For example, to achieve crumbly dough for charlotte, add one third of semolina to a third of the flour. For a heavier, “wet” dough, add kefir or sour cream. To add a piquant aroma, pour a little liqueur or cognac directly into the pie dough.
The filling for charlotte is simply amazing in its variety! After all, you can add raisins, nuts, lemon zest and finely chopped pickled peaches to the apple filling. Or, instead of apples, they make a layer of cream or mousse. And this does not spoil the taste of the baked goods.
In addition, apple charlotte is simply a lifesaver for any housewife. When guests are approaching, and there is nothing tasty in the refrigerator for tea, you can quickly whip up a delicious pie. The baked goods always come out tender, fluffy, tasty, aromatic, and you are never ashamed to serve them to guests. The charlotte recipe is extremely simple.
To bake charlotte, you need the following ingredients:
- Dough: eggs - 4 pieces;
- sugar - 160 grams (or 1 faceted glass, filled to the brim);
- flour - 150 grams (1 full faceted glass);
- soda, slaked with vinegar - 1 teaspoon without top;
- salt - a pinch;
- vanillin or vanilla sugar - optional.
- Filling for charlotte: apples (preferably sweet and sour apple varieties) - 4 pieces;
- sugar - 2 tablespoons;
- ground cinnamon - optional;
- vegetable oil - 0.5 tsp, for greasing the mold.
Lush charlotte with apples in the oven - step-by-step recipe with photos:
It doesn’t take long to prepare a delicious charlotte and it’s simple even for a beginner in cooking. First you need to thoroughly wash the apples and separate them from the core. Then cut into thin slices.
After this, place in a deep bowl and sprinkle the apples with sugar so that they release the juice. 
To prepare the charlotte dough, thoroughly beat the eggs using a mixer into a thick, fluffy and viscous foam, slowly adding sugar and salt as you beat.
If vanillin is added to the dough, it must also be added at this stage so that it can be evenly distributed throughout the dough.
After the eggs and sugar have been properly beaten, soda slaked with vinegar is added. It is necessary to ensure that absolutely all the soda is quenched with vinegar, otherwise it will leave an unpleasant aftertaste or smell in the finished charlotte.
To avoid this, add a drop of ordinary table vinegar to the soda until it stops fizzing.
Then add all the flour to the dough, stirring from top to bottom with a regular spoon until the whole mass becomes homogeneous and smooth, achieving the consistency of sour cream. The jellied dough for delicious apple charlotte is ready.
Place a third of the dough into a greased mold with a volume of approximately 20 cm. The apples must be separated from the juice they have released and carefully placed over the entire surface of the dough, sprinkled with cinnamon and poured with the remaining dough.
Bake the apple pie in the oven for about 40-50 minutes, at 160-180 degrees, depending on the oven.
Cool the finished charlotte at room temperature and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Delicious apple charlotte is ready.
Now delicious apple pie can be served at home. It will be tender, light and very airy. Maximum taste and aroma with a minimum cost of food and cooking time.
Have you decided to please your family with a tasty and healthy delicacy, but don’t know what to cook? Why not surprise them with charlotte?
A famous dish all over the world, charlotte with apples is not just an apple pie, but a real delicacy, from the French culinary specialist Marie-Antoine Carême, who served at the court of Alexander I. It was he who brought to Russia at the beginning of the 19th century a recipe for a dish named after Queen Charlotte, which is still incredibly popular in our country.
Health benefits of charlotte
It’s worth saying right away that among the variety of delicacies that you can prepare in your own kitchen, charlotte is one of the most healthy, and above all, due to the presence of apples. The dish has absorbed all the benefits of the famous fruit, and therefore, while enjoying another aromatic piece of charlotte, you not only get pleasure, but also replenish your reserves of valuable vitamins and minerals that apples are rich in.
Moreover, thanks to the high content of iron, potassium, pectin, fiber and other beneficial substances, you improve blood composition, support the heart muscle, remove toxins, strengthen the immune system and even supply the body with antioxidants that prevent the development of cancer! Agree, this benefit is very unusual for a dessert.
Now let’s move on directly to the recipes for apple charlotte, telling you along the way how to make this dessert as healthy and dietary as possible.
Little tricks
First of all, let's pay attention to the fact that classic charlotte is prepared from four eggs, 5-6 apples, a glass of flour and the same amount of sugar. This recipe cannot be called dietary, since 100 g of delicacy will contain approximately 155 calories. This is quite a lot, so we will make some useful changes in the recipes described below. Such a replacement will allow even diabetics not to exclude charlotte from their menu.
