“Hut”, “Cherry honeycombs”, “Pyramid”, “Roof” - all these are names of the same cake “Monastery hut”. It is under this name that this dessert is better known to compatriots. This delicacy surprisingly combines the unobtrusive sweetness of sour cream and the unsurpassed sour filling.
Description
Today, a huge number of various recipes for the Monastic Izba cake are known, but it is best for beginners in the confectionery art to start with the traditional way of cooking. Moreover, the classic version of this delicacy combines sophistication, tenderness and unsurpassed aroma.
Such a delicacy will not leave indifferent even the most sophisticated gourmet. Therefore, if you want to surprise your loved ones with a real culinary masterpiece, take on the arsenal of the traditional monastery cottage cake recipe with cherry and sour cream. Moreover, to prepare this dessert, despite such an intricate name, it is not so difficult - even, on the contrary, it is very easy.
Features
In fact, this cherry dessert is so beautiful, fragrant and delicate that it is simply impossible not to fall in love with it. You just need to look at the photo of the cake "Monastery hut" to want to cook it and enjoy the unique taste. And if you familiarize yourself with a proven recipe and little secrets, then the result will certainly exceed all your expectations.
You just need to know how to properly prepare the dough and make the tubes soak perfectly, and the filling does not leak out of them. In this case, sour cream should keep its shape well and not blur. And in the process, a simple recipe for the Monastic Izba cake with cherries will help you.
Grocery list
Of course, first of all, you need to prepare all the products necessary for making a dessert. To make a dough for a cake, you will need:
- 4 cups flour;
- 250 g sour cream;
- 2 tablespoons of sugar;
- a third of a teaspoon of salt;
- 250 g butter or margarine;
- soda and vinegar to extinguish it.
And to make the cream, take:
- 600 g of sour cream;
- a bag of vanillin;
- 100 g of sugar.
In addition, you will need approximately 800 g of cherries. It can be used literally in any form: boiled, canned, fresh, candied or frozen. This dessert, in fact, is good. For the preparation of the cake "Monastery izba" according to the traditional recipe, it is best to stock up with cherry jam, which is considered the best type of filling. After all, it is precisely these berries, boiled in their own juice, that have a rich taste and do not follow from the tubes. Therefore, if your arsenal has a supply of cherry jam, use it to make the Monastery Hut cake. Well, if you did not find such a treat, take fresh or frozen berries.
Margarine or butter taken for the dough should be kept in the refrigerator until use. In other words, getting the product in advance, as is usually the case with other types of baking, is not worth it.
As for kitchen appliances and appliances, you may need a mixer or whisk, rolling pin, pastry parchment, cling film.
Cooking the filling for the cake "Monastery hut"
First of all, to create this dessert, a thick sour cream and cherry filler are made, and then you can already start kneading the dough, baking the tubes and forming a treat.
If you stocked up with cherry jam, then drain all the liquid from the berries and be sure to cut the seeds out of them. By the way, just such a filler is the easiest to prepare. So jam has many advantages for making such a cake.
Compote cherries will also be an excellent option, but its taste will not be so saturated, and the delicacy itself will turn out less fragrant. If the berries are sour, then it is advisable to sprinkle them with a small amount of sugar and leave in the cold so that they let the juice and soak in sweetness.
If you have chosen the option of making a fresh cherry cake, be sure to sort it out. Set aside only ripe berries in a dark burgundy hue. Keep in mind that red cherries, which often turn out to be immature, are quite acidic, therefore, for making the Monastic Hut cake, it is completely unsuitable. First, remove the seeds from the berries. To do this, you can use a special device, a simple pin, or any other improvised means convenient for you. Pour the processed cherry with sugar, keeping the proportions 1 to 1. Set the berries aside for a couple of hours so that they let the juice out.
Then transfer the cherries to the stewpan and put on a slow fire. Constantly stirring, bring the mixture to a boil and keep at this temperature for 5 minutes. In principle, this way you can make a kind of jam in minutes. Using a slotted spoon, remove the berries from the stewpan and place them on a plate to speed up the process of cooling them. Cherry processed in this way will turn out to be quite sweet, rich and unobtrusive in taste, and when baked, it will release very little juice.
Cream for cake
An ideal option for making this dessert is homemade sour cream. But if you have only a store product at your disposal, keep in mind that it must be fresh, with a fat content of at least 25%. Transfer all the sour cream to gauze, folded several times, and tie on a knot. Place this bundle over any container - in this condition, whey will gradually flow out of the product. True, it will take some time. In this form, sour cream should be placed in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, and best of all - all night. After the whey drains, the product itself becomes very thick and looks more like soft cheese. This is the result you need.
Keep in mind that for the sour cream cake "Monastic hut" an ordinary cream, which is often prepared for many other desserts, will not work. It is very important that the mass for this dessert is thick enough, does not blur and keeps its shape perfectly. That is why such complex manipulations as expressing whey are really necessary for making a high-quality cake.
So, put the sour cream, freed from excess fluid, into a deep container and beat with a mixer at low speed. Then, in small portions, add sugar and vanillin to it. Although it is advisable to grind sand into powder before use, it is much easier to work with such a consistency. Beat the mixture until the powder is completely dissolved.
Finally, turn on the maximum speed of the mixer and treat the mass for several minutes to give it splendor. Cover the cooked sour cream and refrigerate it to thicken and cool well.
Cake Dough
First, sift the flour into a deep bowl so that it is enriched with oxygen and more easily amenable to kneading. At the top of the resulting slide, make a recess and put oil in it. Mash it thoroughly with a fork and grind with flour. Then add sour cream, salt, sugar and soda, quenched with a few drops of vinegar. Thoroughly knead the dough with your hands or a blender. As a result, you should get a very dense mass, which must be wrapped with cling film and put in the refrigerator.
After half an hour, take out the dough and divide it into 15 identical pieces. Each of them should be rolled out with a thin elongated layer. Now the turn of prepared cherries has come. Put a neat row of berries on the rolled cake and roll it with a roll, pinching the edges. Prepare a baking sheet by covering it with baking paper. Transfer the formed rolls to a sheet and send to the oven.
Bake for 10 minutes at 180 degrees. During this time, "logs" for sour cream cake with cherry "Monastery hut" should be browned. Remove the finished tubules from the oven and let them cool slightly. Now you just have to form a house of rolls. You cannot add a figure out of warm blanks - the cream will simply heat up and flow, and the structure itself will disintegrate.
Dessert Assembly
First, on a serving dish, lay a generous layer of sweet mass, and place 5 tubes on top. With each subsequent "floor" the number of rolls should be reduced by one. Each layer should be carefully lubricated with cream. At the end, coat the sides and the top of the resulting house with a mass.
Try to make the walls appear more or less smooth - an ordinary knife will help you with this. Send the cake in the refrigerator so that the tubes are saturated for several hours, and it is best to leave it there overnight.
Decor
Before serving, you should slightly embellish the formed hut. Grated black chocolate that goes well with cherries is perfect for this. You can also use chopped nuts or candied fruits.
On this, the preparation of the famous "Monastery hut" is over. Your guests will surely be delighted with the culinary masterpiece prepared by you. By the way, at the cut, this cake looks no less attractive.