Charlotte with plums: no more difficult to prepare than the traditional one with apples

Charlotte with plums is a delicious and simple dessert that you can make at home. This pie It turns out tender and airy thanks to the addition of sour cream to the dough.

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To prepare a charlotte with plums you will need the following ingredients:

• strong dark plums – 600 g;
• rum or cognac – 2 tbsp;
• eggs – 3 pcs.;
• sugar – 150-200 g;
• flour – 250 g;
• baking powder – 2 tsp;
• sour cream (fat content not less than 30%) – 250 g;
• butter for preparing the pan;
• breadcrumbs to prepare the pan.

Cooking process

1. Wash and dry the plums, cut each in half and remove the pits. Cut the plums into thin slices and place in a bowl.
2. Sprinkle the plums with rum or cognac and stir gently. Cover the bowl with cling film and refrigerate until ready to use.
3. Grease a 22cm diameter springform pan with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Refrigerate until ready to use.
4. Beat the eggs with a mixer until light and fluffy. Gradually add all the sugar and continue beating.
5. Sift flour and baking powder through a fine sieve into the egg mixture. Mix quickly with a mixer at low and high speed.
6. Add chilled sour cream to the dough and gently stir with a spatula from bottom to top for 2 minutes.
7. Place the prepared plums in a mold, spreading them evenly along the bottom. Pour the dough over the plums and place in an oven preheated to 200 °C.
8. Bake the plum charlotte for 40–50 minutes. Check the readiness with a thin wooden skewer: if it is dry, the pie is ready.

Before serving, warm plum charlotte can be sprinkled with powdered sugar or a mixture of powdered sugar and ground cinnamon.

Clarifications

Charlotte (from French charlotte) – a sweet dessert made from apples baked in dough – a variant of apple pie. Classic charlotte is a French sweet dish made from white bread, custard, eggs, fruit and liqueur.

Plum (Latin Prúnus) is a genus of plants in the Rosaceae family. It includes about 400 species, distributed mainly in the northern temperate regions of the globe. Many representatives of the genus are widely known fruit crops. Plum is also the fruit of some species of the genus, for example, the common plum and the Chinese plum. Many species now included in the genus Plum were previously classified as separate genera. They have their own traditional names in Russian: cherry, peach, apricot, almond, sweet cherry, bird cherry and others.

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