Tsvetaevsky classic apple pie

When it comes to Tsvetaeva’s apple pie, associations immediately arise with Russia of the Silver Age and the Tsvetaev sisters. However, their involvement in the classic pie recipe has not been confirmed in any way; it is named after this family. Apple pie is prepared very quickly and simply, from available ingredients and below are proven cooking options.

Classic recipe for Tsvetaevsky apple pie

The name of this pie is known not only in our country, but also far beyond its borders, because the Tsvetaeva sisters “gave” their last name to this pastry. And the dish turns out truly as beautiful as all the women of the noble Russian family.

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   How to bake Tsvetaeva apple pie according to the classic recipe? Using a microwave oven, melt the butter (it takes no more than 2 minutes), at this time we sift the flour through a metal sieve so that the bulk ingredient is saturated with oxygen and as a result the cake will be airy. Add baking powder, sour cream and liquid butter to the prepared flour. Mix thoroughly and form an elastic, pliable dough.
2. 
   In a baking dish, place baking parchment on the bottom, and carefully place the dough on top, forming even sides.
3. 
   Peel apples (any variety will do), cut out the core and seeds and cut into thin slices. To prevent the fruit from darkening during slicing, you can sprinkle it with lemon juice. When all the fruits are prepared, place them on the dough.
4. 
   To prepare the cream, mix the egg, granulated sugar, flour, sour cream in a deep plate - the result is a mixture for pouring.
5. 
   Fill the apple filling with sweet cream and place in the oven at 180 degrees for 40-45 minutes.
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   Before serving, let the dessert cool and only then cut into portions. Bon appetit!

Apple Tsvetaevsky pie with sour cream filling

A delicate fruit filling filled with sour cream on a thin shortbread dough is exactly what each of us needs on a cold autumn evening. The pie is prepared very easily and quickly, and eaten even faster.

Cooking time – 1 hour 15 minutes

Cooking time – 25 min.

Portions – 5.

Ingredients:

• For the test:
• Flour – 1.5 tbsp.
• Butter – 100 gr.
• Sour cream – 3 tbsp.
• Soda – ½ tsp.
• Vinegar 9% - ½ tsp.
• For filling:
• Apples – 600 gr.
• Sour cream 20% - 1 tbsp.
• Granulated sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Flour – 2 tbsp.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Vanillin - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Melt the butter using a microwave oven or first remove it from the refrigerator. The oil should be soft, but not liquid.

2. In a deep plate, mix sifted flour, soft butter and 3 tablespoons of sour cream.

3. Add one tablespoon of baking soda to the flour mixture. This is done very simply: mix soda and bite in a spoon, as soon as the reaction (hissing) begins, the soda is extinguished.

4. Knead the dough with your hands, it should turn out pliable and elastic.

5. Place the dough in a baking dish and level it, using your fingers to form sides.

6. Cover the top of the prepared sand base with cling film and put it in the refrigerator for 20-25 minutes.

7. Wash the apples thoroughly, remove the peel (this is convenient to do with a vegetable peeler) and cut into thin slices. At the same time, do not forget to remove the seed capsule and all the seeds.

8. In a suitable size bowl, mix fat sour cream, egg, granulated sugar, flour and, if desired, vanillin.

9. Thoroughly blend the resulting mass with a submersible blender until smooth; the sugar crystals should completely dissolve.

10. Remove the mold from the cooler and fill it with fruit slices.

11. Pour sour cream over the top of the apple fruits, trying not to get the mass over the sides.

12. Lightly beat the mold on the table several times to evenly distribute the original cream.

13. Place the pie in a preheated oven for 45-50 minutes, the optimal temperature is 180 degrees.

14. After the specified time, remove the dessert from the oven and leave for 20-25 minutes at room temperature.

15. Serve the tender apple pie cooled. Bon appetit!

Delicious Tsvetaeva apple pie with cottage cheese

It is very simple to prepare a delicious, aromatic and moderately sweet apple pie - just use this recipe and allocate one hour of your time. The delicacy is very simple to prepare, and you will be pleased with the result for a very long time.

Cooking time – 1 hour 10 minutes.

Cooking time – 25 min.

Portions – 5-7.

