What is a symbol of home comfort? Of course, the smell of pies and hot flavored tea. Pies with apples from the oven are especially fond of. Recipes with photos from different types of dough are offered by this article as ideas for baking homemade pies. Apples can be used simply in combination with cinnamon, as well as with cottage cheese, pumpkin and even carrots, this will make the dish not only tastier, but also a hundred times more healthy.
Classic Yeast Dough Recipe
The best sweet cakes are, of course, winds: soft dough and fragrant filling create the perfect combination against which it is impossible to resist. A simple recipe for yeast pies with apples for the oven is based on milk:
- 1 cup of fresh milk;
- 100 grams of water;
- 2 eggs;
- 100 grams of sugar;
- 1 tbsp. a spoon of dry yeast (without a hill);
- 4 tbsp. tablespoons of any melted butter;
- 700 grams of sifted flour;
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla to flavor the dough (optional).
For such a quantity of products, you need to take one kilogram of apples and 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon, to which you need to add four tablespoons of sugar.
How to cook dough on a dough?
A step-by-step recipe for pies with apples for the oven is discussed below.
- You should start by making a dough for yeast dough: for this, water mixed with milk and a pinch of salt is heated to a temperature of forty degrees, then two tablespoons of sugar and yeast are dissolved in it.
- Leave the mass warm for ten minutes: a lush cap of foam forms on it, which indicates that the yeast has activated and started the fermentation process.
- Add the remaining sugar, slightly beaten eggs and an incomplete glass of flour to the dough, mix with a spoon or a whisk and leave again, now for half an hour.
- Sift the remaining flour and add it to the dough, thoroughly mixing with a spoon or hands until a uniform consistency. The dough will be sticky enough, it will not form into a single lump, but when oil is added at the end of the batch, then a light lump of dough will curl up and will delight with its impeccable appearance.
- We cover the bowl with the dough with cling film and leave it warm for one and a half to two hours in order for the dough to fit - it should increase in size by at least two times (if during this time the dough does not fit properly, then the room is too cold and you need to find a warmer place).
Simple filling for pies
Pies with apples in the oven are usually baked with fresh fruits, but some cooks caramelize the apples slightly to give them a softer property. Here are two options for the filling:
- Peel apples and seeds, cut into small cubes no more than one cm thick, sprinkle with cinnamon, sugar and mix. Allow them to stand for ten minutes and then use as directed.
- Melt in a wide saucepan two tbsp. tablespoons of coconut or butter, add three tbsp. tablespoons of sugar and mix until crystals are dissolved. Add diced apples to them and stir, simmer for about five minutes. Apples will become softer and absorb sweet liquid. If desired, ground cinnamon can be added to taste. Before using the filling, be sure to cool it to room temperature.
Some novice cooks grate apples, adding starch to absorb the juice, but this is not very tasty. Pieces of aromatic fruit are much nicer than pasty mass.
How to sculpt and bake pies?
For cooking in the oven, pies with apples from yeast dough are usually formed in the form of an oval or circle, making them closed, since often a juicy filling from an open pie flows out, the bottom of the product burns up, becoming unsightly. We divide the finished dough into small lumps, each of which is rolled into a flat cake. In the middle you need to put the filling and mold according to the principle of dumpling, tightly pinching the edges. Next, the sharp corners should be tucked in and put the pie on the baking sheet with the seam down.
Before baking apple pies in the oven, they need to give time for proofing, which again allows the yeast dough to come up. It usually takes twenty minutes. Then grease each pie with a beaten egg and put them in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. Products are baked for no more than twenty minutes and already hot can be served on the table.
Pies from the Kremlin dough
This recipe for making pies with apples in the oven is also called “Khrushchevsky” due to the fact that Nikita Khrushchev himself adored baking from such a dough. It is unique in its own way, as it is cooked in a steam-free way and can be stored in the refrigerator for several days (without freezing) without losing its properties. To prepare the Kremlin dough, you will need the following ingredients:
- 250 grams of good quality margarine;
- three eggs;
- 1/2 liter of fresh milk;
- 80 grams of sugar;
- 1 teaspoon without a hill of salt;
- 60 grams of raw pressed yeast;
- 700-750 grams of flour;
- two tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil.
How to make dough?
