Puff pastry apple pie - 8 charlotte recipes

Apple pie is made not only on biscuit dough: delicious and crunchy is a pie with apples from puff pastry, yeast-free or yeast, made by yourself or in-store. Delicious aroma to the finished product will give vanilla or cinnamon, caramel, nuts and other fruits will leave a unique taste. The main thing is not to be afraid to experiment!

Classic puff pastry apple pie

The classic recipe involves making charlotte not only on biscuit dough, but also on puff pastry. The finished dish is more tender and crispy. To make a quick dessert, you can use a purchased dough or make it yourself.

For the test we take the following products:

• 320 g flour;
• 0.1 kg butter;
• ½ tbsp water;
• a spoonful of sugar;
• a quarter of a spoon of salt.

There are many technologies for making puff pastry. For charlotte, a quick recipe is more suitable (in this case, the finished product will turn out to be less crumbly, in comparison with other variations):

1. Sift the flour on the table, put the chopped butter on top. Chop the whole mass with a large knife until large crumbs are formed.
2. Pour sugar and salt into water and mix until dissolved.
3. Pour sweet-salty liquid into oil crumbs and knead the dough quickly.
4. Cover with moistened gauze or a towel and refrigerate.
5. After 2 hours, roll the cooled mass thinly, fold it twice in the middle (4 layers are obtained), roll it out again and continue to repeat the rolling-folding process 3 more times.

The dough can be made in advance: it is stored in the refrigerator for about 5 days, in the frozen state for several months.

Now we cook directly charlotte.

For her, in addition to the test (half a kilo), we take:

• a couple of apples;
• 50 g of sugar;
• melted butter or milk (grease the surface);
• powdered sugar;
• raisins (3 tablespoons) are added to the filling as desired.

How to cook:

1. Divide the dough in half, roll out, lay out one layer in the prepared form. The mold can also be greased with ordinary water, then the dough, having absorbed it into itself during the baking process, will become even more magnificent.
2. Cut the apples into small cubes, mix them with sugar and raisins. To give a pleasant aroma, you can mix a little ground cinnamon (a small spoon).
3. Put the filling on the dough in the form. So that during the preparation process the liquid that does not flow out, it is advisable to sprinkle with flour (2 tablespoons) or starch (1 spoon) on top.
4. The second layer of dough is cut into strips of the same width.
5. We lay the strips on top of the filling, forming a "braid", connect their ends with the edge of the lower layer and pinch well.
6. Coat the surface with milk or butter.
7. Bake at 200 ° C for a quarter of an hour.
8. Reduce the temperature in the oven to 160 ° and bake the product for another 10 minutes.

Sprinkle the cooled charlotte with powder and divide into portions.

How to cook in a slow cooker?

Delicate dessert with banana flavor can be cooked in a slow cooker.

To do this, take the packaging of puff pastry:

• 2 apples and a banana;
• 70 g of nuts (walnuts);
• sugar - about 50 g and a little more to sprinkle on top (you can take powder for this);
• protein from one egg;
• butter –50 g.

Cooking activities are not particularly different from the traditional recipe:

1. We prepare the dough: defrost and shift to a table sprinkled with flour.
2. We make the filling: chop the apples, bananas and nuts into small cubes with a knife and mix with sugar. It is better not to use a blender, as the result will be a mixture from which it will be difficult to isolate any particular taste and enjoy it.
3. Roll out the dough with a length of a strip 7 cm wide.
4. In the center of the strip along the entire length, lay out the filling, and then pinch the edges.
5. We smear a bowl of multicookers with oil (any), and then put the resulting sausage into it, folding it in a spiral.
6. Sprinkle the surface with chopped butter (you can finely chop with a knife or grate).
7. We bake in the “Baking” mode for about 2/3 hours.
8. After the time has passed, turn the charlotte over, spread it with protein, sprinkle with sugar and bake in the same mode for about half an hour.
9. First, leave the charlotte for a quarter of an hour in the multicooker, opening the lid, then transfer it to the plate.

After half an hour, you can cut into portions and serve.

From puff yeastless dough

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A wonderful pie with apples from puff yeastless dough will turn out using a very small grocery set:

• dough packing;
• a pair of apples;
• 2 yolks;
• sugar, ground cinnamon - to taste.

The dessert is preparing very quickly:

1. Roll out the thawed dough with a wide strip and put it on the prepared sheet (oiled or lined with parchment).
2. Thinly peeled fruits are cut and laid out in the center of the layer along the entire length.
3. Sprinkle with a cinnamon mixture on top.
4. The sides of the formation are cut into equal horizontal stripes (to the filling).
5. We wrap the strips on the filling, connecting them on top (left and right).
6. Coat the surface with yolks.
7. Bake at 180 ° for about half an hour.