Ingredients:

• For the test:
• Flour – 180 gr.
• Butter – 150 gr.
• Soda – ½ tsp.
• Sour cream – 100 gr.
• Salt – 1 pinch.
• For filling:
• Cottage cheese – 200 gr.
• Cream – 50 ml.
• Granulated sugar – 200-250 gr.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Flour – 2 tbsp.
• For filling:
• Apples – 4 pcs.
• Lemon juice – 1 tbsp.

Cooking process:

1. In a deep plate, mix the sifted flour, salt and soda, stir until smooth. Add diced butter to the resulting mixture and rub with your hands until it becomes crumbly.

2. Add sour cream to the semi-finished shortbread dough, mix vigorously, forming a ball. Cover with cling film and put in the refrigerator for 15-20 minutes.

3. In another plate, prepare the filling: pass the cottage cheese through a metal sieve and mix with cream until the consistency of thick sour cream. Add granulated sugar and one egg here, sprinkle with flour and knead until smooth.

4. Peel apples (it is better to take sweet and sour varieties) and cut them into thin slices, no more than 0.3 millimeters, while cutting out the core and seeds. Sprinkle the prepared fruits with lemon juice so that they do not lose their light color.

5. Place the chilled dough in the mold and form the edges, 3-4 centimeters high.

6. Place the fruit filling on the sand base.

7.Fill the fruits with curd “cream” and place in the oven for 40-45 minutes at 180 degrees. Cool before serving and only then cut into portions. Bon appetit!

Airy Tsvetaeva pie with apples and meringue

An excellent dessert option for those who really love fluffy homemade cakes, but watch their figure and don’t consume extra calories. The recipe uses healthier analogues of familiar products, such as rice flour, natural sweetener and corn starch.

Cooking time – 1 hour 5 minutes.

Cooking time – 35 minutes.

Servings – 6-7.

Ingredients:

• For the test:
• Yolk – 3 pcs.
• Rice flour – 100 gr.
• Butter – 15 gr.
• Milk – 20 ml.
• Sweetener – 5 gr.
• For filling:
• Apples – 250 gr.
• Sweetener – 3 gr.
• For the meringue:
• Protein – 3 pcs.
• Sweetener – 7 gr.
• Corn starch – 5 gr.
• Salt – 1 pinch.
• Citric acid – 1 pinch.

Cooking process:

1. Carefully break three chicken eggs, separating the yolks from the whites. Everything must be done with extreme caution, since if even one drop of yolk gets into the protein mass, it will not be possible to beat it to the desired consistency. Mix the yolks with sweetener, milk, butter and flour.

2. Knead the elastic dough, form a ball, cover with film or a towel, put it in the refrigerator for 15-20 minutes.

3. Peel the fruits for the filling and cut them into small cubes, making sure to remove the seed pod and stalks. Add sweetener and cook over low heat until soft.

4. Place the dough in the mold and distribute it evenly along the bottom, form the sides and use a fork to prick the base. Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 15 minutes.

5.Let's prepare the meringue: add one pinch of salt to the whites and beat the mixture with a mixer until stiff, adding cornstarch at the very end.

6. Set the temperature in the oven to 140 degrees and at this time remove the sand base. We spread the apple filling as the first layer, and carefully spread the fluffy meringue on top using a silicone spatula. Place in the oven again for 40-45 minutes.

7. It’s very easy to determine readiness: the whites will take on a creamy hue. Cool the pie and serve. Bon appetit!

Lush apple pie with kefir in the oven

A truly fall pie with apple filling that everyone loves. And this is not surprising, because the dessert turns out to be really fluffy, aromatic and with a rich fruity taste. This delicacy is prepared from the most ordinary products, and the end result is a high-quality pie that cannot be matched by confectionery products.

Cooking time – 1 hour 10 minutes

Cooking time - 30 min.

Portions – 7.

Ingredients:

• Flour – 320 gr.
• Granulated sugar – 250 gr.
• Soda – ½ tsp.
• Salt – ¼ tsp.
• Kefir – 200 ml.
• Apples – 4 pcs.
• Egg – 4 pcs.
• Cinnamon – 1 tsp.
• Vanilla extract – 1 tsp.
• Butter - for greasing.

Cooking process:

1. Grease the pan in which we will bake the pie with butter and lightly sprinkle it with flour, put it in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.

