Charlotte in a slow cooker on sour cream with apples and cinnamon

Description of the video recipe for cooking charlotte in a slow cooker, for more details, see the video.

1. With a mixer, beat the eggs with sugar until a thick foam is obtained (10 minutes).

2. Now add sour cream to this egg foam and whisk for about 1 more minute.

3. Mix flour with baking powder and a pinch of soda. Stir and gradually add to the egg mixture, stirring constantly. The dough for the charlotte is ready.

4. We remove the core from the apples and divide them into slices.

5. The bowl of the slow cooker is lubricated with vegetable oil. Then sprinkle the bottom of our greased bowl with semolina.

6. Pour 2/3 of the dough into the bowl of the slow cooker and spread on top with a uniform layer of apple slices. You can sprinkle cinnamon on top (it's to your taste) and pour the rest of the dough on top.

7. We set the "Baking" mode in the slow cooker for 1 hour and wait.

A little history: In everyday life, Charlotte is most often called an apple pie made from sponge dough. The simplicity and speed of making such a pie attracts many – even a child is able to beat eggs with sugar, add flour and pour this mixture over apples. Sometimes baking powder, sour cream and spices are added to the charlotte, but the main components are always eggs, flour, sugar and fruit. Such a pie can be prepared with different fruits, but cheap apples are especially popular. Traditionally, charlotte is baked in the autumn after harvest.

Meanwhile, initially Charlotte was called a completely different pie, more like a pudding or casserole. This bread and fruit pudding, supposedly invented in England, consisted of layers of apples with sugar and stale wheat bread soaked in a milk-egg mixture. This pudding was served with whipped cream, ice cream or English cream. Dessert quickly became popular all over the world among diligent housewives, because it allowed the use of leftover products.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, a famous chef named Marie-Antoine Karem invented a dessert that became known as Russian charlotte. This cold dish has little in common with a traditional apple pie: it consists of a sponge cake with Bavarian cream and whipped cream.

I wish you all a pleasant appetite ...