If you want to bake a delicious cake at home in cold, unfriendly weather - a simple recipe will help you do this.
You will not need any special skills. The recipe for a simple homemade pie made from the simplest ingredients will help even those who have never had a baking experience. Let's make it first with apples and honey. And then another one with berries.
Sponge cake: a simple recipe with apples and honey
Delicious homemade cakes are very relevant in the fall. It is the abundance of sweet apples that will help make it unsurpassedly fragrant. Honey will add density and a pleasant aftertaste to the dough. A lemon note compensates for the sweetness of apples and adds a citrus hue. The cake, the simple recipe of which we offer you, is very soft and completely dry.
Because the whole is saturated with honey-lemon sauce. It is best to eat it while it is still warm. But even when cold, he is quite capable of brightening up tea drinking. It will take you about two hours to make this cake - a simple recipe will help you calculate your time. Take two eggs, separate the whites from the yolks. First whip in a dense foam, place it in a cold place. Beat a pack of butter with a sugar mixer at medium speed, gradually add the yolks and the zest of two lemons. Sift three hundred and fifty grams of flour with one and a half tablespoons of baking powder and begin to add in small portions to the yolk mixture.
You will also need to add a glass of milk. Alternately, add a few tablespoons of flour and liquid to the mixture, beat after each time. After all the flour is in the dough, cut four sweet apples and, pouring the dough into the mold, lay the fruit slices on top. Bake for one hour. Heat two tablespoons of liquid honey and one and a half lemons in a saucepan. Pour this sauce onto the finished product and let stand a little for soaking.
Simple Berry Pie
The recipe allows you to take any fruit. A combination of peaches with currants or raspberries will be very successful. This is a prime example of seasonal baking. This pie has a lot of toppings, the dough is simply the basis. There can be several options for peach filling. In some of them, the fruits are a little boiled in syrup, peeled, removed the stone. But you can skip this step - and without it the filling will turn out delicious. If you still boiled (peaches need five pieces, large enough), then cool and cut into cubes before laying on the base. When choosing fruits, pay attention to ensure that they are ripe and soft enough, but not scattered. So that the filling does not turn into porridge, you need to add a spoonful of flour or starch to it - they will play the role of a thickener. Also, any ground nuts are suitable for this purpose. You can take any berries, currants and raspberries successfully emphasize the color of peaches and will look very aesthetically pleasing in a pie. Mix two cups of flour with cold butter, sugar and salt. Cook the chopped dough and leave it in the refrigerator for a while. Make a filling of peaches and washed and dried berries (they will need about one cup). Roll out the dough and make it the base for the cake. Bake a cake stuffed with forty minutes, serve with cream.