Charlotte with apples in the oven - cook quickly and very tasty! 10 step-by-step recipes for lush charlotte with photos

Charlotte with apples - a classic of European and Russian cuisine - came to us along the beaten culinary path: through the famous French cook Carême, who was sent to his court by Russian Tsar Alexander 1 at the beginning of the 19th century. It was he who brought with him a recipe for making an apple pie called in honor of Queen Charlotte and opportunistically renamed from Parisian to Russian charlotte.

The recipe for such a pie has gained worldwide popularity and has undergone many creative culinary variations: American, German, Jewish, Russian landowner apple babka and just apple pie - call it what you want, as long as the pie is a success and delights the household and guests.

The assortment of Russian charlotte is quite rich: charlotte with kefir, charlotte with sour cream, Tsvetaevskaya charlotte; old-fashioned charlotte, with pieces of day-old white bread, and even charlotte in a slow cooker. Of course, experienced cooks will also have a couple of original recipes. We have some of them.

Classic recipe for charlotte with apples on cake dough
Recipe for charlotte with apples on biscuit dough
Exquisite recipe for charlotte on biscuit dough with the addition of brandy
Quick recipe for charlotte on kefir dough with apples
Autumn recipe for charlotte with apples
Recipe for charlotte with apples and meringues
Charlotte with apples on sour cream dough
Tsvetaevsky recipe for charlotte with apples
An old recipe for charlotte with apples on white bread
Recipe for charlotte with apples in Swedish

It is generally accepted that Antonovka apples are the best filling for such a pie, but one may disagree with this, because any variety of these fruits has the opportunity to turn out to be a charlotte filling with a very special apple aroma, depending specifically on the taste of the apples. The next task is to maintain the light and transparent appearance of the apples after heat treatment.

The secret is small: sprinkle the prepared apples (washed, peeled and cut into pieces) with natural fresh lemon juice, which will preserve the color of the fruit and enhance their natural aroma.

During the process of preparing charlotte, any apples are cut into pieces and added to the dough. Some people like to lightly sauté firm apples in butter or marinate them in cognac to make them softer and more aromatic.

The remaining ingredients, except flour: any sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg, olive oil, nuts, lemon or orange zest - in different sets can be perfectly combined in the process of preparing charlotte, while leaving room for your creative culinary imagination.

Classic recipe for charlotte with apples on cake dough

Thanks to the classic cake dough, the pie will be rich, heavy and doughy.

Ingredients:

peeled apples - 300-500 grams;
wheat flour - 100 grams;
fresh chicken egg - 2 pieces;
butter - 100 grams;
granulated sugar - 100 grams;
baking powder -0.25 teaspoon;
table salt - to taste.

According to the classic recipe, charlotte with apples on cake dough is prepared as follows:

Beat the softened butter with a mixer at high speed until the sugar dissolves.
As soon as the sugar dissolves, add fresh eggs at room temperature one at a time into the resulting mass, then add sifted wheat flour, salt, baking powder and stir in the dough at low speed.
Mix the chopped apples evenly with the resulting dough and place the mixture in a suitable form, greased and dusted with flour.
Place the pan with the dough in an oven preheated to +180 C and bake the charlotte for 35-40 minutes until cooked, check with a toothpick - dry - the pie is ready.

Recipe for charlotte with apples on biscuit dough

The biscuit dough is prepared without butter, but with an increased amount of sugar, allowing it to be fluffy. This dough requires strict proportions so that it does not fall during baking.

Chilled fresh eggs are beaten with a mixer at high speed to obtain a thickly beaten mass, which should be mixed with flour carefully so as not to extinguish the air bubbles that arise during beating.

Ingredients:

wheat flour - 120 grams;
powdered sugar - 120 grams;
fresh apples - 300 grams;
chicken egg - 4 pieces.

Prepare charlotte with apples on biscuit dough according to a simple recipe as follows:

Carefully separate the whites from the yolks. Beat the whites with a mixer with sugar until white foam and, adding 20 grams of powdered sugar, continue beating until thick.
Beat the yolks intensively with a mixer with 100 grams of powdered sugar and mix them with the whipped whites with careful movements from bottom to top.
As soon as the mass of whipped whites and yolks becomes homogeneous, gradually add flour and continue stirring until completely homogeneous.
Grease a charlotte mold with butter, sprinkle with ground breadcrumbs, lay out evenly sliced apples and pour the resulting dough on top.
Make a small indentation in the center of the cake so that it is even.
All that remains is to carefully place the mold in a preheated oven and bake the charlotte at +200 C for 25 minutes.

