Want to please homemade delicious and fragrant pastries? But there is not enough time to prepare pies and pastries - then the well-known and beloved charlotte will come to the rescue. Quick and easy is the motto of this dish. The composition of the pie includes simple ingredients that are likely to be found in every home. And it’s so easy to cook charlotte with apples that even a novice hostess can cope with this dish. In addition to the fact that this cake will be a great addition to a cup of your favorite tea or coffee, it is also useful because it contains apples, the benefits of which are known to everyone.
Charlotte with apples (classic of the genre)
Ingredients: eggs (5 pcs.), Sugar (1 cup), apples (1 kilogram), flour (1 cup), baking powder for dough (1 bag), cinnamon.
Preparation of charlotte with apples: take the chilled eggs and separate the proteins, send them into a deep dry bowl, begin to beat. In order for the whites to whip well, the whipping process must be continuous, and the dishes should be dry. After a thick foam is formed, you can start to pour sugar a little bit, without stopping whipping. Separately, sift the flour and also gradually add it to the proteins, continuing to whip the mass. At the end, add the yolks, baking powder and cinnamon. Beat until a homogeneous, elastic mass, the consistency of which resembles thick sour cream. The dough for the future pie is ready.
As for apples, they can be cut into cubes or straws, added to the dough, gently mix the resulting mass and pour it onto a greased baking sheet or coated with baking paper. And you can cut them into slices. Sprinkle the baking sheet with semolina, crumbs or flour, cover with apple slices and pour the dough on the pan or pour most of the dough on the baking sheet, put the apple slices and pour the remaining dough on top. It all depends on the desired result.
Preparation of charlotte takes about 40 minutes. in a preheated (180 degrees) oven. If you laid apples on the bottom of the pan, then the finished pie should be carefully turned over. Top, if desired, can be sprinkled with powdered sugar with a little cinnamon.
Charlotte is one of those dishes with which you can safely experiment. If the pie is with apples, then vanillin and cinnamon will emphasize the taste, and the addition of candied fruit, chocolate, pieces of marshmallows, pastille, various nuts, poppy seeds, raisins, cognac will reveal the taste of a familiar dish from a completely new, unknown side.
In addition, for many, charlotte is a pie with apples. But you should not be limited only to apple filling. You can take pears, quinces, cherries, plums, cherries, apricots, peaches. In addition, the preparation of charlotte is possible with a filling that will combine fruits and berries. For example, apples and blackcurrants or strawberries, pears and lingonberries or cranberries. Choose any combination to taste.
You can also serve a ball of ice cream to a charlotte or make a special custard, which will be a great addition to the cake.
Charlotte custard with apples
Pour into a saucepan with a thick bottom 2 tbsp. tablespoons of flour and mix it with 3 tablespoons of sugar, pour a few tablespoons of milk and stir well. Pour in about two more glasses of milk in small portions, mix thoroughly the resulting mass and put on a small fire. While the cream is boiling, do not forget to stir constantly, after its consistency begins to resemble thick sour cream, pour a bag of vanillin into it and chopped butter in small pieces (approximately 100 g.). When the butter in the cream melts and mixes with the total mass, remove the saucepan from the heat. Cool.
Serving charlotte on the table, pour it with chilled cream.
Charlotte can be prepared according to recipes that have been tested over the years, or you can show your imagination and experiment with ingredients and fillings, resulting in a completely new taste and look of a long-known and beloved pie.