French cake stuffed with caramelized apples

Contents:

• First, knead the dough
• Karamelizuem apples for pie filling
• Apple Pie: Recipe in a hurry

They say, classic French tart with caramelized apples turned by chance, due to the fact that they cook the apples here accidentally scorched. To hide the mistake, she put the top layer of dough and said and intended to apples were in the cake. Believe it or not, history is silent, but the cake became popular. And so it has not lost it yet. There are versions of these pies.
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First, knead the dough

For the dough will need:

• Wheat flour - 1, 5 cups
• Butter - 125 g
• The water is cold - 75 ml
• Salt - a pinch

The oil pan should be soft so that you can cut with a knife. We must get it out of the fridge an hour before cooking, cut into pieces and left on the table.

The salt is dissolved in water.

Sprinkle flour on the table, put the softened butter into the flour with a knife and chop until fine crumbs state. If you want to handle quickly, you can just flour and butter to rub his hands. This loose weight assemble slide and the recess made on top, pour the water. Knead the dough, add the remaining water if necessary.

Knead the dough is not too long - it must be like glued together large flakes.

Carefully gather all into a ball, wrap in foil and let soak for about an hour in a cool place. This dough is well combined with any filling, but for now we will focus on tart with caramelized apples.

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Karamelizuem apples for pie filling

While the dough is resting, you need to start preparing apples. They have been waiting for their turn, and apple aroma fills the kitchen fragrance.

Will Need:

• 3-4 large apples
• Butter - 100 g
• Sugar - 100 g
• Vanilla or cinnamon, if desired

Apples quartered and free from seeds and films. Then cut into fairly thick slices so that they remain intact in the process of caramelization and cakes. On ready to squeeze the lemon slices and stir to each of them was wet with sour juice. So they do not darken until lie in anticipation of sweet bath.

The oven beforehand - let heat up to 180 ° C.

In the form of baking cakes spread out pieces of butter, cover them part intended for the filling of sugar and put on fire. Do not wait until the butter begins to melt, decompose prepared apples and fill their remaining sugar, cinnamon and vanilla add optional. Apples do not have to turn over, or interfere with, so it is necessary to arrange them so that they will lie in the cake, put a pattern of circles or slices of apple.

Caramelized apples over medium heat until caramel is acquires a golden color, and the flavor will not draw the kitchen everyone who is in the house. Turn off the stove and move on to pies.

During this time must find time to roll out the dough to rest in bed at his side wafer, the diameter of which is slightly larger than the diameter of the pan or form about 2-3 cm.

Careful not to get burned, caramel apples covered by this test and tuck edges down around the entire shape, as if someone uncovered a blanket. Dough often prick with a fork and place the cake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes. Readiness is determined by the surface of the dough browns.

Form to get it out of the oven for five minutes and let the cake stand, then cover the pan flat plate or dish and quick movement to turn everything upside down together - up! - And carefully remove the pan from the dishes.

This cake is well Serve warm with ice cream or creme fraiche. Suit to the cake and whipped cream.

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Apple Pie: Recipe in a hurry

Practical and hostesses always hurrying to devote time once exquisite French pies. But you can cook less time-consuming version of the classic pie.

Let us first apples - karameliziruem them, let cool slightly, yet will knead the dough.

For the caramel 50 g of oil and 50 grams of sugar in a pan and melt to lay prepared apples. Stir, caramelize them until golden brown, sprinkle with cinnamon. Remove the apples from the heat.

Turn the oven so that it is well warmed - pies need a temperature of 180 ° C.

Prepare dough for pies

For the dough will need:

• Chicken Egg - 2 pcs.
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Butter - 200 g
• Flour - 3 cups
• Vanilla - on the tip of a knife
• Baking powder - half teaspoon

And to fill the cake:

• Sour cream - 200 g
• Sugar - 50 g
• Chicken Egg - 2 pcs.
• Flour - 2 tbsp. spoons

Eggs grind with sugar until the mixture turns white. In a bowl with the egg-sugar mixture add the softened butter to the state of the cream and mixed.

Add the flour, baking powder on it to pour and mix it with a little flour. In various cakes disintegrant good use of equal parts of baking soda and citric acid.

Knead the dough with a soft consistency.

In a greased form lay out the dough, spread it evenly over the bottom and raise skirting along the edges of the pie. Inside lay slices of caramelized apples.

Mix sour cream, flour, eggs and sugar. This mass evenly pour in the apple pie.

Put in the oven for 40-45 minutes. Ready cake can be determined, piercing rim splinter - it should remain dry and free of adhering test.

We give the cake to cool slightly.

Bon Appetit!