If it comes to apple pies, then spontaneous charlotte pops up in my thoughts. This is one of the most popular options. Delicate dough is ideal friends with a sour fruit, turns into amazing pastries with a simply amazing aroma. Here you can find the most popular step-by-step charlotte recipes in the oven, as it is used to bake pie most often.
Charlotte in the oven - general principles of cooking
The classic dough for charlotte is made from eggs and sugar, that is, it is a regular biscuit. The better it is whipped, the more magnificent and softer the cake will turn out, pores will appear in it, which will be saturated with the juice of the song apples and will turn out to be incredibly tasty. Real charlotte is made only with apples. But more and more often you can find recipes with the addition of pears, peaches, plums or berries. They have a right to exist, they also turn out tasty and juicy.
What else can be added to charlotte dough:
• sour cream, kefir or yogurt;
• butter or vegetable oil;
• baking powder.
Charlotte dough is always kneading semi-fluid, fluid, it envelops pieces of apples. They can be sent immediately to the total mass, laid out as a layer on top, bottom or in the middle, as you like.
Formed charlotte is baked in the oven at 180-190 degrees. If the fruit is very juicy, it will take about 40-50 minutes. If the apples are not watery and the oven bakes well, then half an hour is enough. This cake is not consumed hot, but it is allowed to serve a warm dessert on the table.
Classic charlotte in the oven: a step by step recipe with apples
The easiest to cook and not requiring many products step by step recipe for charlotte in the oven. The dough is prepared the simplest, done quickly enough, so immediately turn on the oven. Let the stove warm up to 180 degrees.
Ingredients
• 4 eggs;
• a glass of sugar;
• a glass of flour (full with a slide);
• 3-4 apples.
For decoration, you need a little powder or cinnamon. You can use them together, sometimes even put a pinch of vanilla to them.
Cooking
1. The cake will be lush and soft, if the eggs are beaten well into foam. You can just stir everything, pour apples and put in the oven, all the same, fresh home-baked pastries have a pleasant taste, but it is better to cook according to the rules. Break the eggs into a bowl, turn on the mixer and beat until foam, gradually add granulated sugar. It will take about ten minutes.
2. If the mass does not want to beat well and lush foam does not form, then you will have to add a little baking powder to the charlotte. We mix it in flour or at the end we put half a teaspoon of soda, extinguished with vinegar.
3. Pour flour into the egg mixture, but not all at once, gently stir. The product should not fall through a lump. You can sift it immediately into the dough and mix gently.
4. Lubricate or cover with parchment charlotte form.
5. If the apples have a thick skin, as is the case with winter varieties, then the fruits must be peeled. Then cut them into pieces of arbitrary shape, you can slices or cubes.
6. Apples can immediately be mixed with dough and poured into a mold.
7. Either put some dough, then a layer of apples and cover with dough again.
8. You can put all the apples in a greased form, then pour in the prepared dough.
9. We form a charlotte in any convenient way and send it to bake.
10. On average, a cake is cooked for about 30-35 minutes. If the shape is tall and small in diameter, then the time may increase up to 40 minutes.
11. We are not in a hurry to remove the charlotte from the oven, first just open the door slightly and let the heat go out, after 10 minutes we get it.
12. Let the charlotte still stand on the table so that it cools down. Then gently transfer to a flat dish or to a large plate. Powdered sugar is usually used as decoration, just sprinkle the cake through a strainer. You can lay out letters, patterns, flowers.
Charlotte in the oven: a step-by-step recipe for kefir
Variant of a more juicy cake. In this step-by-step recipe for charlotte, kefir is used for the oven. If necessary, then you can replace homemade yogurt.
Ingredients
• 200 g of kefir;
• 2 tbsp. flour;
• 2 eggs;
• 0.5 tbsp. oil grows .;
• 1 tbsp. granulated sugar;
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp soda;
• 3 apples.
Cooking
1. In a large bowl in which we plan to knead the dough, break the eggs, immediately fill in a glass of granulated sugar and beat well. It is convenient to use a mixer for kneading such a test, then the process will not take much time.
2. Add a glass of kefir to the beaten eggs and immediately lay the soda. Quickly stir. The mass will foam a little due to the reaction, this is normal, you can knead further or wait a minute.
3. Add vegetable oil. Stir the dough again. We use flavourless oil so that the cake does not have any extraneous smacks. There is still the same recipe, but with mayonnaise, if desired, replace the sauce, also lay and stir.
