Chocolate Lenten Cupcakes in the Multivariate: recipes with photos

During the prescribed abstinence by the church, it is sometimes very difficult to explain to a small child why it was severely restricted in sweets. Especially if for this period it is his long-awaited birthday. Yes, and older children, already understanding the essence and meaning of fasting, frankly bored without treats. However, adults, too, sometimes want to pamper themselves delicious, without violating the rules. And here will come to the aid of lean muffins. They do not include anything fast or luxurious, but to please the most inveterate sweetheart.

Apple Muffins

It is simpler and more accessible to cook a muffin cake, the recipe of which includes apples - they are sold everywhere in the midst of winter. You can add it with dried apricots - then the delicacy will be even more tasty and useful. To begin with, a handful of dried apricots are scalded (if they are too hard) and finely chopped, then mixed with a glass of flour, half a glass of sugar and one and a half spoons of baking powder. You can add a little cinnamon. Of the baked apples without middles, puree is made - it will take a quarter of a kilo; Four spoons of lean oil interfere, after which the mass is added to the dry mix. Large form (or portioning molds) are smeared, filled with a test no more than two thirds, and lean muffins are put on the oven for half an hour. How to cool - you can sprinkle powder.

Honey - to work!

Very tasty honey lean muffins. Recipes with the photos below will help you understand the technology of cooking.

• In a glass of warm (not hot!) Water, two spoons of natural honey dissolve. When the liquid becomes homogeneous, pour it into a deep container, pour half a cup of sugar and pour in the same volume of vegetable, odorless, oil. After dissolving sugar sift over a bowl and a half cup of flour, mixed with a bag of baking powder. Careful kneaded dough is poured into molds - and into the oven for about 20 minutes (until it stops sticking on the toothpick when piercing).
• You can diversify pastries and nuts, and candied fruits, and dried fruits. So, we perform the same actions with flour, honey and butter (everything is taken in the same proportions). Only at the end of the kneading process, we add the selected additives, usually in small amounts - two to three large spoons. Get an amazing taste!

A simple carrot cake

This root crop to buy a deaf in winter is just as easy as apples. Meanwhile, the lean carrot cake turns out tasty and aromatic enough that it is willingly absorbed even by desperate whims. And how much benefit! The most elementary way to cook it is to squeeze out a glass of juice from the root vegetables (you can, in principle, and ready to use, but it's better not to be lazy), mix with a glass of sugar, two glasses of flour and a teaspoon of soda, extinguished with lemon juice. You can enter cinnamon for flavor, and raisins for flavoring. The dough should get a little thicker than for pancakes. The moment when your lean cupcakes are ready, is determined traditionally - a match or a toothpick.

Cupcake in Brazilian

If you use not the juice, but the whole root, the lean carrot cake turns bright juicy color, very soft and airy. It will take a quarter kilogram of the vegetable. It should be cleaned, cut and passed through a blender. The resulting puree is beaten with sugar and refined sunflower oil (take a glass). Then, in a mass, with continuous mixing, a glass with a sieve of sifted flour is poured, vanilla sugar (to taste, usually - a sachet) and a spoon of baking powder. The dough is poured into molds (you can bake this lean carrot cake and a single pie - it rises perfectly in any case, only time in the oven will hold more). The main thing is to allow the product to cool down right in the stove, otherwise it will come on and it will not be so delicious.

Brazilians water the finished baked goods with chocolate glaze, but we have a muffin - lean, the recipe of the same sweetness includes milk and butter. Therefore, we will have to confine ourselves to sugar powder. Do not worry, less delicious your baking from such a restriction will not.

Cupcakes with cocoa

For many without chocolate, life is sad, colorless and joyless. Comforting them in the days of abstinence can be a lean chocolate cake. It is prepared simply: in a bowl, mix a glass of flour with an incomplete glass of sugar, add two spoons with a slide of cocoa powder and two small ones - baking powder. A glass of hot water poured in; The dough diligently vymeshivaetsya. The index of sufficiency of this action will be the absence in the mass of grains of sugar and its even light chocolate color. Finally, lean oil (three spoons) is poured in, and the dough is stirred again. If desired, you can pour into it pieces of marmalade, chocolate chips, berries (even ice cream), poppy seeds, nuts or candied fruits. If you pour the dough on small molds, then your lean muffins will be ready in a third of an hour. However, before taking out it is better to make sure that they are baked, using the same match.

Cherry-chocolate cupcake

The above recipe can be somewhat complicated - and get even more seductive pastries. It will take almost half a kilogram of frozen cherries. Berries need to be poured into a colander, which is put on a bowl, in order to collect the juice, which is released during thawing. If it will turn out less than a glass, it is necessary to add warm water. Two glasses of flour are sieved in another bowl with two tablespoons of cocoa powder, half a glass of sugar and one spoonful of baking powder. Then two spoons of liquid honey, cherry juice and half a glass of odorless sunflower oil are poured into this mixture. You can add vanilla sugar or cinnamon. When the mass becomes smooth, berries are poured into it: it can be whole, it can be in the form of puree (then you will first have to use a meat grinder or a blender). In great shape, a lean chocolate cupcake with cherries will stand in the oven for about 50 minutes; In small - about 20. It is recommended to remove the product completely chilled.

Chocolate-tangerine cupcake

It is very interesting to taste the chocolate lean fruitcake in the multivarquet, especially if it is supplemented with citrus. First, with a mandarin, the peel is peeled off, and he sorts himself into slices (the bones, if any, are removed). Prepared in this way, the product is placed in a blender and whipped with cocoa (two spoons), soluble good coffee (one), sugar (two large) and peeled. It should be about half a cup of liquid. It mixes with a pile of tangerine juice, two tablespoons of lean oil - and pours into a glass of sifted flour, to which a spoonful of soda or a bag of baking powder is added. Thoroughly everything is stirred. The finished dough is poured into the greased cup of the multivark, after which the "Cupcake" mode is turned on for 50 minutes. If it is not in your device - put "Baking" at the same time.

The date muffin cake in the multivark

Pleases those who are not stingy on these fruits. For the test, first the oil (naturally, lean, just under half a glass) is combined with 150 grams of sugar, a pinch of salt and vanillin. Then half a glass of cold (necessarily!) Water is poured in, soda ash (half-spoonfuls) and three spoons of cocoa powder are added. All is beaten up by a mixer with a gradual addition of two glasses of sifted flour. Dried dates are discarded and finely chopped, then poured into a bowl. The dough is once again stirred, poured into a greased bowl, and the multivarker, included in the baking mode for an hour, is left alone. The aroma and taste of products are unforgettable!

We offered you a variety of lean muffins. Recipes with photos greatly facilitate their preparation and allow you to choose one that gives more appetizing results. After a little trying, you can even spend lean days delicious and without dejection!