Charlotte is one of the easiest to prepare desserts, but it is difficult to find someone who does not like it. This is a cake of biscuit dough with fruit or berry filling. The most popular products with apple filler, as these fruits are most available throughout the year. However, with another filling pie worth a try at least once. Charlotte with cherry turns out bright, appetizing, has a harmonious taste and can become an ornament of a festive table. Moreover, a cook with a minimum of experience will be able to bake it perfectly.
Cooking Features
The process of making cherry charlotte can not be called difficult, but without knowing some of the points the result may be disappointing. To avoid mistakes and get a really tasty and beautiful cake, you should follow a few simple rules.
- The taste of any pastry depends on how high-quality flour was used for the dough. From second-rate flour products turn out gray and have an unpleasant taste. If you compare the price of flour of the highest and second grade, it becomes obvious that saving on this product is impractical.
- The classic charlotte dough consists of flour, sugar, and eggs, but many cooks also add dairy products or mayonnaise. It is noticed that with them the cake turns out more gentle and soft, does not dry out longer.
- Flour before mixing with other ingredients must be sifted. This rule applies to the preparation of any kind of dough, and not just biscuit dough. The purpose of sifting flour is not only to rid it of insect larvae and small litter, but also to saturate it with oxygen. After sifting the flour becomes light, it is easier to mix it with other products, preventing the formation of lumps. The dough from such flour rises better, baking is more airy.
- Cherries for charlotte can be used both fresh and frozen. When using frozen berries, giving a lot of juice, it is recommended to add starch to the dough, replacing them with a piece of flour or sprinkling them with berries. Otherwise, the berry juice will make the dough watery, it will be badly baked. Frozen berries should be allowed to thaw out and drain the juice released from it.
- If you are cooking a fresh fruit berry charlotte, remove the bones from it. The most convenient way to do this is with a special fixture. If it is not, you can remove the bones with a pin, clip or hairpin. Not too many berries are put into the charlotte, so you can literally get rid of the bones in just 5-10 minutes.
- To prevent the cake from burning, the bottom of the mold is oiled and sprinkled with flour or breadcrumbs. Silicone mold can not be greased, baking is still easily removed from it.
Sometimes cherries are put in shape first, then poured over with dough. Sometimes the berry spread on top of the dough or between its layers. Sometimes you want to mix cherries with dough, and then fill them with a form. By carefully following the recipe, you can get a guaranteed good result.
Charlotte with fresh cherries
Composition:
- wheat flour - 150 g;
- sugar - 150 g;
- fresh cherry - 0, 3 kg;
- chicken eggs - 3 pcs .;
- refined vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- baking powder for dough - 5 g.
Method of preparation:
- Eggs break into a bowl, add sugar to them. Spread eggs with sugar until white.
- Sift flour, mix it with baking powder.
- Pour the flour to the egg mass. Mix the products to get a homogeneous mass, which does not come across flour lumps.
- Wash the cherries, let it dry. Remove the twigs. Remove the bones from the berries.
- Grease the baking mold. It is better to refuse use of a demountable form as it can leak.
- Put the cherries on the bottom of the mold, fill it with dough. Pour better in the center, and then flatten the spatula - so the dough will cover the berries most evenly.
- Heat the oven to 20 degrees, send the form with the future charlotte to it.
- Bake the cake for 30-40 minutes. You can check its readiness with a toothpick: if it remains dry after dipping into the dough, you can remove the cake.
Wait 5-10 minutes for the cake to cool slightly (but not completely), remove it from the mold, put it on the dish. Cherry charlotte will be delicious and hot and cold. You can serve it with tea, coffee or just like that.
Charlotte with frozen cherries
Composition:
- frozen cherries - 0, 3 kg;
- chicken eggs - 4 pcs .;
- sugar - 0, 2 kg;
- wheat flour - 150 g;
- starch - 30 g;
- breadcrumbs - how much will go.
Method of preparation:
- Thaw the berry, pour out the released juice. Sprinkle with cherry starch, mix.
- Beat the eggs, separating the yolks from the proteins.
- Whip the whites with a mixer into a dense foam.
- Continuing to whip proteins, gradually add sugar.
- Mix yolks with flour. Combine the dough with the protein mass, gently mix the dough.
- Sprinkle form with breadcrumbs. Put the dough in it. Spread the cherry on top.
- Send the form to an oven preheated to 200 degrees. Bake the cake for 30-40 minutes.
According to this recipe, the charlotte turns out to be lush even without the use of a baking powder. It looks bright and appetizing, has a delicate flavor. This cake is not ashamed to put even on the holiday table.
Cherry Charlotte on yogurt
Composition:
- wheat flour - 150 g;
- kefir - 100 ml;
- fresh peeled cherry - 150 g;
- refined vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- sugar - 150 g;
- soda - 2-3 g;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.
Method of preparation:
- Egg and kefir get them in the refrigerator in advance so that they can warm up to room temperature by the time the dough is kneaded.
- Break the egg into a bowl, pound it with sugar.
- Mix the kefir with soda, wait for the reaction. Pour the kefir into the bowl with the egg. Whisk the products with a whisk so that they become a homogeneous mass.
- Add the sifted flour, stir until smooth.
- Put the prepared berries in a container with dough, mix gently, trying to distribute the cherries in the dough evenly.
- Pour the dough with the cherries into a greased form. Send it to an oven preheated to 200 degrees. Bake until done. It will take 30-40 minutes.
Charlotte for this recipe turns out to be gentle and light, does not get stale for a long time.
Charlotte filled with fresh or frozen cherries are tasty and elegant. It can be a festive table decoration. At the same time preparing such a pie simply and quickly. This task is on the shoulder even for a novice hostess.
