It is not necessary to talk about how popular in the world is the sharlotka pie. This type of baked fruit, which in Europe, for example, is considered a dessert. In the CIS countries, charlotte mostly refers to pies. For the
first time to cook charlotte began to cook in France. However, the pastry was so liked by foreigners that soon the recipe spread throughout the continent
. Nowadays, charlotte can be considered not only a pie
.
This pastry is quite similar to a cake, if you prepare it correctly.
Ingredients for Charlotka cake:
- Apples – 9 pcs;
- Lemon – 1 pc;
- Sugar – 80 g;
- Cornstarch – 1 tbsp.
Cake batter ingredients:
- Egg – 4 pcs;
- Salt – a pinch;
- Sugar – 80 g;
- Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp;
- Flour – 100 g;
- Baking powder – 1 tsp.
Ingredients of the cream for the cake:
- Curd cheese – 300 g;
- Powdered sugar – 50 g;
- Cream 33% – 150 ml.
Preparing the Charlotka cake:
Cut apples into small cubes, remove the seed pods. In a dry pan stew the apple pieces with lemon juice and sugar for about 5 minutes.
Pour cornstarch to the apple pieces, mix.
Cover a baking tray with parchment and place the stewed apples on the surface in an even layer.
To prepare the biscuit, break the eggs into a bowl, add salt and sugar, beat with a mixer until frothy. Pour into the egg mixture vegetable oil, sift in the same flour, combined with baking
powder. Knead the dough carefully, remove all the lumps
.
Pour the batter evenly over the apple layer.
Bake the biscuit for 25 minutes at 180 degrees C. At
this time, prepare the cream – mix cottage cheese cream with powdered sugar and cream, whip to a homogeneous thick mass.
Biscuit after baking turn it over on food film, remove the parchment
.
Put the cream in a pastry bag, cover the apple layer of the biscuit with it. If desired, decorate the cake with caramel and walnuts.
Roll the sponge cake into a roll with the filling inside, fix the dessert well in the foil.
Leave the roll in the refrigerator to soak for 2 hours.
Cake Charlotka is a new reinterpretation of the usual cake. The dessert looks new, so it will definitely be able to surprise guests.
