Caloric content of "Prague" cake, its benefits and harm
Cake is the crown dish of the festive table, withoutwhich, it seems, can not do any feast. This is a dessert prepared from cakes, impregnated with jam or cream and decorated with glaze, nuts, fruits on top.
Today there is a huge selection of differentvariants of this goodies. On the shelves of the confectionery departments you can see yoghurt, nut, chocolate, cream, fruit, curd, honey and coffee cakes. This dessert can either be bought in the store, or cooked at home. But do not forget that this is a very nutritious and caloric pleasure. Therefore, by purchasing a dessert in a pastry shop or choosing a recipe for home cooking, you need to carefully study its composition. The article talks about one of the most popular cakes, about the ingredients that it contains and about how much this sweetness is useful or harmful to health.
Cake "Prague": history of origin
This dessert, so popular and loved by manyeven since Soviet times, has nothing to do with the capital of the Czech Republic. Its creation is related to the restaurant "Prague", created in honor of the decade of the liberation of the city from the fascist occupation. In the fifties of the last century Vladimir Guralnik got a job at this institution. He is the creator of the recipe for the legendary cake. The restaurant specializes in Czech national dishes. Experts from Czechoslovakia worked there, and there is a suggestion that they prompted Guralnik the way to prepare this dessert. In a famous institution this delicacy was cooked with cream, rum and liqueur.
Products from which to prepare a cake
The creation of this delicacy includes the preparation of dough, cream and glaze.
To make a dough, you need the following types of products:
- Eggs.
- Sugar.
- Powder of cocoa.
- Sour cream.
- Condensed milk.
- Soda.
- Flour.
Prepare the cream with the following ingredients:
- Butter.
- Cocoa
- Condensed milk.
The composition of the glaze includes cocoa powder, sugar, butter and milk.
In some variants of recipes it is possible to meetsuch products as cognac, liquor, chocolate and vanillin. Sufficiently high calorie content of the Prague cake is determined by the presence of especially nutritious ingredients in the cream and glaze. In addition to the classic way of cooking in various books on cooking, you can read other recipes:
- "Prague on sour cream".
- "Chiffon Prague".
- "Old Prague" with the addition of chocolate.
Of course, any experienced hostess knows that you canendlessly experiment with cooking methods and dessert ingredients. And, of course, the calorie content of Prague cake can be slightly reduced by using the already available or creating your own dietary option.
Benefit and harm of dessert. Energy value
Of course, cake is not the best product for those,who need to follow the rules of healthy eating and follow the figure. But in any food you can find something valuable for the body. Cocoa and chocolate, which are part of the cake, are excellent tools to combat bad mood and fatigue. They also contain substances useful to the body, such as iron and magnesium. But the composition of this sweetness includes a lot of fat and sugar. This is not the best choice for those who need to lose weight.
The high calorie content of the Prague cake is notthe only reason to refuse to often use this product. This dessert is slowly absorbed by the body because of the high content of fat in it. Therefore, people with GI diseases should eat it with caution. In general, even for healthy people, this delicacy is recommended to use occasionally, on holidays. The cake "Prague" has a high energy value - the calorie content per 100 grams is about 350 kilocalories. Agree, this is quite a lot.
