Berry cake in autumn, winter, spring? Easy! With frozen currants, you can cook a variety of pastries to remember summer at any time of the year. The berry filling goes well with different types of dough and each pie with currant is special. Will we cook?
Frozen currant pie - general principles of preparation
Currants for filling do not always need to be fully thawed. In some formulations, it is only necessary to rinse the berries, let the water drain well. Sugar, cinnamon, cottage cheese, vanilla, other berries, various fruits are added to the currant. This makes baking more interesting, increases the amount of filling.
Pies are cooked closed, open, jellied, half-closed. Product type and shape are largely dependent on the test. Yeast cakes with frozen currants are most often closed or half-closed. Various products are prepared from shortcrust and puff pastry, often pastries are poured with sweet mixes. Mixed cakes are mainly prepared from batter. Prepared berries are simply combined with the total mass, sent to the oven.
Recipe 1: Frozen Currant Yeast Cake
A variant of soft and airy cake with frozen currants from yeast dough in milk. We take the berries out of the freezer in advance, let them thaw in a colander and rinse.
Ingredients
• 400 ml of milk;
• flour 0.7-0.8 kg;
• 50 ml of oil;
• 15 grams of yeast;
• eggs 2 pieces;
• 4 tablespoons of sugar;
• 1 tsp salt.
To fill the pie, you need about 700 grams of currant, 4 tablespoons of potato starch and a glass of sugar. If the berries are sweet, then you can take a little less sand.
Cooking
1. Break the eggs into a bowl, fold one yolk to grease the cake.
2. Add sugar, throw prescription salt and beat with a spoon.
3. Pour warm milk and pour yeast, stir. Leave for ten minutes.
4. Add butter and prescription flour. The amount is adjustable according to the density of the test. It should not turn out liquid.
5. Cover, send to a warm place for 2.5 hours.
6. We sort out currants, combine with sugar.
7. We get a magnificent dough, divide into two different parts. One piece should turn out a third more. We roll it into a cake for the bottom, make the sides.
8. Sprinkle with starch and lay the currant berries on top.
9. Cover with a cake rolled out of the remaining dough. We pinch the edges together.
10. We make small holes on top, you can dazzle decorations from dough.
11. Add a teaspoon of milk or plain water to the yolk, stir.
12. Lubricate the cake and bake.
Recipe 2: Crispy Frozen Pie
A feature of this frozen currant pie is a crispy sprinkle made from loose crumb. Baking is made from shortcrust pastry.
Ingredients
• a glass of sugar;
• three glasses of flour;
• oil 200 grams;
• 1 egg;
• 2 tsp baking powder;
• vanilla;
• 0.6 kg of currant;
• 70 grams of sugar for the filling;
• some cinnamon.
Cooking
1. Mix in a sieve flour with vanilla and a cultivator, sift together.
2. Add softened butter along with prescription sugar, rub the crumbs with your hands. You can throw everything in the combine and kill.
3. Break one egg into the dough and stir. It will turn out loose crumb.
4. Separate two-thirds of the crumbs and pour them into a baking dish. Diameter is about 24-25 centimeters. We make small sides of the crumbs and lightly slap the bottom with our palms.
5. Combine thawed currants with sugar, add 1-2 tablespoons of starch and a little cinnamon, stir.
6. Put the currants on the cake.
7. Top with the remaining crumbs from the dough.
8. Bake until golden brown and crisp on the surface. We do not do temperatures below 200.
Recipe 3: Cake with frozen currants from the finished dough (puff)
A variant of a simple pie with frozen currants and puff pastry. We take the usual packaging, weighing 0.4-0.5 kg.
Ingredients
• 1 yolk;
• 0.3 kg of currant;
• 1 pack of dough;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• to taste cinnamon, vanilla to the filling.
Cooking
1. Defrost the berries, let the liquids drain well and combine with sugar.
2. We lay out the dough, cut off a third. We roll out both layers.
3. We lay out a large layer in the form of the base of the pie, place the berries on it.
4. We put the second layer in front of us and make a lot of through vertical cuts in a checkerboard pattern.
5. Stretch the cut piece of dough on the pie, you get a kind of mesh.
6. We pinch the edges together.
7. Grease the top with yolk.
8. We bake at 220 degrees to a golden crust.
Recipe 4: Frozen Currant Sponge Cake
For this pie you need quite a bit of black currant. Berries are added immediately to the dough. The advantage of the recipe is that currants do not need to be thawed in advance.
Ingredients
• 4 eggs;
• 1 tsp baking powder;
• 1 cup flour;
• 1 tablespoon of oil;
• 2 tablespoons of semolina;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• 0.5 cups of frozen currants.
