Charlotte is a popular cake, because it is simply made, and for its preparation no exquisite products are needed. Therefore, each housewife needs to know how to cook a charlotte with apples in the oven, because it often happens when guests come up, and there is no time to invent something else.
This cake is made both simply and quickly. In 5 minutes the dough is kneaded, in 5 minutes the filling is prepared, and it takes only half an hour to bake. And the output is a very tasty cake, which will be a good addition to the evening tea.
But charlotte has become so popular now that it already has many variations. And the hostesses need to know at least some of them in order to always surprise the guests.
How to quickly and easily cook a delicious apple cake - secrets
Little know the classic recipes of apple pie. To make the dish tasty, you need to have certain secrets. Here are some of them:
- Use only sifted flour
- The dough must be prepared very carefully, making it as homogeneous as possible
- Want pomp - use eggs from the refrigerator
- The dough will taste better if it contains rum, brandy, in extreme cases, brandy
- Add baking powder or soda, which is better to extinguish with lemon juice
- Add vanillin, vanilla sugar, cinnamon, citrus zest to flavor
- Apples should not be cut very finely, they should be felt in the cake
- To keep fruits fresh, they are moistened with lemon juice.
- It is acceptable to place a layer of apples in any part of the cake or homogenize them with the dough
- The taste of the cake will be original if you include nuts, raisins, poppy seeds, honey, sesame or other fruits
- To get a more lush texture and original taste is easy when adding sour cream, kefir
If you apply all these tips, charlotte will be different special taste and will be remembered by guests.
Charlotte with apples in the oven - recipes
There are quite a few recipes for this popular pastry. Cherry, banana, cottage cheese, persimmon can be used as a filling, but the apple version is a classic one. This is due to the low cost of this fruit, as well as the simplicity of the recipe itself. All recipes are based on the use of such components:
- flour
- soda
- eggs
- sugar
- apples
When cooking charlottes, only certain varieties of apples are suitable. It should be sour fruits, for example, Antonovka. But you can not buy immature fruits.
An important part of any baking is the dishes that need to be used. And in this apple pie has another advantage. You will need only a container for mixing dough, a frying pan, if you want to decorate the cake with roasted or carmel, as well as a blender, if you have whipped proteins in the recipe. Well, the main element of the dishes for the cake - a form for baking. This completes the necessary baking tools.
A quick and easy recipe for apple pudding
Since the time of the USSR, many people know that even a long loaf is cooked. In those days it was difficult to find the required number of products, so they got out. And this recipe has an advantage: it is simple, it prepares quickly and will do if the guests are about to come, but there is nothing to submit.
We will need:
- ordinary loaf
- 4 eggs
- a glass of milk and sugar
- 4-5 apples
- 0, 5 h. Spoons of vanilla
- some lemon juice
- oil for the form
First, the loaf is crushed into 1 cm thick pieces (no matter which one is fresh or stale). They are then laid on a baking dish, pre-oiled. Cut the apples (choose the form yourself) and spread them evenly and densely on the bread, and moisten with the lemon layer on top and sprinkle with sugar.
Make a cream. Beat eggs with milk, sugar, add vanillin or cinnamon. Homogenous mixture poured the cake, put at 180 degrees in the oven for half an hour. The readiness of the charlotte is checked with a toothpick, after which it is taken out of the oven, set to cool and put on the plate.
The recipe really complicated by making the cake in several layers, adding to it butter, honey, nuts, raisins. But then the dish will not be easy, and the ingredients you need may not always be available in the vicinity.
Charlotte with apples - the traditional classic recipe
If there is time for cooking, but there is no fantasy, use just a classic recipe, which is not very complex.
The ingredients are as follows:
- a glass of flour and sugar
- 4 eggs
- 4-5 apples
- half a teaspoon of vanilla
- a teaspoon of baking powder
After collecting the necessary ingredients, first of all, beat the eggs. Better before that, put them in the fridge, they will give them more coldness to the dough. Then they add sugar and finish beating. Then add vanilla, vanilla sugar or cinnamon to the mixture and mix again.
