Not only wine or jam can be made from grapes.
It makes delicious cakes.
The aroma of baked berries, tender or crumbly dough, honey taste is just a fairy tale!
Grape Pie - General Cooking Principles
For the filling mainly used fresh grapes. It is advisable to use seedless varieties, if necessary, the berries are cut, the seeds are removed. The grapes themselves are quite sweet, so they either don’t add sugar to them or put them in a small amount. In open cakes, brown sugar is sometimes used for finishing dressing, so that a caramel coating appears on the baked berries.
What dough can be used:
• sand;
• yeast;
• puff;
• biscuit.
When forming a pie for the filling, some corn starch or potato starch, dry kissel, is often poured. These additives do not allow the bottom Korzh soak up the secreted juices, remain unbaked. Grape cakes are mostly baked in the oven. Some recipes can be adapted to the slow cooker, mostly versions of sponge dough.
Grape Cake “Airy”
A variant of a very light, soft grape pie. It can be covered with any fudge, cream, icing and quickly turned into a cake. The dough is based on a classic sponge cake.
Ingredients
• four eggs;
• a glass of sugar;
• 0.5 tsp. baking powder;
• a glass of flour;
• 300 grams of seedless grapes;
• vanilla.
Cooking
1. Rinse the grapes thoroughly, put them on a napkin, leave to dry.
2. Take a dry and clean bowl. If there are traces of fat in it, the dough will not work. Beat the eggs, beat at the highest speed of the mixer for 2 minutes.
3. Now gradually, add sugar in small portions, whisk until completely dissolved.
4. Enter the flour. It must be prepared in advance: sift, mix in baking baking powder.
5. Stir eggs with flour gently, just a few seconds. 6. Pour the dough into a mold about 22 cm in diameter. If it is silicone, then you do not need to grease it. In a detachable mold you can push a sheet of parchment, anoint the sides.
7. Scatter grapes on top and immediately put the sponge cake to bake.
8. Heat up to 200, set and reduce the temperature to 180. Bake 25-35 minutes. Check the readiness of the grape dessert with a toothpick.
Open pie with grapes in a hurry (puff pastry)
For such a cake with grapes, you can take a yeast or a simple puff pastry. A single piece is enough to completely cover the shape along with the sides.
Ingredients
• 0.2-0.3 kg of dough;
• 700 grams of grapes;
• 4 tablespoons of starch;
• 1 pinch of cinnamon.
Cooking
1. Remove the dough, leave on the table to thaw.
2. Rinse the grapes, dry and cut each piece lengthwise. Carefully remove the seeds. If the grapes are without them, then even better, just cut them.
3. Roll out the thawed layer of dough, cover the mold, cut off all the excess from the sides.
4. Pour dry starch inside. Under the influence of grape juice, it will turn into a wonderful filling with a jelly consistency.
5. Now spread out the grapes, try to cut it down so that the convex side looks out. If the berries remain, then just scatter on top.
6. You do not need to add sugar, the grapes are sweet, but you can sprinkle the cake with a pinch of cinnamon.
7. Bake. Set at 210 degrees, bring the cake to readiness. Before cutting, the cake will need to be cooled so that the filling grabs.
Yeast Pie with Grapes
A variant of a simple dough in milk and dry yeast margarine. If you want to make a big pie, then take a double portion of all the ingredients.
Ingredients
• 70 g margarine;
• 150 ml of milk;
• 2 tbsp. flour;
• 30 g of sugar;
• 1 yolk (for lubrication);
• 1 l. including yeast;
• 300 grams of grapes;
• sugar in the filling, cinnamon, liqueur to taste.
Cooking
1. Milk for yeast dough need to be heated, melt margarine. If there is no whole milk, then you can dilute dried or a little condensed milk, but in the second case you will need to reduce sugar. 2. Add the yeast and sugar to the previously heated liquid, add half a glass of flour, stir and let stand.
3. Twenty minutes later the mass will rise, will begin to bubble. It's time to add margarine, half a small spoonful of salt, you can lay egg white from the yolk, which will go for smearing the cake. Knead it all with flour until smooth.
4. Cover the dough, let it rise well.
5. For the filling you need to cut the grapes halves. If there are bones, it is better to remove them.
6. Pinch off fourth. Roll the rest of the piece a little with a rolling pin or stretch the shape of your hands.
7. Spread the grapes, sprinkle with granulated sugar. Many do not need to add, because the grapes are sweet. But you can sprinkle with cinnamon or sprinkle with liquor.
