Want to make a very tasty and inexpensive cake? Easy. Charlotte is the easiest and budget dessert, which has no equal in taste. The sweet and sour taste of this cake was loved by many people.
And this is not surprising, because cooking it is very easy, financial costs are scanty, and the taste of the finished dish is simply incredible. You can experiment with the ingredients and add to the composition of this culinary masterpiece the fruits and berries that you like most.
But nevertheless, charlotte with apples is considered an invariable classic recipe. Sour-sweet varieties are considered the best apples for charlotte and it is desirable that they are very juicy. The sourness of these apples gives a special note in the taste, which for a long time will be remembered by every lover of sweet pastries.
A properly cooked pie looks very magnificent, and tastes airy. And how to achieve all this, we will talk with you in this issue, in which we will consider several different, and in their own way special, ways of making charlotte.
Moreover, in the autumn there are a lot of apples and right now it's time to cook it at least every day, according to various recipes, the chic look and amazing aroma of which will fill your home.
First of all, I want to draw your attention to several important points, which in no case should be overlooked. Adhering to them, you are guaranteed to prepare a delicious and airy apple pie, which your household will be happy with.
The tips below apply to all charlotte recipes, and therefore, so as not to be repeated, I decided to write them before the review.
And the rest of the points related to the specifically selected cooking method, we will analyze directly in the recipes themselves.
So, what you need to know to get a tasty meal, only one type of which salivates flow:
This method is the most famous and popular. We will cook in the old way, in the oven. In addition to the standard set of products, we will not add anything extra. It is this charlotte that is prepared at our home most often and never bothers. She wants to eat again and again - she is so good.
Ingredients:
Cooking:
1. Let’s start by thoroughly washing and peeling the apples from the core.
2. Now we need to cut them into identical slices, about 5 mm thick. We will not clean the skin. Why? In the end you will understand everything.
3. Now you need to knead the dough. First, beat the eggs with a mixer at a low speed for 1 minute.
Then increase the speed to maximum and gradually pour sugar.
Pour in one bag of vanilla sugar. The whipping time should be 5-6 minutes.
Before you start preparing the dough, you can turn on our oven for heating. In order for the biscuit to rise well, the dough in the form should be placed in a well preheated to 180 degrees oven.
4. In the end, you should get a lush white mass, the same as in the photo.
5. Pour the sifted flour into the egg-sugar mixture and mix with light movements.
It is advisable to add flour in small portions. Part was poured, mixed. They poured a little more, mixed again, etc.
6. Add the zest of 1 orange to the dough and mix again.
7. We lay out part of the sliced \u200b\u200bapples in a form that was previously covered with parchment paper, greased with butter and sprinkled with sugar a little.
Instead of sugar, you can sprinkle with flour or semolina - to whom you like, the essence of this does not change.
By the way, our form is detachable, with a diameter of 18 cm. In my opinion, it is very convenient to work with detachable forms. It has several advantages such as, it is easily and conveniently covered with paper, it is very well removed without damage to baking, it is convenient to wash, etc. No matter how you look, some pluses.
8. For flavor, sprinkle apples a little with cinnamon. If you do not like cinnamon, then you can not add it.
9. Pour the dough onto apples. If you want, then you can first pour part of the dough, put more apples, and then pour the rest. We did not do this.
10. We made a very beautiful pattern of apples on the surface of the dough, laying them in a spiral, moving from side to center.
To do this, it is best to take fruits with a red peel - so it will look more festive and beautiful on a finished charlotte.
11. We send the form with the dough into the oven for 30-40 minutes. With our form it took exactly half an hour.
Charlotte is ready. The result was a very rich aroma, with a pronounced taste of sour apples and a subtle, slightly perceptible note of orange peel and cinnamon.
This is something incredibly tasty. Better yet, serving the finished charlotte with a scoop of vanilla ice cream is generally an explosion of taste.
Try to cook and you will be satisfied. Bon Appetit!
Nowadays, modern technology has become an integral part of everyday life. Technology develops every day, making life more convenient and simplified.
How many appliances have already been created for the kitchen in order to reduce cooking time and thereby facilitate the work of the housewives.