Then gradually add flour, stirring constantly, baking powder, it is also good to add a little alcohol (brandy or rum) to make the dough more airy.
At the very end, cut the apples, moisten them with lemon juice or butter and cover with sugar. Fruit is either mixed with the cake, or spread on its surface. Then proceed to the actual baking. Prepare the form, put on it parchment, on top of which put a layer of oil. Apples dough is placed on a baking sheet and baked for 30-40 minutes. When the cake is ready, there are no traces of dough left when piercing it with a toothpick.
Sometimes the dough is baked with problems. Thus, the top may redden when it is not ready downstairs. Then the cake is quickly removed from the oven, covered with foil, and then placed in place.
When the baking is ready, it is taken out, allowed to cool and spread on a flat plate. The decoration of the dish will be powdered icing - the cake is ready to eat.
The advantage of the classic recipe is that it is the easiest (not counting the version with a loaf). And although this charlotte will be delicious, it is better to make the dish more original, if you use the following recipes.
Delicious and lush charlotte with apples in the oven on kefir
Want to get the air and tender dough? You need to add kefir to it. Then the cake will get a beautiful crust, the very same dough will be easy, tasty. To prepare the dishes will need:
- a glass of kefir and sugar
- 120 g sweet cream butter
- flour in sufficient quantity
- 1 tsp. drinking soda
- 1 egg
- 8 small apples
Judging by the ingredients, the recipe is quite budget. Make the dough as follows: mix butter with sugar, pour kefir into it and quench soda with it. An egg is added to the mixture and mixed until uniform. Then form the dough, pouring flour. The consistency - the usual sour cream. Part of the mixture is poured onto the mold, apples are laid on top of it, and then they are poured with a second layer of dough. The cake is baked for about 45 minutes at 180ºC and checked for readiness.
Apple charlotte in the oven on sour cream
In the preparation of air charlotte does not necessarily use kefir. Perfect and sour cream.
The ingredients are as follows:
- sour cream 200 ml
- a glass of sugar
- one chicken
- 1 tbsp. wheat flour
- 5 apples
- some soda or baking powder
Charlotte is made by mixing first sour cream and baking powder (soda). Separately, beat the eggs, sugar and pour into the mixture. At the end, flour is added to the dough and the cake begins to form.
Preheat the oven, then take the form, putting on its bottom part of the apples, then the dough, the second part of the apples and again the dough. Layer cake is baked for no more than 40 minutes, checking the readiness by the method indicated earlier. The finished dish is decorated with powder, nuts or candied fruits.
You should know that sour cream should choose medium fat, low-fat version will make the cake sour, but the fat will make it porridge.
Apple cocoa bake in the oven - a step by step recipe
But if the usual charlotte is fed up, try experimenting and choosing a chocolate variant. The cake is made just as quickly, and to decorate it beautifully with different fruits.
In preparation you will need:
- 200 g of a good sweet cream
- 2 spoons of cocoa
- half a cup of sugar
- 5 pcs. chicken eggs
- 2 tbsp. common flour
- 1 kg of apples
- a teaspoon of cinnamon
- teaspoon of soda
- icing sugar
First, beat the eggs, butter and sugar. Add flour to them and mix until smooth. Then add cocoa, cinnamon and apple slices. The resulting cake is baked according to the standard procedure, but the baking time is increased to 50 minutes. On readiness sprinkle with powder.
Charlotte with apples, raisins and cinnamon
This version of the charlotte is often used by the Germans, only they prepare it not for dough, but on a baguette.
Ingredients:
- 5 apples
- stale baguette
- A handful of raisins
- 300 ml of milk
- 3 pcs. eggs
- a pinch of cinnamon
- 6 tablespoons of sugar
- 50 grams of oil
The pie is cooked for a long time, but it's worth it. Eggs share proteins with yolks. The first whisk to foam, and the second is mixed separately with milk, cinnamon and sugar, and then whipped. Then a little bit of protein is added to the mixture and stirred.
