Chocolate charlotte with apples

I continue my apple week with a charlotte recipe, but not a simple one, but a chocolate one. Delicate, airy, fluffy, moderately sweet biscuit dough with a distinct chocolate taste is perfectly complemented by juicy and aromatic apple slices. Under a cup of hot tea, a piece of apple charlotte is so soulful, so home-like.

Such a cake is prepared very simply and rather quickly, and from available products, so you can safely make it not only for homemade tea, but also serve it for the arrival of guests. Choose sweet and sour apples, and high-quality cocoa powder (then the taste and color of the finished biscuit cake will not disappoint you). Flour is suitable for both the highest and first grade, and we use medium-sized chicken eggs (45-50 grams each).

The step-by-step recipe for this tender and juicy homemade pie is perfect for a slow cooker. I use one of the simplest models - Scarlett SC-411, power 700 W, bowl volume - 4 liters. Depending on the power of your assistant, the cooking time for the chocolate charlotte with apples may differ slightly.

Who else, for some reason, has not purchased a multicooker for themselves, can use a variant of this step-by-step recipe for charlotte in the oven. In the same way, biscuit dough is prepared, apple slices are added to it and the pie is baked in a preheated oven at an average level at 180 degrees for about 50 minutes. About - this is because everyone's ovens are different, so you should not forget about the character of your helper.

Ingredients

• Apple (600 grams)
• Chicken eggs (5 items)
• Sugar (150 grams)
• Wheat flour (120 grams)
• Cocoa powder (25 grams)
• Vegetable oil (1 tablespoon)

Directions

1. The recipe for this delicious homemade pastry includes the following ingredients: apples (better than sweet and sour varieties so that they do not break apart and keep their shape during baking), chicken eggs, wheat flour (I have the highest grade, but you can also use the first one), granulated sugar, unsweetened cocoa -powder and quite a bit of refined vegetable (I use sunflower) oil to lubricate the baking dish.
2. If you bake charlotte in the oven, it's time to turn it on to warm up - 180 degrees. In a separate bowl, mix 120 grams of wheat flour and 25 grams of quality unsweetened cocoa powder. We sift everything through a sieve.
3. We take another suitable large-volume dish and break 5 fresh medium-sized chicken eggs into it. Add 150 grams of granulated sugar to them.
4. Beat everything with a mixer at high speed until the sugar grains are completely dissolved. The egg mass will whiten noticeably and will greatly increase in volume.
5. It will be quite thick. If you ask me how long to beat, I won't tell you exactly - just look at the previous photo and see how much eggs with sugar will grow. You need to beat a decent amount of time, and it directly depends on the power of your mixer. The better you beat the eggs with sugar, the more magnificent the finished charlotte with apples will be.
6. Now we sift wheat flour with cocoa in parts to the beaten eggs. If you just don't want to get charlottes and biscuits, I advise you to try adding a teaspoon of baking powder to the flour - most likely it will save the situation.
7. Gradually introduce sifted flour with cocoa into the dough, kneading the biscuit dough from bottom to top using podporonivayuschih (folding) movements. Stir in one direction, but not for very long - biscuit dough does not like this. Try not to settle the dough too much so that it remains airy and filled with air bubbles.
8. Time to put the biscuit dough into a baking dish. For the oven, take a mold with a diameter of 22-24 centimeters. I bake in a slow cooker, so I use a bowl, which I advise you to grease with a little refined vegetable oil. If you prefer to use butter for this purpose, be sure to sprinkle the greased form with flour after that - this oil contains water. Yes, remember that a properly prepared biscuit dough runs off the shoulder in a wide ribbon.
9. Now we make the filling very quickly, since the biscuit dough does not like to wait. Peel the apples and seed pods, then cut the fruit into arbitrary pieces.
10. Stick the apple pieces vertically into the biscuit dough so that they are evenly distributed throughout the mass. Cooking a chocolate charlotte with apples in a slow cooker for 1 hour 10 minutes on the Baking mode. As I said above, depending on the power of your appliance, the cooking time for this sponge cake may differ.
11. The finished chocolate charlotte with apples rose perfectly. Check the readiness of the cake with a wooden skewer or a toothpick - it should come out of the dough dry. But at the same time, it is important not to overdry the cake so that the biscuit dough retains its tenderness and juiciness. Let the charlotte stand in the bowl for 10 minutes.
12. Then we take it out using the steaming insert. Just place the insert in the bowl, as if covering the cake.
13. After that, we simply turn over the entire structure.
14. We remove the bowl and our pastries are on the insert. See how tall and beautiful we got a chocolate charlotte with apples? And all because we beat eggs with sugar well and carefully added wheat flour to them. Cool down the sponge cake.
15. When the apple charlotte has cooled completely, you can cut it into portions. Sprinkle powdered sugar on the finished cake if you like.
16. In season, be sure to delight your family with this fragrant, tender and very tasty homemade cakes - make a chocolate charlotte with apples. Delicate, airy chocolate dough and many, many juicy apple slices ... It's delicious, you'll love it!