Charlotte with bananas: different cooking methods

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Each housewife has certainly pampered her household more than once with fragrant charlotte with apples. But any, even the most delicious pastries can get bored. What to come up with the original? How to add a touch of originality and piquancy to a familiar dish?

We invite you today to cook a very tender, incredibly fragrant, crispy charlotte with bananas. It is thanks to these fruits that the cake acquires an unimaginable exotic taste and rich caramel aroma.

Charlotte's elusive trail

As you know, true connoisseurs of gastronomic culture and history claim that a delicious pastry with apples called "charlotte" appeared in Germany. But is it really so? There are several versions of the origin and origin of this dish.

In the history of charlotte, English, German and even Russian imprint can be traced. What culinary trail are we following today? Whose recipe is the basis of the currently popular banana and apple charlotte?

The English Queen at the stove?

Some sources claim that the dish first appeared in the kitchen of the castle of the English Queen Charlotte, wife of George III. The meat pudding recipe known in those days was modernized by Her Majesty and turned into a sweet apple pie. However, apart from the consonance of names, there is no evidence that the Queen of England stood by the stove and experimented with the charlotte recipe with her own hands.

Russian charlotte without a hint of fruit

There is documentary evidence that Tsar Alexander I was very fond of "Russian charlotte". It was prepared for the sovereign by a French chef. The dish was a biscuit cake on the bottom and Bavarian custard on top. There was no hint of apples or any other fruit.

Maybe Chef Karim just remotely heard how the charlotte was being prepared. Or maybe the culinary specialist decided to name the dish that way because in Russia in those days all foreign young ladies were in the French manner - Charlotte.

True German

In fact, the apple pie, and later the banana charlotte recipe, was invented by German chefs. For the first time, this sweet pastry appears in German bakeries. For many decades, stale bread was thrown away or sent to the pet bowl. But economical German ladies considered it a sin to throw away bread, so at one fine moment they decided to recycle it and invented a recipe for a wonderful sweet dessert.

No one argues: charlotte with apples and bananas did not appearstraightaway. It was a long and difficult path of culinary experiments, which originated in the distant 17th century. She was not afraid of ridicule about the stinginess and stupidity of the Bavarian Frau, she was not afraid to be funny, so that in a few decades she would become traditional for many countries, national for Germany and simply a favorite dish everywhere.

Cooking charlotte in the oven

Today we have chosen the simplest and not burdened with numerous ingredients recipe for charlotte with bananas in the oven. It is perfect for those housewives who are just starting their culinary journey and want to pamper their family with something sweet and tasty.

So, to make charlotte with bananas and apples, you will need the following products:

• Chicken eggs - 4 pcs
• Wheat flour - 220g
• Butter to grease the mold - 10g
• Sugar - 140g
• Three large apples.
• Two bananas.
• Pinch of vanilla.
• Baking powder for dough.

Mastering a step-by-step recipe for delicious charlotte with bananas and apples

Break the eggs into a deep bowl. We also pour sugar there. Using a blender (it is still more powerful than a hand whisk), beat the sweet mass until foamy. Experienced housewives say that the more magnificent the mixture is, the more airy the charlotte with bananas will be.

Pour the baking powder in a thin stream while beating. Then add the sifted wheat flour mixed with a pinch of vanilla. Flour is known to have different absorbencyliquid, so it is impossible to give an exact amount. Vary, as they say, for yourself. Note that the final result should be quite liquid. Charlotte dough will resemble a thick, flowing cream.

Fruits are peeled. Cutting is optional. The layout inside the pie is similar to slicing. Someone will pack bananas inside a charlotte, and on top will focus on a beautifully laid out row of apple slices. Another hostess will hide all the fruits in the pie. The third, on the contrary, will place apples inside, and decorate the top with bananas. There are a lot of options.

