A delicious, delicate and fragrant pie - charlotte with apples in the oven, is familiar to most of us since childhood. Over the long history of its existence, charlotte has undergone many metamorphoses. Today it is difficult to find a person who is interested in cooking, who would not know that delicate fruit desserts and cakes of stale bread with apple filling, saving for food, were called charlotte.
In his famous book “A Gift for Young Housewives or a Means for Reducing Household Expenses” E. Molokhovets gives several recipes for charlotte with berry fillings and jam, and V. Dahl claims that charlotte is a round pie with jam. And even the old English meat pudding was also called charlotte.
One way or another, but referring to the name “charlotte” today, we mean either a baked dessert of biscuits or slices of bread with apple and berry filling, or, most often, a simple and tasty sponge cake with apples, where apples are not so much a filling as main ingredient of the dish.
It is the last version of apple charlotte that has received the greatest distribution in Russian cuisine. Despite the simplicity of preparation, Russian apple charlotte has a delicate, but at the same time bright taste and aroma.
And thanks to the large number of apples used in its preparation, charlotte is extremely rich in useful substances, minerals and vitamins. All this makes charlotte one of the most popular Russian sweet cakes.
There are an infinite number of options for cooking Russian charlotte. Like any truly popular recipe, charlotte recipes for charlotte vary from region to region, from home to home.
Each hostess, each culinary person has her own recipes for charlotte with apples in the oven and her own little secrets of her preparation. Which allow you to turn a simple cake into a unique dish - the real pride of the hostess. A dish that is admired by friends and household.
sugar 1 cup;
5 eggs;
wheat flour 1 cup;
4-7 apples, depending on size;
soda 1/3 teaspoon;
vegetable oil 1 tablespoon.
How to bake delicious apple charlotte in the oven:
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Let's start with the apples. It is better to take more acidic varieties in charlotte, but you can also any.
Let’s dry our apples. Let’s chop thin slices. We place in a deep bowl, pouring cinnamon. Select the juice from the lemon, add to the apples so that they do not darken. In conclusion, sprinkle apples with brandy. Close the lid tightly, let them wait in the wings.
Let's make dough for charlotte. Beat eggs with sugar. Mix flour with beaten eggs.
Mix everything quickly into a homogeneous mass.
Preheat the baking oven to 180 degrees. Grease a special form with vegetable oil. Sugar, just a little.
Put some of the dough into the mold and align the cake. Then take the apples. Put in the form in even layers.
The final stage: pour our apples with a second portion of the dough. Garnish with apples on top, lightly sprinkling them with granulated sugar.
Baking. We send our charlotte to the oven for 40 - 45 minutes. It may take 5-7 minutes to check your cake.
How to determine readiness: pierce with a toothpick, the dough does not stick to it - the threshold is ready. Charlotte turned bright and ruddy.
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A recipe for simple homemade baking, which even the most inexperienced housewife will cope with: charlotte on kefir:
The peculiarity of this recipe is in the combined filling of apples and cherries.
Kefir mix with sugar. Add eggs, melted butter and vanilla sugar.
Mix flour with baking powder and gradually add to the liquid components. The dough should have a consistency of thick sour cream.
Cut apples into slices and put on the bottom of an oiled form.
Spoon half the dough onto apples. Spread the pitted cherries on top and pour the remaining dough.
Charlotte put in a preheated oven for 40-45 minutes. Sprinkle the finished cake with powdered sugar.
The composition of the recipe:
How to cook:
Apples need to be peeled, core and cut into small slices. Sprinkle the apples with a little lemon and mix well. Separate the proteins and yolks in different plates. Separately, beat the whites with half a glass of sugar, and separately the yolks with the remaining sugar.
It’s not necessary to whip everything until the sugar is dissolved, you can just beat a little to get a good homogeneous mass.
Combine the proteins with the yolks, mix and add the flour. Mix everything thoroughly, it turns out a batter.
Lubricate the form with butter (creamy or vegetable), sprinkle lightly with flour. Pour half the dough into a mold and spread the apple slices. Pour apples with the remaining dough. We bake charlotte in the oven at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes.
Charlotte is one of the simplest and most delicious pie recipes. And very variable - any fruits and berries, cream, chocolate, nuts, vanilla, cinnamon - everything goes into business.
There isn’t much difference in a bread machine or in an oven. All the same, you will have to beat the dough with a mixer or a spoon.
