10 original recipes of Charlotte

Charlotte Soviet-style is a simple sponge cake, and sliced apples. We offer you to look at favorite cake from a different angle and add to Apple pie, berries, nuts and even white chocolate.

We have carefully studied the history of the origin of the legendary Charlotte and realized that the classic version has nothing to do with the fact that were baked by our mothers and grandmothers. Inspired by the diversity of recipes from all over the world, let's experiment and cook new fashion Apple pie!

And due to the fact that new is well forgotten old, let's start with delicious grandmother of Charlotte for a rare recipe.

Apple pie with apples grandma recipe



What you need:

5 medium size apples
370 g flour
200 g butter
200 g of sugar
3 eggs
2.5 tsp of baking powder
1 pinch of salt
70 g light raisins (optional)
apricot jam for brushing

How to cook Apple pie grandma recipe:

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.

2. Apples peel and core and cut into thin slices. Sprinkle with lemon juice.

3. Beat softened butter with sugar using a mixer. Enter the eggs one at a time, still whisking.

4. Flour to connect with baking powder and salt.

5. Connect the egg-oil mixture with the flour, add the raisins and stir.

6. Baking dish (we had a split form with a diameter of 26 cm) vystelit baking paper and spread the dough evenly over the surface. Arrange the apples like a fan, brush a thin layer of apricot jam.

7. Bake Apple pie grandma recipe for 40-45 minutes.

 Apple pie with cherry



What you need:

250 g butter
200 g of sugar
5 eggs
1 tbsp. flour (140 g)
1 teaspoon baking powder (0.5 tsp. soda to extinguish vinegar)
120 g starch (if you have cornstarch, you take it, the taste will be thinner)
300-400 g of cherries (can use frozen, but first it needs to be defrosted)
butter – for greasing forms

How to make Apple pie with cherries:

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C.

2. The softened butter beat with a mixer, adding sugar in small portions. Enter the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

3. Flour to connect with baking powder and starch and also small portions, add to the batter, still whisking.

4. Split vystelit form parchment (we had a form with a diameter of 22 cm), greased with a little butter.

5. Pour the batter into the pan, sprinkle cherries, each cherry carefully drown in the dough.

6. Bake Apple pie with cherries 30-40 minutes.

 

Charlotte with apples and plums



What you need:

3 apples (we had a strong green apples)
1 lemon
4 eggs
5 plums (or 1 orange)
130 g flour
100 ml cream 20% fat at room temperature
60 g sugar
1 pinch of salt
vanilla sugar – for dusting the apples
powdered sugar, cinnamon – for decoration

How to make Apple pie with apples and plums:

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C.

2. Apples clear from the skin and seeds and cut into cubes of medium size. Sprinkle with lemon juice, sprinkle with vanilla sugar and zest. Add halved plums (if used plums instead of oranges, separate the citrus into slices, each slice cut in half).

3. In the sifted flour to enter the egg, stir with a whisk. Gradually pour the cream, add sugar, salt and how to beat it with a mixer. Gently stir in apples and plums (or oranges).

4. In split form, lined with parchment, put the dough and bake for 35-40 minutes.

5. Apple pie remove from the oven, cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar and sides – cinnamon.

 Apple pie with white chocolate and berries



Photo: averiecooks.com

What you need:

100 g butter
120 ml of milk
200 g sour cream
2 eggs
zest of one small lemon
1 tsp vanilla
280 g flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
100 g sugar
200 g white chocolate
150-200 grams of any berries (can use frozen)

How to cook Apple pie with white chocolate and berries:

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.

2. Melt the butter, cool slightly and mix with milk, sour cream, eggs, lemon zest and vanilla.

3. In another bowl, thoroughly mix the sifted flour with the baking powder, then add the sugar and stir again. To connect with products from 2 points. At this stage, do not use mixer and do not get carried away with the stirring, no lumps – the dough is ready!

4. Chop the chocolate into small pieces and add to the batter. Then add the berries. Very gently stir from the bottom up.

5. Split mold covered with parchment paper and fill with dough. Bake for approximately 50 minutes.

 

Apple pie with apples, cinnamon and cardamom



What you need:

300 g flour
2 teaspoons of baking powder
1/3 tsp. soda
1 heaping tsp cinnamon
1 tsp cardamom
0.5 tsp. salt
180 g butter
150 g sugar
1 tsp vanilla sugar
2 eggs
120 ml of milk
2 large apples (we used Granny Smith)
5 tbsp brown sugar
the juice of half a lemon
butter – for greasing forms

How to make Apple pie with apples, cinnamon and cardamom:

1. Heat the oven to 190°C.

2. Sifted flour mixed with baking powder and soda, enter spices, salt.

3. The softened butter vzbit with the usual sugar and vanilla. One by one enter the eggs, not ceasing to work with a mixer.

4. Mix the flour with the beaten butter. Pour in the milk and again mix well. At this stage it is better not to use a mixer and mix the batter with a wooden spatula.