Part of the resulting mass (1/3) is poured onto the mold, putting pieces of baguette and apples on it in turn. Then from above all sprinkle with raisins and pour the rest of the "dough." 10 minutes, the cake should stand, after which it is baked for no more than 45 minutes in the oven. They take out the cake and put butter on top of it, after which they put the oven back for 15 minutes - the German charlotte with raisin is ready.
Balloon with apples in the oven
We have already cited 2 recipes (on sour cream and kefir), when this baking is easy, but there is one option when the cake is very airy. The recipe is suitable for slow cooking. For him we need:
- 180 g of wheat flour
- a little smaller cup of sugar
- 3 pcs. eggs
- 2 spoons of starch
- 10 g vanilla
- some grip
- lemon juice
- a teaspoon of skate
- 2 tbsp. spoons of black sesame
- apples - 350 g
First, prepare the eggs with sugar, in a separate bowl mix the flour, baking powder and starch. Then mix both mixtures slowly and add vanilla and brandy.
Pre-chop the apples, sprinkle them with sugar and moisten with lemon juice. Lubricate the form of oil, sprinkled with sesame. Part of the dough is poured, followed by a layer of apples the rest of the dough. The mixture is a few minutes, and before baking, sprinkle it with leftover sesame. Bake as well as classic. But due to the special ingredients of the cake is obtained the most tender and airy.
Apple pie with curd - a simple recipe
Sometimes you just want to add a simple pie with new flavors, make it more satisfying. Cottage cheese will help in the implementation of this decision.
It will be necessary:
- 250 g of cottage cheese
- a glass of sugar
- semolina glass
- 100 g oil
- Egg
- 400 g apples
- half a glass of breadcrumbs
- icing sugar
- some lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon of any baking powder
- 10 g vanilla
- h. Spoon of brandy
Soft butter is melted in a water bath. Parallel to the eggs, sugar is whipped until frothy and mixed with liquid oil. To the mixture add baking powder and semolina. Separately chop the cottage cheese blender, so that it is homogeneous.
After receiving two mixtures, mix them and make the dough, to which cinnamon or vanilla is added. Let stand 15 minutes and form a cake. Form greased with butter, sprinkling with breadcrumbs on top. Then put apples on it, and on top - dough.
Apples are put on the top of the cake again, sprinkling them with lemon - this is decoration. The cake is baked at 220 degrees for 5 minutes, and then at 180 degrees - up to 45 minutes. When ready, the pastries are pulled out, cooled and decorated with powder. The advantage of this recipe is that there is no flour, and the dish is especially tasty.
Charlotte with apples, raisins and nuts - a recipe
Finally, we give an example of one of the most interesting options - with nuts. Ingredients are slightly different from previous ones. These are the products:
- 1, 5 art. plain flour and sugar;
- 6 eggs;
- half a kilo of apples;
- a handful of nuts and raisins;
- 2 tbsp. spoons srednegirnoy sour cream;
- 1, 5 teaspoons of any baking powder;
- half a glass of breadcrumbs;
- some vanilla;
- and oil for the form.
Prepare the dish like this: eggs with sugar are made into foam, vanillin is added to it. Sour cream whipped with baking powder and injected parts into the foam. At the end pour the flour and mix the dough until smooth.
Prepare the form, lubricating it with oil and sprinkling with breadcrumbs. Apples are lined on the bottom, crushed nuts with raisins are on top of them. The resulting layers are poured dough and set aside for 5 minutes. The cake is baked for more than an hour at 180 degrees. Sometimes it needs to be covered with foil, if the crust has formed, and until readiness is still far away.
The finished cake is removed from the oven, waiting until it cools, then sprinkled with sugar and consumed with tea.
There are a lot of recipes of charlottes, and all of them are original. Hostesses can at least every day to cook something new, noting yourself the most favorite variations.
