Surely many of you know how tasty and fragrant home-made cakes are. But cooking most pies takes too much time and effort. Therefore, busy women, forced to combine careers and housekeeping, rarely indulge their relatives with such goodies. After reading today's article, you will learn how to bake a simple and quick apple sponge cake.
General principles
To bake a delicious and fragrant cake, you need to remember a few basic secrets. The dishes in which the eggs will be beaten must be not only clean, but also perfectly dry. Otherwise, you will not be able to get a lush foam.
To make a gentle and airy baking , it is advisable to warm the eggs to be used for the test to room temperature. To do this, they must be removed in advance from the refrigerator.
Those who are going to make an apple biscuit cake for the first time should remember that store baking powder can be completely replaced with ordinary soda, extinguished with vinegar.
It is important that the finished dough has a liquid consistency. Therefore, you can not arbitrarily increase the volume of flour. Otherwise, instead of a gentle and magnificent sponge cake, you will get a solid cake that has lost its taste.
Sour cream option
The pie prepared according to this recipe is so delicious that it is eaten much faster than baked. In order for your family to enjoy such a dessert, you should study the contents of your own kitchen cabinets in advance and, if necessary, buy all the missing components. Your list should include the following products:
- Three fresh chicken eggs.
- One glass of sour cream and granulated sugar.
- A pair of large ripe apples.
- One and a half cups of wheat flour.
To make a lush apple biscuit cake (you can see the recipe with the photo step by step in the oven below), it is advisable to supplement this list of products with a pinch of table salt and a teaspoon of soda, extinguished with vinegar.
Process description
First you need to do the eggs. They are immediately divided into proteins and yolks. The former are placed in the refrigerator, the latter are combined with granulated sugar and beat thoroughly with a mixer. Sour cream of any fat content is added to the resulting mass and mixed until the fine grains are completely dissolved. After that, the pre-sifted flour is gradually poured into the bowl and whipped with a mixer until a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
Soda quenched with vinegar is sent to a container with a slightly liquid dough obtained, and mixed once more. Now it's time to tackle chilled proteins. They are thoroughly beaten with a mixer and slightly salted. The resulting dense, stable foam is combined with biscuit dough and gently mixed with a silicone spatula, trying to move from bottom to top, as if turning the mass.
Apples are washed in cool water, removed from the core and cut into approximately equal slices. The dough is poured into a silicone mold, oiled and sprinkled with semolina. Fruit slices are beautifully stacked in a circle, as if recessing them. The future apple biscuit cake on sour cream is sent to the oven, heated to one hundred eighty degrees. Cooking time depends on the size of the form and on how well your oven works.
Cottage Cheese Option
Thanks to the unusual combination of products, the cake baked according to this recipe has a pleasant sweet and sour taste. It is ideal for friendly gatherings over a cup of fragrant tea. So that your family can try apple biscuit cake, a recipe with a photo of which will be presented in today's publication, you need to stock up on all the necessary components in advance. This time you will need:
- 300 grams of fresh cottage cheese.
- Five medium apples.
- 50 grams of butter.
- A glass of wheat flour.
- Five chicken eggs.
- 250 grams of sugar.
Cooking technology
To make a delicious airy apple biscuit cake, you must strictly maintain the recommended ratio of ingredients. Raw chicken eggs and 150 grams of granulated sugar are combined in one bowl. All beat well with a mixer until lush foam appears. After that, the pre-sifted flour is gradually poured into the resulting mass, gently stirring with a spatula.
In a separate dish, cottage cheese, the remaining sugar and melted butter are pre-wiped through a sieve. All mix well and set aside.
In a baking dish, oiled, pour a little dough. It is important to ensure that it is evenly distributed along the bottom. On top lay half the peeled and chopped apples and another layer of dough. All this is covered with curd mass and evened out. Then the remaining dough is poured onto the future apple biscuit cake and the second half of the fruit slices is laid out. Bake it at one hundred eighty degrees for forty-five minutes.
Option with kefir
As in all previous cases, before starting the process, it is important to check your kitchen for all the necessary components. To bake an apple biscuit cake, a simple recipe for which can be found below, you will need:
- A pair of glasses of wheat flour.
- Four fresh eggs.
- A little more than one glass of sugar.
- A tablespoon of starch.
- Three large ripe apples.
- A glass of kefir.
- A teaspoon of soda.
Action algorithm
First, apples should be tackled. They are washed, freed from the core, cut into small cubes and sent to a clean bowl. Fruit prepared in this way is sprinkled with a mixture of starch and two tablespoons of sugar. This is necessary so that the juice secreted by apples acquires a jelly-like consistency.
Now it's time to make the dough. In one container, eggs and a glass of granulated sugar are combined. All carefully fray until a homogeneous white mass. Then, pre-sifted flour is gradually poured into the same container and thoroughly kneaded until the small lumps completely disappear. At the final stage, soda and kefir are added.
Two-thirds of the resulting dough is poured into a pre-prepared baking dish, onto which the fruit is laid. Everything is gently leveled over the entire surface. And then cover with the rest of the dough and sent to the oven. Apple biscuit cake is baked, the recipe of which was described in detail above, for forty minutes at one hundred and ninety degrees. After that, it is taken out of the oven, decorated with icing sugar or melted chocolate and served with tea.