Cake with caramelized apples: cooking secrets

A cake with caramelized apples is an exquisite treat that is suitable not only for family tea drinking, but also for a festive table. Want to surprise guests with an unusual delicacy? Try to cook a fragrant cake with an unusual filling.

A variety of desserts

There are many recipes on which you can make a pie with caramelized apples. Dough can be prepared according to the classic recipes of strudel or charlotte, or to take as a basis any proven recipe for sweet pie. Apples perfectly harmonize with various spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, ginger. Such a filling is also good with a sweet biscuit dough, and with chocolate, and with sour cream. Depending on the variety, apples have a different degree of sweetness, so sometimes additions are needed in the form of honey, brown sugar or ordinary powdered sugar, which will not only complement the taste of the treat, but also play a decorative role.

Caramelization of apples

The main party is called to play the filling. Caramelized apples have a pronounced sweet-bitter taste and a stable aroma. For the process, we need ordinary or brown sugar, water or apple juice and a small amount of butter. Before caramelizing apples, they need to be peeled off - then they will be softer. Cut the fruit into slices, rings or semirings, be sure to remove the middle parts. Lubricate the frying pan with oil and warm it well. Put in the sugar and start stirring with a wooden spatula. When it becomes transparent, add slices and mix to distribute the mass evenly. If you use a juicy variety, the liquid will not be needed, and there will be plenty of it already. But if apples are not too juicy, you can add a few spoonfuls of water. On average, the proportions of products are:

• Apples - 1 kg;
• Sugar - 3 tablespoons;
• Oil - 50 g;
• Juice - 1 tbsp.

Change the proportions at your discretion, depending on the variety and the desired result.

As soon as the apples become soft and evenly covered with viscous caramel, remove the pan from the fire and put the slices on the plate to cool them a little. This stuffing can be used to prepare a wide variety of desserts.

Sand cake

If you are looking for an easy-to-fulfill recipe that is guaranteed to give a good result, try to cook this dish. Before you can caramelize apples, make a dough. For him we will need:

• Baking margarine (or spread) - 120 g;
• Wheat flour - 1.5 cups;
• Egg - 1 piece;
• Granulated sugar - 0.5 cups.

Whisk the eggs with sugar until lush foam. Separately, combine margarine of room temperature with flour, rubbing the mass into a crumb. Add the beaten eggs, carefully knead and send to the refrigerator, wrapping the film, for half an hour.

Sand cake with caramelized apples is convenient to bake in a form with a low border. In the oven, heated to 190 ^o , he will cook for 20 minutes.

Cooking in a multivariate

Modern technology greatly facilitates the task. Even the process of caramelization can be completely entrusted to a smart car. Just put the apples and sugar in a greased form and bake for 20 minutes on the "frying" mode. At this time, do the test:

1. Beat 3 eggs with a glass of sugar.
2. Add a glass of flour, whisk again.
3. If desired, sprinkle with a pinch of cinnamon.

A cake with caramelized apples in the multivark at the "baking" mode is ready in 45 minutes.

Lush Biscuit

There are many ways to prepare such a test. It is cooked with boiling water, condensed milk, mineral water, lemonade, yogurt ... You can use any favorite biscuit recipe.

With caramelized apples, you can cook a cake of unusual shape, for example, with a notch in the center. Remember: never put apples on the bottom of the mold, otherwise they will burn. It is better to pour the dough, and scatter the fruit on top of it, then they will drown and evenly distribute.

As a basis, you can take the following successful recipe:

• 3 eggs;
• A glass of sugar;
• 100 ml. Oil (refined);
• A glass of milk (hot);
• 1.5 cups of flour, a pinch of vanillin;
• A tablespoon of baking powder.

Beat the ingredients with a mixer, adding in the order in which they are indicated. The dough should be thick enough. The cake will be baked for 30 minutes.

Puff cake with caramelized apples

If you need to cook inexpensive, but very tasty desserts for the shortest possible time, use the ready-made puff pastry. Suitable and yeast, and bezdrozhzhevoe. Roll out the layer, lay caramelized apples on it, cut it at an angle into triangles or squares and move it to a greased form in random order. This pie will look very beautiful, because in form it looks like a bouquet of roses. And in order to get a crisp, just sprinkle the top of the cake with sugar before baking.

And here is another recipe for a pie with caramelized apples. From the puff pastry roll out the layer, lay out the lobules in one layer, cover with another layer. Carefully fasten the edges. To prevent the dough from swelling, nibble with a fork, or rather make small slits.

Feed to the table

Pie with caramelized apples can be served to coffee or tea, light wine, fruit juice. To make the delicacy look beautiful, you can decorate it before serving, sprinkling it with sugar powder through the stencil.

Some gourmets prefer to water the finished pie with homemade caramel sauce or chocolate icing. Perfectly harmonize with it fresh berries.