What they make of apples!
They are added to sweet and salty dishes, compotes and even wine are prepared. And everyone loves fragrant pastries with apples.
Both children and adults gobble it over both cheeks.
So let’s not deprive them of their pleasure!
Why bake with apples?
Baking with apples - general principles of preparation
In fact, apples are just a universal filling! This fruit is combined with any kind of dough: puff, pastry, sand, fresh. Therefore, you can add it to any product. Just keep in mind that during cooking, the filling becomes acidic. Therefore, do not forget about sugar.
What can I bake with apples:
• pies, pies;
• biscuit;
• sweet pizza;
• cakes;
• haircuts;
• strudel;
• croissants.
The list goes on and on. The filling can be made from raw fruit or heat-treated. Some products use jam, jams, dry apples. Also in the fillings are often added: nuts, raisins, honey, other fruits. To reveal and emphasize the taste put: cinnamon, vanilla, lemon juice or citrus zest.
Apple Baking: Classic Charlotte
Among all baking with apples, the leading place is occupied by charlotte. A simple, fragrant and juicy cake is familiar to many. But do everyone know how to cook it? The classic recipe, time-tested. But with a little secret.
Ingredients
• a glass of flour;
• a glass of sugar;
• 1 bag of ripper;
• 4 eggs;
• 3 apples;
• 1 spoon of powder;
• 1 pinch of cinnamon.
Cooking
1. Turn on the oven immediately, as the dough will not take more than 10 minutes. Set 180 ° C.
2. Break the eggs into the bowl of the mixer or just into a bowl. Beat until foam, gradually introduce sugar.
3. Sift the flour with baking powder. This is a little secret. Adding a cultivator will not allow the cake to settle, it will give good porosity and softness.
4. Peel the apples, cut into slices and lightly sprinkle with cinnamon.
5. Combine the flour with beaten eggs, gently stir and add apples with cinnamon.
6. We shift to the form, send to the oven. Time depends on the diameter of the mold and the thickness of the charlotte. Check for a dry stick.
7. Take out the cake, cool and sprinkle with powder.
Apple Baking: Air Cakes
To prepare this fragrant pastry with apples, you need yeast dough. Knead it in advance to allow to stand for at least two hours. We take dry yeast. If you need to replace with fresh ones, then simply increase the amount by four times.
Ingredients
• 10 grams of yeast;
• 1 glass of milk;
• about three glasses of flour;
• 2 eggs;
• 80 grams of sugar; (40 per dough);
• 0.5 tsp salts;
• 70 grams of butter;
• 0.5 lemon;
• 400 grams of apples.
Cooking
1. Heat the milk with half the sugar and add the yeast to the warm mixture. Let stand a little so that they swell.
2. Melt the butter, combine with milk. Add eggs, but leave one egg yolk for lubrication. Pour salt and stir everything. Put the flour and make a soft, elastic dough. Mesim until it begins to lag behind hands and utensils.
3. Place the dough in a large pot (or bowl), cover with a towel and leave to roam in the heat. After an hour, we squeeze and let rise one more time.
4. Peel the apples, cut into cubes and sprinkle with juice from half a lemon.
5. We take out the dough, divide into pieces, flatten into cakes and form pies with apples. Pour some sugar on top of the filling. The size of the pies is done at our discretion.
6. We lay out the products on a baking sheet, let stand for 20 minutes, then grease and bake. For lubrication, take the remaining yolk and beat with a spoon of cold water.
Apple Baking: Amazing Strudel
Strudel is an unusual version of baking with apples. The product is not distinguished by splendor and airiness. But then it gives off an unusual aroma and has a simply amazing taste.
Ingredients
For the test:
• 50 grams of water;
• 2 tablespoons butter;
• 200 grams of flour;
• 1 egg;
• 1/3 tablespoon of vinegar.
To the filling:
• 7 apples;
• 80 grams of oil;
• 80 grams of walnuts;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 80 grams of breadcrumbs;
• cinnamon;
• some lemon juice.
For the strudel, powdered sugar and a little butter.
Cooking
1. For the dough you need to melt the butter. Then simply combine all the ingredients and mix thoroughly. If suddenly the dough turns out to be weak, then add a little more flour. The gingerbread man should turn out elastic, elastic, cool. Let it lie for a quarter of an hour.
2. Cut slices of peeled apples, sprinkle with lemon juice.
3. Melt the butter in a skillet, add apples and cinnamon with sugar to it. Cooking the filling on the fire for three minutes.
4. Then add chopped nuts. Cover and simmer apples until soft. We discard the filling in a colander to get rid of excess juice.
5. Roll out the dough into a rectangular layer and fill it with breadcrumbs. You can cook strudel without them, but they will protect the pastries from being sour.
6. Spread the filling from the apples in a uniform layer.
7. Gently twist the strudel with a roll. We pinch the edges and ends to save all the juices inside.
8. Transfer to a baking sheet, grease with oil and bake. About half an hour at 190 ° C.
9. Cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Apple Baking: Delicate Croissants
Croissant with apple - pastries that can be prepared very quickly if you use ready-made puff pastry. Which we will do. You can take for croissants yeast puff pastry or regular. The first option is preferable, with it the products are luxuriant and airy.
