Confectioners call “rotten stump” either a cake or a pie. Probably both options are correct. After all, the composition of the treats includes not only cream for cakes, as in a cake, but also jam, it’s jam, which is more typical of cakes. However, it doesn’t matter what they call it - it would be delicious in the language, it would delight the sense of smell with an alluring smell, and the eye with a beautiful design!
"Rotten stump" classic
Not only experienced housewives, but also amateurs at the stove are aware that the more popular the dish, the greater the variety of cooking options it has. The "rotten stump" recipe is the best confirmation of this. So, we are preparing a classic cake. Grind 3 eggs with a glass of sugar. Add a glass of berry jam to the bowl: cherry, strawberry, currant, cornel, cranberry - whatever you have. But it’s berry and red, then the dough will turn out not sugaryly sweet, but with sourness, and the color is brighter, more will correspond to the name.
It can be preliminarily passed through a mixer so that the entire mass becomes a homogeneous consistency. Further, the “Rotten Stump” recipe requires ingredients such as sour cream (1 cup: not very thick, medium or low fat), a teaspoon of soda (put out!) Or baking powder, flour - 500 g or so. All products are laid in the order listed, are well kneaded so that there are no lumps.
From the test you get 2 cakes. They are baked for 25-30 minutes in a preheated, but not too hot oven. Just do not forget to grease the baking dish. Hot cakes are carefully cut along, so you get 4. Let them cool slightly, but for now, the Rotten Stump recipe advises you to do cream. For it, sour cream will be needed again (a glass is thick, better than homemade, a store is difficult to beat and a little liquid), 0.5 cups of sugar, a spoonful of cocoa.
Do not forget vanillin. Everything is whipped with a mixer until the cream is thick and applied to the cakes, still warm. Then we miss on the second round. Top cake too. You can decorate with slices of mandarin, kiwi, sprinkled with powdered sugar. Put in the refrigerator for an hour or two for impregnation. This "rotten stump" recipe is considered classic because it has a standard set of products. The only thing that can be done is to replace sour cream with kefir, yogurt or yogurt for the cake layers. And instead of jam, you can take fresh berries.
"Rotten stump" with filling
Now let's start experimenting. Although, in order not to spoil the porridge with butter, the recipe for the rotten stump pie cannot be made worse with additional goodies. For the test, approximately the same product layout is taken as in the variant described above. Namely: sour cream - 1 liter (for dough and cream - all together), eggs - 2-3, sugar - 1.5-2 glasses, soda (a teaspoon, quench with vinegar), a little salt, vanillin. Flour - by eye: the dough should be elastic, not stick to your hands. As a filling, 350-400 g of raisins, prunes, dried apricots and nuts, passed through a meat grinder (separately) are used. How to put into practice a rotten stump pie recipe? Photos show this clearly. The dough is kneaded (a glass of sour cream, eggs whipped with sugar, soda, flour, salt), divided into 8 “buns”, and left to stand in the refrigerator. Then each ball of dough is rolled into a thin layer, the filling is placed on it, sprinkled with sugar, roll is rolled. Bake for about half an hour on low heat, grease the form with butter or margarine. At this time, the remaining sour cream is whipped with sugar and vanilla.
Finished rolls are cut into small “stumps”. Now do this: cover a high pan with cling film, grease with oil. Spread hemp with different fillings in layers, generously spreading them with cream. Let the dessert so soak the night soaking. Then gently turn it over to a dish, garnish with slices of fruit imitating leaves. Outwardly, you really made a cake that looked like a stump. And very tasty!
Enjoy your health!