Carob Dessert Ideas

2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29

Locust bean flour is an organic product and is often defined as a substitute for chocolate, according to some to cocoa. Others claim to have a taste for something very familiar, but find it difficult to determine exactly what. Whether it looks like any other product or itself, horns contains many useful substances.

In addition, it is much less caloric than cocoa - locust bean flour has about 60% fewer calories. Contains a lot of calcium, vitamin A, B1, B2, magnesium.

The plant is a tree that begins to bear fruit only after the sixth year. They are called carob pods. Highly distributed in the Mediterranean region, the carob tree is evergreen.

On the Jewish holiday of Tu Bishwat, dried fruits of the plant are traditionally eaten, and during Islamic Ramadan, locust bean juice drinks are drunk. It is often used for the production of paper, in the field of cosmetics, tobacco processing.

In cooking carob is also a preferred additive - powder or pieces. It is often added to cakes and pastries, sometimes mixed with cocoa. In addition, locust bean helps with stomach problems, diarrhea, nausea, etc.

You can add locust bean flour in almost any dessert - it is important only to match the other products. It is already a matter of taste and personal preference, as well as many attempts. You can make biscuits, cookies, cakes, creams - all sorts of things with the help of locust beans.

Make your sweets with the help of 3-4 tablespoons of chia seeds, 1 teaspoon of nuts, 1 teaspoon of raisins, 5 dates, 1/3 teaspoon of locust bean flour.

Mix all the products in the blender until you get a mixture that is similar to flour. Roll out and cut into molds, then put them in the cold in the freezer to harden nicely.

Small cakes with locust bean flour

Necessary products: 1 pack. butter, 120 g sugar, 1 tablespoon vanilla essence, 200 g flour, 60 molasses, 1 baking powder, 60 g locust bean flour, 1 egg, ½ tsp ground hazelnuts

Method of preparation: mix the flour, carob, hazelnuts and baking powder and mix well. During this time, beat the soft butter with the sugar, the goal is to get a creamy mixture. The egg, vanilla essence and molasses should be added. Beat well and gradually add the flour with the other products.

Mix well and when you get a dough, you start making balls out of it - the size should be as big as a walnut. Place in a pan in which you have previously added baking paper, then arrange the balls and bake in a preheated 180 degree oven for about 15 minutes.

If you prefer, you can replace the nuts, and also put a whole nut in each ball before baking.

The following suggestion is not a typical dessert, but it is sweet and tasty, so you can try this option. For the carob shake you do not need who knows how many products, and the weight depends on your personal preferences. Here is the recipe:

Shake with horns

Necessary products: ½ tsp nuts to your taste, vanilla, honey, 3 tablespoons locust bean flour, water, 4 bananas

Method of preparation: The bananas should be cut into pieces, put with the other products in a blender and beat well. All products can be replaced.