2. Peel the apples, cut them into four parts, cut out the seed capsule and chop them into medium-sized cubes.

3. Add cinnamon and a tablespoon of flour to the prepared filling and mix thoroughly.

4.In a suitable size bowl, mix the eggs and granulated sugar - beat until fluffy using a mixer, then add salt, vanilla extract and kefir and use the mixer again.

5. Mix flour with soda and sift through a fine sieve. Combine the oxygenated flour with the kefir mixture and stir until smooth. Pour the resulting mixture over the diced apples and stir well.

6. Pour the apple dough into the cooled pan and smooth it out using a spoon or spatula.

7. Place the semi-finished pie in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, and bake for about 40 minutes (depending on the power of your oven). Bon appetit!

A simple and delicious recipe for Tsvetaeva pie with cinnamon

It’s simply impossible to spoil the classic combination of apples and cinnamon, but easy to improve. A perfect pie filled with fruits collected from your own garden is exactly what you need when drinking tea.

Cooking time – 1 hour 20 minutes

Cooking time – 40 min.

Portions – 7.

Ingredients:

• For filling:
• Sour cream – 250 gr.
• Granulated sugar – 220 gr.
• Flour – 2 tbsp.
• Cinnamon – 1 tbsp.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• For filling:
• Apples – 4-5 pcs.
• For the test:
• Flour – 250 gr.
• Butter – 180 gr.
• Sour cream 20% - 100 gr.
• Baking powder – 1 tsp.
• Salt – 1 pinch.

Cooking process:

1. To prepare the dough, you need to melt the butter. This can be done in any convenient way, for example: chop into small cubes and melt over low heat. Also, a microwave oven will do this task perfectly.

2. Add sifted flour, baking powder, sour cream and salt to the slightly cooled butter - mix everything thoroughly until an elastic dough is formed.

3.We form a ball from the kneaded dough and, wrapping it in cling film, put it in the refrigerator for 25-30 minutes.

4. Remove the skin from the apples and cut into thin slices, no more than 3 millimeters thick. It is recommended to sprinkle the “cuts” with lemon juice to prevent the fruit from darkening.

5. To fill, mix fat sour cream, cinnamon and granulated sugar in a deep bowl. At the same time, separately beat the egg with the addition of flour - beat the two mixtures until smooth and mix together in the same way, stirring vigorously.

6. Lightly grease the baking dish with oil and lay out the dough: use your hands to form the bottom and even sides.

7. Carefully place thin slices on top and fill with sour cream.

8. Place the pie in a hot oven (180 degrees) for 45-50 minutes. Serve chilled. Bon appetit!

How to cook Tsvetaeva apple pie in a slow cooker?

Cooking an already simple and quick pie is greatly simplified by a slow cooker. Thanks to this miracle of technology, the pie does not burn, although the dough turns out crispy and thin, and the filling is soft and tender.

Cooking time – 1 hour 20 minutes

Cooking time – 25 min.

Portions – 6-8.

Ingredients:

• Apples – 4 pcs.
• Butter – 120 gr.
• Baking powder – 1 tsp.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Flour – 230 gr.
• Sour cream – 200 gr.
• Granulated sugar – 150 gr.
• Vanillin - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. In a bowl of a suitable size, mix sour cream, eggs, sugar and vanillin - mix thoroughly using a submersible or stationary blender until a homogeneous mass is obtained.

2. Grate the chilled butter and mix in a deep container with 200 grams of flour (the remaining 30 grams for filling) and a teaspoon of baking powder.

3. Knead the dough intensively with clean, dry hands.The result should be a pliable elastic mass. As soon as we achieve the desired consistency, cover with cling film and put it in the refrigerator.

4. Wash the fruits thoroughly, remove the stalks, peel and seed capsule. Cut the pulp into thin slices, no more than 0.2-0.3 millimeters thick.

5. Place two strips of parchment (crosswise) into the multicooker bowl in order to easily remove the finished dessert.

6. Place the cold dough on the bottom of the bowl and level it, at the same time forming smooth edges.

7. Place apple slices on top and carefully pour in the sour cream and egg mixture. We set the “Baking” mode and set the timer to 60 minutes.

8. After an hour, remove the Tsvetaeva pie from the multicooker, cool and serve. Bon appetit!