At first glance, a simple cake can be modified so that not everyone will understand that this is the usual favorite charlotte. Moreover, the improvements of the cake will not affect the speed and ease of preparation, and the taste will be so great that you will want to experiment again and again. Today we bake a fragrant charlotte with apples and cinnamon.
Charlotte with apples and cinnamon - general principles
The cake is so easy to prepare that you can cook it every day though. Moreover, the products for it are always available and not very expensive.
The dough is made once or twice: all the ingredients listed in the recipe are mixed in a large bowl, whipped. Everything, 5 minutes and it is ready. But even a simple dough can be made more interesting and unusual by adding to it, for example, cottage cheese, condensed milk, and so on.
For the filling, the apples are washed, peeled and cut - also a matter of 5 minutes. In addition, any other fruits, berries or dried fruits can serve.
Then everything is laid out in the oiled form in the desired sequence and sent to either the oven or the microwave for 20-30 minutes.
Pie can be served both hot and cold, after decorating or just like that.
1. Classic charlotte with apples and cinnamon
Ingredients:
• 220 grams of flour;
• six sweet apples;
• 200 grams (less) sugar;
• three eggs;
• two pinches of soda;
• 1 tbsp. l ground cinnamon.
How to cook:
1. The yolks are separated from proteins. Lightly beat the whites with sugar so that the mass is foamed.
2. Add to the mass of yolks, soda, pour sifted flour. Beat until the lumps disappear.
3. We wash the apples, cut them into thin slices, removing the core.
4. Lubricate the baking pan with oil, lay out the prepared apples, sprinkle with cinnamon.
5. Fill the fruit with dough.
6. Expose the form to an oven heated to 220 degrees, cook from 25 to 30 minutes. If you like air balloon, then put apples half as specified. And in order for the apples not to darken - sprinkle them after slicing with lemon juice.
2. Charlotte with apples and cinnamon with condensed milk
Ingredients:
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 200 grams of flour;
• three eggs;
• 3-4 apples;
• 3 tbsp. l condensed milk;
• 15 grams of butter;
• 5 grams of baking powder;
• bag of vanilla sugar;
• powdered sugar;
• 1 tbsp. l cinnamon
Cake Making:
1. Break eggs into a dry bowl, add condensed milk and sugar. Whisk.
2. Pour in vanilla sugar, baking powder, whisk again.
3. Without ceasing to shake up, we pour in the mass the sifted flour. The dough should turn out homogeneous consistency, without flour lumps.
4. We clean the apples from the peel and the core, cut into slices, circles, cubes: whatever you like.
5. Put the fruit in the oiled form, sprinkle with a teaspoon of cinnamon.
6. Fill the dough, sprinkle the top with the remaining cinnamon.
7. Bake at 200 degrees for about 35 minutes.
8. Cool the cake right in the shape, cut it and transfer to a la carte plates. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
3. Charlotte with apples, pears and cinnamon
Ingredients:
• 200 grams of flour and sugar;
• baking powder package;
• bag of vanilla sugar;
• three eggs;
• a tablespoon of softened butter;
• tablespoon of cinnamon;
• a pound of apples;
• a pound of pears;
• pinch of nutmeg;
• a handful of chopped nuts;
• A tablespoon of fruit liqueur.
Cooking process:
1. Beat the eggs until foam, add granulated sugar and vanilla sugar, beat for 3-4 minutes until lightness.
2. Pour cinnamon, baking powder, nutmeg. Whisk.
3. Pour in liquor, sift flour. Beat again.
4. Cut the thoroughly washed and peeled apples and pears into thin slices, put them into the prepared dough. Stir.
5. Lubricate the deep pan with butter, sprinkle with chopped nuts.
6. Spread the dough with fruit, level. 7. Bake, setting the temperature at 200 degrees for 30 minutes.
8. Chill the charlotte in a baking sheet, then gently shift it, turning it upside down on a large flat plate.
9. Decorate.
4. Charlotte with apples, cinnamon and raisins in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
• four eggs;
• 140 grams of sugar;
• 220 grams of flour;
• a teaspoon of baking powder;
• bag of vanilla sugar;
• kilogram of apples;
• 150 grams of raisins;
• crushed nuts for decoration;
• oil for lubrication;
• to taste cinnamon.
How to cook:
1. A multi-cooker bowl is immediately greased with butter or margarine.
2. Rinse the raisins and steam for 5 minutes in boiled water. Water is drained, we dry the raisins.
3. Apples are washed, peeled, cut into large segments.
4. Whip sugar, vanilla sugar and cinnamon with eggs.
5. Add flour to the whipped mass, mix from bottom to top. Do not whisk: mix or spoon, or whisk - so the dough will be porous and airy, not weighted.