1. Egg yolk contains quite a lot of fat, and therefore when preparing a delicacy for yourself and your family, we take only the whites from three eggs, and use the fourth whole. With this approach, the dough will also rise well, and the calorie content of the finished dish will be significantly reduced.
2. When choosing flour for your charlotte, take exclusively hard varieties; it will take longer to break them down in the stomach and intestines. It is not surprising that you will be satisfied much faster with such a pie and at the same time you will not eat much of it. You can also dilute the flour with oatmeal crushed in a coffee grinder. Such flakes contain complex carbohydrates, and besides, their calorie content is 4 times lower than flour, which means that in the end you will get a low-calorie flour dish.
3. Sugar is another harmful component in charlotte, which is quite difficult to do without. However, no one is stopping us from replacing it with honey. But honey is sweeter than sugar, so you need to take less honey, a quarter or even half.
4. Before putting the charlotte in the oven, the baking dish is greased with oil, which also adds a certain amount of calories. To avoid this, instead of greasing the pan, line the bottom with parchment paper (baking paper).
Top 5 healthy apple charlotte recipes
1. Classic charlotte
Ingredients:
- eggs – 4 pcs;
- large apples – 6 pcs;
- flour – 150 g;
- sugar – 150 g or honey – 4-5 tbsp;
- vanilla sugar – 1 sachet;
- cinnamon – 1 pinch;
- peel of one orange.
First of all, wash the apples and cut them into halves to remove the cores. Then, without peeling, cut the apples into equal slices.
We turn on the oven so that by the time the dough is prepared it has warmed up to 180°C, and proceed to the dough itself. To do this, beat the eggs with a mixer, and gradually begin to add sugar in the process. We also send vanilla sugar there to obtain an unsurpassed aroma. Add flour to the egg-sugar mixture, stirring lightly. Don't forget about the grated orange zest. The total whipping time will be approximately 5 minutes.
We cover the bottom of the mold with parchment paper, sprinkle it with semolina and put one layer of chopped fruit. Sprinkle flour and cinnamon on top to make the dish more flavorful. Pour some of the batter over the apples, then lay out the apples again, sprinkle them with flour, cinnamon, and apply a second layer of batter.
Place the mold in the preheated oven for 30–40 minutes. The dish is ready! You will get a fragrant, rich pie with amazing apple sourness and subtle notes of vanilla and cinnamon. This charlotte can be served with tea, or you can complement the dish with a scoop of vanilla ice cream to get a simply explosive treat!
2. Charlotte is good for your figure
Ingredients:
- flour – 1 cup (or ½ cup flour and ½ cup oatmeal);
- egg – 1 pc;
- egg whites – 2 pcs;
- liquid honey – 3-4 tbsp;
- “Antonovka” apples – 4-5 pcs;
- soda – ½ tsp;
- vinegar (lemon juice) – 1 tbsp;
- cinnamon – 1 pinch.
To prepare the most dietary dessert, first beat the egg yolk, waiting for it to lighten. Then beat the whites separately until foamy and combine them with the yolk.
While stirring the mixture, little by little add flour or a mixture of flour and oatmeal, making sure that no lumps form. Add slaked soda to the resulting mixture and mix again. Remove the cores from the apples and, if desired, remove the peel. Cut the fruits into equal slices, then add them to the dough and mix so that they are evenly distributed throughout the dough. Pour honey over the finished mixture, sprinkle with cinnamon and mix again.
Cover the bottom of the baking dish with parchment paper, lightly sprinkle it with semolina and place the prepared mixture into the pan. All that remains is to install it for 40 minutes in an oven preheated to 180°C and wait for it to cook. At the end of the process, take out the aromatic charlotte, let it cool a little and enjoy this healthy and incredibly tasty dessert.
3. Airy and tender charlotte made with kefir
Ingredients:
- flour – 1 glass;
- homemade kefir – 1 glass;
- chicken eggs – 2 pcs;
- apples – 5 pcs;
- liquid honey – 3 tbsp;
- cinnamon - to taste;
- soda – 1 tsp;
If you want to prepare a lush and tender delicacy, you should pay attention to this recipe for charlotte with apples. As in the previous recipe, pit, core and peel should be removed from the apples.
