There are pastries that are prepared very simply, but they turn out to be very tasty. This fully applies to the dish below. Such baking can be done by both a novice hostess and a teenager.
What kind of outlandish dishes are these? This is apple pie “Charlotte”. Its recipe consists of only a few ingredients that are almost always present in the kitchen. If in the summer or autumn at the cottage you wanted to pamper yourself and your family with something tasty, then you can pick a few apples on your site or take them free of charge from neighboring trees and begin the mystery of cooking.
Apple pie “Charlotte” (the recipe of which is given below) should have solid fruit varieties in its composition. Such apples will lose their shape less during baking and will not turn into a "mess". Another secret to great baking is slicing fruit. It is not necessary to finely shred it, since then the integrity due to exposure to high temperature will be violated.
And the third clue. So that the apples do not darken and acquire an additional aroma, they are placed for several minutes in lemon water. To do this, squeeze the juice of half a lemon in 300 grams of water , the zest also goes into business. Thanks to it, the Charlotte pie will also find a fragrant citrus smell. A recipe with a photo and a step-by-step description of the preparation right now.
Ingredients:
- 1 glass of flour;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 4 chicken eggs;
- 4 apples of hard varieties;
- ¼ teaspoon vanillin;
- ½ teaspoon of cinnamon;
- zest of half a lemon;
- flavourless vegetable oil for greasing of a form, crackers.
The eggs are beaten into the foam with a mixer. If the hostess is experienced, then you can first separate the yolks from the proteins and beat these two components separately, and then mix them carefully. Get a more airy apple pie "Charlotte". The recipe does not require this, so you can do it easier by whipping the eggs with a mixer to the foam. It was the turn of sugar and vanillin, which is poured into the egg mixture, continuing to beat. Add the zest of half a lemon.
Now you need to introduce the flour and continue to create the dough with a whisk. When the mass is homogeneous, you can still set it aside.
1-2 apples are diced and added to the dough. If you suddenly had to cut them earlier, then you need to lower them into lemon water.
Baking parchment lines the bottom of the mold. It and the edges are greased with oil and sprinkled with ground crackers. The remaining apples are cut into slices. Now you can act in two ways. Apples are placed on the bottom of the mold or on top of the dough. In the first method, these fruits are first artistically laid out in a mold, sprinkled with cinnamon, and dough is poured on top. If you want to do something different, then first the dough is poured into a mold, and apple slices are placed on it and sprinkled with sugar. Then it will turn out just like in this photo, apple pie "Charlotte". The recipe is exactly the same.
Bake the product in the oven at 180 ° for about 15-20 minutes. If the top is browned, and the wooden stick, dipped in baking, remains dry, then the amazing Charlotte apple pie is already ready, a recipe, the photo of which was presented in this article. It remains to set the table for tea and enjoy fragrant pastries.