Ten Lenten sweets Bashny.Net

New year — the date is controversial for churched families. On the one hand, strict fasting, with another feast at the neighbors and relatives and children, with sad eyes looking at the pastries and cakes. With third — ahead of Christmas, the long-awaited and joyful holiday. And it is possible to please kids, to honor mom and to entertain friends with something delicious, without breaking Canon.

We offer you, dear lady, 10 recipes lean, beautiful and festive sweets.

Kasuka



The beauty of this cake, which is not even baked in cashew nuts, coconut cream and fresh berries. 0.5 kg of cashews soak overnight. In the morning grind in a blender 10 of figs, 150 g nut mix (hazelnuts, almonds, walnuts) with 1 tbsp of coconut milk, put it on a base, lined with cling film. Then grind the cashew nuts with 1 banana, 1 tablespoon honey and 1 tbsp of coconut milk. 2\3 cream put into a form. 1\3 is mixed with 200 g of bright berries, whip, spread on top. Send to night in the freezer. Before serving, sprinkle with coconut and decorate with what pleases. Delicious wonder!

Gingerbread



The "feature" of gingerbread — in a wonderful flavor, ease of cooking and the opportunity to play with the recipe. Base — 0.5 kg of rye flour combined with 0.5 kg of honey or sugar syrup and the sachet of baking powder. Then in the dough add to taste 2 tbsp rum and\or 1 tbsp. grated ginger, 1 tablespoon of citrus zest, 2 tbsp. chopped nuts, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds or small fruits. The most important thing — blend of aromatic spices. Assemble according to your taste, the star anise, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, nutmeg. Heat the honey, sift flour, mix with baking powder and nuts, mix honey sticky dough. Roll it to a thickness of 1-1,5 cm, cut out figures, bake. The finished cakes should stand (to hang on the Christmas tree) not less than 24 hours, otherwise they will be tough.

Brittle



Simple, cheap and a favorite with children home treat. You will need 200 grams of sugar, 2-4 tbsp water, 1 tsp lemon juice, 100 g sunflower seeds or sesame seeds, walnuts, peanuts or almonds to taste. Seeds or nuts, fry until Golden brown. Prepare the form for kozinaki, line it with parchment paper and brush with oil. Cook in a pan with a caramel of sugar, water and lemon juice, to the beautiful color of weak coffee. Fill filler very quickly stir and pour into pie shell. When the treat begins to solidify, take on a soft surface cuts, to make it easier to break into serving pieces. Help yourself to health!

Jelly



Easy, beautiful and endlessly varied dessert. If to simplify the task and use the pre-made bags can handle even the Pope or the child-student. If you follow the example of grandmothers and boil with the sugar, currants or quince — it will be original. But the Golden mean is the basis of agar-agar, natural color (beet juice, raspberry, cherry, spinach, carrot, turmeric, saffron), fruit, berries or mixed filler and decor — mint leaves, whole berries, vegetable cream, topping or topping. Soak 4 tsp of agar-agar, add a glass of water, a Cup of sugar, bring to a boil, boil 30 seconds, turn off, add the dye, syrup and / or filler, pour in molds and put in the fridge after 6-8 hours, take out and decorate. Voila!

Fruit salad



Diet, tasty and healthy dish. Feature — the combination of flavors and the consistency of the different components. Soft bananas and grainy bits of pear, slippery pineapple and sticky figs, delicate persimmon and crunchy apples. Sour kiwi and sweet plum, rich citrus and calm blueberry, zesty raspberry, and exotic mango. You can add nuts, candied fruit, sunflower seeds, grated chocolate, sprinkle coconut flakes or corn flakes (before serving), add vanilla or cinnamon. The sauce in fasting option made from whipped cream or sour cream with sugar, in vegetable — syrup, vegetable or coconut cream.

Candy



Yes, those cocks on a stick that are sold to the gipsies in the parks to buy them is strictly forbidden!). The recipe is basic as the alphabet. Prepare and grease shape (box-shape candy, metal lids from jars, etc.), make a matchstick or toothpick legs. Boil the syrup 10 tbsp sugar 10 tbsp water + 1 tbsp lemon juice + natural food dye. When a drop of syrup will begin to harden in the water — ready. Pour into forms, insert the "legs" and allow it to cool and make yourself happy kids.

Homemade candy



Or rather, sweet balls Indian recipe. You will need a blender (in the extreme case a grinder), viscous, moderately juicy dried fruits (dates, apricots, prunes, raisins), honey (1 tablespoon per 300 g of a mixture), topping (sesame seeds, coconut, cocoa powder, grated nuts) and filling (banana slices, candied citrus or melon, whole almond, hazelnut). 300 g stoned dried fruits izmelchitel, adding honey and (if the mixture is too crumbly) quarter banana. Dampened hands sculpt balls the size of a walnut, flatten them into a pancake, put on the middle of the stuffing, roll, roll in topping, spread on a baking sheet covered with foil or parchment, place in refrigerator for 4-6 hours. And so — around the winter, and on the table Kolkata!

Charlotte



This recipe breaks templates — like this Apple pie — without eggs?! However, the role of the eggs is performed crushed in puree the banana or half a Cup of fresh banana, Apple, quince or pear juice. Cut into thin slices 3 sour Apple mix in a blender a Cup of sugar, 150 ml of refined oil, a pinch of salt, thickener (juice or a banana) until the sugar is dissolved, then gradually add to the dough sifted flour, baking powder and vanilla. Put apples in a greased form, pour the dough and bake as a normal pie. So-wonder Pets!

Marzipan



Remember "the Nutcracker" and marzipan sweets, which could only dream of? Turns touching and funny edible toys easy to make at home. Soak in the evening 200 g of almonds, chop in a blender, mix with 100 g of powdered sugar, 2 tbsp of hot water and a drop of almond essence or a teaspoon of rum or brandy. Knead the almond paste. And feel the magic pastry — marzipan can be mixed with nuts, raisins, candied fruits, fine chocolate, sprinkle with poppy seeds, coconut, cocoa powder, dyeing natural food colorants and glaze under the snow." Of the plastic mass can be molded into anything — craftsmen erect castles, build coaches and building ships. And you can make fruit, a rose, a pig or lamb. But at the same time — something on the Christmas table — marzipan can be stored up to two months.

Caramel apples



Lovely boxed treats — perfect for a child's birthday party. Take 600 g of small apples, cook for 5 minutes, drain and leave to dry. You can wet a cloth. Make the syrup 300 ml sugar and half a Cup of water when the drop will begin to thicken in the water — dipped apples, dipped carefully from all sides, take out and set aside on parchment to dry. In each Apple stick a "leg". Melt in a water bath a bar of chocolate, dip mix, sprinkle with coconut flakes or sesame seeds. Ready!

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