So, for cooking charlotte without the hassle, you can use the help of a slow cooker or a bread machine. In truth, I never tried to make charlotte in a bread machine, but on the Internet you can find a lot of detailed recipes on this topic. And we will cook in the slow cooker.
Ingredients:
for the test:
for filling:
Cooking:
1. Cooking the dough. In a deep bowl, break the eggs and pour 1 cup of sugar.
2. Beat with a mixer at high speed for 5 minutes. The mass should whiten and increase in size.
3. Now gradually pour the flour into the mixture, after sifting it (even 2 times). Mix with a silicone spatula.
4. Cooking the filling. In a bowl, send the butter and pour sugar into it. Beat with a mixer until smooth.
Remember to remove the oil from the refrigerator in advance to make it room temperature.
5. Pour a bag of vanillin and beat again for 2 minutes.
6. Introduce cottage cheese into the oil (it is best to take low-fat) and beat with a mixer until smooth.
7. The apples are peeled and peeled and cut into small thin slices.
8. Lubricate the multicooker bowl with butter. You can take a frozen piece and directly hold it over the entire surface of the bowl.
9. Put some apples on the bottom and fill with half the dough.
10. Add the curd filling, smooth and fill with the remaining dough.
11. On top we lay the remaining piece of apples and, if desired, sprinkle with cinnamon.
12. Close the cooker lid, set the “baking” mode and bake for about 1 hour.
13. Readiness is checked like a regular biscuit - with a toothpick. Sprinkle the prepared charlotte with powder and decorate with berries or fruits to taste.
This completes the cooking process, and the dessert is ready to eat. It remains only to brew tea and proceed to the most interesting and delicious stage - to eat charlotte. Have a nice tea party!
In this recipe, we will cook a big pie, for a big company, so that everyone has enough. To everything else, we add raisins to the composition, which will give the finished pie a certain feature, unlike other recipes.
Ingredients:
Cooking:
1. Peeled apples, cut into small cubes.
In principle, the shape of the cut does not matter. You can chop as you like. The only thing to consider is that the slices are not quite large. Otherwise, they simply will not bake. But I don’t advise doing too small either, so that apples during baking do not turn into mashed potatoes. It is necessary to catch the "golden mean" so to speak.
Since the cooking process takes some time, apples may turn black during this time, due to the iron content in it. And to avoid this, you can sprinkle them with a little lemon juice.
2. Before you start making dough, you need to prepare raisins. Soak it in boiling water so that it is steamed just in time by the time the dough is ready. And at the same time you can set the oven to 180 0
3. Now is the time to do the test. Beat the eggs with a mixer until the foam appears and gradually pour sugar. Beat until sugar is completely dissolved.
As you can see, the recipes are different and the methods are different. Someone prefers to immediately combine sugar and eggs, while someone does it gradually. In my opinion, there is no need to rush and pour sugar and flour in portions. As a result, you should get a slightly thick mass.
4. Pour flour into it (also gradually), constantly stirring with a wooden spatula from the bottom up.
5. Pour steamed raisins onto a paper towel and let it dry a little.
6. We have a lot of dough, and we have a lot of apples, so we will use a baking sheet for baking. We cover it with paper and a little grease it with oil. If desired, you can sprinkle with flour or sugar.
Put the sliced \u200b\u200bapples on a baking sheet, sprinkle raisins on top. You can make half a cake with raisins, and the second half without it, for a change. And not everyone loves dried grapes.
7. Now fill the whole thing with dough. You can use a spoon, or you can pour the entire surface of apples directly from the container. To whom it is convenient.
8. Send the baking sheet to the oven and bake until cooked.
This is probably the easiest and easiest recipe for charlotte. Despite all its simplicity, it turns out to be very magnificent, airy and incredibly tasty. You can’t imagine any better.
In fact, apple pie is a dietary dish, because in the classic version of the dough preparation there is nothing but eggs, sugar and flour. And flour is added purely symbolically. But if you want to eat a more high-calorie and nutritious dessert, then you can add sour cream, cottage cheese or kefir to the composition. That is what many culinary specialists do. If you are a fan of this type of baking, then this recipe is for you.