Exquisite recipe for charlotte on biscuit dough with the addition of brandy

The highlight of this pie is the addition of aromatic alcohol, for example brandy, but rum, cognac, and alcoholic tinctures with aromatic herbs are also suitable. In addition to the subtle aroma combined with the smell of apples, alcohol will give the apples softness and tenderness, especially if they are used peeled. This will make the entire charlotte tender and aromatic, similar in consistency to a soufflé.

Ingredients:

wheat flour - 1 cup;
granulated sugar - 1 cup;
fresh chicken egg - 3 pieces;
brandy - 1 tablespoon;
ground cinnamon - 1 teaspoon;
ripe apples - 1 kilogram.

Prepare charlotte on biscuit dough with brandy according to an exquisite recipe as follows:

Wash the apples, peel them, cut them into pieces, sprinkle with lemon juice, then sprinkle with cinnamon and mix.
Prepare biscuit dough from fresh eggs, sugar and flour, for which beat the eggs with sugar, gradually adding flour and stirring gently.
Grease a charlotte mold with sides with butter and evenly place sliced apples on its bottom, then fill them with dough and place in an oven preheated to +180 C for baking for 40-50 minutes.

Making classic apple charlotte in a slow cooker

In addition to the oven, you can cook a delicious apple pie in a slow cooker. A multicooker is a universal thing; it’s a pleasure to cook in it; the baked goods are fluffy, tender and airy.

Required Products:

Wheat flour - 100 g (1 cup);
Sugar - 170 g (1 glass);
Medium-sized chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
Baking powder for dough - 1 tsp;
Salt - 1/2 tsp;

Total preparation time is 90 minutes, 20 minutes for preparing the dough and 60 minutes for baking.

The calorie content of charlotte cooked in a slow cooker is approximately the same as the classic one, that is, equal to 165 kcal per 100 grams.

Cooking steps:

Prepare the dough. Wash the eggs thoroughly under running water, you can wash them with soda. Take a deep bowl and break the eggs into it. Pour in all 170 g of sugar at once. Beat with a mixer, starting at minimum speed, gradually increasing it. The egg mixture should be fluffy and bubbly;
Sift the flour mixed with baking powder. Stir until smooth, there should be no flour lumps, the consistency is similar to thick sour cream;
You don’t have to peel the apples, just wash them well and cut them into large pieces. Add them to the dough, mix;
The multicooker cup should be coated with a small amount of butter and lightly dusted with sugar. Cut another apple into neat slices and place along the bottom of the bowl. Now pour the dough into the container and smooth it evenly;
In any multicooker, the charlotte must be baked using the “Baking” function. Cooking usually lasts 60 minutes. After the time has passed, let the charlotte cool slightly. Once the cake has cooled slightly, remove it and turn it over onto a steaming rack. The fluffy and airy charlotte from the slow cooker is ready!

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Quick recipe for charlotte on kefir dough with apples

For such a charlotte, the apples must be very sweet in order to better combine with the sour kefir dough, and the amount of sugar here is small.

Ingredients:

wheat flour - 250 grams;
kefir or yogurt - 200 milliliters;
chicken egg - 2 pieces;
butter - 100 grams;
granulated sugar - 100 grams;
baking soda or baking powder - 0.5 teaspoon;
table salt - on the tip of a knife;
sweet apples - 500 grams.

According to a quick recipe, charlotte on kefir dough with apples is prepared as follows:

Wash, dry, peel and cut the apples into slices. Sprinkle them with lemon juice.
Beat softened butter with granulated sugar with a mixer, add one fresh egg at a time, continuing to beat.
Pour kefir into the resulting mass while stirring and gradually add sifted flour, continuing stirring, to form a dough into which you should add chopped apples.
Coat a suitable mold with butter, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and place the dough with chopped apples into it.
By this time, the oven has been preheated to +180 C, and place the pan with the charlotte dough in it for 45 minutes.

Cooking tender Charlotte with sour cream

Charlotte with sour cream is a delicious and delicate dessert. Which does not require much culinary knowledge. Therefore, even an inexperienced housewife can handle it.