Turning on the oven so that it warms up to 180°C by the appointed time, beat the eggs using a blender, then add kefir and soda to them (there is no need to extinguish the soda as in the previous recipe - kefir will do this), pour in honey and beat everything again until smooth. Gently add the flour into the finished mixture, stirring it constantly with a spoon so that no lumps appear.
Having covered the bottom of the mold with parchment paper and sprinkled semolina on top, cover the bottom with apple slices and sprinkle cinnamon powder on top. Fill the apples with batter, and vertically insert the remaining slices of fruit into it on top to make a cute “hedgehog”.
All that remains is to put our charlotte in the oven for 40 minutes, then remove the fluffy dish and let it cool slightly. Lush, amazingly tasty charlotte, with a subtle aroma of cinnamon, will please both you and the guests of your home. And even if you eat an extra piece of such a delicacy, you will not gain extra pounds.
4. Charlotte with apples in a slow cooker
Ingredients for the dough:
- flour – 150 g (or half flour with oatmeal);
- eggs – 2 pcs;
- egg white – 2 pcs;
- sugar – 1 cup (or 0.75 cups of liquid honey);
- large apples – 4 pcs.
Filling ingredients:
- butter – 50 g;
- cottage cheese – 350 g;
- sugar (honey) – 80 g;
- vanillin – 1 sachet;
- cinnamon - optional.
First, let's start preparing the dough. To do this, beat the eggs and egg whites in a deep bowl using a mixer, then add sugar or honey to the whipped foam and mix until smooth. The beating process should last about 5 minutes until the mass turns white and increases in size.
Stirring the finished mixture with a wooden or silicone spatula, gradually pour flour into it, making sure that no lumps form.
We proceed to preparing the filling, for which we combine sugar with melted butter. After whipping the ingredients, sprinkle the mixture with vanilla, add cottage cheese and beat again.
Core the apples, remove the peel and cut into slices. Cover the bottom of the bowl with parchment paper, place some of the apples on the bottom, sprinkle with cinnamon if desired, and fill with half of the prepared dough. Place the curd filling on top, pour in the remaining dough and smooth with a spatula. If you have any apple pieces left over, you can dip them into the batter on top.
Place the bowl in the multicooker, set the “Baking” mode, and turn it on for 60 minutes. Closer to the end of time, you can check the readiness of the treat with a toothpick, like a regular sponge cake.
As soon as the charlotte arrives, all that remains is to remove the finished dish from the slow cooker, prepare aromatic tea and enjoy tasting this delicious dessert.
The simplest and most delicious pie is charlotte with apples in the oven, familiar to most of us from childhood. Over the long history of its existence, charlotte has undergone many metamorphoses. Today it is difficult to find a person interested in cooking who would not know that delicate fruit desserts and food-saving pies made from stale bread with apple filling were called charlotte.
In his famous book “A Gift for Young Housewives or a Means to Reduce Household Expenses,” E. Molokhovets gives several recipes for charlottes with berry fillings and jam, and V. Dahl claims that charlotte is a round pie with jam. And even the old English meat pudding was also called charlotte.
One way or another, when we mention the name “charlotte” today, we mean either a baked dessert made from biscuits or slices of bread filled with apples and berries, or, most often, a simple and tasty sponge cake with apples, where apples are not so much a filling, but the main ingredient of the dish.
It is the latter version of apple charlotte that is most widespread in Russian cuisine. Despite the simplicity of preparation, Russian apple charlotte has a delicate, but at the same time bright taste and aroma. 
And thanks to the large number of apples used in its preparation, charlotte is extremely rich in nutrients, minerals and vitamins. All this makes charlotte one of the most popular Russian sweet pies.
There are an endless number of options for preparing Russian charlotte. Like any truly folk recipe for making charlotte, it varies from region to region, from house to house.
Every housewife, every cook has her own recipes for charlotte with apples in the oven and her own little secrets of preparing it. Which allow you to turn a simple pie into a unique dish - the real pride of the housewife. A dish that arouses the admiration of friends and family.
- sugar 1 glass;
- chicken egg 5 pieces;
- wheat flour 1 cup;
- apples 4-7 pieces depending on size;
- soda 1/3 teaspoon;
- vegetable oil 1 tablespoon.
