"Stump" is a cake that many remember from childhood. There are many recipes for this dessert. However, not all of them are suitable for home cooking. The recipe described below is considered the simplest. Even a young housewife without experience in cooking can master it. The main thing is to follow the cooking sequence. Cake "Penek" turns fragrant, soft, delicate and original.
What is required for cooking
"Stump" - a cake that is made from available products. To bake it, you will need:
- Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
- Regular white sugar - 1 cup.
- Baking powder (baking powder) - 1.5 tsp.
- Premium wheat flour - ¾ cup.
- Potato starch - ¼ cup.
- Cream 30-35% - up to 250 g.
- Milk chocolate, nuts allowed - 100 g.
- Cocoa - 1 tbsp. a spoon.
- Animal cream based butter - 200 to 250 g
What equipment will be required
What will be needed to prepare the Penek dessert? The cake is cooked very quickly. Especially if you have the necessary equipment at hand. In this case, you will need:
- a brush with which you can grease a baking sheet;
- meat grinder;
- the container in which the mixing of the components will take place;
- pans
- form for cooking;
- mixer or blender;
- baking paper.
Kneading process
So, how to cook a cake "stump"? The recipe for such a dessert is very simple. First you need to knead the dough of the desired consistency. In a deep container, you need to drive eggs, add starch, flour, baking powder, as well as 2/3 cup of ordinary sugar.
It is recommended to whip the components with a mixer or a blender so that the mass becomes homogeneous and without lumps.
Cooking cakes
When the dough is ready, you can begin to prepare the cake. To do this, the form in which the billet will be baked should be covered with parchment paper, and then thoroughly greased with oil. It is necessary to pour the dough here and carefully level it, so that a layer is uniform in thickness.
The form should be placed in the oven. At the same time, it is recommended to warm it up to a temperature of 180 ° C to 200 ° C. Bake cakes for 7-10 minutes. You can check the readiness of the workpiece using a wooden match or a wooden stick.
When the cake is ready, it should be taken out of the form with the paper, and then rolled up. In this form, the workpiece should remain until it cools completely.
Making a chocolate cream base
"Stump" is a cake that is hard to imagine without a tasty and tender cream. How to cook it? This will require a small saucepan. You need to pour the cream into it, warm them up, and then add the chocolate, cocoa, crushed into pieces, as well as the remaining sugar. After this, the pan should be placed in a water bath or on a very small fire. Products must completely dissolve. The resulting mass should be cooled. To do this, a saucepan with chocolate can be put in a container filled with cold water.
In conclusion, the foundation for the cream must be whipped. For this, it is best to use a mixer or a blender. How to combine the base for cream with oil?
The “Penek” cake, the photo of which is presented above, turns out to be very tender if the cream is properly prepared. It is recommended to combine chocolate mass with butter. In this case, it is worth considering several rules. Cream butter should have a temperature slightly below room temperature. It must be placed in a bowl, and then beat with a blender, gradually adding the chocolate base. The finished mixture is recommended to be placed in the cold for about half an hour.
Cream recommendations
It is worth considering that the fat content of cream affects the speed of preparation of the cream. The higher this indicator, the faster the mass thickens.
After mixing the chocolate base and butter, the resulting product should be refrigerated. If the finished cream does not thicken for a long time, then you will need gelatin. A sachet of this component should be filled in ¼ cup of water. The liquid should be cold. A pot of gelatin should be placed in a container filled with boiling water. It must be mixed until it is completely dissolved. Ready gelatin must be poured into a cream and then mixed. In conclusion, it is recommended to place the mass in the cold so that it thickens. The cream will be completely ready when it does not spread during spreading and does not yet completely harden.
Cake "Penek": a master class
When the preparation and cream are ready, you can begin to form a cake. To begin with, it is recommended to carefully roll up the roll, while the edges should be cut to get a neat rectangle.
Cakes should be divided into several parts. They should be the same in width. It is necessary to apply cream on such preparations. If desired, the strip can be soaked in syrup. Cream-covered workpieces should be carefully rolled up. To do this, one edge of the strip must be attached to the edge of the second. Strongly squeeze the workpiece is not necessary. Otherwise, the entire cream will leak out. When forming, it is worthwhile to ensure that the chocolate mass does not spoil the end light stripes of the cakes.
Roll should be placed vertically and thoroughly greased with cream. The remnants of the chocolate mass can be mixed with crumbs and form the roots. You can make the cake more realistic by making another cake, chopping it into crumbs. The resulting mass must be mixed with cream and coat all the edges of the cake. Outwardly, it will resemble a bark.
It is recommended to place the cake for 6 hours in the cold so that the layers are well saturated. If desired, dessert can be decorated with chocolate or coconut, multi-colored mastic, whipped cream and nuts.
Cake recommendations
Pieces that remain after trimming the edges of the cake should not be thrown out. They can be used to decorate baking. It is enough to place them in the oven, dry, and then grind using a meat grinder.
It is not necessary to add oil to the cream. You can add more cream, sugar and chocolate to it.
If desired, you can make the cakes dark and the cream white. In this case, cocoa should be added to the dough. The cream is prepared from cream or from cottage cheese.