Summertime confidently strides towards us, hot and sultry. Summer is greenery, lightness and relaxation, as well as many fresh vegetables, fruits and berries. What is your favorite summer berry? Ripe raspberries?
Pastries with raspberries are incredibly fragrant, sweet, healthy. How can we not share with you a couple of wonderful raspberry pie recipes? In the summer season, we urgently need to collect more vitamins and other useful elements, to please our immunity so that it protects us from diseases in the autumn rain and in the winter cold.
So, in this article we will tell you about how to cook delicious raspberry pies, tender, sour cream and cottage cheese, from fresh and frozen berries, but first we turn your attention to the beneficial properties of this fragrant berry.
Useful properties of raspberries
You can meet a raspberry bush today not only in the forests, but also at any summer resident in the garden. Homemade raspberries, although not as fragrant as forest ones, are large, fragrant, no less tasty and healthy. It is unpretentious and able to grow on the worst soil, which allows it to grow independently on any site.
Since ancient Russia, raspberries have been respected as a healing berry, and for good reason. From ancient times it is known that raspberries are not only very tasty and fragrant, but also a storehouse of vitamins and useful elements. What did our grandmothers bring us when we were sick? Tea with raspberry jam. And indeed, raspberry tea warms and promotes the release of sweat, which is useful for a speedy recovery.
Surprisingly, the useful elements in raspberries are heat-resistant, that is, processed berries rolled up in jars are still as useful as fresh ones from the bush. Using raspberry or blackberry jam, you can easily overcome a cold and strengthen your immunity.
Besides the fact that this berry is good for colds, it also has antitoxic properties and also helps restore blood. And how good it is for those suffering from diseases of the intestinal tract and digestion! Raspberry is also an excellent natural antiseptic.
The wonderful "bear berry" is a delicious helper for our body. Let’s try to make a raspberry pie according to a simple recipe, strengthen ourselves and our immunity with a delicious dessert.
Pie "Just"
This cake is so delicious that one serving of baking is not enough. The raspberry pie recipe differs from all others in its restrained taste, and the unobtrusive, delicate aroma causes an incredible appetite. The dough in it is tender, crumbly, goes well with fragrant berries. You definitely can’t buy such a dessert in a supermarket.
Let's start our acquaintance with a simple step-by-step recipe for raspberry pie.
To make the pie, we need simple ingredients:
- 600-700 g raspberries;
- 250 g of flour;
- 3 eggs;
- 250 g of sugar;
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder;
- a pinch of salt and vanilla.
Cooking
To make the dough soft, airy, separate the proteins from the yolks and beat them until foam with a pinch of salt. Add sugar, softened butter and yolks, beat well until smooth.
Sift flour, vanilla and baking powder, saturated with oxygen, it will also add splendor to the dough. Add flour gradually, whisking at low speed. Take your time to make the dough soft and tender.
Take the cake pan, oil and pour the dough, flatten with a spoon or spatula.
Rinse and dry the berries. Insert them into the dough from above, drowning them. Arrange the berries densely over the entire surface.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Due to an insufficiently preheated oven, the cake may not rise. The cake is baked for half an hour, check readiness with a wooden spatula, toothpick or match.
When the cake has cooled, chop it, sprinkle with powdered sugar. When serving, put a couple of fresh berries. The cake is incredibly tasty with milk, fruit tea and berry jelly.
Short Raspberry Dessert
Something else we have in store for you: a recipe for a shortbread cake with raspberries (see photo below). Shortbread dough, though denser, is incredibly tasty.
The pie will be low, but very sweet. A great summer dessert with the simplest cooking you should try.
Here's what you need to make a raspberry pie recipe:
- 340 g flour;
- 700 g raspberries;
- 180 g margarine;
- 6 tbsp. l Sahara;
- 1 spoon of gelatin;
- 1 egg
How to cook
Start the pie with the preparation of the dough, it will lie for half an hour in the refrigerator.
Sift flour, mix with margarine, 4 tablespoons of sugar and an egg. Knead the dough quickly and wrap in cling film. Put in the refrigerator.
After half an hour, put the dough into the mold, making low sides. Bake the cake in the oven, heated to 200 degrees. In the meantime, the dough is baked and cools, get stuffed.
Mix gelatin with water and lightly warm. Add the remaining sugar there, mix well until the gelatin and sugar dissolve. Rinse the berries and lay them on the cake, pouring over with gelatin gelatin.
When the gelatin hardens completely, sprinkle the cake with icing sugar and chop. Often such a cake is decorated with delicate whipped cream, they are very appropriate here. Great treat.
Here is another idea: a great shortbread cake with raspberries can be prepared on the basis of shortbread cookies, that is, grate a shortbread dough frozen in the freezer, put raspberries, grated with sugar, and cover with the same grated dough.
Raspberry cheesecake
The cake will become more fragrant and tender if you cook it with cottage cheese. The cheesecake recipe itself is incredibly delicate and delicious, but with raspberries it is so fragrant and airy, light and delicate that you simply have to try it.
