With this delicious treat you can please and surprise guests. Each housewife prepares a cake “Polenitsa” according to her own recipe: some on a custard or puff, and some on a shortcrust pastry. All cooking options in this article will be presented, and at least one you will like.
Cake recipe “Woodpile” on shortcrust pastry
For the cream you will need:
- homemade sour cream (one liter);
- vanilla (one bag);
- powdered sugar (600 grams).
The main ingredients for the test:
- sour cream 20 percent (250 grams);
- butter (one pack);
- soda (two teaspoons);
- flour (four glasses);
- one can of cherry canned (seedless).
Cooking process
Proceed to kneading the dough. Melt the butter in a small saucepan and mix with flour, sour cream and soda. Then knead the dough with your hands and leave for two hours in the refrigerator. Drop the cherry on a sieve to stack the juice. At the end of time, take out the dough and divide into two parts. Roll and cut rectangles 25 cm long and 3 cm wide. Put the cherries in them and wrap them in a tube. Make five more of these things. Send the first batch of tubes to the oven for thirty minutes. Do the same with the second part of the test. Cool the finished tubes. And start cooking sour cream. Beat the following ingredients: sour cream, icing sugar and vanilla. Now start creating the Woodpile Cake as follows. Put five tubes on a tray. Spread them on top with plenty of cream. On top of this layer, lay four tubes, then three, two and one. Do not forget to smear with sour cream every time. Put dessert in the fridge. Five hours later, the Polenitsa cake with cherries will be ready!
Puff pastry cake
For cream, prepare:
- yolk (three pieces);
- butter (75 grams);
- flour (three tablespoons);
- granulated sugar (500 grams);
- milk (750 milliliters).
For the test you will need:
- flour (one kilogram);
- eggs (two pieces);
- water (400 milliliters);
- cream margarine (four packs);
- salt (one teaspoon);
- vinegar (two tablespoons).
Cooking method
All products must be cold. Start kneading the dough. Combine flour with grated frozen margarine. Then, in a bowl, mix the egg, salt and vinegar. Add water. Attach this mixture to a mixture of flour and margarine. Knead the dough. Put it in a plastic bag and place in the refrigerator for two hours. To save time, prepare a cream. Mix all the necessary ingredients for this. Put them in a pot and set on a small fire. Cook until thick, stirring occasionally. Cool. Stir in the melted butter. Take out the dough and thaw it after time. Cut into strips two centimeters thick. Lay on a baking sheet and bake at 180 degrees. Dip the finished sticks in the cream and lay in the form in layers - like a woodpile. You can sprinkle grated chocolate on top of the dessert.
Chicken Dough Cake Recipe
You will need:
- rectangular shape (best glass);
- confectionery syringe ;
- baking paper;
- tight bag for glaze.
For the test you will need:
- eggs (eight pieces);
- water (250 grams);
- flour (350 grams);
- granulated sugar (two teaspoons);
- cream margarine (one pack);
- milk (250 grams);
- sea salt (one teaspoon).
For cream:
- sour cream 20 percent (one kilogram);
- powdered sugar (two glasses).
For glaze:
- milk (20 milliliters);
- milk chocolate (one hundred grams).
Cooking method
First prepare the cream. Mix sour cream with icing sugar. Beat with a mixer. Now proceed to the test. Take a saucepan, put margarine. Turn on a small fire. Melt the margarine. Then add sugar, salt. Mix well. Pour in water and milk. Bring to a boil. Then pour the flour in parts. Mix thoroughly so that there are no lumps. Continue cooking and stirring until the dough begins to move away from the sides of the pan. As this happens, remove immediately from the heat. Cool the dough so that eggs can be inserted. Otherwise, if you add them right away, they just weld.
So, when everything has cooled down, introduce the eggs one at a time and mix immediately. Best Mixer. As the dough is prepared, fill it with a pastry bag. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper. Take a pastry bag with the dough and fill the first baking sheet with “logs” and two more with smaller tubes. Squeeze balls with walnut on the last baking sheet. Preheat the oven to 230 degrees. Place the baking sheets for fifteen minutes and reduce the heat to 190.
In the meantime, cook the icing. Break milk chocolate into tiles and put in a microwave with milk for two minutes. Then mix thoroughly. Cool. As the tubes are cooked, pull them out and leave to cool. Then collect the cake “Woodpile” from custard dough. Take a glass form and lay out the tubes, starting with large ones. Pour cream. Then lay small "logs" across. Do this until the tubes run out, do not forget to smear with cream every time. Put the balls in the middle of the cake. Icing fill a sturdy package. Cut a corner and squeeze on the cake "Woodpile". You can decorate dessert with almond petals or sprinkle with coconut. Put the cake in the refrigerator, best for a day, so that it is well saturated. So, one more cake “Pile of Wood” is ready. The recipe can be varied and other ingredients. For example, add raisins, walnuts and dried apricots.
"Woodpile" with dried fruits and nuts
To make such a cake, mix in a bowl a pack of butter, two chicken eggs, one glass of sour cream and sugar. Gradually add flour. Just need five glasses. Shuffle. Wash the dried apricots and raisins. Grind them with a knife. Crush the nuts in a blender. Add all these ingredients to the dough. Knead it well. Put out ¾ teaspoon of soda in vinegar and add to the dough. Add the flour and knead the dough thoroughly with your hands. Take a baking sheet and measure how long the logs fit there. Cut a piece of dough. Roll to desired length. Then sprinkle flour on a baking sheet and lay out the workpieces. Bake in the oven for twenty minutes, setting to 200 degrees. To prepare the cream, mix one and a half liters of sour cream and half a kilogram of sugar. As the logs are browned, remove and let cool. Pour the cream into a deep bowl. Lower the tubes into it and lay on a tray. Fold the woodpile. Pour cream at the end. Put in the refrigerator. After a day, the cake will be ready to serve.
Rather, cook this homemade Woodpile Cake. And treat them to your loved ones. Enjoy your tea party!