Heat the milk to forty degrees, pour the melted butter into it, mix and melt the yeast in them. Divide the eggs into proteins and yolks, beat the former in lush foam, and grind the latter with sugar until the grains are completely dissolved. When the yeast mass is covered with a froth, mix the contents of all three bowls in a large bowl. You need to add salt and vegetable oil. Constantly stirring, add in small portions sifted flour twice and knead elastic dough. After thoroughly kneading on the table, cover it in a deep bowl with a clean towel and leave for two hours to make it fit. Then we start forming the pies, and if the dough remains, then place it in a plastic bag and send it to the refrigerator (not the freezer!), And in a couple of days you can bake the pies again - the dough will be as docile, easy. We use any apple filling for pies. Although this dough goes well with various types of fillers: both sweet and savory. Many housewives use it even for making bread and pizza, it is so wonderful.
Puff pastry pies
Pies with apples in the oven can be prepared not only from yeast, but also from fresh puff pastry, and it is absolutely not necessary to cook it yourself. The modern food industry offers ready-made dough in frozen form, it remains only to defrost it at room temperature and mold the product.
What is required:
- 800 grams of finished puff pastry;
- 5 large sweet apples;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of starch;
- 1/3 teaspoon ground cinnamon;
- powdered sugar for sprinkling finished products.
The dough is thawed and rolled into a thin layer (no more than 2 mm thick), cut into a square knife with a side about 5-8 cm. Apple filling is traditionally prepared, only at the end should be added starch. Since pies from puff pastry will be open, the starch will not let it leak, absorbing the allocated juice. Put a filling in the middle of each square, connect the corners in the center and glue them firmly with your fingers, leaving the sides of the pie open. Before baking in the oven, pies with apples sprinkled with plenty of cold water - this will make the dough more crispy and crumbly. Bake at a temperature of 200 degrees until golden brown, and sprinkle finished products with powdered sugar mixed with a little vanilla.
Puff pastry molding options
Cooking pies can be a real art, because sometimes you can make masterpieces from the dough.
In the above photo of pies with apples from the oven, it can be seen that the shape of the product can be very diverse and attract at least the aroma of the finished baking. The main thing is to ensure that the filling is not too liquid, because then you will have to use starch as a thickener, which will slightly reduce the taste of the product and increase its calorie content. You can try using yeast puff pastry for baking, but it is not as tender as fresh.
How to make pies in the shape of roses?
It is difficult to call this pastry an ordinary pie, because only by looking at it and feeling the aroma do you already understand that this is divine food that only a true master of confectionery art can cook. In fact, these pies with apples in the oven are easy to prepare, the only thing that is important to choose is the apples. They should be strong and juicy, preferably acidic and red, as they better hold the required shape. Without peeling, cut apples into slices no more than 3 mm thick and pour over boiling water. Roll out the puffless yeast dough into a thin layer and cut into strips six cm wide.
Grease each plate of dough with melted butter and put apple slices on them as shown in the photo. Next, wrap the dough in a roll in three or four turns and place the resulting roses in silicone molds for muffins. Bake at 190 degrees for half an hour, and ready to sprinkle lightly with powdered sugar.
Curd pastry pies
For those who prefer lighter types of dough, it is recommended to use the recipe for apple pies for the oven, which not only uses special dough - curd, but also adds pumpkin to the apple filling, which makes this dessert as useful as possible. To prepare the test, you should take:
- 380 grams of cottage cheese;
- 2 eggs;
- 60 grams of butter or coconut oil;
- 100 grams of sugar;
- 1/2 teaspoon of soda;
- 450 grams of wheat flour.
All components are mixed in one dish until a lump of dough is formed, which is rolled into small cakes with a diameter of no more than a saucer and a thickness of 0.5 cm. The filling is placed in the middle of each circle, the edges are pinched, like in ordinary pies. On a baking sheet, the pies are placed seam down, smeared on top with a beaten egg or sour cream and baked in the oven until cooked at a temperature of 190 degrees.
Apple filling with pumpkin and lemon zest
To prepare the filling in pies, you will need:
- 500 grams of peeled apples and diced into small cubes;
- 250 grams of pumpkin. we deal with it in the same way as with apples;
- 0.5 cups of granulated sugar;
- 1/3 of lemon: remove zest from it and set aside, squeeze juice out of it and pour chopped apples on it;
- 30 grams of butter.
Melt the butter in a thick-walled pan, add sugar and wait for the crystals to dissolve completely. Add the sliced pumpkin and apples, mix and simmer until cooked, while trying not to overexpose, so that the slices do not lose shape. When the filling is ready, add the lemon zest to it and mix. Before sculpting the pies, the filling should be cooled.