Required ingredients:

chicken egg - 1 piece;
sour cream - 1 glass;
slaked soda - on the tip of a knife;
sugar - 1 glass;
flour - 1 glass;
vanillin - half a teaspoon;
apples (medium size) - 4 pieces;
cinnamon - to taste.

Step-by-step preparation:

Whisk the egg and sour cream.

2. Add slaked soda with vinegar, granulated sugar, vanillin. Next, sift the flour, add it to the mixture and mix all the ingredients thoroughly.

3. Peel apples from seeds and skins. Cut into slices. Mix with cinnamon. Prepare a baking dish. Place half of the prepared fruit on the bottom. Pour the dough evenly over them.

3. Scatter the remaining apples on top. Place the pan in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. Bake until done.

Oh, and it turned out delicious! For beauty, you can sprinkle powdered sugar on top!

Bon appetit!

Autumn recipe for charlotte with apples

Charlotte according to this recipe turns out dense, aromatic and moist-juicy, because the dough rises with soda or baking powder. In addition, a lot of apples are introduced. To fully enjoy the aroma of this pie, it is better to eat it not completely cooled. A wonderful dessert for an autumn afternoon snack.

Ingredients:

wheat flour - 0.5 cups;
granulated sugar - 1 cup;
chicken egg - 3 pieces;
baking soda - 0.5 teaspoon;
lemon - 1 piece;
apples 1-1.5 kilograms.

According to the autumn recipe, prepare charlotte with apples as follows:

Start with apples, which should be washed, peeled, cut into slices and sprinkled with lemon juice to preserve the natural color of the fruit.
For the dough, beat a fresh egg with granulated sugar, add flour with soda, slaked with lemon juice, into the resulting mass and mix until completely homogeneous.
Grease a charlotte mold with butter, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and place the dough combined with apples into it.
Place the charlotte pan in an oven preheated to +200 C and bake in this mode until browned, then reduce the temperature to +180 C and continue baking for another 15 minutes. Check the readiness of the pie with a toothpick, which should be dry when removed.
If the top has already browned significantly and a toothpick comes out with a stick of raw dough, you can cover the pie with foil for 10 minutes and, lowering the temperature, finish baking it.

Charlotte on kefir without eggs

Charlotte without eggs turns out no less fluffy than using them, because kefir and soda give it airiness. In this recipe, apples are placed on top of the dough, but if you wish, you can sandwich them in the pie or put them on the bottom of the pan.

Ingredients:

1 tbsp. kefir
1 tbsp. flour.
1 tbsp. l. semolina.
1 tbsp. Sahara.
5 g vanilla sugar or 0.5 g vanilla.
5 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.
4 medium sized apples.
0.5 tsp. soda
Cinnamon to taste.

Cooking process:

Pour kefir into a container where the dough will be kneaded. Pour soda into it, stir and wait 5 minutes for the reaction between the two components to take place.
Then add semolina, stir and let the semolina swell.
Pour sugar and vanilla sugar into kefir and mix.
Gently stir the flour into the kefir, making sure that no lumps form. The dough should not be very liquid, so if the kefir is low-fat and the mass turns out to be runny, add flour until the dough has a consistency thicker than pancakes.
Peel the apples, remove the core with grains, and remove the stalks. Cut the apples into thin slices or grate them on a coarse grater.
Line a baking pan with parchment, grease with vegetable oil and pour the dough into it.
Place apple slices on top of the dough. Sprinkle cinnamon on apples. You can also sprinkle them with grated butter or crumbs of butter and flour.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and place the pan with charlotte for 15 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 170-180 degrees and bake for about another 25 minutes.

Remove the cooled pie from the mold and serve with aromatic tea.

Recipe for charlotte with apples and meringues

This charlotte is distinguished by the addition of meringue, which decorates, improves and does not complicate the process of its preparation.

Ingredients for the dough:

wheat flour - 4-5 tablespoons;
fresh chicken egg - 5 pieces;
granulated sugar - 0.5 cups;
vanilla sugar - 1 sachet;
baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
apples - 3-4 pieces.

Ingredients for meringue:

chicken egg white - 2 pieces;
granulated sugar - 4 tablespoons.

