Charlotte dough

Simple, quick to prepare dough for a delicious pie! Many people love baking with apples, especially the classic charlotte. This is a tender, soft, moderately sweet and moist pie with a pleasant sweet and sour apple filling. The basis of the charlotte is the dough, and the taste of the pie largely depends on it. There are different versions of the dough for charlotte: shortbread, sponge cake, puff pastry, kefir, sour cream. But let's focus on the simplest – the classic charlotte test. Housewives like this option more for the simplicity and speed of dough preparation, the availability of ingredients. The cooking process is really so simple that even a novice cook can cope, and baking from such a dough will definitely turn out successful and delicious.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 12 % 8 g
Fats 6 % 4 g
Carbohydrates 83 % 57 g
271 kcal
GI: 0 / 0 / 100

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 20 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare the ingredients according to the list. It is better to take out all the products stored in the refrigerator in advance so that they are at room temperature. We drive chicken eggs into a deep bowl or blender bowl.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Pour in the sugar and use a mixer, blender or hand whisk to whisk the ingredients until a homogeneous and slightly whitened mixture is obtained and the sugar dissolves. No need to beat the mass to a thick foam. In some recipes, it is recommended to separate the yolks of chicken eggs from the whites, beat and rub them with sugar separately, and then combine. But in principle, there is no significant difference in the result, in any case, the pie will turn out soft, tender and moderately airy.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Wheat flour is sifted to saturate with oxygen, which will make baking especially successful and delicious. Add baking powder and vanilla to the flour, mix, and then pour the dry ingredients into a bowl with a liquid mixture. Instead of baking powder, you can use soda slaked with vinegar. It is better to add flour in parts, kneading the dough each time. So that no lumps of flour form in the dough.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Flour may require a little more or less in contrast to the quantity specified in the composition, since different manufacturers have different quality and density of flour. The dough should have a consistency similar to a very thick sour cream dough.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    The dough does not need to be kept in the cold or at room temperature, you can cook apples or other fillings and immediately proceed to baking charlotte. Bon appetit!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Wheat flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Baking powder dough - 79   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g

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