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How to cook charlotte in a bread machine:
Put the peeled and finely chopped apples on the bottom of the bucket. They’ll go down anyway.
Beat eggs with sugar in a very lush foam. But carefully combine with flour with a spoon. And do not bother much. Put the dough on apples.
Baking mode 90 min. Start!
Since childhood, we all know a delicious pie like charlotte. Initially, this cake was made exclusively with apples, and eggs were one of the necessary ingredients for the preparation.
However, at the moment, there are already dozens, and possibly hundreds, of options for preparing this dish with various changes in the composition of the ingredients. We bring to your attention a wonderful recipe for making charlotte without eggs.
At the end of cooking, let stand for several minutes so that the charlotte is well behind the form in which it was baked. When serving, you can sprinkle the cake with icing sugar and garnish with berries. This dish is perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
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How to cook charlotte with apples without eggs:
Mix semolina with sugar, pour kefir and set aside while you work on apples. Wash, peel and cut the apples into thin slices.
Mix flour, semolina with sugar and kefir, vegetable oil, salt and vanilla sugar. Soda off and pour into the dough. Mix well until smooth.
Add chopped apples to the dough and mix again.
Grease a baking dish with vegetable oil and sprinkle with semolina. Pour the dough into a mold and place in a preheated oven.
Bake for 40 minutes at an oven temperature of 180 degrees.
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How to cook charlotte with apples and bananas:
Beat eggs with sugar, add flour. Peel and chop apples and bananas. Lubricate the mold with vegetable oil, lay out the fruits and fill them with dough.
In an oven preheated to 180 ° C, you need to bake charlotte for 30-35 minutes. Still, this is a wet cake, and its readiness is better to check not with a match - with a toothpick. They’ll be wet all the time ... As the dough starts to lag behind the sides, it's done. Sprinkle the cooled charlotte with powdered sugar.
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How to cook charlotte with apples and cottage cheese:
Mash the cottage cheese thoroughly. Beat eggs with sugar until thick foam. Melt the butter, cool slightly, carefully pour it into the eggs. Add cottage cheese, sour cream and soda. Mix everything. Flour is needed so that the dough is like thick sour cream.
Peel the apples, cut into slices. Add to the dough and mix well. Lubricate the pan well with vegetable oil and pour the dough into it. Bake on medium heat for about an hour if baking in a pan, and slightly less if on a baking sheet.
With a toothpick or match, check that the cake is ready. Yes, another tip. Sometimes you bake, bake, and a toothpick shows everything - wet. If the dough moves away from the edges and the color is golden brown (and the smell is awesome) - then it’s ready.
Do not forget about calorie content, so invite guests to get some of the calories.
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Beat the milk and eggs and dip the thinly sliced \u200b\u200bloaves of bread there. Grease a cake pan or pan with oil.
Put prepared slices of loaf on the bottom of the dishes and on the sides. We spread a layer of apple slices on top, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, then bread slices and a layer of apples, etc. on top there should be a layer of bread slices. Put oil on the last layer. Bake in a hot oven until cooked.
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Charlotte is a simple dessert for tea, for guests and for every day, the recipe for which every housewife knows. Most often this is an open pie, which is cooked in the oven with apples, sometimes with cottage cheese, bananas and other toppings.
How to cook charlotte is usually taught by mother or grandmother in childhood, while the child only learns the basics of culinary skill. The kitchen experts of the older generation did not know such a diversity in products. Moms, grandmothers prepared this dish from what was in the shops and at the dachas — from apples.
Now their young daughters and granddaughters can afford to experiment. In our selection of recipes you will learn how to cook charlotte with apples, as well as pears, nuts. And learn some gastronomic lessons.
The well-fed years of storey abundance after shortages gave us several options for our favorite dish. In cookbooks and on sites you can find a lot of recipes on how to cook a simple dish with apples or other filling.
This simple cake began to be baked a long time ago by the British, who served it as pudding - instead of the classic dough they used bread crumb. In Russia, pudding somehow did not take root, although we will tell you the recipe on how to cook charlotte with English charm.
The version of a delicious apple pie that everybody eats every day in our country was invented in the 19th century again in the United Kingdom.
The author of the dish is Marie Antoine Karem, and his creation of biscuit or savoyardi cookies, cream and apples went around the world under the name “Russian Charlotte”. The most talented chef was noticed by the most holy persons and invited to work at the English royal court. Therefore, the name of the pie, according to one version, came from the name of Charlotte: it belonged to the mother of the British monarch.
