Apple pie with sour cream filling

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make an apple pie with sour cream filling? First of all, prepare the dough. How to make dough? Prepare the products for him. Choose high-quality, natural butter, corresponding to GOST. Put it in the freezer two hours before cooking, it should become very hard so that it is more convenient to grate it. I replaced the mayonnaise in the recipe with the same amount of sour cream. The fat content of sour cream is 20-30%.

2. Step 2:

   

   Take a dough bowl, sift flour into it. This will not only remove possible debris, but also enrich it with air, which will make the baking more lush and softer. Then add baking powder, vanilla and a pinch of salt to the flour. Salt acts in the sweet dough as a flavor enhancer. Add sugar. Mix all the loose products so that they are evenly distributed over the flour.

3. Step 3:

   

   Remove the frozen butter from the freezer and grate it on a coarse grater directly into a bowl with flour. To prevent the oil from melting from the heat of the hand, wrap it in a package. And at the very end, you can roll it in flour, so it won't slip out.

4. Step 4:

   

   Rub the flour mixture with butter with your hands until a sand crumb forms. Work quickly — the colder the butter in the dough, the better the shortbread dough.

5. Step 5:

   

   Beat an egg into a crumb, put sour cream and mayonnaise if you use it. Start kneading the dough by stirring it first with a spoon and then with your hands.

6. Step 6:

   

   The dough will very quickly become homogeneous and gather into a ball. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

7. Step 7:

   

   Meanwhile, prepare the filling. How to make a filling. Prepare the products for her. Take medium apples, sugar is suitable for both brown and ordinary, white, which is available. Brown will give the pastry a caramel note. Add cinnamon to taste, you can use vanilla instead or add nothing at all — it's a matter of taste.

8. Step 8:

   

   Wash the apples, cut into quarters. Remove the seeds and cut off the peel. Cut the peeled apples into slices.

9. Step 9:

   

   Put them in a dry frying pan, preferably with a non-stick coating. Add sugar and cinnamon. Put the pan on the smallest fire. Simmer the apples on the fire for about 5 minutes, they will soften a little, let the juice, the sugar will melt. Mix them a couple of times with a spatula. The filling is ready.

11. Step 10:

    

    Prepare the filling. How to make a fill? Prepare the products. Choose high-quality, natural sour cream, the fatter, the tastier. But also calorific, consider this. Instead of powder, you can take sugar, and instead of potato starch — corn, it will need twice as much.

12. Step 11:

    

    Put all the ingredients for pouring into one bowl — sour cream, egg, powder and starch.

13. Step 12:

    

    With a whisk, mix everything until smooth. The fill is ready.

14. Step 13:

    

    Take the dough out of the refrigerator. Cut off a third and put it back — it will go to decorate the top. Roll out two thirds on parchment into a circle. My dough turned out to be a little sticky, I rolled it out between two sheets of parchment. But you could just sprinkle it with flour.

15. Step 14:

    

    Transfer the dough to a baking dish, I have a detachable mold 20 cm in diameter. Form the sides of the pie. Since there is a lot of oil in the dough, the mold does not need to be lubricated. I have removed the parchment, you can bake on it.

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    Pour the sour cream filling onto the dough. Spread the apples on top, pour the resulting caramel on them. Spread the apples evenly over the filling.

17. Step 16:

    

    Bend the sides a little so that they fit the filling. From the remaining third of the dough, make the top of the pie — you can cut it into strips and make a lattice, you can, as I cut out decorations in the form of flowers and leaves from it. Or you can just roll out the dough into a circle and make a regular top.

18. Step 17:

    

    Preheat the oven to t 180 ° C, I have an electric, top-bottom mode. Put a pie form in it. Bake the pie for 40-45 minutes, until golden brown. Remove the finished cake from the oven and cool, then remove from the mold.

19. Step 18:

    

    Serve the pie, cut it into pieces, with tea or coffee. Cooled down, it cuts perfectly and holds its shape. Bon appetit!