In the recipe above, which describes the preparation of charlotte in a slow cooker, we already made the curd filling. And it turned out pretty well. Be sure to try. And now let's look at a way to knead the dough on kefir. And let's see what happens.
Ingredients:
Cooking:
1. Beat eggs with sugar until completely dissolved. You should get a dense, homogeneous mass of white.
2. In a separate bowl, beat the cottage cheese with kefir with a mixer.
3. Mix both of the resulting mixture.
4. Pour baking powder into the flour and mix.
In this method we use a baking powder. The fact is that adding cottage cheese and kefir, we get a heavy dough. And, in order for the baking to rise, I advise you to add a baking powder.
5. Continuing to beat the curd and egg mixture, gradually pour in the flour.
6. We generously lubricate the form with butter and pour the finished dough into it.
7. Top with sliced \u200b\u200bapple slices at our discretion.
8. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes at 180 degrees until fully cooked.
The result is such a festive beautiful and fragrant pastry.
We take out the finished charlotte from the mold, cut it into portioned pieces and serve it with hot tea or coffee.
In the vastness of YouTube, I got a video recipe in which the author reveals and describes in detail 7 secrets of making balloon. Whether or not to use these tips is up to you. For myself, I noted a couple of points that I did not know and will continue to use them.
That's all for today. That’s all I wanted to show and tell you. I hope that with these recipes you will get wonderful pastries, and the recipes will replenish your cookbook. I will be happy to answer all questions in the comments.
All I have to do is wish you bon appetit!
See you in the next issues. Till!
Traditional charlotte is made from white bread, custard, apples and liquor. But over time, the classic recipe was gradually supplemented and altered, and today a lot of charlotte recipes are known - from the simplest and most unpretentious to complex and sophisticated.
This recipe uses the classic proportions specific to muffin dough. The pie turns out to be quite heavy, but loose. It is better to cook it when you want a hearty apple baking.
You will need:
- about half a kilogram of apples without a peel;
- 100 g flour;
- 100 g butter;
- 2 eggs;
- 120 g of sugar;
- a quarter of a teaspoon of baking powder;
- salt.
Beat softened butter well with sugar. One at a time, enter the egg mass. Add flour with baking powder, salt, knead the dough. Chop the apples and combine with the dough. Bake on a baking sheet for 40 minutes in an oven heated to medium temperature.
This biscuit is very sweet and airy. The proportions of the products must not be changed, because the composition of the test will be violated. Beat the eggs at maximum speed so that the protein mass is dense. Stir the dough very carefully so that it is airy.
You will need:
- 4 eggs;
- 120 g of powdered sugar;
- 130 g flour;
- 300 g of apples.
Mash yolks with 100 g of sugar. Squirrels with sugar residues beat until a dense white foam. Gently mix the yolk and protein. Then, with gentle movements, stir in the flour. Anoint the mold with oil and dust with breadcrumbs, lay the bottom with apple slices and pour dough on top. Bake for half an hour at 198 degrees.
The secret of this charlotte is in the delicate aroma of brandy, which can be replaced with rum, cognac or tincture. Alcohol will soften the apples and the cake will become airy. If you like apples to remain light, grease them with lemon juice.
You will need:
- a kilogram of apples;
- 3 eggs;
- 160 g of flour;
- a glass of sugar;
- a spoonful of cinnamon;
- 3 tablespoons of alcohol.
Soak the apple slices in a mixture of brandy, lemon juice and cinnamon. Beat eggs with sugar and slowly add flour. Knead the dough. Put apples in the smeared form, pour the dough on top. Bake the cake for about an hour at 180 degrees.
This is an easy and reliable recipe. The dough comes out dense and has a slightly sour taste that goes well with the aroma of apples. Apples are more suited sweet.
You will need:
- half a kilogram of apples;
- 250 g of flour;
- 2 eggs;
- 100 g of oil;
- 120 g of sugar;
- a glass of yogurt or kefir;
- half a teaspoon of baking powder or soda;
- salt.
Pound sugar with soft butter, add eggs one at a time, then kefir, flour, baking powder and salt. Put chopped apples in the dough. Put the dough in a greased form and cook for 45 minutes at 195 degrees.