There are a lot of excellent charlotte recipes on the net, but we counted eight: classic charlotte with apples, with cottage cheese, with bananas, charlotte in, kefir charlotte, charlotte with pears and apples, French bean charlotte and charlotte. Some will be known to you, some you will hear for the first time.
Almost all options for making charlotte include several ingredients. Requirements for the recipe must contain 3-5 eggs, about a glass of sugar, the same amount of flour, a little salt and soda.
Once you want to try the classic recipe for this delicious and simple pie, add another kilogram of apples to the one described.
Servings Per Container: 8.
How much will we cook? From half an hour to an hour.
How to cook?
This is how one of the most popular traditional Russian baking recipes is prepared.
If you add cottage cheese or curd mass to the classic recipe, charlotte will turn out to be airy, fragrant and will melt in your mouth.
The ingredients you will need:
Cut the butter into cubes and combine with a third of the sugar, rub until the crystals disappear. Then add the cottage cheese, one third of the granulated sugar, stir again. Mix what is left of granulated sugar with the proteins in one bowl, with the yolks in another bowl.
Combine the cottage cheese with butter with the egg mixture and stir. Pour flour with baking powder or soda and make a baking dish.
Fruits in the form of slices without peel add to the dough. Then you need to stir the mass for baking. Next is the direct baking process.
I wonder how the Russian pie is prepared with exotic fruit for our cuisine? In the same way as the usual version of the pie, just take 3 bananas instead of apples, butter, if desired.
As a basis for cooking, you can take the classic Charlotte recipe or the one where cottage cheese is also added to the dough.
This variant of cooking charlotte saves your time twice: while you are cooking a pie and while you are losing calories. Still, Russian traditional desserts are terribly tasty, but they have so many carbohydrates!
So, the instructions for baking charlotte in:
To make the pie on kefir, you will need:
Beat chicken eggs with sah. sand, pour in parts of flour. Carefully add baking powder or soda, kefir, knead the dough.
Lay out the pieces of apples at the bottom of the mold, cover with a mass of flour and eggs - and in the oven for half an hour or an hour.
How to cook charlotte with apples and pears? Instead of one share of apples, take 1⁄2 apples and 1⁄2 pears. To make the cake better than that of mom or a neighbor, I recommend using cinnamon powder, vanilla and nutmeg at the same time.
Before putting the pears in the mold, peel them and cut them into cubes. It is better to cut apples into slices. Everything else - as in previous cake recipes.
And here is the promised instruction for making a simple Russian pie with unusual English charm.
For the pie you need:
Sprinkle apples with peeled halves of sugar and, if desired, cinnamon powder and nutmeg.
Loaf, roll to get rid of fried crusts, cut into small pieces. In a blender, mix the eggs, sah. sand and a glass of milk, roll slices of bread in the resulting milkshake well and cover the inside of the baking dish.
On a bread layer, put slices of apples, then part of the bread that you have left, and pour a cocktail of eggs and milk. Form - in the oven for half an hour, heating it to the desired temperature.
Listen to everyone! Just arrived a fresh recipe on how to cook charlotte in French! Add some nuts to the recipe - walnuts, and preferably almonds - and voila, the Parisian version of the delicious and simple dessert is ready. You can call it in the French manner - charlotte.
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Cut the apples into several small parts, removing the peel in advance, chop the nuts. Beat eggs with sah. sand and spices, heat the oil. Put the baking powder into the flour, pour the melted butter into the eggs, knead the dough.
Mix everything with apples and bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
So, how to cook charlotte with apples, bananas and six other different ways, you have learned. Now you can add a little personality to the art of cooking this insanely delicious, and most importantly simple pie.
Do not get bored in the kitchen - try different ways of cooking your favorite dish. There are many sweet spices suitable for baking: cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, vanilla. In addition to spices, there are a dozen more ways to diversify the recipe: lemon zest, honey, and the type of cake itself.
Charlotte can be made open and blocked from above with stripes of dough, as our grandmothers did, or closed. Then pierce the apple pie on top with a toothpick in different places to let the air out. The cake will not go down, the biscuit will be lush and airy, as in American coffee houses.
Experiment with the filling: add raisins, syrups, poppy seeds, almond shavings. August is a paradise for gardeners and culinary specialists: the berry has not yet passed, until you can find cherries, and in some places raspberries. Charlotte with berries, apricots, with or without nuts is the simplest thing that can be made from flour, eggs, sugar and sweet berries or fruits.
