The harvest season is a great occasion to treat yourself and your homemade ones to delicious. If you want to serve a delicious juicy delicacy with a ripe aroma for tea, but you don’t want to bother around a hot oven for a long time, the apricot jellied pie can become a real lifesaver. In our selection you will surely find ideas that will appeal to you.
Product pretreatment
To make the jellied pie with apricots tasty, the seeds from the fruit must first be removed. Carefully divide the washed apricots into halves using a sharp knife.
Some housewives pre-caramelize fruits, this makes baking even more fragrant and tasty. Do you want the same? Melt a couple tablespoons of sugar in a cast-iron frying pan (better than cane, but regular will do as well). Once the mass is brown and thick, add fruit and start stirring quickly with a wooden spatula. Apricots let in juice, absorb sugar.
Recipe for jellied pie with kefir apricots
Beat the egg with sugar (100 g) until fluffy. Add half a glass of kefir, melted butter to room temperature (50 g), a pinch of soda, vanilla, 200 grams of wheat flour. Make a uniform dough without flour lumps. The consistency should be the same as the test for pancakes.
Grease a baking dish. You can use, for example, a slice of margarine or lard. Pour in half the cooked dough, and then very carefully spread the apricots. Pour the remaining dough on top to completely cover all the fruits.
Send the cake pan to the oven preheated to 185 ° C. Cooking time depends on the characteristics of the equipment and averages 40-50 minutes.
It is most convenient to check readiness with a bamboo skewer. If she comes back from the cake in a dry state, then he is ready.
You can decorate the cake with icing sugar after cooling.
Pie with apricots and cottage cheese
With such a jellied pie with apricots, you have to tinker a little longer. But the result will reward all labors.
For the test you will need :
- flour - half a kilo;
- 2 eggs;
- sugar - a glass;
- baking powder - sachet;
- butter - 1 pack;
- 1 tbsp. milk;
- salt is a pinch.
For filling:
- wet cottage cheese of any fat content - half a kilo;
- chopped peeled apricots - 1.5–2 cups;
- potato starch - 55 g;
- vanilla sugar - a bag;
- peeled cherry - a glass;
- 3 eggs;
- granulated sugar to taste.
Cooking
Pound the soft butter with sugar. Beat eggs to fluff with a little salt. Combine the butter base with the egg, pour in the milk, mix gently until completely homogeneous. Then, adding flour with a baking powder sifted through a sieve, knead a soft plastic dough.
And now let's get into the filling. We combine the cottage cheese and eggs whipped to splendor, add sugar, starch and vanilla.
Pour 2/3 of the dough into a greased form, scatter the cottage cheese with a tablespoon. The remaining dough is poured on top, and berries and apricot slices are scattered on top of it.
Bake the cake in a preheated oven until dry with a toothpick.
A simple recipe for a slow cooker
A delicious jellied pie with apricots can be prepared using modern kitchen appliances.
Ingredients:
- butter - half of one pack;
- sugar is an incomplete glass;
- wheat flour - 230 g;
- eggs - 3 pcs. medium size;
- milk - 50 ml;
- baking baking powder - 1 tsp;
- ripe apricots - 12-15 pcs.
Cooking method
In a small saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter immersed in milk, and then cool it well. Combine eggs and sugar in a deep bowl, beat well with a mixer. Add milk with melted butter into the dough and beat thoroughly again.
Mix flour with a cultivator, sift 2-3 times. After that, add it to the dough.
The mixer for cooking with this recipe is undesirable. It is better to mix the dough with a silicone spatula or ordinary fork.
With a piece of melted margarine, carefully lubricate the inside of the multi-bowl. You can also sprinkle dishes with white breadcrumbs or semolina.
Pour the dough into the multi-capacity, scatter the apricot halves on the surface.
Cook in a slow cooker jellied cake with apricots, you need to "Bake" one hour. When the cake is ready, put it on the wire rack, let it cool down well.
Serving to the table
A delicious jellied cake with apricots is a great addition to an evening tea party. You can also serve brewed coffee, cocoa with milk for this baking.
In the summer heat, chilled milk, kefir, fermented baked milk will be an excellent option.
To decorate the cake, you can use almond petals, coconut, powdered sugar, chocolate drops.
The remnants of the pie, which were not eaten immediately after baking, are stored in the refrigerator, in a closed container.
Such a delicacy can be prepared not only with fresh apricots. Frozen fruits and canned apricots are perfect for this purpose .