Cake "Rotten Stump": step by step recipe with photo

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

The dessert that we want to present to you today is not colored by the name, but by that incomparable taste that is hard to forget. It's about the rotten stump cake. Its recipe is considered a classic - more than one generation has admired this delicacy. So let's learn more about the secrets of making such a cake.

Cake "Rotten Stump" - what is it?

Let's decide first what kind of "fruit" is in front of us. Cake "Rotten Stump" is a delicious dessert that can also be beautifully decorated. Many people love it for its airy structure, porous and tender dough. The taste of the cake is moderately sweet, not cloying, with the original sourness that jam gives it.

The recipe for homemade cake "Rotten Stump" is simple - even a novice housewife can handle cooking. The list of ingredients is also pleasing - these are products that you either definitely have at home or that can be purchased at the nearest store.

So why "Rotten Stump"? With proper preparation, the cake is loose on the cut, and the color of its cakes is grayish (this shade is specially given by jam). Very similar to an old stump inforest.

The cake is good for a family dinner, meeting with friends, and for a children's holiday. You can decorate it however you want.

And now we will present for you a few step-by-step recipes for the "Rotten Stump" cake.

"Classic": ingredients

Let's prepare the necessary products.

For the Rotten Stump cake test:

• Sugar - 1 tbsp. l.
• Egg - three pieces.
• Baking soda quenched with vinegar - 1 tsp
• Sour cream at least 25% - 250 ml.
• Flour - 500g

Filling:

• Your favorite jam, jelly - 1 cup.
• Dried fruits - to taste.

You can also add nuts - they will give a spicy note.

Cream:

• Sugar - 200g
• Sour cream at least 25% - 0.5 kg.

Sour cream soufflé - a classic for the "Rotten Stump" cake (you can see photos of the process and the result throughout the article). It is chosen for its low calorie content (compared to oil), delicate taste and usefulness. And this is important if the delicacy is prepared for a children's holiday.

Glaze:

• Sugar - 2 tbsp. l.
• Liquid sour cream - 3 tbsp. l.
• Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. l.
• Briquette butter - 50 g.

"Classic": dough preparation

Start cooking? Here is a step by step recipe for the rotten cakestump :

1. Prepare the dried fruits ahead of time if you will be using them. The product must be washed, steamed (soaked for a while in hot water), chopped.
2. Pick up a deep container. Break 3 eggs into it, add a glass of granulated sugar.
3. The mixture is churned with a mixer or a whisk until it doubles or triples in volume.
4. Then add a glass of jam and sour cream. Beat again until the mass is smooth - enough for 2 minutes.
5. Now you can add dried fruits and mix again.
6. Do not be too lazy to sift the flour through a sieve several times, then also add it to the "common cauldron".
7. Now mix the dough with a spoon. Turn it over, slowly, the mass from top to bottom to enrich the composition with oxygen. This makes the dough crumbly and airy. It will be ready when it becomes thick like sour cream and smooth.

Baking cakes

Further in the recipe for homemade cake "Rotten Stump" - biscuit cakes. They are baked in two ways:

1. The dough is poured onto a medium baking sheet - the cake is baked in one layer. Then, when it cools, it is cut lengthwise into three equal parts. If you are afraid of making a mistake, then prepare a template from paper.
2. 3 cakes are baked separately - one for each layer. These should be equal strips from which the stump is formed.

The biscuit will be ready in 20 minutes at 180° in the oven.

Preparing the cream

We continue to present a step-by-step recipe for the "Rotten Stump" cake. Photos of the preparation and formation of the dish can be seen above and below. Sour cream for him is prepared as follows:

1. In a deep bowl, thoroughly mix the cooked sour cream and a glass of sugar.
2. Then, beat the mass with a mixer until a thick homogeneous consistency is obtained.
3. The cream will be ready when the sugar crystals are completely dissolved.

Cooking glaze

And now - chocolate icing for dessert:

1. Stir cocoa, sugar and sour cream in a small saucepan.
2. The container is placed in a water bath.
3. Be sure to stir the icing so it doesn't burn.
4. The product will be ready when the sugar is completely dissolved.
5. Remove the pan, add butter to the mixture, stir well.

It will be possible to work with the glaze only when it has cooled completely.

Cake assembly

And the final part of the step-by-step recipe for the "Rotten Stump" cake. The photos of this dish, presented in the article, will tell you how beautiful and original it can be decorated.