5. From apples to cut the skin, carefully cut the core and cut into thin washers.

6. Split mold (we had a form with a diameter of 24 cm) vystelit baking paper, grease the surface of the paper with butter and evenly sprinkle the bottom and sides 1.5 tbsp of brown sugar. Sprinkle with lemon juice and again sprinkle with 1.5 tbsp of brown sugar.

7. Half of the dough pour into a form and carefully put half of the apples. Pour the second part of the test. The rest of the apples spread out on top. Sprinkle Apple washers 2 tbsp brown sugar. Optionally, you can cut the core the remaining apples in the form of hearts and fill them with cranberries before baking.

8. Bake Apple pie with apples, cinnamon and cardamom 50-60 minutes.

 Apple pie with grapes



What you need:

50 g butter
2 eggs
50 ml grapeseed oil (easily replaced olive)
130 g brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla sugar
210 g flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
0.5 tsp. salt
zest of one lemon
zest of one orange
60 ml of milk
300 g red seedless grapes (choose small grapes, this is important!)

How to cook Apple pie with grapes:

1. Melt the butter and allow to cool to room temperature.

2. Eggs mix with grapeseed oil, sugar, vanilla and melted butter, as it should beat with a mixer.

3. Sifted flour mixed with baking powder, salt and two types of peel.

4. Connect the egg-oil mixture with flour, pour in the milk and vigorously stir very quickly. No lumps – keep stirring!

5. Split mold (we had a form with a diameter of 22 cm) vystelit baking paper, put the piece of dough on top spread half of the grapes, pour the remaining batter. Bake for 10 minutes, then remove the pan from the oven, pour on the dough with the remaining grapes and bake for another 30-40 minutes.

6. To give the cake to rest for about 15 minutes to get from the form and cool completely on wire rack.

 

Charlotte "adults Only"



What you need:

100 g raisins
30 ml cognac
30 ml boiling water
150 g sugar
150 g butter
2 eggs
180 g flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 apples
50 g almonds
1-2 tbsp brown sugar

How to cook Apple pie "for adults Only":

1. The night before, pour the brandy and raisins with boiling water and leave overnight.

2. Beat with a mixer the sugar and softened butter. One by one enter the eggs, still whisking.

3. Mix the flour with the baking powder and add to egg-oil mixture. Mix thoroughly.

4. Peeled apples cut into slices.

5. Split mold (we had a form with a diameter of 22 cm) vystelit baking paper and put 3/4 of the dough. Top evenly distribute the apples, then spread the raisins along with the liquid and cover with the remaining batter. Sprinkle the surface of the Charlotte with chopped almonds and brown sugar.

6. Bake pie in a preheated 180°C oven for 50-60 minutes.

 Pear Charlotte



What you need:

500 g pears
2 eggs
180 g of sugar
200 g of natural yoghurt or yogurt
250 g flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
0.5 tsp. salt
40 g dried cherries (we didn't add)

How to make pear Charlotte:

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C.

2. Pear peel and seeds, cut into cubes of medium size.

3. Beat eggs with sugar, add the yogurt or yogurt, the sifted flour, previously mixed with baking powder, salt. Thoroughly and to introduce pears with cherries.

4. Detachable form vystelit parchment and put the dough.

5. Oven pear Apple pie 40-45 minutes.

 

Apple pie with apples and poppy seeds



 

What you need:

420 g of flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
250 g brown sugar
150 g poppy
1 tsp. soda
200 g butter
4 eggs
zest of one lemon
2 tbsp lemon juice
200 ml natural yoghurt without additives
2 large sturdy Apple was apples varieties "Granny Smith")

How to make Apple pie with apples and poppy seeds:

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.

2. To combine the flour, baking powder, brown sugar, poppy and soda. Mix thoroughly.

3. Melt the butter and cool slightly. Then mix with eggs, lemon zest and juice, add the yogurt and introduce apples, peeled and diced.

4. To combine the flour mixture with the butter-Apple, fast and mix vigorously, not making long mixing.

5. Put the dough in shape, lined with parchment, to bake Apple pie with apples and poppy seeds 40-50 minutes.

 Rye Apple pie with apples and nuts



What you need:

100 g butter
2 eggs
200 g of sugar
140 g wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
50 g rye flour
3 apples
20 g butter
1 handful of any nuts (we had walnut)
2 tbsp sugar
1 heaping tsp cinnamon

How to cook a delicious Apple pie with apples and nuts:

1. 100 g of butter to melt and cool slightly.

2. Separate the whites from the yolks. Beat the whites to a solid foam. Still whisking, to introduce the egg yolks and sugar, and then a thin stream pour in the melted butter.

3. Sifted flour mixed with baking powder and rye flour and add to dough.

4. Baking dish (we had a split form with a diameter of 22 cm) vystelit baking paper and pour the batter.

5. Apples clear from the skin and seeds and RUB on a coarse grater. Evenly spread on the dough, and on top put a few slices of butter (we have 20 grams).

6. Bake the pie in a preheated 180°C oven for 50 minutes.

7. Chop the nuts, mix with 2 tbsp sugar and cinnamon.

8. 50 minutes to get the pie out of the oven, sprinkle with walnut mixture and send it back still for 20 minutes.

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Source: domashniy.ru/