They say that on weekends in the house you should definitely smell like pies - this emphasizes its comfort, warmth and harmony. And which cake is considered the easiest and fastest to prepare? True, it is a charlotte. There is hardly any hostess who has never heard the name of apple pie and has not tried to cook it at least once. Often charlotte disappears on the day of its birth, because so delicious and airy dessert can not leave anyone indifferent. Today, we propose to deviate a little from the classical recipe and replace the traditional ingredient (apples) with another one - wholesome cherry. We present to your attention a selection of simple and easy-to-use recipes that you can bring to life in your own kitchen.
Charlotte with cherry - necessary products
Often the set of ingredients for charlotte is standard:
• Cherries, apples or other fruits,
• Flour,
• Sugar,
• Eggs
• Baking soda or baking powder,
• Spices and other ingredients on request.
Selecting products for making a fruit pie is only half the battle. It is also important to choose the right baking dish, because the taste of the dish depends on the quality of this gadget.
Charlotte with cherry - selection of dishes
For example, you can choose a glass or ceramic mold for baking charlotte. This is the right step, because glass, as well as ceramics, are considered environmentally friendly and safe for health materials. It’s easy and convenient to cook in them, and desserts will not cool off quickly, as these forms have a low thermal conductivity. Agree, much nicer to eat a warm cake with hot tea or coffee.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to praise aluminum or enamelled baking molds in the same way as glass ones. Today in the market you can find 80% of low-quality, cheap materials, which sellers give out for absolutely safe product. Aluminum is often oxidized, and the enamel breaks away from the surface of the mold and henceforth it is prohibited to use such utensils in the kitchen. Silicone molds are also suitable for baking charlottes. It is very flexible, so the process of removing the form from the finished cake is not complicated by anything. One important advice: do not buy cheap forms, because they may contain aggressive chemical impurities. Pay better attention to the qualitative forms of well-known manufacturers, as you know, they do not save on health.
Recipe 1: Charlotte with drunk cherry
Women in the former Soviet Union often spirited cherry, getting not only a tasty tincture of berries, but also the original ingredient of many desserts. In honor of this “drunk” cherry, a cake of the same name was even coined. An interesting fact is that the charlotte with “drunk” cherries and apples can be cooked at any time of the year, as it is alcoholized, it can be stored for a very long time.
In order to create your own charlotte you need to take:
• A glass of flour,
• Eggs - 3 pieces,
• A glass of sugar
• Two small apples,
• 2 tbsp. l cocoa powder,
• 2-3 Art. l cherries
• 2-3 Art. l ready cherry alcohol,
• Baking Powder - 1 sachet,
• Spices - cinnamon and cardamom.
We cut the apples into slices, beat the eggs with sugar, add flour, baking powder, cocoa, spices and knead the dough. We supplement it with cherries and tincture. Ceramic or glass form abundantly smear with margarine or butter, immerse the dough in it, spread the apples on top and send it to the preheated oven. Cooking temperature - 180-200 degrees, time - 45-50 minutes.
Recipe 2: Chocolate Charlotte with Cherry
Chocolate is perfectly combined with cherries, shading its taste and neutralizing acid. Charlotte with cherries and chocolate is an incredibly appetizing and juicy dessert with a rich, exquisite taste. A “highlight” of this dish will be the sweet icing.
What ingredients do you need to prepare:
• One glass of flour,
• A glass of sugar
• 2/3 cup ripe cherries,
• 120 g margarine,
• Eggs - 2 pcs,
• Soda, extinguished with vinegar - 1 tsp.
For the glaze you will need:
• A bar of dark chocolate, • 2 tbsp. l heavy cream.
Let's start cooking: combine the flour, sugar and eggs, beat well with a mixer. Melt the margarine and add to the mass. Add soda, and then cherries. Pre-cherries better pour sugar.
Now you need to prepare a baking dish, grease it with fat and sprinkle with flour or breadcrumbs. If you have a food grade silicone, these manipulations will not be needed.
Pour the dough into the form, put in the oven for 40-50 minutes. While the cake is suitable, you can do the icing. To do this, in a stainless saucepan over low heat, melt a bar of chocolate, add cream and stir for 1 minute. To prevent the chocolate from burning, you can place the saucepan in a water bath.
After the cake has cooled, pour it on top with chocolate icing and you can enjoy the amazing taste of homemade cakes.