How to bake delicious apple charlotte in the oven:
Apple charlotte with cinnamon
Ingredients:
- apples 1 – 1.1 kg;
- granulated sugar – 300 g;
- flour – 300 g;
- egg – 4 pcs.;
- cinnamon – 1 tbsp;
- lemon – 2/3 of the whole fruit;
- vanilla - to taste;
- cognac – 2 tbsp. l.;
- vegetable oil 1 tbsp.
Preparation:
Let's start with apples. It’s better to use more sour varieties in charlotte, but any can be used.
Try cooking with different ones, experiment. Choose according to your taste.
Wash the apples and dry them. Chop into thin slices. Place in a deep bowl, sprinkle with cinnamon. Extract the juice from the lemon and add to the apples so that they do not darken. Finally, sprinkle the apples with cognac. Close the lid tightly and let them wait in the wings.
Let's prepare the dough for charlotte. Beat the eggs with granulated sugar. Mix flour with beaten eggs.
Mix everything quickly into a homogeneous mass.
Preheat the baking oven to 180 degrees. Grease a special form with vegetable oil. Sprinkle with granulated sugar, just a little.
Place some of the dough into the pan and level the pie. Then take the apples. Place into pan in even layers.
The final stage: fill our apples with the second portion of dough. Top with apples, lightly sprinkling them with granulated sugar.
Baking. Place our charlotte in the oven for 40 – 45 minutes. It may take 5-7 minutes, check your pie.
How to determine readiness: pierce with a toothpick, the dough does not stick to it - the threshold is ready. Charlotte turned out bright and rosy. 
Charlotte on kefir with apples and cherries
Ingredients:
- 1 glass of kefir;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 2 eggs;
- 50 g butter;
- 2.5 cups flour;
- a little baking powder and vanilla sugar;
- 2 apples;
- 0.5 cups pitted cherries (fresh or canned).
A simple homemade baking recipe that even the most inexperienced housewife can handle: kefir charlotte:
The peculiarity of this recipe is the combined filling of apples and cherries.
Mix kefir with sugar. Add eggs, melted butter and vanilla sugar.
Mix flour with baking powder and gradually add to liquid ingredients. The dough should have the consistency of thick sour cream.
Cut the apples into slices and place on the bottom of the oiled pan.
Spoon half of the dough onto the apples. Place pitted cherries on top and pour in the remaining dough.
Place the charlotte in a preheated oven for 40-45 minutes. Sprinkle the finished pie with powdered sugar.
Lush charlotte with apples
Recipe Ingredients:
- 4 eggs;
- a glass of sugar;
- a glass of flour;
- 1 or 2 apples (depending on size);
- oil (for lubricating the mold);
- lemon slice to drizzle over apples.
How to cook:
Apples need to be peeled, cored and cut into small slices. Sprinkle the apples with a little lemon and mix well. Separate the whites and yolks into different plates. Separately, beat the whites with half a glass of sugar, and separately the yolks with the remaining sugar.
It is not necessary to beat everything vigorously until the sugar dissolves, you can just beat it a little to get a good homogeneous mass.
Combine the whites with the yolks, mix and add flour. Mix everything thoroughly to form a liquid dough.
Grease the pan with butter (butter or vegetable), sprinkle lightly with flour. Pour half the dough into the mold and lay out the apple pieces. Fill the apples with the remaining batter. Bake the charlotte in the oven at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes. 
Recipe for charlotte in a bread machine
Charlotte is one of the simplest and most delicious pie recipes. And very variable - any fruits and berries, cream, chocolate, nuts, vanillin, cinnamon - everything goes into use.
There is no particular difference - in a bread machine or in an oven. You still have to beat the dough with a mixer or a spoon.
- wheat flour - 200 g;
- sugar - 200 g;
- apples - 2 pcs.;
- egg - 5 pcs.;
- vanilla, cinnamon.
How to cook charlotte in a bread machine:
Place peeled and finely chopped apples on the bottom of the bucket. They will still go down.
Beat the eggs and sugar into a very fluffy foam. But carefully combine with flour with a spoon. And don't interfere too much. Place the dough on the apples.
Baking mode 90 min. Start!
Apple charlotte without eggs
Since childhood, we are all familiar with such a delicious pie as charlotte. Initially, this pie was prepared exclusively with apples, and one of the necessary ingredients was eggs.
However, at the moment there are already dozens, and perhaps hundreds of options for preparing this dish with various changes in the composition of the ingredients. We bring to your attention a wonderful recipe for making charlotte without eggs.