The oven heats up to 190 degrees. Pour the charlotte batter into a baking dish lined with parchment paper. We do with bananas and apples as the cook's fantasy soul wishes. Sufficient time until the result is 25 minutes. Sometimes it happens that the top of the pie begins to blush too early. If this happens, just take out the charlotte, cover the top with foil and send it back to the oven.

You can decorate the cake with fresh mint leaves, light cream, fresh fruits or berries.

Charlotte with apples and bananas. Stale bread recipe

If you have a desire to cook charlotte according to the classic recipe, you will need the following set of ingredients:

• 200 g of stale brown bread or white loaf (which is in the kitchen).
• Two eggs.
• 180 ml milk.
• Pinch of s alt.
• Half a glass of sugar.
• A couple of large apples.
• A few ripesoft bananas.

Cooking process

To cook charlotte with bananas in the oven, you need to grind yesterday's loaf with a blender to a crumb state. We divide the total mass into three parts. Pour one part of the crumbs into the bottom of the baking dish. Lay a layer of bananas on top, sprinkle with the second part of the crumbs. Then we put the apples again and cover them with the remaining dough.

In a separate bowl, mix milk, chicken egg, granulated sugar and a pinch of s alt. You can add vanillin or cinnamon to the mass for taste. Pour the resulting mixture with a loaf of apples and bananas. We set the temperature in the oven to 170 degrees and the time to 20 minutes.

Charlotte in a slow cooker

If you want to save a little time on preparing a delicious dessert, you can also use a kitchen assistant. In a slow cooker, charlotte will cook a little faster than in an oven. The process of preparing the dough and filling is exactly the same as in the first two recipes. Pour or pour the dough into the multicooker bowl, put the selected filling and close the lid.

As a rule, in modern models there is a “Baking” mode. In some models, it will be called "Pie". But the essence of the name does not change, the set cooking time and the desired temperature will already be automatically set. Simply press the button and wait for the signal to complete the operation.

Note that in a slow cooker charlotte with bananas (the photo of the finished product is a direct confirmation of this) turns out no worse than in the oven. And the time and effortcooking is spent an order of magnitude less.

Useful tips and tricks

If there is not enough flour, then you can replace it with oatmeal, ground in a blender, or semolina.

If you don't have sugar on hand, you can use homemade jam, honey or more sweet bananas instead.

If the oven does not work, then charlotte with apples and bananas can always be cooked in a slow cooker, bread machine, double boiler, even on an air grill and in a microwave oven.

If you don't have the right baking dish, then just take any voluminous ceramic or glass plate. Even a shallow pot or bowl may work.

If there was no mixer for whipping, then hard foam in the dough can be obtained by working with your hands. Of course, the process will take an order of magnitude more time, but you can do without a modern powerful kitchen device.

If the charlotte is not fluffy enough, this indicates that the biscuit (in essence) pastries were disturbed in the first 15 minutes of being in the oven. Doing this is strongly discouraged. In addition, you can get a more fluffy cake if you beat the egg mixture correctly and long enough. Some recipes recommend mixing the charlotte batter with a spatula only.

Apples for the pie, you can choose any. For those with a sweet tooth, red sweet ones are suitable, for lovers of spicy sourness - Antonovka or green Grushevka. Sweet and sourapples are the perfect choice for a balanced filling.

If you want to freeze the cake, as they say, "for the future", then experienced chefs strongly advise against doing this. Since charlotte is a biscuit cake, after defrosting, the apple filling and the biscuit mass itself will turn into an unpleasant slurry.

What is the calorie content of the popular dessert? This question worries, perhaps, every second housewife who thinks about preparing this dessert. If we talk about the biscuit version, then you get about 240 kcal per hundred grams of cake. If we are talking about the second recipe with yesterday's loaf, then there will be a little less calories - 216. You can reduce the calorie content of the pie if you use finely ground oatmeal instead of flour, and limit yourself to low-calorie apples instead of sweet bananas.

If a nursing or expectant mother wants to cook charlotte, she can do it with pleasure. There are no ingredients prohibited for pregnant or lactating women in the dish.