Classic as a lightweight: This is how the Danube wave succeeds in low carb
Created: 01/11/2022, 12:16 PM
From: Maria Dirschauer
Donauwelle is a popular cake that usually has a lot of calories.
But not if you bake it as a low-carb version!
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Do you fancy something sweet but want to eat low-carb?
No problem: delicious cake recipes like Donauwelle also work with fewer carbohydrates.
Many cake recipes are real classics in German bakeries. For example apple cake, cheesecake and the
Danube Wave
, which owes this picturesque name to its appearance: two types of dough, light and dark, are intended to indicate the waves of the Danube. In addition, it tastes incredibly good: Sponge cake, cherries, pudding buttercream and a chocolate icing on top - nobody can resist that, right? The only downer: the classic cake is unfortunately not a slimming product. Stupid if you decided at the beginning of the year to eat healthier or on a
low-carb diet
to put.
But this is where the following Danube Waves recipe, inspired by Springlane, comes into play: It's low carb, so it's low in carbohydrates, as some ingredients are cleverly exchanged.
You can treat yourself to a piece without a guilty conscience - or two ...
Also delicious:
Another low-carb cake: You can confidently grab it.
Recipe for low-carb Danube Wave: You need these ingredients
Servings: For 1 baking sheet (12 pieces)
Category: cakes, tarts Baking
time: 30 minutes
Difficulty level: medium
For the dough:
1 jar of morello cherries (370 g drained weight)
10 eggs (size M)
160 g xylitol sugar (e.g. xucker)
200 g almond flour
1 packet of baking powder
2 tbsp baking cocoa
For the pudding cream:
800 ml of cream
6 eggs
2 teaspoons of locust bean gum
600 ml of milk
4 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 tbsp xylitol sugar (e.g. xucker)
500 g soft butter
For the chocolate icing:
100 g dark chocolate
4 tbsp neutral vegetable oil
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Pour the cherries into a colander and drain them well.
Preheat the oven to 180 ° C top / bottom heat.
Grease a baking sheet with butter.
For the dough
, beat the eggs with the xylitol sugar using a hand mixer until frothy. Mix the almond flour with the baking powder separately and fold both into the egg mixture. Divide the dough in half and stir in the cocoa under one half. Spread the light-colored dough on the baking sheet. Then spread the dark dough on the light one. Spread the drained cherries on top. Bake the cake in the hot oven for about 25-30 minutes. Then let it cool down.
For the pudding
cream, mix the cream with the eggs and locust bean gum. Boil the milk in a saucepan on the stove together with the vanilla extract and xylitol sugar. Then stir in the cream mix and let everything boil again briefly while stirring. Pull the pot off the stove and let the pudding cool lukewarm. Covering the pudding surface with cling film will prevent skin from forming. Beat the butter with the hand mixer very creamy. Then stir in the lukewarm pudding, tablespoon at a time. Spread the buttercream on the cooled cake and put everything in the fridge for 30 minutes.
For the chocolate icing,
chop the dark chocolate (here you can find out which brand was the test winner at Stiftung Warentest) and melt it together with the vegetable oil in a heat-resistant bowl over a hot water bath.
Let the icing cool down for about 10 minutes and then spread it on the firm pudding cream.
If you wish, you can now use a fork to draw wavy lines in the chocolate glaze.
Let everything set and cut the Danube Wave into rectangular pieces for serving.
Have fun baking and feasting.
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