4. Enter the sifted flour, mix with a mixer or a spoon the dough until smooth.
5. Rinse the apples and cut into slices, large do not need to. Sprinkle with cinnamon, stir. If the cinnamon flavor is not to your liking, then you can make charlotte without it.
6. Pour apples into the dough, stir.
7. Grease the mold, you can take a creamy slice and grate. It will turn out even better with him. You can powder the greased surface with wheat flour. Then there will be no problems with extracting the pie, a crust will appear on the edges and on the bottom.
8. We shift the dough with apples into the prepared form, level the surface so that the thickness of the pie is the same everywhere.
9. The oven must be turned on in advance so that it warms up to 180 degrees. Put the charlotte to bake.
10. The first 25 minutes you do not need to open the oven, then periodically check the readiness. The exact time depends on the thickness of the layer, the juiciness of apples, the capabilities of the oven.
Charlotte in the oven: a step by step recipe for sour cream
A very tender test option. For this step-by-step recipe for charlotte in the oven, you need sour cream. For the test, you can use even slightly acidified product is not the very first freshness. This cake will also have an unusual aroma thanks to the addition of zest.
Ingredients
• 200 g sour cream;
• 2 eggs;
• 4-5 apples;
• 1 tbsp. Sahara;
• 1 tbsp. flour;
• 0.5 lemon;
• 0.5 tsp zest;
• 0.5 tsp soda
Cooking
1. Peel the apples, cut off the center with seeds and hard leaves, discard. Cut peeled fruit into large pieces.
2. Turn on the oven. Set the temperature to 190 degrees.
3. Squeeze the juice out of half a lemon and sprinkle the prepared apples so as not to darken.
4. Combine the egg with granulated sugar, beat with a mixer for a minute, until the mass becomes light and slightly more magnificent.
5. Combine sour cream with soda. In addition, you do not need to extinguish anything, sour cream will be enough. Stir, transfer to eggs.
6. Sift flour through a sieve, add chopped zest. First, mix them together, then pour them into the dough.
7. Gently mix the dough and pour a little on the bottom of the mold, level it with a spatula and lay out pieces of apples sprinkled with juice.
8. Pour on top the filling with the dough that remains. We try to distribute evenly so that the thickness of the pie is the same.
9. Send the charlotte with apples to the oven. Bake for about 35 minutes.
Charlotte in the oven: a step by step recipe for mayonnaise
Mayonnaise often settles in the refrigerator, and it can become the main ingredient in the cake. For a step-by-step recipe for charlotte in the oven, you can take any sauce. This is a flip-flop pie, as it is popularly called. That is, the top will become the bottom and vice versa.
Ingredients
• 4 tbsp. l mayonnaise;
• 180 g of sugar;
• 3 eggs;
• 1 tbsp. flour;
• 5 apples;
• soda and salt;
• 10 g cl. oils;
• 3 tbsp. l crackers.
Cooking
1. Break the eggs into a high bowl, add one pinch of salt, and fill in all the granulated sugar.
2. Lower the mixer and beat it all for about five minutes until the grains are completely dissolved.
3. Add mayonnaise to eggs in a bowl, stir.
4. Sift the flour and put into the dough.
5. Measure out 0.5 tsp. soda, extinguish with lemon juice or table vinegar. Pour into the cooked dough, beat again.
6. Peel apples, cut into slices. If the fruit is sweet, then additionally sprinkle with lemon juice or diluted acid.
7. Take a mold, about 23 centimeters in size, grease with a good layer of butter. You can not melt, just rub it with a piece.
8. Sprinkle the form with breadcrumbs. We make a fairly thick layer on the bottom, the sides can be slightly powdered.
9. We spread apple slices on crackers.
10. Pour the dough into the mold, align the layer.
11. We send to bake. Keep in the oven for about 35-40 minutes.
12. Take the cake out of the oven, cover with a flat plate and sharply turn it over. It should be the basis of the dough with the filling on top.
Charlotte in the oven - useful tips and tricks
• Charlotte is not always beautiful. No one is safe from tanning, broken edges, peeling crust. But all this is easy to disguise. You can use powdered sugar, cinnamon, jam for this.
• If you are tired of the traditional taste of charlotte or just want something new, then try adding dried fruits, candied nuts or some fresh berries to the pie. The result will surprise!
• Charlotte can become a delicious cake, very juicy and tender if you cover the pastries with whipped cream or garnish with cream roses.
• If you do not sift the flour, the dough for the pie is heavy, often with lumps and low porosity. No need to ignore this step, let the flour be saturated with oxygen!
• For the preparation of charlotte, you can use not only wheat, but also oat, buckwheat flour, it is better to mix several types.
