You can never get enough vegetables! Every season offers new colors, shapes, and flavors: from sweet to sour to nutty, there is something for everyone. In addition, vegetables are extremely figure-friendly because they are mostly low in calories and very rich in vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Now the sweet kitchen has discovered the advantages and conjures up all kinds of vegetable desserts.
Carrot muffins
This vegetable dessert tastes big and small: carrot muffins with almonds! Thanks to the grated carrot and apple, these muffins taste super moist and are full of vitamins. And best of all, this vegetable dessert can be frozen and then served on the right occasion.
Beetroot cake with chocolate
One ingredient is particularly popular with those with a sweet tooth: chocolate! The tenderly melting candy can of course also be combined with a vegetable dessert, such as beetroot. It’s beautiful bright red, also gives the beetroot cake a great color.
Kale Apple Muffins
There is no kale as an ingredient for a vegetable dessert? Yes, there are kale and apple muffins, for example. The wintry vegetable also scores with its high proportion of vitamins and minerals that promote health. The recipe is here:
Ingredients
- 1 kg kale leaves
- 3 tart apples
- 4 eggs
- 160 grams of sugar
- 2 teaspoons of baking soda
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
- 350 grams of flour
- 100 grams of nuts
Preparation
- Preheat the oven to 175°C top and bottom heat.
- Gradually add kale leaves, apples, eggs, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon to a food processor and mix thoroughly.
- Now add the flour and mix again. Then add the nuts and mix well.
- Pour the finished batter into the muffin cases and bake for about 45 minutes.
Pumpkin Mousse
One ingredient for the vegetable dessert should not be missing, especially in autumn: the pumpkin! Not only hearty but also delicious sweet dishes can be conjured up from it. It gets creamy with the pumpkin mousse from EAT SMARTER. The pumpkin seeds processed in it provide unsaturated fatty acids, amino acids, and vitamin E.
Carrot strudel with cinnamon
This variant of the well-known apple strudel is at least as delicious: carrot strudel with cinnamon. The orange-colored vegetable dessert is bursting with beta-carotene, a cell-protecting antioxidant. After being converted into vitamin A in the body, it helps with the structure and function of the skin, and the nerve cells and is important for the visual process.
Zucchini chocolate cake
If you want to bite into a juicy piece of cake, you should write down the recipe for the zucchini chocolate cake. It is a lower-calorie variant of the pure chocolate cake since the zucchini itself adds only 17 calories per 100 g to the calorie account. When the grated green vegetables are mixed with the cake batter, they provide an extra portion of the volume, which reduces the amount of flour.
