Curd Charlotte with Apples

Apple charlotte often appears on our tables in the fall. This pastry is good both in the classic version and with some changes. This time, add cottage cheese and a little sour cream to the dough – you get a great cottage cheese pie with apples.

Summary

Ingredients

• Apples – 400 g (2-3 pcs.)
• Cottage cheese 5-9% – 150 g
• Sour cream – 75 g
• Eggs – 3 pcs.
• Sugar – 80 g
• Flour – 150 g (about 1 glass with a capacity of 250 ml)
• Baking powder – 1 teaspoon
• Vanillin – 1 pinch
• Ground cinnamon – 0.5 teaspoon
• Butter – 20 g
• Bread crumbs – 1 tbsp

Instructions

1. Combine sugar and eggs in a suitable container and beat until sugar dissolves.
2. The mass has increased in volume by 5-6 times, the foam keeps its shape. It took me about 5-6 minutes of beating at high speed in a blender with a whisk attachment.

   

3. Combine cottage cheese with sour cream and mash with a fork until smooth. If the curd is dry and lumpy, grind the mass with a blender.
4. Transfer the beaten eggs with sugar to a large bowl and add the curd and sour cream to it. Stir.
5. Add vanillin, baking powder, and sifted flour to the dough, mix again.
   Turn on the oven to heat up to 180 degrees.
6. Save one apple for garnish. Peel the rest of the apples and cut the seed pods into large pieces. The more apples you add to the charlotte, the juicier and tastier it will be.
   Sprinkle cinnamon on the sliced ​​apples.
7. Add apples to the dough and stir gently.
8. Cover the detachable form with parchment, grease the bottom and sides with butter and sprinkle with bread crumbs.
9. Fill the prepared form with dough, smooth the surface.
10. Peel the apple for decoration and cut into slices 3-4 mm thick.
11. Place the apple slices in a beautiful pattern on the dough in the form.
    Send the form into an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake the cottage cheese pie with apples for 40-45 minutes, until golden brown.

    

12. Check the readiness of the cake with a wooden stick – it should remain dry.
13. Remove the curd charlotte from the mold and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
14. The cottage cheese apple pie is soft, aromatic, with juicy apple pieces. It cooks quickly, but eats even faster!

Bon Appetit!