Rotten stump classic cake

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients for baking the cake. All products must be at room temperature. Dried fruits are thoroughly washed, poured with boiling water and left for 15 minutes so that they swell slightly. Drain the water, dry the dried fruits on a paper towel and finely chop with a knife.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pour sour cream into one deep bowl, it is better to take sour cream no more than 20% fat content so that it is not thick. You can replace sour cream with kefir, it is better to use kefir not one-day, which was purchased in the store a couple of days ago. Add a teaspoon of soda to a bowl with sour cream, mix the mixture and leave for 20 minutes. The mixture will begin to bubble and increase in volume.

3. Step 3:

   

   Meanwhile, we drive chicken eggs into another deep bowl. Pour the specified amount of sugar.

4. Step 4:

   

   Beat with a mixer or a hand whisk until the mass increases in volume and foam forms.

5. Step 5:

   

   In a bowl with egg mixture, add chopped dried fruits.

6. Step 6:

   

   Pour in the jam. Stir the mixture so that the ingredients disperse.

7. Step 7:

   

   Pour sour cream and soda into a bowl with egg mixture. Mix everything again so that the mixture becomes homogeneous. Pour the sifted flour in parts, kneading the dough with a spoon until smooth. The consistency of the dough should look like a biscuit.

8. Step 8:

   

   Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. The form is lubricated with oil or covered with parchment. Pour the dough into the mold, put it in the oven for 25 minutes.

10. Step 9:

    

    The readiness of the biscuit should be checked with a wooden stick, a toothpick. It should be dry at the exit.

11. Step 10:

    

    While the cake is cooling, we will prepare sour cream. Put sour cream in a bowl, add vanilla, sugar and beat the cream with a mixer or whisk until the volume of the mass increases. We put the cream in the refrigerator.

12. Step 11:

    

    The cooled biscuit is divided into three parts, the dry edges can be cut off with a knife and used to decorate the cake.

13. Step 12:

    

    Lubricate each part of the dough with sour cream on one side, let it lie down, soak in the cream, lubricate with cream again and begin to assemble the cake.

14. Step 13:

    

    We roll up the first cake with a roll, wrap the first one with the second piece of dough, we also do with the third cake. Outside, we wrap the cakes with parchment paper, remove the cake blank for an hour in the refrigerator to solidify.

15. Step 14:

    

    Then we take the cake out of the refrigerator, remove the paper, decorate the cake to taste with dough crumbs, nuts, poppy seeds, mint, berries or mushrooms from sweets, imitating an old stump.

16. Step 15:

    

    Let the cake stand in the refrigerator and serve it to the table.

17. Step 16:

    

    Bon appetit!