This is the best autumn-winter dessert, eat it warm. It is dense, slightly moist with lots of filling.
You will need:
- 1-1.5 kg of apples;
- 3 eggs;
- a glass of sugar;
- 0.5 cups flour;
- half a spoon of soda;
- 1 lemon.
Pour the chopped apples with lemon juice. Beat sugar with eggs, put the rest of the ingredients. Mix the dough with apples. Bake at a temperature of 198 degrees to a crispy crust, then reduce the heat to 180 and wait another quarter hour.
This old recipe has an interesting taste. There are ingredients for it in any refrigerator.
You will need:
- 5 eggs;
- 0.5 sugar;
- 1.5 packets of vanillin;
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder;
- 4−5 tablespoons of flour with a slide;
- 3-4 apples.
For meringues you need:
- 2 squirrels;
- 4 tablespoons of sugar.
Beat whites and sugar thoroughly, then add the yolks one at a time. Pour flour, baking powder and vanillin without ceasing to beat. Put part of the dough into the mold, then slices half of the total number of apples, again the dough and the remaining apples on top. Bake for 20 minutes at 210 degrees. Then make the meringues, whipping the whites with sugar until a stable foam. Remove the cake from the oven, pour the meringue and place in the oven for another 10-12 minutes.
The dough rises due to well beaten eggs. Oil is needed only for lubricating the form; instead of butter, you can take vegetable oil.
You will need:
- 600 g of apples;
- 6 eggs;
- half a glass of sugar;
- a glass of sour cream;
- half a glass of flour;
- cinnamon;
- butter.
Mash yolks white with sugar. Add 7 tablespoons of sour cream. Grate 3 apples, mix with flour. Combine with the yolk mass. Cut the remaining apples into slices and sprinkle them with cinnamon. Gently mix whipped proteins into the dough.
Pie baked according to this recipe is closest to the old French recipe. All products for this dessert should be the freshest. The fatter the sour cream, the tastier the charlotte.
You will need:
- 150 g butter;
- 1−1.5 cups flour;
- half a glass of sour cream;
- 1.5 tablespoons of baking powder (baking powder).
To make a fill you need:
- a glass of sour cream;
- a glass of sugar;
- an egg;
- 1 spoonful of vanilla sugar;
- 2 tablespoons of flour;
- 4-6 large apples.
Stir flour, sour cream and melted butter. Knead the dough. Distribute it in shape, with your hands fashioning low sides. Cut the apples into thin platinum and place them on the surface of the dough. Beat sour cream, sugar, vanilla and egg to fill. Add flour. Spread the resulting mixture over the apples in a mold. It takes about an hour to bake.
Such a pie was made in the 19th century in England. The secret of this dessert is the increased fat content of milk, yesterday's bread and plentiful lubrication of the form.
You will need:
- 500 g of apples;
- 1 glass of milk;
- 300 g of white bread;
- 1 egg;
- ¾ cup sugar;
- 3 tablespoons butter;
- 1 lemon.
Cut the pulp into slices 1 cm wide. Cut a piece of bread into cubes and dry. Beat the egg, milk and 2 tablespoons of sugar. Remove the zest from the lemon and strain the juice. Dice apples, pour lemon juice and sprinkle with sugar. Lubricate the mold with plenty of oil. Dip the slices of bread in the milk-egg mixture and lay them on the bottom of the mold so that there are no voids. Melt a small amount of butter, and fill them with bread cubes, mix with apples and zest. Put the mass in the mold. Top with all the remaining slices of bread soaked in milk. Bake at 200 degrees for 50 minutes, then leave the cake in the oven off for 10 minutes.
This is a national Swedish dessert with natural cinnamon, vanilla and cane sugar. Due to this, charlotte acquires an original flavor.
You will need:
- 4 apples;
- 1 glass of flour;
- 1 tablespoon of dark brown sugar;
- ½ lemon (juice);
- ¾ cup walnuts;
- 70 g butter;
- 60 g of vegetable oil;
- 130 g of light brown sugar;
- 1 egg, vanilla pod or vanilla essence;
- half a spoon of baking powder;
- a quarter of a spoon of salt.
