Baking without sugar and sugar substitutes is a really great idea if you want to reduce the excessive sugar consumption that is so common these days. We are used to eating foods that are way too sweet, but you don't always have to use unhealthy industrial sugar to make wonderful treats. Especially on holidays like Easter, when children are already given a lot of chocolate and other sweets from the shops, you probably want healthier alternatives for home-baked goods. We have put together the Easter classics for sugar-free baking at Easter. With the following recipes you can bake Easter lamb, yeast plaits and even cookies without sugar.
The Easter lamb is a classic on theEaster table for Easter Sunday. Like all Easter cookies, this one also contains industrial sugar. But not with our recipe, which is also vegan! You can use a special baking pan for the form (a volume of 700 liters is sufficient for this recipe). Be sure to use apple puree and not applesauce, as the latter usually contains added industrial sugar. Dates are a wonderful sugar substitute! If you want to make a cake for Easter, lamb is an original variant.
- 150 g apple pulp
- 75g dates
- 85 g spelled flour
- 15 g coconut flour
- 60 g ground hazelnuts
- 1 tbsp grated orange peel (organic)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla, ground
- 2 tablespoons coconut milk
- 1 TL Natron
Healthy baking ideas – Preparing the vegan dough
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees (withoutcirculating air). Soak the dates in hot water for at least 10 minutes. Then puree them and mix the puree with all the other ingredients.
To bake the sugar-free cake, grease the mold and pour the finished dough into it. Bake the lamb for about 35 minutes. Shortly before the end of the baking time, it is advisable to cover the open side so that the cake does not get too dark. Let the pastry cool a little and then remove it from the mold to serve as a sugar-free Easter dessert.
Instead of powdered sugar, you can sprinkle the lamb with erythritol or serve it plain. The perfect oneCake for childrenwithout sugar!
Would you rather have muffins for Easter? Then you can easily pour the dough into muffin cups and reduce the baking time. Then test the skill of the mini cakes without sugar with the toothpick before removing them from the oven.
Sugar-free Easter cookies and cookies with honey
Cookies aren't just for Christmas. With the right cookie cutters they are also suitable for Easter. Sweet baking without sugar also works wonderfully with honey! Here's how you can bake sugar-free cookies:
- 280 g flour (e.g. spelled flour)
- 250 g soft butter
- 100 g honey at room temperature
- 1 No
- Pulp of a vanilla bean
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice (organic) and the zest of this lemon
- 30 g corn starch (e.g. corn starch)
- 1 pinch of salt
Prepare Easter cookies without sugar
For the Easter cookies without sugar, first mix the dry ingredients and then set aside. Then beat the butter together with the zest and vanilla until fluffy and then gradually add the honey, lemon juice and egg. Finally, stir in the dry mixture from before and you get itsugar-free dough.
Place this on a piece of baking paper and shape it into a ball with floured hands. Flatten them and wrap the dough with the remaining baking paper and let it rest in the fridge for an hour or overnight. Then roll it out on a floured work surface to a thickness of 1 cm and cut out cookies. Bake them for 9 to 12 minutes at 180 degrees top and bottom heat.
To decorate, you can mix 3 to 4 tablespoons of coconut butter with 1 to 2 teaspoons of honey. You can color this liquid, mix it with dried fruits or chopped nuts or with chopped, low-sugar dark chocolate. Perfect sugar-free Easter candy, don't you think?
Bake yeast plaits for Easter or other forms without sugar
We have already shown you how to make edible onesEaster baskets with and without yeastcan do. Would you like to bake healthy Easter baskets without sugar? Then you can use the following Easter bread recipe to make a sugar-free Easter basket. This would be a good option not only for diabetics but also for children. To bake without sugar for Easter you need the following ingredients:
- 500 g Flour
- 200 ml milk at room temperature
- 2 Owner
- 100 g apple pulp (not puree, as it is usually not sugar-free)
- 20 g fresh yeast
- 2 pinches of salt
Baking sugar-free recipes – yeast dough for Easter bread and nests
Mix the flour and salt, crumble the yeast in another bowl and mix it with the milk and apple pulp. Then add this mixture to the flour and knead it into a yeast dough. If using a mixer with a dough hook, start on low for 2 minutes and then continue on high for 5 minutes. Form the dough into a ball and let it rise in the bowl in a warm place for an hour.
Flour the work surface and divide the dough into the necessary parts - at least three strands for a plait or two strands per nest for Easter nests. Then weave your Easter bread or nest, beat the eggs with a little water, brush the dough with it and let it rise again on a baking tray for half an hour. During this time it should expand. Then bake the braid at 180 degrees for 25 minutes (nests require less time).
You can choose the version from the cookie recipe as the glaze or, as with the Easter lamb, erythritol for sprinklingReduce sugar consumption.