At the end of cooking, let stand for a few minutes so that the charlotte is well removed from the shape in which it was baked. When serving, you can sprinkle the pie with powdered sugar and decorate with berries. This dish is perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
You will need:
- flour – 1 tbsp.;
- semolina – 1 tbsp.;
- kefir – 1 tbsp.;
- apples – 1 kg;
- sugar – 1 tbsp;
- sunflower oil (refined) – 1/2 tbsp.;
- vanilla sugar – 1 sachet;
- soda – 1 tsp;
- salt.
How to make charlotte with apples without eggs:
Mix semolina with sugar, pour in kefir and set aside while you work on the apples. Wash the apples well, peel and cut into thin slices.
Mix flour, semolina with sugar and kefir, vegetable oil, salt and vanilla sugar. Suppress the baking soda and pour into the dough. Mix everything well until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
Add chopped apples to the dough and mix again.
Grease a baking dish with vegetable oil and sprinkle with semolina. Pour the dough into the mold and place in a preheated oven.
Bake for 40 minutes at oven temperature 180 degrees. 
Charlotte with apples and bananas
Ingredients:
- flour - 1 tbsp;
- apples - 3-4 pcs.;
- bananas - 3 pcs.;
- sugar - 0.5 tbsp;
- eggs – 4 pcs.
How to make charlotte with apples and bananas:
Beat eggs with sugar, add flour. Peel and cut apples and bananas. Grease the mold with vegetable oil, lay out the fruits and fill them with dough.
In an oven preheated to 180°C, bake the charlotte for 30-35 minutes. After all, this is a wet pie, and it is better to check its readiness not with a match - with a toothpick. They will be wet all the time... As soon as the dough starts to pull away from the sides, it’s ready. Sprinkle the cooled charlotte with powdered sugar.
Charlotte with apples and cottage cheese
- cottage cheese - 300 g;
- apples - 4 pcs.;
- butter - 150 g;
- sugar - 1 tbsp.;
- eggs - 3 pcs.;
- sour cream - 3 tbsp;
- soda - 0.5 tsp;
- flour - as much as needed to make the dough like thick whipped cream. Usually - 2-3 tbsp.
How to prepare charlotte with apples and cottage cheese:
Mash the cottage cheese thoroughly. Beat eggs with sugar until thick foam. Melt the butter, cool slightly, and carefully pour it into the eggs. Add cottage cheese, sour cream and soda. Mix everything. You need so much flour so that the dough is like thick sour cream.
Peel the apples and cut into slices. Add to the dough and mix some more. Grease the frying pan well with vegetable oil and pour the dough into it. Bake over medium heat for about an hour if baking in a frying pan, and a little less if baking on a baking sheet.
Use a toothpick or match to check if the cake is ready. Yes, another tip. Sometimes you bake and bake, and a toothpick shows everything - wet. If the dough comes away from the edges and the color is golden brown (and the smell is amazing), then it’s ready.
Don’t forget about the calorie content, so invite guests so that they can get some of the calories.
A simple recipe for charlotte with apples
Ingredients:
- flour - 1 tbsp;
- sugar - 1 tbsp.;
- apples - 3 pcs.;
- eggs - 3 pcs.;
- cinnamon - 1 tsp;
- breadcrumbs - 1 tsp;
- vanillin - to taste, usually half a packet or on the tip of a knife;
- butter - for greasing the mold.
Cooking method:
- Beat eggs with sugar and vanilla. Add flour.
- Cut the apples into thin strips.
- Grease the pan with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Place the apples and the dough on top.
- Level it out.
- Place the pie in an oven preheated to 180°C for 30-40 minutes.
- Remove, cool slightly, sprinkle with cinnamon. And so as not to be tormented by your conscience about the calories you have eaten - well, next thing you know - invite guests!
Loaf charlotte
Product composition:
- loaf;
- 2 eggs;
- a glass of milk;
- 150 g sugar;
- cinnamon;
- 10 apples;
- 50 g butter.
How to cook:
Beat the milk and eggs and add thinly sliced loaf slices. Grease the cake pan or pan thoroughly with oil.
Place the prepared loaf slices on the bottom of the dish and on the sides. Place a layer of apple slices on top, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, then slices of bread and a layer of apples, etc. There should be a layer of bread slices on top. Place butter on the last layer. Bake in a hot oven until done.
Video: delicious charlotte with apples
There are a great many recipes for baking with apples. One of the most popular options is charlotte. And they even came up with many different ways to prepare it.
