The rotten stump cake is simply delicious

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   To prepare the dough, sift the flour through a sieve.

2. Step 2:

   

   Add slightly softened butter to the sifted flour and chop the mixture with a knife. Sour cream, egg and sugar are mixed in a separate bowl. Here we also add crumbs of flour and butter, as well as soda slaked with vinegar. Mix all the ingredients again.

3. Step 3:

   

   Bring the dough to readiness with your hands.

4. Step 4:

   

   To avoid weathering, we put the dough in a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

5. Step 5:

   

   Gelatin is poured with cold water, let stand for 10 minutes and heated until completely dissolved. But we don't boil it.

6. Step 6:

   

   To prepare the cream, combine sour cream, sugar and cooled gelatin. Beat all the ingredients with a mixer for 2-3 minutes and put in the refrigerator before use.

7. Step 7:

   

   Take the dough out of the refrigerator, divide it into 6 parts.

8. Step 8:

   

   Roll out each piece of dough thinly, about 2-3 mm thick.

9. Step 9:

   

   We spread a pre-prepared filling of chopped dried apricots, dates and prunes on each rolled layer of dough. 2 layers of each ingredient.

11. Step 10:

    

    We twist the prepared dough plates into rolls. It turns out 6 rolls.

12. Step 11:

    

    Lay out the finished rolls on a baking sheet, bake in a preheated oven for about half an hour at a temperature of 180 *.

13. Step 12:

    

    The edges of the baked rolls are leveled and cut into equal parts 3-4 centimeters long with hot. The resulting leftovers are turned into crumbs and used to decorate the cake.

14. Step 13:

    

    Lubricate the bottom of the cylindrical shape with a small amount of cream and vertically lay out the rolls as tightly as possible.

15. Step 14:

    

    The laid first layer is abundantly impregnated with cream and sprinkled with chopped walnuts. Similarly, we lay the following layers of pieces, pour the cream and put it in the refrigerator for 5-6 hours for impregnation. Depending on the size of the mold, two or three layers can be obtained.

16. Step 15:

    

    We take the cake out of the refrigerator, sprinkle it with nuts on top, and on the sides — crushed crumbs of sponge dough.

17. Step 16:

    

    You can make mushroom figures out of dates. From one date - a leg, and if you cut the date in half lengthwise without cutting to the end and unfold it, you will get a hat.

18. Step 17:

    

    Our cake "Rotten stump" with dried fruits is ready. We serve this exquisite delicacy to tea, coffee, children can be offered fragrant cocoa, and enjoy its amazing taste.