Puff pastry is not like any other.
It is equally tasty with sweet and salty fillings.
Cherry pies are especially good at puff pastry.
What, you have not tried?
Cherry puff pie - general cooking principles
You can buy puff pastry at any store. Today there is no question. You can also prepare it yourself, there is a lot of recipes and techniques, but this will take some time. Choose an acceptable option.
What fillings are used:
• fresh berries;
• frozen cherries;
• boiled cherries;
• jam, jams;
• berries in syrups, compote.
Depending on the type of filling and recipe, sugar, vanilla, starch, other berries, fruits can be added to the berries. Sometimes dairy products are added to the fillings: cottage cheese, cream cheeses, sour cream or cream. Puff cakes are mostly baked in the oven. There they are the most successful, acquire a fragrant crust and break up into thin layers.
Recipe 1: Whip up a cherry puff cake
The beauty of this puff pie with cherry is that you don’t need to make dough for it. Moreover, instead of fresh berries, you can use cherry jam or jam. In any case, the pastry is excellent.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of dough;
• 0.5 kg of cherries;
• 5 tablespoons of sugar;
• 1 scoop of starch;
• 1 egg.
Cooking
1. We give the test to lie warm in order to thaw it.
2. Then unfold, divide the dough into two layers and thinly roll out. It is advisable to make one piece of the pie a little larger. She will go to the bottom and sides. The second layer will be for the top.
3. From the berries we get the bones, give the drain juice. Stir with sugar.
4. We spread a larger layer on a greased baking sheet or in a suitable form, do not forget about the sides. Sprinkle with a thin layer of starch. 5. Now lay out the cherry with sugar. For we use thick jam, jam.
6. We cover the second layer, intended for the top.
7. The edges are twisted together. On the surface we make several holes. Through them steam will come out when boiling berry juice.
8. Grease with egg, send to bake in the oven at 200 degrees.
9. The readiness of the cake is determined by the color of the crust, it should be wheat.
Recipe 2: Homemade cherry puff cake
Recipe puff cake with cherries made from homemade dough. It may be difficult for someone to prepare and roll out, but this is only a first impression. It is worth only once to make and puff pastries firmly settled in the house.
Ingredients
• 0.4 kg of flour;
• 0.3 kg oil;
• 0.17 kg of water;
• 1 egg;
• 1 pinch of salt;
• 1 pinch of citric acid.
To fill the cake will need 2-3 glasses of cherries and half a glass of sugar.
Cooking
1. Take two sheets of parchment, put butter between them and roll out a square. We send the blank for lamination in the fridge.
2. Knead dough. To do this, dissolve salt with citric acid in ice water and shake an egg with them. Combine with flour. The dough should be very cool. Keep it for about twenty minutes in the fridge, forming a ball.
3. We take out the dough and roll out a rectangle with 2 times more butter. Laying the fat harvesting, fold in half. Roll out again, fold in three layers and put in the fridge for 10 minutes.
4. We take out the dough, roll it out and again fold it into 3 layers. Repeat the procedure at least 2 more times.
5. At the end, roll out the layer, cut a neat rectangle to the size of the form with sides. From scraps make ribbons.
6. Put the layer in a baking sheet, lay out the cherry berries, sprinkle with sugar.
7. From above we lay out strips from the test. You can make a crossed mesh.
8. We bake a homemade cake in the oven for about half an hour at 200 degrees. Serve warm or chilled.
Recipe 3: Quick Dough Cherry Puff Pie
Another version of a puff pie with cherry, which is prepared for a quick dough. Berries can be used any, including canned or compote.
Ingredients
• 50 grams of butter;
• 3 cups flour;
• 1 glass of water;
• 1 tsp. baking powder;
• 1 pinch of salt;
• 1 tsp. Sahara.
For the filling, any cherry (about 700 grams) and sugar.
Cooking
1. Combine flour with salt, sugar and baking ripper. We pour in water and make a cool ball. Knead well, so that it becomes elastic and uniform.
2. Allows the dough to lie down for 15 minutes.
3. Flour the table with flour and roll out a very thin layer of about two millimeters.
4. Lubricate softened, but not melted butter. You can take margarine.
5. We twist a dense roll, cut into two parts. One is a bit shorter. Fold in snails and put in the freezer for ten minutes.
6. We roll out alternately both layers, put one in the form and throw in small bumpers.
7. Lay the cherries with sugar.
8. Cover the second layer, pinch the edges.
9. With a sharp knife all over the cake make small incisions from the center in the form of the sun.
10. Grease with yolk, bake.
Recipe 4: Open layer cake with cherry and cottage cheese
Recipe open puff pie with cherries, for which the purchased dough is used. You will also need cottage cheese of any fat content.
Ingredients
• 0.3-0.4 kg of dough;
• 0.5 kg of cherries;
• 3 spoons of brandy;
• 220 grams of sugar;
• 400 grams of cottage cheese;
• 3 eggs;
• 1 scoop of starch;
• 2 tablespoons sour cream.
Cooking
1. Free the cherries from the seed, add brandy to it, half of the sugar and steamed under the lid for five minutes. Cooling down.
