Cranberries are one of the most useful berries, which you can buy frozen all year round in the store. Residents of some regions collect it personally, for them this product is even more accessible. But not everyone favors this berry, rightly considering it too acidic. However, in combination with sweet dough in different types of baking, cranberries open up a little differently, acquiring a pleasant sour-sweet taste. Almost everyone likes cranberry pie. It can be eaten separately and served for tea. Such a sweet tooth will not refuse such a treat.
Cooking Features
Cranberries are equally well combined with sand, puff and biscuit dough, which allows you to make cakes with cranberry filling of various types. The technology of their preparation can also be different, but there are several general points, the knowledge of which allows the cook to get the best result.
- Both fresh and frozen berries can be used to make a cake. If you are preparing a pie of frozen cranberries, let it thaw and drain the juice that has been released, otherwise it will soak the dough when baking. Fresh berries should be well washed and dried.
- Cranberries will dry faster if they are scattered on a towel that absorbs moisture well.
- Fresh cranberries are bitter. To save her from the unpleasant taste, it is enough to freeze. If you decide to do without freezing, do not regret sugar, otherwise the taste of the dessert will not be harmonious.
- If you bake an open pie with cranberries, be sure to make wide sides of dough. The bottom layer of the pie should also not be too thin, otherwise the juice released from the berry during baking the pie will spread, soak the dough.
- In order to soak the dough under the influence of cranberry juice, starch is added to the filling, which makes it more dense and viscous.
- A pie will be easier to remove without damage from a silicone mold or from a special detachable mold designed for making cakes.
- Cranberries can be supplemented with sweeter berries, fruits, cottage cheese, meringues. Each time the cranberry pie will acquire new flavors, so never get bored.
Cranberry pie will be delicious hot and cold. This dessert will be a nice addition to homemade tea and decorate the holiday table.
Classic Cranberry Pie Recipe
Composition:
- wheat flour - 0, 35 kg;
- sugar - 0, 3 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- milk - 100 ml;
- butter - 130 g;
- baking powder for dough - 10 g;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- starch - 30 g;
- salt - a pinch;
- cranberries - 0, 2 kg.
Preparation Method:
- Wash the cranberries. Leave in a colander to dry.
- Sift flour.
- Separate a piece weighing 30 g from the butter, add 3 tablespoons of flour and the same amount of sugar to it. Chop it all together with a large knife to make the products look like a crumb. Put it in the fridge.
- Leave the remaining oil at room temperature so that it softens. Pour 150 g of sugar to it, pound.
- Break eggs into a bowl with butter and sugar, pour in milk. Mix them thoroughly to get a composition that is creamy in consistency.
- Mix flour with salt, vanilla and baking powder. Connect with the bulk and whisk, getting not too thick dough.
- Grease a baking pan with butter or cover with parchment. If the form is silicone, you can do without oil and parchment paper.
- Lay out half the dough.
- Mix the cranberries with the remaining sugar and starch. Put it in the form, filling its central part, not reaching 1-2 cm to the side.
- Lay out the remaining dough and flatten it with a spoon so that it covers all the berries.
- Sprinkle with the crumb that was previously cleaned in the fridge.
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees, place the cake form in it and bake it for 45-50 minutes.
It remains to carefully remove the cake from the mold, move it to a beautiful dish and serve it to the table.
Cranberry Pie with Nuts
Composition:
- wheat flour - 140 g;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- sour cream - 100 ml;
- walnut kernels - 50 g;
- butter - 30 g;
- sugar - 150 g;
- baking powder - 10 g;
- vanillin - a pinch;
- cranberries - 0, 2 kg;
- icing sugar - to taste.
Preparation Method:
- Wash, dry the cranberries.
- Finely chop the nuts with a knife.
- Remove the oil from the refrigerator to soften.
- In the bowl, break the eggs, add sugar to them. Whisk with a whisk.
- Enter sour cream and mix well.
- In a separate container, sift flour, mix it with baking powder and vanilla.
- Pour the flour into the egg-cream mass. Beat until a homogeneous consistency, no lumps.
- Grease the bottom of the mold with softened butter, sprinkle with crushed nuts.
- Arrange the cranberries, leaving some berries to decorate the finished cake.
- Pour the dough over the cranberries.
- Put the mold in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. Cook the cake for 30-40 minutes. Its readiness can be checked with a toothpick: if it remains dry after dipping into the cake, baking is ready.