8. Take that piece of dough that was pinched. Roll out with a rolling pin in a long and thin ribbon, cut into strips, width up to 2 cm, length is not limited. Spread the fishnet on the cake.
9. To the yolk you need to add a teaspoon of milk, beat. Grease all ribbons and bulging edges from the dough.
10. Bake at 200 ° C until the color of the grid on the pie is red.
Double Grape Pie
Another version of the pie with grapes from puff pastry. It can be called both closed and open. Grapes are best used without stones, you can chalk. Yeast puff pastry.
Ingredients
• dough packaging;
• 0.5 kg of grapes;
• 40 g of oil;
• 2 tablespoons of starch;
• 100 g sugar.
Cooking
1. Divide the dough into two parts: the bottom and top of the cake. The lower part should be slightly larger in size so that the cake will overlap the sides of the mold. You can shift it.
2. Grease with melted butter. Set the rest aside.
3. Cut the grapes in half, set aside a third to the side. Add starch to the rest of the berries, stir, put grapes.
4. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar to the butter. Sprinkle the cake with the rest of the sand.
5. The second piece of dough must be pierced in several places with a fork, very often, then transferred to the cake. Connect the edges. 6. Lubricate the top with a mixture of butter and sugar, you can use a brush. Just pour the leftovers.
7. Spread the grapes around the pie in a chaotic manner. Slice position to the dough, try not to cover the holes through which steam will come out of the grape juice.
8. Bake the cake for about half an hour. Temperature 210.
Crumbly grape pie (shortbread dough)
Variant of open shortcake with baked berries on top. For the filling is better to use light grapes. Choose dense berries, so that the base does not soften, it turns out really crumbly.
Ingredients
• egg;
• 140 g of oil;
• 2 cups of flour;
• 0.2 glass of sugar;
• soda, vanilla;
• a bunch of grapes and brown sugar in the filling.
Cooking
1. Pound the butter with sifted flour to a uniform crumb. Add sugar and a small pinch of soda, break the egg. Knead the dough. Clean in the freezer.
2. Divide a bunch of grapes, wash the berries, cut in half.
3. Remove the dough, roll out the cake, put it on a baking sheet or in a mold.
4. Scatter the pieces of berries on it. If they are very juicy, you can first sprinkle the base with starch.
5. Sprinkle grapes on top with brown sugar, do not need much, just one tablespoon is enough.
6. Bake at 210 degrees until the cake is cooked.
Closed shortcake with grapes
For this cake, you can use fresh berries or grape jam, but thick. The test should be cooled at least half an hour, you can knead in advance.
Ingredients
• 300 g of berries;
• a glass of sugar;
• 1 tsp. ripper;
• a pack of margarine (0.2 kg);
• 2 tbsp. (0.2) flour;
• 2 eggs;
• vanilla.
Cooking
1. In a bowl, pour the flour, all at once. Add a ripper to it.
2. Cut frozen margarine or butter into pieces, add to flour. Take a large knife, chop the mass until a uniform crumb.
3. Fill the dough with two eggs, vanilla, knead. It should grapple lump. If moisture is not enough, you can pour in a little cold milk, just a few spoons. 4. Pinch off a quarter of the dough, send to the bag and freezer.
5. Put the rest of the dough in the bag too, but just in the fridge.
6. Rinse the grapes, cut in half, the bones (if any) must be removed.
7. After 30 minutes, remove the dough from the fridge, roll it out on a floured table, and transfer it to the form.
8. Spread the grapes or thick jam.
9. Take a piece of dough from the freezer, rub it on top of a large grater, distribute the chips evenly, but it should not completely hide the filling.
10. Bake at 190 degrees to the beautiful color of the top dressing.
Grape Pie - Tips and Tricks
• When cutting puff pastry, trimming often remains. They can be used for decoration. If the recipe does not allow it, then bake puffs! Brush the small pieces with egg, sprinkle with salt or sugar, sesame, nuts, seeds and brown in the oven.
• When baking cakes in the oven, do not open the door. A jet of cold air will disturb the balance in the oven, the crust on the product will be spotty, most often there is a white edge on the side of the door. Biscuit dough may even settle at the door.
• Is the cake out of shape? Let him stand for a while. Can be put in a basin with cold water or on a wet towel.
• Vanillin and vanilla sugar - products that are laid in different proportions. Sugar is less concentrated, it needs more than pure vanillin.