Divide the apples into plates, pour with lemon juice, sprinkle with cinnamon and dark sugar. Place apples on the bottom of a greased form. Turn on the oven in advance, the temperature in it should be 190 degrees. Fry nuts and chop coarsely. Mix melted butter with vegetable, add sugar and egg, then vanilla and zest. Sift flour with baking powder and salt into the oil mixture. Add nuts and knead the dough, which then put on apples and cook until golden brown. Eat better warm.
Hello! Today we have charlotte with apples, for 8 delicious recipes with step by step photos. An article that many readers have been waiting for. After all, as soon as the autumn season begins, and the apples ripen, it means it's time to cook charlotte.
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Supporters of sweet cakes, who agree on the sophistication of this cake, perhaps a lot. And among the many different fillings, the filling with apples takes the first place. Apple pie called charlotte is cooked more often than other pies.
Charlotte (from French Charlotte) - a sweet dessert of apples baked in pastry. Classic Charlotte is a German sweet dish made from white bread, custard, fruit and liquor. (from wikipedia)
So, we begin to cook apple pie. The classic recipe consists of the following ingredients.
1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 4 eggs, 4-5 apples (more can be), 10 gr. vanilla, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of vegetable oil.
Beat eggs with sugar and vanilla.
We take apples, peel, remove the core and cut into cubes, slices - as you like.
Choose a baking dish. She can be anything, and a frying pan, and special cupcake shapes. Lubricate the selected dishes with vegetable oil, pour apples and pour the dough on top.
In a preheated oven to 180 degrees, the cake is baked for about 45 minutes until golden brown.
In addition to the classic recipe, there are many options depending on the ingredients added to it. One of these additives is sour cream.
250 gr flour, 500 gr. apples, 3 eggs, 3 tablespoons of sour cream, 10 gr. butter, 250 gr. sugar, 0.5 teaspoon of soda.
Break eggs in a bowl and beat them with sugar.
Chop apples. Pour half the apples into the prepared form and pour the dough on top. Spread the rest of the apples in a second layer on top of the dough.
In a preheated oven, put the pie and bake for 40-45 minutes
At the end of baking, we get a delicious charlotte with a delicious golden crust
Another interesting recipe for making charlotte is using kefir.
The recipe for such a cake includes the following products.
2 cups flour, 1 cup kefir, three eggs, 5-6 apples, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon of soda or baking powder.
We cook apples, for this I wash and clean them. You can peel and not remove. Cut apples into thin slices.
We take the flour and, first, sift it. Beat eggs with sugar, then add a pinch of soda. Add kefir and mix everything thoroughly. While stirring, add the flour gradually. We make the dough a little thicker than for the pancakes.
Lubricate the baking dish with butter and spread the apples. Fill everything with the finished dough and put in the oven for 45 minutes.
To get a magnificent charlotte, you need to beat eggs well, and mix the flour added to them manually, without a mixer.
To prepare such a pie, we need:
125 gr. flour, apples, three eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar, cinnamon to taste.
Wash apples, peel and cut into slices. We pour them into the prepared form.
Now we take and prepare the dough. In the beginning, beat the eggs with sugar. Add the flour and mix slowly.
Pour the dough into apples and put the finished form in the oven for 40-45 minutes.
At the end of baking, cool the finished cake and sprinkle it with powdered sugar on top.
The following video shows the process of making charlotte
Baking powder is a substance that is not always added to the dough. However, if you want to get airy and delicate pastries, then you cannot do without a baking powder. Moreover, this substance acquires its loosening ability with stirring or whipping.
To make a pie with apples and baking powder we need:
180 g flour, 200 g sugar, 4 eggs, apples, 5 g baking powder, salt and cinnamon
We start by whipping eggs with sugar until a thick foam appears. Next, add the flour in small portions, as well as salt, cinnamon and baking powder. All mix well. We do all this without the help of a blender so that the baking powder works.
The whole mass should be homogeneous, without lumps. Now proceed to the preparation of the filling. We clean the apples, cut them into slices and put them in a baking dish.
Pour the prepared dough on top and put in the oven for baking. To find out about the readiness of the pie, we take a toothpick, and 30 minutes after the start of cooking we pierce the pie with it. If the toothpick comes out dry, then the charlotte is ready and your dish can be removed.
