moist, chocolatey and juicy cake made from simple and lean foods. This lean chocolate cake with cherries will please everyone who tries it. The baked goods have a moist texture and taste very similar to a delicate soufflé. If the cake is kept in the oven for more time, it will dry slightly and will have a familiar texture.

Ingredients

To make Lean Cherry Chocolate Cake, we need:
400 g frozen pitted cherries;
1 cup cherry liquid
2 cups of flour;

2 tbsp. l. honey;
1/2 cup sunflower oil
1/2 cup sugar
2 tbsp. l. cocoa;

11 g baking powder;
11 g vanilla sugar;
1/4 tsp salt.

Cooking steps

Defrost the cherries, pour the juice from the cherry into a glass. If the resulting juice is less than a glass, add water to release the right amount of liquid.

Mix separately the vegetable oil, sugar, vanilla sugar, cocoa, salt and baking powder.

Add honey, flour and liquid from the cherries.

Mix the dough for the lean chocolate cake and add the cherries.

Mix everything until smooth, the dough turns out like thick sour cream.

Pour the dough into the prepared mold (you can not lubricate the silicone mold with oil).

We bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for about 50 minutes (until the stick is dry).

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You can also cook delicious food from a very ascetic set of products. And you don't need sour cream, eggs, or butter, and even more so you don't have to spend the rest of the evening or half of the weekend in the kitchen. Cherry cake is very simple to prepare, and, perhaps, this is one of the best recipes in terms of price, simplicity and speed of preparation. Well, the taste of the pastries will be appreciated by your family and friends - and rest assured, no one will guess that the cake is literally made "from an ax." All you need is flour, soda and vinegar, canned or fresh (frozen) cherries, water or cherry juice, sugar and vegetable oil. You can bake the cake in any shape or in a skillet with high sides.

Ingredients:

- water, cherry juice or cherry compote - 2/3 cup;
- vegetable oil - 4 tbsp. l;
- cherries are fresh, frozen or in their own juice;
- sugar - 0.5-2 / 3 cups (to taste);
- soda - 1 tsp (no slide);
- vinegar - 1.5 tbsp. l;
- flour - 1.5 cups.

How to cook from a photo step by step

To prepare lean cherry cake, you can take boiled warm water or cherry juice, cherry compote, you can drain the juice from canned cherries. According to the recipe, the cake is prepared in the juice left after defrosting the cherries. Add sugar to the liquid, stir.

Pour in vegetable oil (refined), stir again.

Sift flour into liquid. Stir with a spoon or whisk, carefully rubbing all the lumps of flour, even the smallest. If lumps remain, they will be light spots in the finished baked goods and the cake with cherries will not turn out very neat.

You need to add flour until the consistency of the dough becomes like a very thick sour cream. It will not pour out freely from the spoon, but will slowly drain in heavy waves. If the dough is thin, add more flour to the desired thickness.

Quench the baking soda with vinegar and pour into the dough.

This is where amazing transformations begin to take place with the dough. From bright pink, it will turn lilac, then it will begin to darken and get a grayish color. This cherry juice reacted with baking soda. Do not be alarmed, these metamorphoses will not affect the color of the finished baking, the cake will turn out to be very beautiful, honey-colored.

Cherries need to be held in a sieve for some time so that the liquid drains. It is best to do this before preparing the dough, and use cherry juice instead of water. Stir the cherries into the dough. How many berries to add is a matter of taste, but the more cherries there are, the tastier the cake.

Grease the mold with oil. Fill 2/3 of the volume with dough, no more - the lean cherry cake rises very well when baked. Put the cake in the oven at 180 degrees. Bake for 25-30 minutes depending on the height of the mold. Pierce the finished baked goods with a skewer - it will come out of the cake dry, without crumbs and lumps of dough.

It is better to cool the cake on a wire rack and cut it already completely cooled. This lean cake turns out to be very tasty - crumbly, but not dry, fluffy, moderately sweet and with a pleasant sour cherry. The cooled cake can be greased with any jam syrup and sprinkled with colored coconut - and you will have real holiday baked goods!

Cupcake recipes with easy step-by-step photo instructions

30 minutes

300 kcal

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It happens that suddenly you want something sweet or someone has to drop in for tea from minute to minute, but there is nothing to serve, and there is absolutely no time to go to the store. The idea immediately comes to mind to make some kind of sweet pie or cupcake, and even more so, with the presence of a microwave oven or multicooker in the house, this can be cranked many times faster and more conveniently. And then the problem comes up again: looking into the refrigerator, we find that there is not enough ingredient for the standard preparation of baked goods - milk, eggs or butter, or even several components at once, but do not despair right away, because you can make a lean cake , easily dispensing with these components!