Charlotte is prepared quickly and easily, and always turns out delicious.
Ingredients
For Charlotte
- 2 cups of flour;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 3 eggs;
- 150 g butter;
- 0.5 tsp. baking powder;
- a pinch of salt;
- 1 lemon for zest;
- 4-5 large apples;
- powdered sugar for sprinkling the finished charlotte.
For syrup
- 2 glasses of water;
- 1 cup sugar;
- cinnamon to taste.
You should choose firm apples so that they soften when cooked but do not lose their shape.
For the beauty of the finished dish, you can choose apples with green, yellow and red peel.
Preparation
- Wash the apples, wipe them or let them dry. Without removing the peel, cut the fruit into halves and remove the core. Next, carefully cut the apples into thin slices (about 2 mm thick). These slices will be used to make roses. Cut those slices that are not very even and thin into small pieces and use them to add to the dough.
- Pour water into a saucepan, add sugar and cinnamon, put on fire and bring to a boil. The sugar should completely dissolve. Only after this, dip the thin apple slices from which you will make roses into the syrup and cook over low heat until soft. Do not overcook the apples, otherwise you will not be able to form roses. Next, remove the fruit slices from the syrup and place on a plate to cool and dry. Do not pour out the syrup - it is used to pour over the finished pie.
- Wash the lemon, scald with boiling water, remove the zest. Finely chop the zest.
- Keep the butter at room temperature until softened. Do not heat or melt.
- Sift flour, mix with baking powder.
- Beat eggs with sugar and salt, add lemon zest without stopping beating.
- Add the butter in small pieces to the egg-sugar mixture, continuing to beat.
- Add flour to the resulting mixture, mix all ingredients. The dough is ready.
- Line a baking pan with parchment, pour the dough to a level of about a third of the height of the pan. Place finely chopped apples on the dough and pour the remaining dough on top.
- To prevent the apples from sinking to the bottom of the pan, you can first lightly roll them in flour.
- To form roses, place 7 thin apple slices overlapping each other and roll into a tube. Adjust the number of roses depending on the surface area of the charlotte.
- Another method allows you to get roses that are more accurate and hold their shape. To do this, you need to cut thin strips of puff pastry (you can use scraps). Place apple slices on them lengthwise so that half the width of the puff strip remains uncovered. Lightly pour syrup over the apples, cover with the remaining free strip of dough, as a result, the fruit slices will end up in the dough pocket. Roll up the strips to form roses.
- Place the resulting flowers on the surface of the charlotte, partially immersing it in the dough. There is no need to press the roses too hard - just enough to keep them on the surface of the dough. Please note that the dough will rise during baking.
Bakery
- Bake at 160 degrees for 30-35 minutes until done. Check readiness with a wooden stick - if after immersion in the dough the wooden stick remains dry, then the baked goods are ready.
- Remove the charlotte from the oven and lightly pour the syrup over the roses. Allow the baked goods to cool slightly, during which time the syrup will saturate the fruit.
- Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.
It is better to serve charlotte with tea.
There are two recipes for apple charlotte, which have been “arguing” with each other for the title of classic for several years now. One is made from slices or crumbs of white bread, similar in preparation technology to bread pudding. And the second is the charlotte that I now invite you to bake - fluffy, soft and tender, like a sponge cake; with apple pieces, cinnamon flavor and a light snow of powdered sugar on a thin, crispy crust!
This charlotte is also called “five-minute apple pie,” although it is baked not for 5, but for 25 minutes, but it is prepared very quickly and simply. This is why biscuit charlotte with apples is the most favorite pie during autumn tea parties. What to bake quickly and with a minimum of ingredients for the family for breakfast, or for the children for an afternoon snack; to the arrival of unexpected guests? Of course, charlotte! While you are chatting at the table, Charlotte will be in time.
I offer you a basic charlotte recipe, but you can vary it countless times!
Firstly, charlotte dough can be prepared not only from wheat flour, but also with the addition of corn, oatmeal, buckwheat, and nut flour (half with wheat). Each time the charlotte will turn out with a new taste!
Secondly, in addition to different types of flour, you can add various spices to the dough: cinnamon or vanillin; turmeric, ginger! You can even pour in cocoa, it will be a chocolate charlotte - but the classic version, in my opinion, is better. But if you add a couple of spoons of poppy seeds or chopped nuts to the dough, it turns out very tasty!