This cake is a must-have item for any self-respecting housewife! You can try to find on the Internet a classic, very first recipe for charlotte with savoyardi cookies. You will not only fulfill the obligatory paragraph “to please the family”, but also surprise your home with knowledge of gastronomic history.
Be creative, come up with your own crown recipe, and then guests will definitely ask how to cook charlotte in your way.
A simple recipe for lush charlotte with apples must settle in the culinary notebook of even the youngest housewife. This pastry is prepared in an elementary way, but it always turns out to be surprisingly tasty, delicate and “airy”. Lush classic charlotte with apples does not lose its taste even the next day, solving the issue with a mid-morning snack and a sweet snack.
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The magnificent classic charlotte with apples is completely ready! Have a nice tea party!
Charlotte is a dish with a history and millions of fans. You can cook a simple cake with fruits and berries. Charlotte is always a decoration of a festive and everyday table.
A lush apple pie called Charlotte is a traditional German dish borrowed from the British. However, over time, the recipe for this dessert has undergone a significant transformation and is hardly now similar to the one prepared hundreds of years ago.
Pie Charlotte apples
Interesting: the name of the pie dates back to ancient England. So, there is a historical version that this recipe was invented by the real Queen Charlotte - the very wife of George 3rd. Another theory says that the name comes from "charlyt", which translates as "food from eggs."
The secret of making a magnificent Charlotte is hidden precisely in the proper beating of eggs. Even without the addition of baking powder or soda, the cake can be incredibly airy and light.
magnificent cake can be prepared without the use of baking powderIf you want to surprise your loved ones with a magnificent dessert, you should definitely:
Important: A blender with a whisk attachment or an ordinary kitchen mixer will help to beat eggs qualitatively.
Bake the cake in the oven only at a temperature of 180 degrees, since too high temperature conditions can burn the top, but leave the middle moist.
Charlotte is ideally combined with ice cream, cream and meringue (cream of protein and sugar). To bake this pie is not only necessary with apples, you can successfully replace them with any other fruits: plums, kiwi, pears.
Classic charlotte is very easy to prepare. The ingredients for such a dessert will be found in every housewife. Incredibly fast and eager, this dish “disappears” from the tray literally immediately after the oven. Delight your loved ones with a delicious cake.
A more advanced Charlotte recipe includes sour cream and fewer eggs. This is a modern variation of the cake, featuring delicious pastry.
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Puff pastry always comes to the rescue in unexpected situations. It is able to save from unexpected guests, a spontaneous picnic and just in those moments when you really want sweets. You can buy ready-made puff pastry in almost any store, and cooking puff Charlotte will not take you much time.
Puff pastry is light and airy. Compared to ordinary, puff pastry is much more useful, and when you consider that in this pie there are more toppings than pastries, it is also dietary!
This version of Charlotte is especially unusual, as standard jam falls into the dough completely non-standard!
Step by step recipe:
Divide three eggs into proteins and yolks. Beat whites thoroughly with sugar until foam.
Add the yolks, two tablespoons of sour cream (tablespoons) and continue to stir. Sift flour (300 grams), add to the mass with sugar (100 grams).
In a glass, mix a teaspoon of soda with vinegar and add to the total mass. A glass of jam (300 grams) is added to the dough.
Bake the cake for forty minutes in the oven, heated to 200 degrees. Try using jam with large berries or pieces of fruit that will be nice to find inside baking.
Charlotte with berries will be a wonderful decoration for the festive table. You can use fresh or frozen berries - any will be delicious.
Important: If you are baking with frozen berries, first defrost them so that the cake is not “wet”.
Make the dough while the berries are thawing:
Variety of ordinary apple pie can be bananas. They will give the baking flavor and bring an exotic touch to the dish.
Chocolate charlotte is prepared very quickly, but it turns out very tasty.
Kiwi has a pleasant sweet and sour taste, so it will be a great addition to charlotte.
A similar pie turns out great in a slow cooker:
Charlotte is not just a pie that is easy to make. This is a historical dish that has undergone many improvements over time. All these years it has remained popular and loved.
You can bake Charlotte both in the oven and in the slow cooker. In any case, you get a fragrant and juicy cake. Surprise your family and try to diversify the usual dessert recipes with unusual fruits.