If you cook charlotte in milk, then it will turn out soft and tender. To bake such a pie, we need:
3 cups flour, 2 eggs, 1 cup milk, apples, 1 cup sugar, soda, vegetable oil to lubricate the mold
Beat eggs with sugar, pour milk and mix. Next, add flour and vinegar slaked with vinegar. All mix well.
We cut apples into small cubes or slices and pour them into the prepared dough.
We take the form, cover it with baking paper and pour the apple-test mixture there. Preheat the oven and send the pie there for 20 minutes, until it is covered with a golden brown.
There are a lot of different culinary blogs on the Internet where you can find the right recipe. But among them stand out those that can rightfully be called an electronic culinary encyclopedia. One such site is Eat At Home, where you can find interesting culinary Recipes from Julia Vysotskaya.
Among the different options for making charlotte, there is one that seemed very interesting to me. This is an airy apple charlotte.
To prepare her signature charlotte, Julia offers the following ingredients:
1 cup flour, 1 cup 1% kefir, 4 pcs. apples, 100 g butter, 1 packet of baking powder, 2 pcs. eggs, 1 cup sugar, ground cinnamon to taste.
Cooking time is 1 hour 20 minutes and is divided into four stages:
STEP 1
Softened butter mix with sugar, beat eggs, mix thoroughly.
STEP 2
Pour non-cold kefir into the mixture, mix until smooth, add the sifted flour mixed with a baking powder. Knead the dough, it should turn out a little thicker than the pancakes.
STEP 3
Rinse, peel and dice apples. Grease a form for charlotte with butter, pour part of the dough, lay apples, sprinkle with cinnamon. Pour on top with the remaining dough. Garnish with apples on top as you like best. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
STEP 4
Put charlotte in an oven heated to 180 ° C, cover with baking paper, bake for 25 minutes, then remove the paper and bake for another 20 - 25 minutes. Pierce the finished cake with a stick. It should be slightly damp. When the cake is ready, turn off the oven, open the door and let the charlotte cool down a little, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve. Have a nice tea party!
Sometimes it may happen that you decide to cook charlotte, but there are no eggs that are necessary for the test. But it turns out that you can make a delicious pie without them.
Of course, it is impossible to get a magnificent dough without eggs, but they can be replaced with dairy products.
One eggless recipe for charlotte contains the following ingredients.
500 g apples, 1 cup flour, 1 cup kefir, 1.5 cup sugar, 10 g vanilla sugar, 0.5 cup vegetable oil, soda, vinegar, salt.
Making charlotte according to this recipe is practically no different, with the only difference being that you do not need to beat the eggs. Pour kefir into the cooked dishes, salt to taste and add the flour. Next, add sugar, vanilla and vinegar slaked with vinegar or baking powder. At the very end, pour the vegetable oil and mix thoroughly.
In the prepared form, spread the chopped apples and pour the dough. After that, put the cake in the oven for 40 minutes.
Cooking charlotte on a baking sheet is not time-consuming. The only difference is that you put the dough with the filling not in a special form (usually it is round, and therefore the cake is round), but on a baking sheet. That is why the finished charlotte is obtained in a rectangular shape.
Try to cook delicious charlotte according to this recipe:
1 cup flour, 6 eggs, 1.5 cups sugar, 1 orange, 5 apples, 600 g apricot, 100 g dried fruit, 100 g butter, 1 tsp. vanilla sugar, 1 tbsp. l starch, soda and cinnamon.
We prepare such a charlotte as follows.
We take the eggs and separate the proteins from the yolks. Add 2/3 cups of sugar, soda and vanilla to the proteins and mix well. Add sugar to the yolks the same, only the remaining third and beat until foam. After that we combine the yolks with the proteins and again we beat everything well with a mixer.
Pour the flour and mix. Add the zest of orange and dried fruit, mix again.
Separately cut apples and apricots into slices. We mix apples with cinnamon, and apricots with starch.
Take a deep pan and grease it with oil.
We spread apples in one layer, and butter on top. Spread the next layer with apricots and sprinkle with sugar.