6. Stir apples and raisins into the dough.
7. Put the mass in a pre-greased bowl, set the “Baking” mode for one hour.
8. Chill the baking dish in the bowl, then gently turn it over on the dish, sprinkle with nut crumb.
5. Cottage cheese cake with apples and cinnamon
Ingredients:
• 300 grams of cottage cheese;
• 100 grams of flour;
• four eggs;
• 3/4 packs of sweet cream butter;
• three large apples;
• 300 grams of sugar;
• hydrated soda;
• A tablespoon of cinnamon.
Cooking Instructions:
1. Pound 100 grams of granulated sugar and butter to a uniform consistency.
2. Add cottage cheese, another 100 grams of sugar, knead.
3. With the remaining sugar, beat whites and yolks separately from each other: 50 grams of sugar into proteins, 50 - into yolks.
4. Mix the curd mass with egg and yolk, add hydrated soda and sifted flour. Stir well.
5. Cut the washed and peeled apple into small cubes. Stir in the dough.
6. Covering the form with parchment paper, lubricating with oil, spreading the dough we have. 7. Sent to the oven heated to 180 degrees for 35 minutes.
6. Charlotte with apples, banana and cinnamon without eggs
Ingredients:
• one glass of semolina and flour;
• a glass of kefir;
• two bananas;
• two apples;
• a glass of sugar;
• to taste cinnamon;
• one third cup of sunflower oil;
• teaspoon of soda.
How to cook:
1. Mix sugar with semolina, pour kefir for 30 minutes.
2. Peel bananas and apples, cut them into thin slices.
3. We mix sunflower oil, hydrated soda and sifted flour in semolina porridge.
4. Add fruit filling, mix.
5. Sprinkle the greased butter mold, put the dough in the mold.
6. Bake 40 minutes at 180-190 degrees.
7. Charlotte with apples and cinnamon under a nutty roast
Ingredients:
• two medium sized apples;
• a glass of flour and sugar;
• a tablespoon of baking powder;
• three eggs;
• vanillin;
• 1.5 cups crushed peanuts;
• 50 grams of butter;
• 1 tsp. cocoa powder;
• another 100 grams of sugar (for roasting).
Cooking Method:
1. For roasting, we put the peanuts in a dry frying pan, fry until the characteristic flavor and golden brown, not forgetting to stir all the time, so that the peanuts do not burn.
2. We melt butter in a microwave and cool it. Add cocoa powder and sugar, mix thoroughly until sugar granules dissolve.
3. Put the prepared peanuts into the creamy mass, stir it.
4. In a bowl, beat the eggs with vanilla, baking powder and sugar, add the sifted flour. Stir.
5. Cut the washed apples with beautiful slices and beautifully lay them on the bottom of a greased form.
6. Fill the fruit with the prepared dough, evenly distribute roasted on top.
7. Bake a charlotte for 35 minutes at 185 degrees.
8. Remove from the mold only after the cake has cooled.
8. Charlotte with apples, cinnamon and honey in a pan
Ingredients:
• three apples;
• 150 grams of flour;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• 2 tbsp. l honey;
• spoon baking powder;
• cinnamon, vanilla; • butter;
• nuts optional.
Cooking process:
1. We clean the apples, cut them into small pieces.
2. Beat eggs with cinnamon, vanilla, honey and sugar with a mixer.
3. Add flour, knead the dough.
4. Lubricate the pan with oil, spread apples.
5. Fill the dough, cover the pan with a lid.
6. Cook over low heat for about half an hour.
7. Taking out the charlotte on the dish, gently turn it over so that the pale top (which is practically impossible to avoid when baking in the pan) remains at the bottom.
Charlotte with apples and cinnamon - secrets and tricks
• Apples for charlotte can be used of any kind: sweet and sour-sweet. But it should be remembered that the taste of the finished cake depends on the taste and aroma of apples.
• You can cut apples for cooking in any way you like and in any shape: large slices, thin plates, cubes.
• You can stack fruit in any order: under the dough, on the dough, in the center or mixed with the dough.
• Cinnamon is preferable to mix with apples, but it is permissible both topping and kneading in dough.
• In addition to the basic ingredients, you can add absolutely any products: fruits (bananas, pears, peaches), berries, nuts, dried fruits.
• You can also decorate the cake with any powders: whipped cream, condensed milk, powdered sugar, chocolate icing, chocolate chips, coconut flakes, small candies, all kinds of nuts, protein cream, caramel. There are no restrictions, it all depends on your willingness to improve the classic apple cake with cinnamon.