Remove the cake from the mold, put it on the dish, sprinkle with powdered sugar, decorate with berries.
Pie with cranberries from the finished puff pastry
Composition:
- puff pastry (on yeast or yeast-free) - 0, 3 kg;
- cranberries - 150 g;
- sugar - 0, 2 kg;
- starch - 30 g;
- egg yolk - 1 pc.
Preparation Method:
- Thaw puff pastry. Divide it into 2 parts, roll into layers of approximately the same shape and size.
- Lay parchment on the form or baking sheet, place one layer of dough on top. Lift its edges to form the sides.
- Mix cranberries with sugar and starch. Put on the dough.
- Cover the second layer of dough, fasten the edges.
- Shake the egg yolk with a little water. Using a culinary brush, brush the cake with egg mass.
- Place the cake in an oven heated to 200 degrees. Bake for 20 minutes.
If you want to whip up some cranberry pie, you should use the recipe outlined above.
Cake with cranberry curd pastry
Composition:
- wheat flour - 0, 24 kg;
- sugar - 140 g;
- cranberries - 100 g;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- pear (sweet) - 0, 2 kg;
- almonds or other nuts - 30 g;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- baking powder for dough - 10 g;
- sour cream - 120 ml.
Preparation Method:
- Curd the cottage cheese through a sieve, pound with one egg and half of the sugar specified in the recipe.
- Add oil, mix well.
- Separately mix the sifted flour with baking powder, combine it with curd mass and knead to make a homogeneous dough for the base.
- Combine sour cream, sugar, vanillin and egg in a separate container. Beat with a mixer to obtain a mixture, the consistency of a cream.
- Wash the berry, dry it.
- Peel the pear, remove the seed patches, cut the flesh into small cubes.
- Roll out some cottage cheese dough, spread it across the bottom of the mold.
- Put the pear on the curd dough, pour the cranberries on it.
- Fill the fruit and berry filling with sour cream.
- Sprinkle nutmeal on top.
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees. Put in it a form with a future cake. Bake it for 40 minutes.
Dessert for this recipe is not only tasty, but also useful, if it is eaten in moderation.
Pie with cranberries and meringues
Composition:
- cranberries - 0, 2 kg;
- butter - 150 g;
- flour - 0, 28 kg;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- corn starch - 30 g;
- sugar - 0, 3 kg.
Preparation Method:
- Add half a cup of sugar to the prepared berries. Grind them to puree, mix it with starch.
- Remove the oil from the refrigerator to soften.
- Separate yolks from proteins. Clean the last ones in the fridge.
- Add 2 tablespoons of sugar to yolks, pound.
- Add the butter and whisk, getting a cream-like composition.
- Pour the sifted flour to it and mix. As a result, you get a dense dough. It must be rolled into a ball, covered with cling film and put in the fridge for 15 minutes.
- After the indicated time, roll out the dough and put it into a mold, covering not only the bottom, but also the sides with dough.
- Place the form with the base for 20 minutes in a preheated 200 degree oven.
- Beat the whites to a foam. Continuing to beat, half a spoon, add all the remaining sugar.
- Spread cranberry puree on the base, cover with protein mass.
- Place the cake in the oven for another 15-20 minutes. Let it cool in the oven off.
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Open cranberry pie
Composition:
- flour - 0, 2 kg;
- chicken egg - 5 pcs .;
- sour cream - 60 ml;
- butter - 100 g;
- water - 120 ml;
- sugar - 150 g;
- milk - 20 ml;
- cranberries - 0, 25 kg.
Preparation Method:
- Sift flour, mix with softened butter and 50 g of sugar.
- Add the egg, knead the dough.
- Spread the dough across the bottom of the form, pierce it in several places, put it in the fridge for 15 minutes.
- Smash cranberries with a blender, mix with the remaining sugar.
- Separately whisk the remaining eggs with sour cream, mix with cranberry puree.
- Bake the base for 15 minutes at 200 degrees.
- Put the cranberry filling on the base, return the cake to the oven and cook another 40 minutes, reducing the temperature to 160 degrees.
Open cranberry pie looks especially appetizing, it is difficult to resist.
Cranberry pie turns out nourishing, tasty, but also useful. Despite the calorie content of this dessert, it can be included in the diet even by people who make sure that their food is healthy. Children from such delicacies will be especially delighted.