Open pie with apples

For a juicy dessert you need to take:

• puff pastry (one layer per package);
• sugar - 8 tablespoons;
• apples - 4 pcs.;
• an egg (you only need protein).

How to cook an open pie:

1. Rinse and peeled fruits cut into thin slices.
2. Roll the dough thinly.
3. Put in the form, slightly pressed to the side walls, fixing the edges.
4. In a circle, lay out beautifully plate of apples, sprinkle with sugar.
5. Cut corners of the dough and bake.
6. Beat the protein with sugar (50 g) until foam, pour the filling in the resulting mass.
7. Sprinkle crumbs from the baked corners on top.
8. Bake for half an hour at medium temperature.
9. Leave in shape until cool.

Transfer the cooled dessert to a flat dish.

Simple and quick recipe

You can quickly cook charlotte from the finished dough.

In addition to puff pastry, you will need:

• 3 peeled and thinly sliced ​​apples;
• ½ cup sugar;
• butter for lubricating the form (preferably creamy);
• yolk - to grease the top of the cake.

Culinary activities in this case are not distinguished by special actions:

1. Defrost the dough, divide into 2 unequal parts. We roll out both parts, cover the bottom and walls of the mold smeared with oil.
2. Put apple slices in a row, sprinkle them with sugar.
3. Cover with a smaller layer of dough, pinch the edges. In several places, pierce with a fork.
4. Bake for about 25 minutes. at a temperature of about 200 ° C.

With pears

A delicious apple and pear dessert is prepared from:

• packing dough (any puff);
• fruit (2 apples, pears);
• sugar (150 g);
• cognac (1 spoon);
• 1 eggs
• chopped almonds (50 g).

How to cook:

1. Divide the dough in half, roll both sides to the size of the baking sheet.
2. Cut the peeled fruit into thin slices, mix them in a separate bowl with cognac.
3. On a prepared baking sheet we spread one layer of dough.
4. We lay out fruit slices on top, sprinkle them well with sugar, and then chopped nuts.
5. Cover with a second plate of dough, pinch the edges.
6. From above we make small punctures with a skewer or fork and send it to the refrigerator for a third of an hour.
7. Smeared with a beaten egg.
8. Bake for half an hour at 220 ° C.

Apple Charlotte with Caramel

A sweet cake is obtained if caramelized fruits are used as the filling.

To prepare the filling, take:

• 3 sour apples;
• 100 g of sugar;
• 70 g butter;
• a spoonful of ground cinnamon to give a unique flavor.

Cooking caramel filling is quite simple:

1. Cut the peeled apples into cubes.
2. Melt the butter in a frying pan, add sugar and cook, stirring constantly, until it dissolves.
3. Pour fruit cubes, cinnamon and cook on low heat for 2 minutes, and then turn off the heat.

It turns out a very sweet filling. That is why apples are preferable to take acidic varieties. If there are none, then you can slightly oxidize the caramel itself by adding a little citric acid or juice to it.

When creating charlotte with caramel, it is better to divide the dough into 3 identical parts. Moreover, 2 parts are connected and used to form the bottom and side walls of the pie, and a third - for the top.

The surface of the product is smeared with whipped yolk and sprinkled with powder, and then baked for about 2/3 hours at an average temperature (185 °).

Cinnamon

To prepare a fragrant apple pie, prepare:

• packaging of puff pastry (yeast);
• 5-6 apples;
• 100 g of sugar;
• 60 g of flour;
• a spoonful of lemon juice;
• a spoonful of ground cinnamon;
• a pinch of nutmeg;
• some salt.

We cook cinnamon charlotte like this:

1. Set the oven to warm up (it should warm up to 220 ° C).
2. At the bottom of the prepared form, lay a rolled out layer of dough (it should cover not only the bottom, but also the sides).
3. From washed apples, cut the core, cut them into thin slices.
4. Mix fruit slices in a separate bowl with all the spices, then spread on a layer of dough.
5. Cover the workpiece with the second half of the dough, pinch the joints. The top can be greased with a beaten egg so that the finished pie turns out to be rosy.
6. Send to the preheated oven. After about a third of an hour, cover with a folded three-fold sheet of foil so that the upper part of the charlotte does not burn, and bake for another 20-25 minutes.

 

Before serving, the cake must be cooled for 1-1.5 hours.