How to cook delicious cakes with jam in the oven and in the pan

How to make the dough for pies

The dough may be any. If you cook a classic yeast, cakes turn out fluffy and airy, but hearty.

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You can make the dough without yeast, with on any basis: kefir, sour cream, milk or water. This option is suitable if you do not like the smell of yeast or want to lean pastries.

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Good pies are obtained from puff pastry - crisp, light and tender. Puff pastry you can buy frozen, and you can cook for yourself.

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Patties from any kind of test you can and bake in the oven, and cook in a frying pan.

How to prepare the stuffing

Jam may be any of: apple, apricot, peach, strawberry, currant, cherry, plum, raspberry and gooseberry even. Fortunately, the choice is in the stores. If desired, you can use homemade jam from our cellar or pantry beloved grandmother.

During cooking under heat jam expands, it becomes thinner and tries to escape from the patty. Like this:

To avoid this, you need to pre-thicken the filling. You can do this in several ways:

1. Add the jam, semolina and stir. Ratio - semolina 1 teaspoon to 1 cup of jam. Boil the mixture for 3-5 minutes on low heat, stirring constantly, then let cool at room temperature.
2. In 1 cup of jam, add 1 tablespoon of powder berry or fruit jelly. It is better if the raw material powder is the same as that for the most jam. That is, for example, to take apple jam apple powder for pear - pear to cherry - Cherry.
3. Thicken jam starch: potato or corn. It is preferable to take the corn as it less pronounced taste. Proportions - 1-2 tea spoons starch (quantity depends on the initial consistency sweet weight) to 1 cup jam. Starch, as well as semolina, you need to boil with jam for 3-5 minutes. And do not forget to cool the mixture before you lay it on the patties.
4. Add 1 tablespoon of bread crumbs on each glass jam. Rusk is desirable to take from white buns without additives. Black crackers give the finished baking rye flavor.
5. For thickening can also use minced biscuits. Take the cookies with a neutral taste, place it in zip-bag, close tightly, put on the table and crush with a rolling pin. Or chop confection in a blender. For 1 cup of jam will be enough 1 tablespoon crumbled cookies.

How to sculpt cakes with jam

Frying patties made with yeast and unleavened Shape dough ovals or circles. Roll out the dough, cut out the desired figure of a glass, a bowl or a special mold. You can simply pinch off a piece of dough and formed into a shape with his hands.

In the center of the circle or oval ready place the filling. The edges of the inside and gather in the center of Pinch.

If you want to elongated patties Pinch edges of dough as shown in the video.

Frying of yeast or non-yeasted cakes sure to tightly seal up the dough. Since the product will need to turn over during cooking, leaving open jam unacceptable.

If you decide to bake cakes in the oven, you can dream up. For example, cut out on the sides of circles or ovals longitudinal holes and crossed the resulting test strip.

Pies of puff pastry in the pan for cooking is also done closed, so you can fry them on both sides. For square, round, oval, triangular, or any other pies (though a flower, though heart) cut out of the dough shape. One figure put the stuffing, cover with another top. Out of the corner push fork.

For Crescent put the filling on half circle, cover with the other half and press the edges. Likewise, you can make a square cake made of rectangular formation of dough and a rectangular square.

In the case of baked puff pastries do not hesitate to give free rein to the imagination. Since they do not need to turn, you can safely leave an open jam. You can, for example, to make such a nice twist:

Or even here is a masterpiece:

How to fry the patties

Frying of yeast and non-yeasted cakes, heat the pan in a little vegetable oil. Put patties seam down, so it does not razosholsya during the cooking time, and fry over high heat for 2-3 minutes. Then flip and Brown the other side.

Ready fried pies lay on a paper towel or napkin to remove excess oil.

Products from puff pastry must be fried in deep fat. Therefore, fill the pan so the amount of oil cakes to swim in it, without touching the bottom. Gently lower the workpiece into the oil and cook for 2-3 minutes on each side.

How to bake cakes

Put the workpiece on the tray, oiled or the laid parchment paper. Between pies leave a distance of about 1 cm, so they do not stick together.

To pastries shone cover blank with a thin layer of whipped eggs.

Puff pastry bake for 10-15 minutes at a temperature of 200-220 ° C, the rest - 20-25 minutes at 180-200 ° C.

The baking yeast and non-yeasted cakes can be increased by 3-5 minutes if you use a lot of dough. Assess the readiness of dishes, you can use a toothpick or wooden skewers. Pierce the edge of pie where there is no jam. If the stick remains wet weight, the product still need to hold it in the oven.

Determine that the puff pastries can be on their appearance. Good propechonnoe dough golden and dry.

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