Fill everything with the prepared dough and send the cake to the oven for 40-45 minutes. The readiness of the pie can be checked by piercing it with a toothpick. If it is dry - charlotte is ready and you can pull it out, cool and proceed to tea drinking.
Good appetite!
According to one version, the recipe for apple pie was proposed by the English Queen Charlotte, the wife of King George III. Translated from Old English charlyt, this name means a dish made from beaten eggs, sugar and milk.
At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries, there were many German bakeries in Russia, where a cake was made from leftover bread and various bakery products. On this occasion, there was even a joke that the wives of German bakers save so much on everything that pies are made from crackers. The wives themselves were called Charlotte for their eyes, because this name was so popular that it became a household name for all German women living in Russia (compare: Yankees are Americans, Fritzes are Germans).
Looking for a good charlotte recipe? Do you want to understand why the cake doesn’t always turn out as magnificent as you would like? There can be only two reasons for this. The first - eggs are not beaten well enough. The second - flour is mixed into the dough with a mixer. Surprised that everything is so simple? Nevertheless, the secrets of successful baking are precisely in such trifles. Let's go through the whole process now in detail, and we will get a real, airy charlotte with apples. Recipe with photo step by step in the oven. Lush charlotte is obtained thanks to some very simple and understandable confectionery techniques. And we will stop on each of them. The classics of the genre are made only from eggs, sugar, flour and apples, without the use of additional loosening agents. But any rule is beautiful with its exceptions. For those who are nevertheless afraid, put a teaspoon of baking powder in the dough. At first, the main thing for a beginner is as many culinary successes as possible. It is good luck that gives a person an incentive to develop.
Ingredients:
There are two ways to beat eggs with charlotte sugar. One is simple, the other is accelerated. A simple method involves standing with a mixer for a long time over a bowl of eggs and sugar, waiting for the mass to not triple in volume. If you have a Nordic character, then do just that. If you want to speed up the process, as most confectioners do, then do this. Take two containers. And separate the yolks from the proteins. Squirrels send to a larger bowl, the yolks can be beaten even in a glass.
Add a third cup of sugar to the yolks and break them down with a mixer or blender (it doesn’t matter) to a homogeneous light yellow mass.
Next, we are taken for proteins. Beat them first without sugar until such a state as you see in the photo. Then we fill in all the remaining sugar, as well as vanilla sugar, and whisk until white. I use vanilla to prevent charlotte from smelling like eggs.
Set aside the mixer. We spread the yolks in the protein mass, mix with a spoon. See what bubble structure you got? It is thanks to her that the charlotte will become magnificent.
Now it remains to put flour. And here it is very important in no case to combine flour with eggs with a mixer. Flour cannot be whipped - otherwise it forms a lot of gluten, which will turn charlotte into a rubber product. Our task is completely different. You need to mix the flour with an ordinary spoon, movements from the edge of the bowl to the center.
Put the finished air dough into the mold. If the coating is non-stick, do not lubricate. If the shape is like mine, then grease the bottom (or better cover it with baking paper). You can’t lubricate the sides - otherwise the finished biscuit will “slip” from them after baking - and the charlotte will settle.
Wash apples, dry and cut into arbitrary slices. (Do not forget to remove the core with seeds.) Peel apples or not - decide for yourself. I don’t peel and cut apples into large slices.
Spread them on the dough.
And mix lightly so that the apples are covered with dough.
All shallots can be put in the oven. Another important point. The temperature in the oven should not be high! 150 degrees maximum. This rule applies to any biscuits - they need time to bake in the middle and not burn out outside. Charlotte is baked for about 1 hour. Baking time depends on the oven. Check for readiness with a wooden stick or toothpick. Pierce the charlotte in the middle, if there are no traces of dough left on the stick, you can remove it.
To ensure that charlotte is not guaranteed to fall, hold it upside down above the wire rack, without removing it from the mold, until it cools down. Then draw a spatula around the edges of the mold and remove it onto the serving plate.
I hope that now you will always get charlotte for the "five".
Bon Appetit!
