Magnificent charlotte, unlike the magnificent lady, everyone likes without exception.
Therefore, learning to cook volumetric cakes is worth every mistress who loves praise. So let's get started!
Products for lush charlotte
Many girls are confident that cooking lush charlotte will only happen if the list of ingredients includes baking powder or soda. They pin great hopes on yeast dough. But a number of experienced hostesses believe that the pomp of charlottes depends on two common ingredients and the proper handling of them. Eggs are called the first pastry-raising product, flour is the second. However, with their work, these ingredients cope only when the testicles were well whipped, and flour added in moderation.
Well, you can cook lush sharlotki thanks to the beaten eggs, and using the baking powder, yeast, that is in the dough. Since far from all lush charlottes are made on eggs, and in some recipes they are present in such a small amount that they are hardly capable of making the weather, we will consider 5 different cooking options for elegant baking.
Magnificent rum charlotte with almonds, raisins and candied fruits
This charlotte is very lush and tasty. And although the rum charlotte doesn’t look so seductive as an exquisite cake, it can bypass many baked goods in taste. If you bake it for guests, they, having tasted a charlotte, will definitely want to take a piece of cake with them. So let's cook two small cakes at once. For this lush charlotte it will be necessary to knead the yeast dough.
For your information: the only minus of the lush rum charlotte is that some products need to be prepared for it in the evening.
Ingredients
You need: 300 ml of fresh milk, half a cup of rum (about 125 ml), 650 g of flour, raisins (about 350 g), 250 g of sweet almonds and butter. You will also need a few tricks of bitter almonds, lemon and orange candied fruits (50 g each), juice of half a lemon, zest, a little bit of cinnamon and vanilla sugar, powder (as you like). Do not forget about yeast and regular sugar. For the test, you need 60 g of yeast and 150 g of sugar. The last ingredient is salt (half a small spoon).
Cooking method
First thing in the evening soak in the rum raisins. Now you can do relaxation, imagining how delicious the lush charlotte you will make tomorrow will be. So, in the morning dissolve the yeast in the milk. After that, add a little sugar to the milk, 250 g of flour and, kneading the dough, put it in a warm place for 30 minutes. After the dough fits, put soft butter, sugar, flour and knead to it and knead everything again.
When the dough rises again, combine it with candied fruit, raisins, grated zest, chopped almonds, vanilla sugar, lemon juice, salt and cinnamon. If the mass turned out to be watery, you can still add flour. The dough should be infused for about 3 hours.
Form two oval cupcakes from dough. Make cuts on each of the cakes along the entire length, but not in the middle, and leave them to stand on the foil-laid baking sheet for another 20 minutes. Put the baking tray in the oven preheated to t 220 ° C. Bake a lush charlotte at this temperature for about 15 minutes. After that you need to lower the temperature to 170 ° C. After 40 minutes, remove the charlottes from the oven, grease them with melted butter on top, sprinkle with vanilla sugar. The final touch is a thick layer of powdered sugar. Store charlotte should be in a cool place and closed dishes, better ceramic.
Magnificent sharlotka from proteins and apples
Such a charlotte can be called not just lush, but incredibly airy. This air cake is made pretty quickly. And for its preparation you do not need to buy a lot of products, which is also a big plus. Such a lush apple-protein sharlotka like both adults and children.
Ingredients
You will need: 200 grams of sugar, 8 egg whites, a kilogram of apples and powdered sugar.
Cooking method
Bake and rub the apples. Mix them with sugar. Separately, until a thick foam whip whites. Combine everything and mix. Protein-apple mass should be laid out in a greased mold and sprinkled with flour. We bake the cake at an average temperature (about 160 ° C) until it rises and browns. Top airy charlottes should be sprinkled with powdered sugar. Treats can be eaten with cream.
Attention: instead of apples, you can also use boiled and pureed prunes or apricots.
Lush chocolate charlotte with cottage cheese and pears
To prepare such a charlotte, we need a lot of ingredients. But since all of them are not very expensive and probably are in the house of every cook, you don’t have to spend much money on this pie. And the chocolate charlotte quickly cooked (a little more than half an hour). The dough baking powder will add chocolate cake fluffiness.