The raspberry pie recipe is simple and does not take much time. Let's get acquainted with the cooking process.
To prepare a curd pie with raspberries you will need:
- Raspberry - 300 g.
- Flour - 170 g.
- Cottage cheese - 300 g.
- Butter - 75 g.
- Egg yolk - 2 pcs.
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Powdered Sugar - 50 g.
- Salt - 1/4 tsp
- Sugar - 3 tbsp. l with a slide.
Dough
Cooking the cake start with the dough. In a deep container, mix egg yolks, sugar, butter. Sift flour there and knead the dough quickly.
Grease the mold and put the dough in there, making small sides. In a preheated oven to 180 degrees, put it on for 15 minutes so that it seizes.
Take care of the filling at this time.
Filling
Beat cottage cheese, egg, a pinch of vanilla and powdered sugar until creamy. Use the mixer at medium speed.
After 15 minutes, remove the cake and pour the curd mass. Lay raspberries on top in a circle. You can dilute raspberries with blackberries.
Cottage cheese pie is baked for half an hour. Let it cool and only after slicing. Do not forget to decorate with a leaf of mint and powdered sugar.
Here's a wonderful recipe for a raspberry pie in the oven. Incredibly delicate taste.
You can add a little lemon juice to the curd, this will give the cake a spicy sourness. In addition, raspberry cheesecake can be made with cookies instead of cake and without baking, that is, with gelatin.
Frozen berries
Raspberry pie is a true summer pleasure, however, you can enjoy homemade cakes not only in the summer, we have a recipe for a pie with frozen raspberries. In the photo, the berries are so delicious. We will share the recipe with you.
Today, berries can be frozen as well as bought at the grocery store. Frozen berries are on the shelves both in winter and in summer, for every taste and color, so you can enjoy raspberries at any time of the year and, of course, prepare delicious and fragrant pastries.
Surprisingly, not only are vitamins in raspberries heat-resistant, they also do not lose their properties even when deep frozen, as aroma and taste are not lost. But how to use frozen berries before sending them to baking?
Usually frozen raspberries do not lose their shape after defrosting, but “floats”. In general, there is not much difference, use frozen or thawed berries in the preparation, it will not affect the preparation of a raspberry pie recipe. The main thing is that before making the pie, taking the berries out of the chamber, shake them well so that they separate from each other and remove excess snow. Without excess water, the berry will retain its shape perfectly, for example, for a pie according to the first recipe.
Pie with raspberries and nuts
But we will not stop and will share with you another fragrant raspberry pie recipe with a photo. This raspberry pie is very tender, with nuts and sour cream filling.
Nuts with raspberries are a great combination, and under sour cream filling - bliss. Delicate and spicy taste, very appetizing. So, for the preparation of the pie you will need the following products.
For the test:
- 2 cups of flour;
- 150 g butter;
- 0.5 cups of sugar;
- 0.5 cups sour cream;
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
For filling:
- 300 g raspberries;
- 150 g of any nuts;
- 200 g sour cream;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 2 tablespoons of flour;
- 1 egg
- juice of half a lemon.
Remove the berries from the freezer before cooking. Also for baking you will need a form with high sides, oiled.
So, mix the sour cream with sugar, and melt the butter in the microwave or in a water bath. Mix everything together with a whisk or fork, but do not whisk. Add flour gradually, mixing. Add baking powder.
Knead the dough until it is elastic, soft. Sprinkle the greased form with flour and lay out the dough, stretching the wide sides.
While the dough is “resting” in shape, prepare the fill. To do this, mix sour cream, egg, flour and sugar. Beat everything thoroughly to completely break the lumps. Use a mixer.
Peel and chop nuts, not too finely and put them to the bottom.
Put the berries on the dough, evenly distributing them, carefully fill with sour cream and bake at 180 degrees. Do not forget about the preheated oven.
The cake is baked until the cream thickens, it will turn a little yellow. Garnish ready-made pastries with powdered sugar, a leaf of mint or raspberry syrup.
The secret to perfect raspberry baking
To make the recipe for a delicious raspberry pie into an excellent dessert, in the end we will share with you secrets for successful baking.
- For a successful pie, a pleasant taste and a delicate, delicate aroma, use ripe raspberries, but not too soft. Ripe but hard raspberries will not spoil the appearance of baking.
- Do not drown the berries very deeply, because while the dough is baked, the berries themselves will drop.
- If you are a lover of sweets, then add more sugar, but is it worth hiding this wonderful taste behind sweets?
- Decorate pastries, a beautiful look will enhance your appetite.
- Among other things, you can use both yeast dough and puff. Delicious appetizing puffs are made from puff pastry, and with a cottage cheese - such a gentle, pleasant taste.
- Raspberries go well with other berries - blueberries, strawberries, currants. Adding different berries, experiment, creating a new taste. Mint leaves, a little lemon are also a delicious addition to a summer flavored cake.
We hope you enjoyed our step-by-step recipes for raspberry tarts. Photos will inspire you with design ideas.