According to the recipe, prepare charlotte with apples and meringues as follows:

Beat the whites separated from the yolks with a mixer until foamy, add sugar and beat completely.
Adding the yolks one at a time, continue beating with sugar, vanilla, baking powder and sifted flour until the dough is smooth.
Place half of the dough in a greased and sprinkled with ground breadcrumbs pan, evenly spread out half of the chopped apples, pour in the rest of the dough and evenly distribute the remaining apples on top.
Place the form with the charlotte in an oven preheated to +180 C for 20 minutes.
During this time, prepare meringue from 2 egg whites, whipped with granulated sugar using a mixer until stiff foam. Take out the mold with the charlotte, pour the meringue mixture evenly and place it back in the oven to dry the top layer of meringue for 10-15 minutes.

The easiest quick apple pie recipe

Delicious pie, very easy to prepare! We often cook this recipe and everyone really likes it.

Required ingredients:

egg - 4 pieces;
sugar - 1 glass;
vanillin - half a teaspoon;
flour - 1 glass;
baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
apples - 4 tablespoons.

Step-by-step preparation:

1. Beat the egg until foamy.

To make the dough fluffy, the egg must be cooled.

2. Add sugar and knead until smooth. Don't be afraid to reduce the amount of granulated sugar. Add vanilla sugar or vanillin.

3. Gradually add sifted flour. While doing this, do not stop stirring the dough. Pour baking powder or slaked soda on the tip of a knife.

4. Apples in this recipe do not need to be peeled. We cut them in a form convenient for you. But the main thing is not to be shallow. And mix them with the dough.

5. Take out the mold and pour the dough into it.

6. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Place the form with the dough. Baking time will be 30-40 minutes

Check readiness with a toothpick or wooden stick. The charlotte must be pierced in several places. If the stick is clean, the apple pie is ready.

If the top of the pie is sufficiently browned and the middle is raw. You need to remove the charlotte pan from the oven, cover it with foil and put it back.

7. When the apple pie is ready, you need to remove it from the oven and let it cool. This will take about 5-10 minutes. It can be decorated with cocoa or powdered sugar on top.

This is a simple way to make charlotte. But in taste, it is in no way inferior to the traditional recipe.

Charlotte with apples on sour cream dough

The dough for such a pie rises due to strongly beaten eggs, to which you need to mix a small amount of flour with smooth movements from bottom to top. Sour cream should be high in fat. Butter for greasing the mold can be replaced with odorless vegetable oil. But any apples will do.

Ingredients for charlotte with apples on sour cream dough:

apples - 600 grams;
wheat flour - 0.5 cups;
granulated sugar - 0.5 cups;
full-fat sour cream - 1 cup;
chicken egg - 6 pieces;
cinnamon - according to preference;
butter - for greasing the mold;
breadcrumbs for sprinkling the mold.

According to my grandmother’s recipe, prepare charlotte with sour cream dough and apples as follows:

Wash and process the apples, removing the core, peeling and cutting into pieces. Grate three of them to add to the dough.
Separate the whites from the yolks into separate bowls. Grind the yolks with granulated sugar until white and mix with sour cream.
Mix the grated apples with flour until smooth, then add the remaining apples to the resulting mass.
Beat 6 egg whites and add them to the resulting dough with apples.
All that remains is to put the entire homogeneous mass into a mold, greased with butter and sprinkled with ground breadcrumbs, and place in an oven preheated to +180 C for 40-45 minutes until ready.

Tsvetaevsky recipe for charlotte with apples

This poetic recipe goes back to an old French recipe from two centuries ago. It provides aromatic, juicy and sweet ripe apples. You need full fat sour cream or 33 percent cream. Eggs must be fresh. The shape is preferably rectangular: 18 by 25 centimeters. Natural vanilla will add a festive, solemn tone to the wonderful aroma of charlotte.

Ingredients for the dough:

wheat flour - 1-1.5 cups;
full-fat sour cream - 0.5 cups;
butter - 150 grams;
baking powder (baking powder) - 1.5 teaspoons.

Ingredients for filling:

sour cream - 1 glass;
granulated sugar - 1 cup;
chicken egg - 1 piece;
wheat flour - 2 tablespoons;
apples - 4-6 large pieces;
vanilla sugar - 1 teaspoon.