In late summer and autumn, apple charlotte is one of the most popular baking recipes. And everyone can cook charlotte with apples - it's simple and quick! 🙂 And what aroma will be carried around the house! What an amazing taste this simple apple pie has!
Charlotte with apples - a recipe that gathers the whole family and friends for a tea party and a pleasant conversation! ..
The photo above is new, I recently made a charlotte in a detachable form; step-by-step photos were taken 2 years ago - then I baked in a pan. This does not affect the taste, but in the form it is more convenient - the charlotte turns out to be more magnificent, even, and it is easier to get it. 🙂 Well, now let's move on to the recipe, I haven’t changed the text, just add a new photo at the end and add some nuances.
I also recommend that you definitely try the amber apple pie! The dough is made for him in almost the same way as for charlotte, only less sugar and flour. But apples - but more! It turns out amazingly tasty and beautiful. The recipe will open in a new tab when you click on the photo.
The apple season is starting! In all gardens, the amazing aroma of ripe apples is heard. July thunderstorms and wind knock them off the branches every now and then, and in the mornings the garden is strewn with apples! Nothing that apples are still greenish and slightly nailed after a fall - they are perfect for baking the fastest and most delicious apple pie!
I was very surprised to find out that it was this, as I thought, simple apple pie, that turns out to be a classic charlotte! It is prepared amazingly quickly and easily, for which it is sometimes called a “five-minute pie”. Let's bake a lush and tender apple treat - one of my favorite types of homemade cakes!
That's all, as you can see, the set of products is minimal, and the pie is obtained for the whole family, because it is very magnificent!
The most time-consuming task in this recipe is to peel apples, which is what we will do first. After washing them, cut into quarters and peel the cores and peels.
Prepare a cake pan. It is best to take detachable, cover the bottom with confectionery paper and grease this paper and the sides of the mold with sunflower oil. Or grease with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs or semolina.
Well, this time I decided to try baking in a cast-iron frying pan - to find out how it works, because not everyone has detachable forms. I will say right away: if not, it’s worth buying - for such pies and biscuits. The cake fell to the bottom, despite being greased with oil, and in order to get it, prying it with a spatula, I had to torment 🙂
Cut the apples into thin small slices and evenly sprinkle along the bottom of the mold. Now you can cook magnificent dough without fear that it will settle while we mess with apples.
Beat eggs with sugar using a mixer, yolks from proteins, as for a biscuit, do not separate!
Beat a minute and a half, this is enough to get a lush, dense mass with bubbles.
Pour flour into a bowl, soda into flour, extinguish with vinegar and carefully, but carefully so as not to bring down the foam, mix.
Pour the dough onto apples, evenly distribute it with a spoon, and put the mold in a preheated oven.
It takes five minutes, though not 5 minutes, but still pretty quickly - 20 to 25 minutes, more than average on fire, closer to large. Just check from time to time with a wand so that it doesn’t turn out that the top is already burning, and the middle is still liquid. In this case, the fire needs to be slightly reduced, not sharply, so that the cake does not “sit down”.
After trying the pie with the skewer again, and making sure that it is dry, we remove the baked goods from the oven.
We wait until it cools down a bit, and remove the cake from the mold. It is convenient to turn it over onto the lid of the pan, and then from the lid onto the dish.
Cut the pie into portions - look how fluffy and magnificent it is! Sweet dough perfectly complements the sour taste of delicate baked apples. What you need for spiritual tea drinking!
... But what if you bake apple biscuit with chocolate? .. Pear chocolate charlotte turned out to be very tasty, we must try the apple option, the idea is tempting! 🙂
And here is the promised new photo.
I baked this charlotte in a detachable form, greased with butter and sprinkled with crackers. And instead of soda and vinegar, I added a little soda (half a teaspoon) and a little citric acid (a pinch) to the dough. The result was a real apple biscuit, tall and lush! True, the apples remained below in the form of a thin layer.
So the next time I did it differently: I poured a layer of dough into the mold (about 1/3 part), then I laid apples on the dough and poured the rest of the dough on top. This option turned out to be the best: the cake turned out to be juicy, not dry like a biscuit, but wonderful apple! And another caveat: a little touch the apple layer with cinnamon. Just a little bit, and what a flavor it will be! ..