1. To make the dessert as tasty as possible, the cakes are smeared with cream twice. The first time is when they are still warm. Leave for a while and saturate with cream again.
2. Then the cake strips roll into a roll. To get a really beautiful stump, you need to fold them so that one layer becomes a continuation of the other. Irregularities are trimmedknife. The rest will be used to further decorate the cake.
3. Pour the cooled icing into a pastry bag and let your imagination run wild - imagine how you see an old tree stump in the forest and decorate the dessert with chocolate.
4. Roots are made from scraps, which are also covered with glaze. Usually, the cake is smeared with chocolate from the sides to create the appearance of a bark, and at the top, on a cut (and for a stump - on a saw cut), annual rings are drawn with a thin stream of icing.
5. In order for the "Rotten Stump" to be completely soaked with cream and harden, it is put in the refrigerator for several hours.

A good cake with fragrant hot cocoa or tea. Bon appetit!

"Rotten stump" in a home multicooker

We continue to present step-by-step recipes for the Rotten Stump homemade cake, a photo of this option can be seen below. It is done, as they say, hastily and using modern technologies.

The ingredients are just as simple:

• Egg - 3 pcs. (large).
• Flour - 250 ml.
• Jam - 200 ml.
• Granulated sugar - 120g
• Baking Powder - 10g (One Pack).
• Vanillin - 10 g (one pack).

And here is the preparation of the treat:

1. Separate the whites from the yolks. Add some s alt to the mixture.
2. Beat with a whisk (mixer) until firm peaks - when the mass will hold on the tool without spreading.
3. The yolks are beaten separately - with sugar and vanillin. Add a glass of jam to them, mix thoroughly.
4. Sending therea glass of flour pre-mixed with baking powder.
5. Combine both the protein and yolk mass into one whole, pour into the multicooker bowl.
6. On the device, activate the "Baking" or "Soup" mode for 40 minutes. Don't forget to open the valve.
7. We take out the biscuit from the device, let it cool down. Now it's time to cut the mass lengthwise into cakes - the easiest way to do this is with a thick nylon thread.
8. The layer between the cakes can be made from jam. If you wish, you can use sour cream from the recipe above. Pickled, canned fruits are also great.
9. You can not cook the glaze yourself, but dilute the purchased one from the bag and decorate such a quick cake with it.

You can not cut or layer the cakes, but serve "Rotten Stump" to the table like a pie - the biscuit will already be soft, juicy and fragrant due to jam.

"Rotten stump" pancake: ingredients

And one more "Rotten Stump" cake, a step-by-step recipe of which we will consider further. In this case, unusual - pancake. But just as delicious! We list what you will need.

Pancakes:

• Milk - 700 ml.
• Flour - 130g
• Egg - three pieces.
• Oil (any vegetable) - 3 tbsp. l.
• Sugar - 2 tbsp. l.
• Baking powder dough.
• S alt.

First kind of filling:

• Cottage cheese - 200g
• Jam - 2 tbsp. l.

Second type of filling:

• Cottage cheese - 200g
• Condensed milk - 2 tbsp. l.
• Vanillin.

Sour Cream:

• Sour cream - 0.5 kg.
• Sugar - 150g
• Gelatin granulated - 15g
• Vanillin.

Glaze:

• Milk - 150g
• Sugar - 150g
• Dark chocolate - 70g
• Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking

Now let's start creating a masterpiece:

1. From the ingredients presented, knead with a mixer or a whisk pancake dough of moderate density.
2. Bake thin pancakes in vegetable oil.
3. For the first filling, cottage cheese is combined with jam. In a mixer or blender, we make a gentle and homogeneous curd cream from this mass.
4. Second filling - cottage cheese is simply mixed with condensed milk. Add a pinch of vanillin to the mass.
5. Now one of the toppings is distributed evenly on each pancake. After that, it is rolled up into a tight roll. Cut off the edges so that the rolls turn out with an even cut. The segments will be used to create the roots of the Rotten Stump.
6. Starting to form our cake - for these purposes, you can use a small saucepan. A pancake without filling is placed on its bottom, and the side walls are wrapped with parchment paper from the inside.
7. And now we put the pancakes into the pan on the butt, on the narrow side. Thus, the fillings will be visible to you - try to alternate jam with vanilla-curd.
8. Pre-soak gelatin for sour creamcream.
9. For the cream, mix room temperature sour cream with sugar and vanilla.
10. Beat the mass, add gelatin to it, mix.
11. Pour the cream over the rolls. Top with another pancake.
12. Place in the refrigerator until completely solidified. Then turn the contents of the saucepan onto a dish, free the cake from parchment paper.
13. From the scraps on the dish, form the roots of the stump.
14. The glaze is prepared in a saucepan - mix sugar with cocoa powder, pour milk. Bring the mass to a boil, wait 5 minutes. Remove from stove, cool.
15. Melt chocolate, add to icing. Wait until the mass thickens a little.
16. Grease the sides and roots with a thick layer of glaze. Annual rings are drawn on the saw cut.
17. Wait until the creation hardens, and you can serve!

Now you know how to create a delicious and beautiful dessert - "Rotten Stump".