Charlotte with raisins
- Nutrition Facts
- Calories: 243
- Protein: 5.02
- Fats: 2.83
- Carbohydrates: 47.73
Gatherings with relatives, friends, colleagues from work with a cup of aromatic drinks can be diversified with delicious pastries. Moreover, sweets that complement a cup of tea or coffee can be not only purchased, store-bought. It is quite possible to make homemade cooking, represented by pies, cookies, cakes, etc. Our gastronomic idea this time for such home gatherings is a delicious charlotte with apples and raisins, the recipe of which is βon the shoulderβ even for a novice cook.
Apple pastry attracts not only with its taste, it looks appetizing, it does not require expensive products. Baking our sweet charlotte with apples and raisins according to the recipe is offered in a silicone mold, which is much more convenient. But it does not matter, if there is no such form, you can take another suitable one. To knead apple dough for charlotte with raisins, arm yourself with a mixer, spatula, deep container. The rest of the details of making the most delicious pie with apples and raisins are revealed in our step-by-step cooking instructions.
Charlotte history
Different culinary sources give different information about the origin of charlotte and its distribution around the world. In general, the word "charlotte" is French, so it is believed that this dessert also appeared among French bakers. Charlotte is a delicate dessert made from apples baked in an airy dough.
In Germany, such sweetness consists of ingredients such as white bread, custard, chicken eggs, liquor, fruit. But still, some culinary connoisseurs argue that the classic version of baking charlotte was borrowed from the stiff English. Among the representatives of foggy Albion, charlotte looked like a pudding with apples or fruits, which was served to the table exceptionally warm.Β No matter how charlotte looks in national cuisines, an apple is a constant ingredient in it. Why an apple? Yes, because this fruit is the cheapest and most common in Europe. Well, let's start baking "our" raisin charlotte according to the recipe with a photo.
Ingredients:
- Flour (it is better to use wheat, premium) - 1 cup;
- Raw egg (chicken, preferably large) - 3 pieces;
- Sugar - 1 glass;
- Raisins (required pitted) - 1 handful;
- Apple (variety - any) - 1-2 pieces.
Cooking method
- To bake a delicious homemade pie with apple filling, supplemented with pitted raisins, we take the necessary products and measure their declared amount. Pay attention to raisins: sort out dried fruit, soak in water, dry.
Preparing the ingredients
- We hammer all the chicken eggs into the container.
Place eggs in a bowl
- Add a sweet ingredient to them in one go - a glass of sugar.
Add sugar
- By whipping, we turn the ingredients in containers into a lush homogeneous foamy mass.
Beat the ingredients with a mixer
- Sift the wheat flour into the mass that came out.
Add sifted flour
- Mix the flour into the sweet mass gently using a spatula.
We begin to mix the ingredients with a spatula
- This is the dough for homemade apple raisin pie we got.
Dough for charlotte
- Cut the apple into small cubes, after removing the peel from the fruit.
Chop the apple
- We transfer the apple slices to the dough.
We put the apples in the dough
- We throw the prepared raisins.
Add raisins
- Mix again with a spatula.
Stir the ingredients
- We distribute the dough in shape.
Pour the dough into the mold
- We bake a charlotte pie at 180 degrees for 30 or 35 minutes (we preheat the oven in advance).
Bake charlotte
- Have a nice and sweet snack for everyone!
Ready-made charlotte with raisins
The benefits of the dish
We enjoyed the wonderful taste and delicate porous structure of cooked charlotte with raisins according to the recipe of our chef. Should you count calories? Yes, their number rolls over, but what did you want from baking ?! Don't overeat and you'll be fine! But in our pie there are healthy apples that contain minerals, vitamins, and substances that are important for us. Not "lag behind" and raisins in their useful characteristics. Dried grapes in their form also predominate with a number of useful characteristics. Eat for health!
So the process of kneading dough for charlotte and baking a delicious apple pie with raisins has come to an end, it's time to pour tea or coffee to treat yourself to a tasty morsel! You met only one of the many variations of baking this kind of pies.
Some hostesses prefer to make the apple filling large and put it on the bottom of the mold. Some people like to supplement apples with other fruits. So, for example, a pie - charlotte - with bananas, pears, berries is good and appetizing. But our recipe for homemade raisin charlotte in the oven, we are sure, will not disappoint you, and you will return to it again and again to diversify your menu with this wonderful pie!