Then, you can add not only apples to the pie, but also any seasonal fruits and berries. I tried charlotte with pears and plums; with cherries and apricots, raspberries, strawberries! And each option is delicious in its own way. But let's start with the apple charlotte.
Ingredients for charlotte with apples for a 20-24 cm pan
- 3 large eggs;
- 150-180 g of sugar (incomplete 200 gram glass);
- 130 g flour (1 glass without top);
- 1 tsp. baking powder (or 1 tsp soda, quench with 9% vinegar in flour);
- 1/4-1/2 tsp. cinnamon;
- 2-3 tbsp. l. powdered sugar for decoration;
- 5-7 medium apples.
Method for preparing charlotte with apples
Charlotte tastes best with sweet and sour fruits of green and yellow varieties: Antonovka, Granny Smith, Simirenko, Golden. Loose apples are not very suitable for this pie: they will “melt” in the dough and the taste will not be the same.
Since the dough for charlotte is biscuit, it must be baked immediately after preparation so that the fluffy mass does not settle. Therefore, it is better to prepare the apples and the mold in advance. We also take the eggs out of the refrigerator in advance: when they are at room temperature, they are beaten into a more fluffy mass.
Wash the apples and remove the cores. If you are in a hurry and the apple peel is not very hard, you don’t have to peel it. But I still advise you to spend a little more time and peel the peel, then the charlotte will turn out much more tender!
Cut the peeled apples into small cubes or slices, as you prefer. To prevent the apples from darkening while preparing the dough, you can sprinkle them with lemon juice.
It is convenient to bake charlotte in a springform pan: then the fluffy, tender pie is easy to take out and transfer to a dish. I cover the bottom of the mold with confectionery parchment, similar to how embroidery canvas is put on a hoop: I cover the bottom of the mold with paper, then put the sides on top and close it, and trim off the excess paper. Then I lightly grease the parchment and the walls of the mold with odorless sunflower oil so that the charlotte does not stick. If there is no parchment, grease the pan with butter and sprinkle with flour or breadcrumbs.
If you don’t have a springform pan, you can bake the charlotte in a solid metal pan or even in a cast iron frying pan, only then it will be a little more difficult to get out. But it’s quite possible to cut the charlotte into a mold and eat it straight from there. If you bake in a silicone pan, remove the charlotte only after it has completely cooled, otherwise part of the dough will remain stuck to the pan.
The mold and apples are prepared, it’s time to turn on the oven to warm up to 180-200 °C.
Let's prepare the dough for charlotte. We begin to beat the eggs with sugar first at the minimum speed of the mixer; after 30-45 seconds we switch to medium and then to maximum. In total, beat for 2-3 minutes until the mass becomes light and very fluffy (two to three times more than the original volume).
Sift the flour mixed with baking powder into the beaten eggs and mix gently from bottom to top, in a circular motion. You can add cinnamon to flour or sprinkle it on apples.
You can pour the apples into the mold and pour the dough over them, or put them directly into the dough and mix gently.
In the first case, you will get a tender apple layer at the bottom of the charlotte, in the second, the fruit will be distributed evenly. There is a third option - pour out half the dough, then pour in the apples and pour the second half of the dough over them.
Does the dough spread out like a thick, wide ribbon? You did everything right!
Place the pan in a preheated oven and bake the charlotte at 180°C for about 25-35 minutes. After about 10 minutes, you can carefully look into the oven. If the charlotte is in no hurry to rise and brown, turn up the heat a little (up to 190-200 °C); if, on the contrary, the top crust is already browned, but the middle is still liquid, reduce the temperature slightly, to 170 ° C.
You can cover the charlotte pan with foil to prevent the top from burning while the center bakes. The exact temperature setting will be different for each oven, so be guided by the type of pie: when the crust turns golden brown and a wooden skewer comes out dry from the dough, the charlotte is ready.
Let the charlotte cool in the oven for 5-10 minutes: if you take it out right away, the change in temperature may cause the sponge cake to settle a little. Then let it sit in the pan for another 10 minutes: it is easier to remove the parchment from a cooled cake than from a warm one.
Having opened the mold, move the charlotte onto a plate. I invert it onto the pan lid, remove the parchment, cover the pie with a dish and invert it again.
Sprinkle the charlotte with powdered sugar through a small strainer - it will become more elegant and tastier. Then cut into portions with a sharp knife.
And we invite your family to enjoy tea with aromatic apple charlotte!
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