Charlotte with apples is a great recipe, quick cooking. Therefore, if you do not have time, then use this recipe and bake a delicious sweet cake.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Historically, charlotte was made with white bread, apples, liqueur and custard. Although theoretically it can be baked with any berries and fruits. Well, in practice, the most delicious it is obtained from ordinary sour apples, for example, Antonovka or Simirenka. Incredibly fragrant, with a pronounced sourness, apples perfectly set off and complement the taste of the biscuit. In the simplest version, apples are thinly sliced and laid out on the bottom of a baking dish, and poured on top with dough made from eggs, sugar and flour.
Although today there are already many recipes for charlotte, which are numbered in dozens. Sometimes it even seems that it is baked with absolutely anything and from anything - from rusks, cottage cheese, eggplant, bread, potatoes … However, no matter what charlotte is made from, the recipe is so simple that any novice cook can handle it. Today I will tell you and show you a photo recipe on how to make a classic charlotte with apples. By following it, you will learn how to make such a wonderful pie in a matter of minutes, and with a 100% guarantee of success.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 191 kcal.
- Servings Per Container - 1 Pie
- Cooking time - 20 minutes - kneading the dough, 40 minutes - baking
Ingredients:
- Flour - 200 g
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Sugar - 100 g or to taste
- Apples - 1-2 pcs.
- Salt - a pinch
- Cognac - 30 ml
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Baking soda - 1 tsp
Cooking apple charlotte
1. Separate the eggs into whites and yolks. Drive the yolks into the container in which you will continue to knead the dough.
2. Add sugar to the yolks and beat with a mixer until light and white foam is formed, which doubles in volume.
3. Pour flour to the food, which if possible sift through a sieve so that it is rich in oxygen. Then the cake will be more fluffy and tender.
4. Stir the food until you get a slightly thick dough. Add baking soda and pour in cognac, which can be replaced with any alcoholic beverage: rum, whiskey, brandy. Knead the dough again.
5. Beat the whites with a mixer in a firm, tight foam until peaks and an airy white foam.
6. Add the whipped egg whites to the dough and stir. Its consistency will immediately become more liquid and airy.
7. Wash the apples, remove the core with a special knife, cut into rings 7 mm thick and place on the bottom of a baking dish, cover with baking parchment greased with butter. Sprinkle apples with cinnamon powder. If desired, the number of apples can be increased to the desired one.
8. Pour the dough into a mold on top of the apples.
9. Send the cake to bake in an oven heated to 200 ° C for 40 minutes. Check the readiness of the product with a wooden splinter or a toothpick, if they are dry - the charlotte is ready, wet - bake again.
10. Cool the finished product, remove from the mold, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve for tea. If the cake is taken out of the mold while it is hot, it may break.
See also a video recipe on how to cook tender apple charlotte.
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