2. Thawed dough, roll out the layer, send in a suitable mold, do not forget to make an overlap for small sides.
3. Beat cottage cheese with eggs and sugar, but leave one yolk for lubrication, add a spoonful of starch and sour cream. Stir. 4. Put a layer of cherries with brandy on the dough, level with a spoon.
5. Then lay out a layer of cottage cheese filling.
6. Beat the yolk with a teaspoon of water and coat the curd layer with a brush.
7. We send to bake for 40 minutes at 190 degrees.
Recipe 5: Cherry-apple puff cake
The recipe for an amazing puff pie with apples and cherries for a summer mood. Also for baking you will need chopped croutons. You can take ready-made breadcrumbs or detail yourself. Instead of crackers, you can also use dry biscuits, but sweet or bland.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of dough;
• 0.3 kg of cherries;
• 0.15 kg of sugar;
• 5 tablespoons of crackers;
• 1 scoop of starch;
• 2 apples;
• 1 yolk.
Cooking
1. Fold the pitted berries into a blender and beat together with the sugar. We pour out not all the sand, a third is left for apples.
2. Divide the dough into two pieces and roll out thinly.
3. Apples must be cleaned, cut into thin plates no more than three millimeters.
4. Shift one piece of dough and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
5. Pour the cherry mass with sugar.
6. Lay the apple slices on the cherry layer and powder with sugar on top. You can also sprinkle with cinnamon powder.
7. Cover the cake, connect the edges and make holes.
8. Lubricate the yolk, send bake.
Recipe 6: Cherry puff cake with walnuts
For this puff pie, you can also use peanuts or hazelnuts, but with walnuts it turns out the most delicious.
Ingredients
• 1 pack of dough;
• 0.5 cup of nuts;
• 1 tsp. cinnamon;
• 0.35 kg of cherries;
• 0.15 kg of sugar;
• some oil;
• 1 scoop of starch.
Cooking
1. Free the cherries from the seed, transfer them together with the released juice to the saucepan, add all the prescription sugar and cinnamon. Cook for 10 minutes. Cooling down.
2. Put the walnuts on a chopping board and roll over it with a rolling pin several times. The result is not large, but not quite small pieces. Fry them in a skillet for a couple of minutes. 3. In the cooled cherries mix the starch and add the roasted nuts.
4. We form the usual closed pie with a cherry stuffing in the middle. Do not forget to make a few holes in the upper layer. They will not allow the cake to inflate and burst.
5. Bake at 200 degrees until golden brown, cool.
Recipe 7: Cherry Puff Cake with Sour Cream
Puff cake recipe with cherries in amazing fill of sour cream. Berries choose large, ripe, with them the pie looks just amazing.
Ingredients
• 0.3 kg dough;
• 0.25 kg of cherries;
• 0.25 kg sour cream;
• 1 scoop of starch;
• 80 grams of powder;
• 3 eggs;
• 1 packet of vanilla.
Cooking
1. Twist the dough into a ball, then roll it into a flat cake. If you can’t do this right after twisting, then you can let it sit for a while, 15 minutes is enough.
2. We shift the cake in the form, make small bumpers. We pile the layer with a fork along the bottom and send it to bake. Cook for 12 minutes at 200 degrees.
3. Cherries free from bones.
4. Mix sour cream with eggs, starch and powdered sugar. Add to them vanillin.
5. We take out the cake from the oven, pour the cherries and pour the sour cream mash.
6. Bake about another fifteen minutes. May need
Recipe 8: Cherry and meringue puff cake
The recipe of the amazing puff pie with cherries, which is basked under the meringue air cloud. With all its magnificence, cooking a delicacy is very simple.
Ingredients
• 0.3 kg of any puff pastry;
• 0.3 kg of cherries;
• 3/4 cup of sugar;
• 3 egg whites;
• vanilla.
Cooking
1. Roll out a layer of puff pastry, spread in any mold.
2. On the dough we put the berries of pitted cherries and send to bake for fifteen minutes at a temperature of 180.
3. While preparing the form, we are engaged in meringue. Beat chilled proteins to dense peaks. Gradually add sugar. It is better to use powder. 4. Remove from the oven an almost ready cake with baked cherry berries and cover with a meringue hat. You can take a pastry bag with a nozzle, it will turn out more beautiful.
5. Return to the oven and bake until golden lines appear on the meringue. About a quarter of an hour. Before cutting necessarily cool.
Cherry puff pie - tips and tricks
• You can store in the freezer not only the dough itself, but all the trim. They often remain after the formation of pies. At any time, pieces can be obtained and used to decorate various pastries, including cakes from other types of dough.
• Cherry filling will be more tasty if you sprinkle cognac on the berries. You can use other alcoholic beverages: brandy, liquor, berry tinctures.
• Little cherries? You can always add other berries or fruits to the pie. If you want to reduce the acid, then put sweet cherries, bananas, canned pineapples or strawberries. For aroma add citrus or just a zest.
• If the cherry is watery and contains a lot of juice, then it is better to slightly squeeze the berries after bone removal. You can use gauze.
• How to decorate a layer cake? You can simply stick different figures from the scraps of dough. Or sprinkle with pastry powder, mixed with vanilla, cinnamon.