Recipe 3: Sour cream with cherry
Even a beginning hostess can try to make a simple and easy recipe at home. This charlotte will be the first dessert made with your own hands, and it will definitely work out.
To make your own cake, you should take:
• 3 eggs,
• A glass of flour,
• Half a cup of sugar,
• Vanilla sugar - 2 sachets,
• 3 tablespoons sour cream,
• Baking Powder - 1 sachet,
• Margarine - 100 g,
• Pitted Cherry
• Spices - cinnamon and vanilla.
Combine the flour with baking powder, beat the eggs with margarine, sour cream and sugar, enter this mixture into the flour. You need to knead the homogeneous dough without lumps. Next, add vanilla sugar and spices, pour the dough into the form and garnish with cherry berries on top.
Now you just need to remove the form in the oven and wait about 60 minutes. When the cake is ready, cool it, remove it from the mold and sprinkle with powdered sugar on top. Good appetite!
Recipe 4: Charlotte with a cherry without baking: an amazing recipe for a novice chef
This recipe is even simpler than the previous one: to recreate it, you don’t even need an oven, because all the ingredients are combined using gelatin, and the cake is the basis for the cake. With the help of such a cherry charlotte, any housewife will be able to please her family with an interesting dessert, without fear that the dough will fall or not rise. You will need:
• Cottage cheese,
• Biscuit roll,
• Gelatin,
• pitted cherry,
• Sugar,
• Cream.
So, let's try to make this tasty dish:
• Take a bag of gelatin, soak it in water. After swelling, put a glass with a mass in a water bath and melt the grains of gelatin.
• Now take the form, lubricate it with a little vegetable oil or line the parchment. This way you will get the finished cake much easier.
• Mix cottage cheese with cream and sugar, whisk with a blender so that no large lumps remain.
• Then you need to add cherry and gelatin to the curd and beat the mass again.
• Thin slices of biscuit roll and lay out the bottom of the form. Top dense layer you need to distribute the curd mass. The final layer is thin rolls.
• Put the finished charlotte in the fridge for the night, and in the morning you just have to shift it to a beautiful dish.
Recipe 5: Charlotte with bananas and cherries
This recipe will certainly appreciate the smallest tasters. Children love bananas, and the taste of sourish cherries perfectly neutralizes this particular fruit. In addition, this dessert is much more useful than pastries of unknown origin, bought in the nearest store.
Here is a list of ingredients for charlotte:
• Ripe banana,
• Half a glass of cherries,
• One glass of sugar and flour,
• 4 chicken eggs,
• Butter,
• Vanillin,
• A teaspoon of baking soda vinegar.
All you need to do is mix the eggs with butter and sugar, add flour, vanillin and soda. Banana cut into rings, and clean the cherries from the seed.
The baking mold for charlotte should be greased with butter, pour out half the dough and put bananas. Then cover the fruit with the rest of the dough, decorate with cherries on top and send to the oven for 1 hour. The cooking temperature is 180 degrees.
Charlotte with cherry - the secrets of good baking
So that you do not have incidents while baking cakes with cherries or other fruits, we want to share some tips with you. Thanks to them, your pastries will always be fragrant, tender and tasty, the dough will not stick, and the cakes will not “fall”. Tip # 1: so that the pies never burn in the oven, adjust the gas flow. It is better to slightly prolong the roasting time than to cook over high heat and eat a charlotte with a burnt bottom. Also, heat-resistant container with water will help to avoid burning; it should be placed under a baking sheet.
Tip # 2: if you want to achieve the structure of a porous, fluffy dough, you can add a little starch to its composition, and sift the flour through a sieve.
Tip number 3: to get the charlotte out of the mold, immediately after baking it is necessary to place it on a towel soaked in cold water. Let the form cool down in this way, then the cake will move better from the walls.
Tip number 4: when the cherry pie is still burnt, you can peel off the darkened dough using an ordinary kitchen grater. Just turn the cake upside down and rub the burnt places with a grater.
Tip number 5: if you notice that your baking is badly baked inside, try to reduce the amount of sugar next time.
As you may have noticed, it is very easy to make a charlotte with cherries. We have selected for you simple and very tasty recipes that will help you become the perfect baker. And adhering to our advice, you get a perfect dish, fluffy and delicious, which truly will melt in your mouth.