Ingredients
• 1 pack of dough;
• 2-3 apples;
• sugar and cinnamon;
• egg.
Cooking
1. Cut the peeled apples into small cubes, you can grate. But while we do not mix with sugar, so as not to provoke excessive secretion of juice.
2. We take out the dough, roll out the layer on the table. Thickness should not exceed 4 millimeters.
3. Cut the dough into triangles.
4. Beat the egg with a fork, grease the whole dough with a brush. This can not be done. But since the puff pastry is quite dry, the products are often untwisted. The egg will prevent this.
5. Now stir the apples with sugar and cinnamon. Quantity to your taste.
6. Spread a little filling on a wide part of the triangle and fold.
7. We lay out on a baking sheet. If the dough is without yeast, then you can grease the rest of the egg and send to the oven.
8. It is better for yeast croissants to stand on a baking sheet and rise. Only after that grease and bake.
Apple Baking: Juicy Gingerbread
Honey gingerbread in itself always turns out fragrant and tasty. And if you add apples to it, then it will also be juicy!
Ingredients
• 300 grams of flour;
• 40 grams of honey;
• 3 apples;
• 200 ml of water;
• 1 bag of baking powder;
• 100 ml of oil;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• 100 grams of nuts (optional);
• cinnamon (optional).
Cooking
1. For the test you need boiled and warm water. Add honey to it, stir until dissolved.
2. Put sugar and pour in vegetable oil.
3. Next lay the chopped nuts with cinnamon.
4. Mix the flour with a cultivator. You can sift together. Stir in the dough. By consistency, it will resemble thick sour cream.
5. Pour the dough into the mold.
6. Cut into slices apples and lay on the surface. You can lay out some pattern.
7. Put in the oven. Cook for about half an hour at 200 ° C.
Apple Baking: Oatmeal Cookies
Adding apples to oatmeal cookies prevents stiffness. And fruits give a pleasant sourness and aroma. The oil must be left warm in advance to soften. You can make this baking with apples on margarine.
Ingredients
• 2 tsp cultivator;
• 2 apples;
• 2 eggs;
• 110 grams of sugar;
• 100 grams of butter;
• 170 grams of oatmeal;
• 150 grams of wheat flour;
• vanilla, cinnamon optional.
Cooking
1. Put the butter in a bowl, add sugar and beat with a mixer at high speed for at least ten minutes. It will turn out a magnificent cream.
2. One by one add the eggs.
3. Gradually introduce cinnamon, vanillin. All this time we do not stop whipping.
4. Turn off the mixer and introduce the flour.
5. Add the eggs and oatmeal, cut into small cubes. Stir and leave for 15 minutes. While you can turn on the oven at 170, let it heat.
6. We take the dough with our hands and roll balls out of it, slightly larger than a walnut.
7. Spread on a baking sheet, bake. When laying out, you need to leave enough space between the cookies, since it spreads during the baking process, becomes much larger in diameter and can stick together.
Apple Baking: Curd Cake
Baking with apples is not only tasty and aromatic. There are lots of very useful recipes. For example, here is this curd cake. And for taste (except apples) a handful of raisins are added to it.
Ingredients
• 140 grams of sugar
• 60 grams of raisins;
• 80 grams of butter (take cream);
• 1 tsp baking powder;
• 350 grams of cottage cheese;
• 0.5 lemon;
• 1 pinch of salt;
• 1 pinch of cinnamon;
• 200 grams of flour;
• 2 eggs;
• vanilla to taste.
Cooking
1. Cut apples into thin slices. Remove the skin, cut out the core. Squeeze the juice out of citrus and sprinkle the slices.
2. Beat soft butter until fluffy with sugar. Add cottage cheese. If it is soft, then just stir. If grains, it is better to wipe.
3. Put the eggs, stir.
4. Now fragrant additions: cinnamon, vanilla.
5. Stir the flour with a cultivator and raisins, which must be washed and dried well in advance.
6. Mix the flour mixture and the curd. The dough is ready!
7. It remains to add the apples, stir and shift into shape. You can use small cupcakes and make portioned cakes.
8. Bake for about 40 minutes. We set 200 ° C.
Baking with apples - useful tips and tricks
• Apples will not darken if sprinkled with lemon juice. You can also use a solution of citric acid. And if they are cut in advance, then you can even soak in acidified water. Only then will you have to decant the liquid well and dry the pieces a little.
• Sugar causes increased secretion of juice from apples. Therefore, it is not recommended to add it to the filling in advance. It is better to sprinkle with sand filling already in the process of molding products.
• Cinnamon is a supplement that not everyone loves. If you do not like the aroma of this spice, then you can simply not use it. Or add vanilla, essences, nuts to pastries with apples. It goes well with poppy fruit, which gives a peculiar taste and aroma.
• Often pies and other apple pastries look dull. But in fact, decorating products is easy. The easiest option is topping. It is enough to grease the pastries with syrup (honey, jam) and crush coconut flakes, chocolate, nuts. More difficult: use glazes, sweets, make decorations from the dough before baking.
