Charlotte is a sweet pastry with apples. There are several options for preparing such a dessert, and the chosen recipe determines how the cake will turn out - light and airy, melting in the mouth, or dense and juicy.
Charlotte is an easy-to-prepare pie that can be cooked either on gas in a pan, or in a slow cooker, microwave or oven. The advantage of baking is that, depending on the available ingredients, you can slightly modify the recipe, and at the end of cooking, in any case, get a delicious dessert. What must be in charlotte is flour and apples, while the rest of the ingredients can be chosen to your liking.
How to cook charlotte without eggs
Eggs appear in the classic recipe for making charlotte, but you can cook this pie without adding this ingredient. Yes, the baked goods will turn out to be less tender and airy, but just as tasty.
The only thing that should be taken into account when cooking such a charlotte is that the flour must be sifted and added baking powder or soda to it. Without observing these rules, the cake will not rise during heat treatment, it will be dense, poorly baked and it will be impossible to eat it.
Charlotte with apples without eggs
Charlotte with apples in the oven is cooked very quickly, for a complete baking of the pie, just 30 minutes of being in a kitchen appliance, heated to 180 degrees, is enough. The dough for dessert is easy to prepare - the ingredients are simply mixed, and the most difficult and time-consuming part of the recipe is the preparation of apples (washing, peeling and slicing).
Ingredients:
- a glass of flour;
- ½ cup sugar;
- 2 large apples;
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar;
- ½ glass of apple juice;
- a teaspoon of baking powder;
- 1/3 teaspoon salt
- 50 grams of bread crumbs.
Recipe:
Wash the apples. If the fruit has a hard skin, cut it off. Cut the apples into cubes.
Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, and put prepared apples on top.
In a deep bowl, combine oil, vinegar, juice, sugar and salt. After the salt and sugar dissolve, gradually add the flour sifted with baking powder and beat. As a result, you should have a homogeneous, slightly runny dough.
Pour the dough into a baking sheet with apples. Bake the pie in an oven preheated to 180 for 30-40 minutes (depending on the size of the mold and the type of apples).
Charlotte without eggs on kefir
Charlotte on kefir turns out to be more fluffy than on water or milk, it has a more interesting taste. For the dish, it is better to use homemade aromatic apples of sour or sweet and sour varieties, but if only sweet fruits are available, you can take them, only then a little sour berries, for example, cranberries or lingonberries, should be added to the cake when baking.
Ingredients:
- 150 grams of flour and semolina (it is important to observe the proportions);
- 3 apples;
- 300 ml of kefir;
- a teaspoon of baking powder;
- 150 grams of sugar;
- 50 ml of vegetable oil.
Recipe:
Wash, peel and cut the apples.
Pour the semolina with kefir and butter, leave for 20-30 minutes (for swelling). Mix flour with baking powder, sift these ingredients two or three times.
Add flour and sugar to the swollen semolina, mix everything thoroughly so that there are no flour lumps.
Put the apples in a silicone mold and cover them with the prepared dough. Bake the pie in the oven for 40 minutes. To make the baked goods crispy on top, simmer the dessert in the oven at 220 degrees for the first 10 minutes, and at 180 degrees the rest of the time.
Charlotte without eggs on milk
If you have neither kefir nor eggs at hand, but you really want to cook charlotte, then you can bake a pie in milk. Although the baked goods will not be particularly lush, this will not affect its taste in any way.
Ingredients:
- a glass of sugar;
- a teaspoon of baking powder;
- 2 cups of flour;
- 3 apples;
- a glass of milk;
- 50 ml of vegetable oil.
Recipe:
Wash the apples, cut into thin slices.
Sift flour, add baking powder to it. Mix milk, flour, sugar, butter in a deep bowl.
Place a layer of apples (half of the cooked fruit) on the bottom of the silicone mold, cover them with ½ part of the dough. Put another layer of fruit on top of the dough, cover them with the remaining dough.
Bake the pie in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 40-50 minutes. To prevent the baked goods from settling during baking, do not open the oven door.
Charlotte without eggs on sour cream
Some housewives call baked goods with apples and sour cream not charlotte, but "Tsvetaevo pie". Why is it so? It is not known for certain, but there is an opinion that the dessert received such a name because the poet Marina Tsvetaeva was very fond of it. But this is only a hypothesis.
Ingredients:
- 50 ml lemon juice;
- 500 ml sour cream (low fat);
- 5 medium sized apples;
- a glass of sugar;
- 150 grams of butter;
- 2 cups of flour;
- a teaspoon of baking powder.
Recipe:
Sift flour, add baking powder and melted butter. Mix everything thoroughly. Add sour cream to the mixture, beat everything and put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Wash the apples, cut into pieces and pour over them with lemon juice. Stir to soak all the fruit.
Cover a baking sheet with parchment, pour half the dough into it, and put the apples on the dough. Pour the remaining dough on top of the fruit.
Bake the pie in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 35-40 minutes. Check the readiness of the baking with a toothpick.
Charlotte without eggs on the water
This recipe is suitable for those who are fasting, as animal products are not needed to make this dessert. The only thing that should be taken into account to make the cake tasty, it is advisable to use aromatic spices, namely vanillin, ginger and cinnamon.
Ingredients:
- 3 large apples;
- 2 cups of flour;
- a glass of semolina;
- ½ cup sugar;
- a teaspoon of dry ginger, cinnamon, soda, lemon juice;
- glass of water;
- a glass of coconut milk (can be replaced with plain water, but baked goods are tastier with coconut milk).
Recipe:
Wash the fruit, cut into wedges or cubes (does not matter). Pour the semolina with water and coconut milk, add sugar and spices. Let it steep for 10-15 minutes.
Add flour, soda, slaked with vinegar to the dough, and mix everything thoroughly until smooth.
Put the apples in a silicone mold and fill them with the resulting dough. Bake the pie at 180-190 degrees for 30-40 minutes.
Charlotte without eggs in a slow cooker
The apple pie according to this recipe turns out to be crumbly, moderately moist. You can add juiciness to baked goods by soaking them with milk. All you need to do is pour a glass of cold milk over the cake at the end of baking. No, no, the pastry will not turn into porridge, it will only slightly soften and become incredibly delicate in taste.
Ingredients:
- a glass of flour;
- ½ glass of vegetable oil (any refined);
- a glass of semolina;
- a glass of kefir;
- a glass of sugar (less if the apples are sweet);
- a bag of vanillin;
- 50 grams of honey;
- some butter to grease the multicooker bowl;
- a teaspoon of baking powder.
Prepare apples - wash, dry and cut into small pieces.
In a deep bowl, combine semolina, flour, kefir, sugar, honey, vanillin and butter.
Lubricate the multicooker bowl with butter, sprinkle it with a little semolina. Pour half of the dough into a bowl, put the fruit on top of it, then pour the remaining dough over the apples.
Close the lid of the kitchen appliance, set the bake setting for one hour. When finished, pour a glass of cold milk over the hot pie.
According to the same recipe, you can cook charlotte in a frying pan. The only thing to consider is that you should only use thick-bottomed dishes with a well-fitting lid for making the cake. It is impossible to open the lid during the preparation of the dessert, since the charlotte will take longer to cook, which will increase the likelihood of the product scorching.