And believe me, the taste of such pastries is in no way inferior to an ordinary cake. In addition, a cake made without the same oil carries fewer calories, which makes it possible to pamper yourself at least a little for those who follow a diet. Let's take a look at some simple options for making delicious lean muffins!

How to choose the right ingredients

As a rule, the main components of any sweet baked goods are dry ingredients - flour, sugar, vanilla, as well as baking powder and cocoa. The last ingredient is added if you are making chocolate dough, and the baking powder, if it is suddenly not there, is often replaced by the hostesses with slaked soda. Also, if desired, you can add various spices such as cinnamon, ginger and others.

In the preparation of lean baked goods, butter is replaced with vegetable oil, and milk - with some syrup to taste, tea or plain water. Eggs are also easy to do without. Today we will look at the options for making cupcakes based on water, cherry syrup, and tea.

Lean Cocoa Cupcake Recipe

Kitchen appliances and utensils: microwave; 2 deep dishes, a tablespoon, a teaspoon, a spatula, a glass.

Ingredients

Step by step cooking

Video recipe for lean cake with cocoa in the microwave

The simplest recipe for a chocolate lean cake without eggs in the microwave, presented above, you can see in execution. While watching this video, I remembered that I also had a similar baking dish lying around somewhere, although I quickly got used to preparing muffins in an ordinary heat-resistant deep plate.

Butter-Free Cupcake Recipe (With Cherries)

• Cooking time: 1 hour - 1 hour 20 minutes.
• Servings: 1.
• Kitchen appliances and utensils: multicooker; 3 deep dishes, a tablespoon, a teaspoon, a spatula, a glass.

Ingredients

Step by step cooking

1. Making a lean muffin in a slow cooker with cherries is easy! Before starting the main work, take out the frozen cherries to defrost.
   
   
2. Now let's start preparing the dough: combine the sifted flour and cocoa, add the baking powder and mix the ingredients.
   
   
3. Mix sugar and honey in a separate bowl.
   
   
4. We pour the liquid from the thawed berries into a glass, which we then fill to the top with water and get a kind of cherry syrup.
   
   
   
5. Pour the resulting liquid into sugar and honey, add oil and mix well.
   
   
6. Stirring constantly, gradually introduce the dry mixture and bring it to a state of a homogeneous dough.
   
   
   
7. Put the dough, which has the consistency of thick sour cream, in a multicooker bowl, and on top - cherry berries.
   
   
8. We close the lid of the multicooker and cook in the "Baking" mode for the prescribed time (40-50 minutes). After the cooking time of our cake without eggs in a multicooker has expired, check the degree of its readiness and, if necessary, cook for another 10-15 minutes.
   
   
9. When the cupcake is ready, turn off the heating and let it stand for 10 minutes, after which you can take it out and decorate, and then feast on!
   
   

Video recipe for lean cake with cherries in a slow cooker

In addition to the "Baking" mode, you can use the "Multicooker" mode, which is available in some models of multicooker. How such a cupcake is prepared using this program, see the video:

Lean Tea-Based Cupcake Recipe

• Cooking time: 1 hour.
• Servings: 1.
• Kitchen appliances and utensils: oven; 3 deep dishes, a tablespoon, a teaspoon, a spatula, a glass.

Ingredients

Step by step cooking

Lean Tea-Based Cupcake Video Recipe

Moving away from the "chocolate theme" of today's baked goods, watch the video for a tea cupcake recipe. These pastries taste like gingerbread!

Often, muffins are prepared in small tins or large silicone tins. Large cupcakes should take a little longer to bake than small ones, in the oven - about 50 minutes. The baking temperature for muffins is 180-200 ºС.

Check the degree of readiness of the cake by piercing it with a wooden stick or a toothpick: if the stick is dry, the cake is ready, if the dough sticks, cook for another 10 minutes.

What to serve with

These muffins go as a dessert with any desired drink, be it coffee, tea, milk or even compote! With these recipes, from now on you can always meet guests who will be on the doorstep from minute to minute, "fully armed".

Perhaps you know any other recipes for lean baking? Share with everyone in the comments your knowledge, as well as your impressions of the cupcake prepared today!