Prepare charlotte with apples according to Tsvetaeva’s recipe as follows:

Sift flour with baking powder and mix with sour cream and cooled melted butter in a large container to knead the dough.
Place the resulting dough into a mold greased with oil and sprinkled with flour or ground breadcrumbs, smooth it out and make the necessary sides.
Place washed, dried, peeled and thinly sliced apples evenly over the dough.
In a separate bowl, mix sour cream, granulated sugar, egg, vanilla sugar and beat thoroughly with a whisk, then add flour and stir until smooth.
Pour the resulting filling evenly onto the apples lying on the dough, shake the mold to level the top layer of the filling and distribute it between the apples.
Bake at +180 C in the oven for 50 minutes.

This charlotte is good both hot and cold. Adults and especially children will like it.

Charlotte dough: classic recipe

The most interesting thing is that the classic charlotte is not at all the fluffy and airy sponge cake with apples that we are used to seeing it. Real charlotte is made from apples and... bread. If you are interested, you can find such a recipe here. We will continue talking about the classic charlotte dough.

And it's biscuit. The classic perfect sponge dough becomes airy thanks to the large number of well-beaten eggs in it. No baking soda, baking powder, or yeast are added to it. Let's see what we need.

sour apples – 0.5 kg;
sugar – 160 g;
wheat flour – 160 g;
eggs – 4 pcs. (C0 – large);
salt – 1 pinch.

The quantity is based on a mold with a diameter of 22 cm.

Cut the apples into slices or cubes. It is better to take apples of sour varieties.
Cut the apples into slices or large pieces.
Break the eggs into a bowl, add a dash of salt, add sugar and beat well with a mixer. The mixture should turn white and increase in volume. Run a spatula over the surface; if the mark does not disappear for some time, it means the eggs are well beaten.
Sift the flour into them and mix gently with a spatula. The movements should be wraparound, from top to bottom. The task is not to “drop” the beaten eggs.
Grease the mold with a piece of butter and sprinkle with flour. Pour half the dough, add half the apples. Pour the remaining dough and add the remaining apples.
Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 20-30 minutes. Keep an eye on the charlotte, as all ovens are different!

Biscuit dough for charlotte with apples with baking powder

This option is good if you are not sure of your experience or do not have an electric mixer. In general, for a situation where there is no guarantee that the dough will rise only due to eggs. Then baking powder comes to the rescue.

apples - 2-4 pcs. (depending on size);
eggs - 5 pcs.;
sugar - 200 g;
flour - 200 g;
baking powder – 10 g;
salt - a pinch.

Peel and chop the apples. Place it on the bottom of the mold.

Beat eggs with sugar until white.

Sift the flour along with baking powder and salt. Add to beaten eggs. Mix carefully and pour the dough over the apples.

Bake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes.

An old recipe for charlotte with apples on white bread

This pie was invented at the end of the 18th century in England to speed up and simplify the process of preparing it. It is important that the milk in its recipe be of high fat content or 10 percent cream instead, that more butter is used to grease the bread to avoid it burning. Yesterday bread is preferable.

Ingredients:

white bread - 300 grams;
natural fat milk - 1 glass;
fresh chicken egg - 1 piece;
granulated sugar - 0.75 cups;
butter - 3 tablespoons;
lemon - 1 piece;
fresh apples - 500 grams.

According to an old recipe, prepare charlotte with apples on white bread as follows:

Cut the crust off the white bread and cut it into slices 1 centimeter thick. Cut a few slices into cubes and dry in the oven.
Mix milk, fresh egg, 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar in a bowl and beat with a whisk.
Peel the apples, remove the cores, cut into cubes, pour in lemon juice and sprinkle with granulated sugar.
Using a grater, remove the zest from the lemon.
Melt a small amount of butter, pour it over the dried bread cubes and mix them with the chopped apples and lemon zest.
Grease a baking dish for charlotte generously with butter. Line the bottom and sides of the pan with slices of white bread dipped in the egg-milk mixture. Lay the slices overlapping, leaving no gap.
Place the prepared apples with lemon zest on the bread slices and cover them with slices of bread dipped in the milk mixture.
Place the prepared pan with bread charlotte with apples in an oven preheated to +200 C and bake in this mode for 35-40 minutes.
Keep the finished charlotte in the switched off oven for 10 minutes, after which it can be served hot for dessert.