Ingredients
For the test: 300 g of flour, about 6 tbsp. l butter (vegetable), low-fat cottage cheese (150 g), egg and vanilla sugar (two sachets). Also, take a teaspoon of cocoa powder and three times as much baking powder.
For the filling: low-fat cottage cheese (250 g), cream (glass), 3 eggs, sugar and lemon juice (2 tablespoons), half the amount of starch, a pinch of salt, a bag of vanilla sugar and 10 pears. We add powdered sugar and ground cloves to taste.
For lubrication forms need margarine.
Cooking method
Mix flour with baking powder, sugar, salt, cocoa and add the remaining ingredients (egg, butter and cottage cheese). After kneading the dough, roll it out and place it on a greased baking sheet, creating small sides. Spread the yolks with cottage cheese, sugar (vanilla and regular), starch. After that, add cream to the curd and add a little clove. Now it is necessary to mix the proteins whipped with salt into the filling.
The egg-curd filling is smeared over the dough, after which the sliced in half, peeled, rid of seeds and sprinkled with lemon juice pears are laid on it and slightly buried. They put slices down. Do not forget to make cuts on the convex side of the pears. Lush charlotte is baked at t 180 ° C for half an hour. When the cake has cooled, sprinkle it with powder.
Magnificent charlotte with a "drunken" cherry
Have you ever made a fluffy cake that you need to bake on the strength of 5 minutes? If not, this is a big omission. Let's learn to make a quick fluffy charlotte together.
Ingredients
Take a kilo of cherries, 10 st. l sugar, two spoons (large) of powdered sugar and white wine, 4 eggs, milk (100 g), and 50 g of crushed walnuts and flour (4 tbsp. l.). Still need vanilla sugar.
Cooking method
Cut the washed, dried and pitted cherries. Sprinkle them with powder and pour wine on them. After that, put the cherries on the fire and evaporate the wine. You will need about 3 minutes.
Now boil the milk. While it cools, rub the white sugar with yolks. Add flour to the frothy mixture and whisk it. Cool cooled milk gradually into a thick mass, without stopping the beating. Now put our mixture on the fire and cook until thick (about 2 minutes). While the milk cream will cool, whip proteins with vanilla sugar. Gently mix the protein foam with the cooled cream.
Cherries are laid in a mold and filled with the prepared mixture. Baking time - 3-4 minutes. Powder - nuts.
Magnificent charlotte with cranberries and beets
Well, let's talk finally about cooking unusual lush charlotte with cranberries and beets. Surprised by this recipe? Well, what, not only to us sweet fruit pies to bake. Down with the monotony!
Ingredients
For the test: an egg, a glass of milk, 130 g of sugar, yeast (15 g), salt, 50 g of butter, a little more than 3 tbsp. flour.
To lubricate the dough - an egg.
For the filling: half a cup of sugar, 1 tbsp. l starch, cranberries (250 g), medium beet.
Cooking method
Mix yeast and sugar divorced in milk with melted warm butter and other ingredients intended for dough preparation. Roll out the main part of the half-pastry dough and put it on a greased and floured baking sheet.
Spread cranberries with sugar, add starch and mix. Combine cranberries with finely grated raw beets. Put the prepared stuffing evenly on the dough. From above make a rare lattice from the left dough. Grease it with an egg. Bake at t 160 ° C until tender.
On the rules of cooking lush charlotte
To get a fluffy charlotte, it is not necessary to beat whites, yolks separately, and add sugar after they are combined. If you beat the eggs, not sharing, and immediately with the sugar, the charlotte still get lush. The main thing is to beat the testicles thoroughly and only then add a little flour to them.
If you are preparing yeast dough, then you also need to follow the rules. The first rule: the yeast must be dissolved in any liquid ingredient. Best of all, if it is warm milk. The second is to give the yeast dough time to infuse. As for the baking powder, it is enough to simply mix it with flour.
Attention: If you wish to cook a lush charlotte, then try to open the oven less while baking the cake.