Cooking
1. Immediately turn on the 180 oven.
2. Lubricate the mold with oil and sprinkle with semolina. She will give the cake a beautiful and crisp.
3. We get the berries, rinse under running water, shake off the drops. Let lie in a colander.
4. Beat the recipe eggs and sugar to a thick and dense foam.
5. Add the flour to be sieved with the cultivator.
6. Pour currants into the dough, stir and transfer the mass to a mold previously sprinkled with semolina.
7. We bake until ready, we do not add temperature.
Recipe 5: Pie with frozen currants on kefir
Another version of the cake with frozen currants from batter. It is mixed on kefir with soda. If the berries are proven and clean, then you can not thaw in advance. If not, then we take it out, rinse, let it unfreeze and drain excess fluid.
Ingredients
• 0.25 liters of kefir;
• sugar 0.2 kg;
• 0.2 kg of flour;
• 0.5 tsp soda;
• two eggs;
• oil 50 ml;
• 1 glass of berries.
Cooking
1. With a whisk, beat the recipe eggs with sugar and a pinch of salt.
2. Next add kefir. For this pie, you can take yogurt, fermented baked milk, or mix sour cream with milk.
3. Add prescription soda and vegetable oil. Once again, beat the dough with a whisk.
4. Pour flour. You can throw a little cinnamon or vanilla into the dough, it will be tastier.
5. Pour one second part of the dough into a greased form.
6. Sprinkle with currant berries.
7. Top water the rest of the dough.
8. We bake until ready, check on a wooden stick. It should remain dry after baking in the center. Temperature 190.
Recipe 6: Pie with frozen currants and cottage cheese
A variant of a pie with a lot of juicy toppings from cottage cheese with berries. The recipe is suitable not only for currants, but also for blueberries, cherries, cranberries.
Ingredients
• oil 150 grams;
• flour 200 grams;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 1 egg;
• 1 tsp cultivator.
For filling:
• curd 0.5 kg;
• two eggs;
• sugar 100 grams;
• 300 grams of currant;
• 100 ml sour cream.
Cooking
1. For shortcake, grind the butter with sugar and flour, add the cultivator with the egg. Knead, send for a while in the freezer.
2. Turn on the oven 180 degrees.
3. For the filling, beat the cottage cheese with sugar, sour cream and eggs. The mass should be homogeneous and creamy.
4. It is better to take a detachable form. Lightly grease with butter and sprinkle with flour so that the pie easily parted with it after cooking.
5. We take out the dough sent earlier to the freezer and put it into the mold, make good sides. If the dough freezes and becomes steep, you can roll it with a rolling pin.
6. Spread a layer of curd filling.
7. Sprinkle with berries of frozen currants.
8. Sent to the stove. Cooking the cake for about 35 minutes.
Recipe 7: Cake with frozen currants and sour cream
A variant of an open pie with a very tender filling of berries and sour cream. Thaw currants in advance and let the juice drain well. Shortbread dough.
Ingredients
• 1 glass of berries;
• 2/3 glasses of sugar;
• 0.3 kg fat sour cream;
• two eggs;
• margarine 50 grams;
• 1.5 cups flour;
• 1 tsp cultivator;
• vanilla.
Cooking
1. Margarine needs to be melted, you can just put it in the microwave.
2. Add one egg, a spoonful of sugar and two tablespoons of sour cream, grind together.
3. Enter the flour, do not forget about the baking powder and mix.
4. Put the dough in any mold with sides.
5. Cook the cream of sour cream, the remaining eggs and a spoonful of sugar, beat well.
6. Put currants on the dough, sprinkle with the remaining sugar and pour over sour cream.
7. Put in the oven. We make a temperature in the region of 180 degrees.
8. Soon, the cake begins to rise, then settles. This is normal. After 35 minutes, it can be removed. Be sure to cool before slicing.
Frozen currant pie - tips and tricks
• Currant berries can be thawed in the microwave, but in this case they will release a lot of juice and become tasteless. It is most reasonable to put it in a container and leave it on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.
• When thawing frozen currants, juice often remains. It can be used in compotes, to soak cakes, add to tea, jelly, various desserts.
• Berry fillings let in a lot of juice and make the bottom of the cake raw. To prevent this from happening, you can sprinkle the starch with starch before laying currants.
• Sweet berry juice often flows out of a pie, burns to a baking sheet, and washing off heavy contamination rarely causes delight. In order not to waste time and effort, accustom yourself to always cover the sheet with baking paper or a silicone rug.
• The cake will not stick to the walls of the mold if the bowl is not only greased, but also sprinkled with flour. You can take semolina for this purpose, bread crumbs.
