Rotten stump cake - 9 cooking recipes

In appearance, these cakes are very different from each other. They can be high, low, wide, narrow, flat, voluminous, biscuit, sand. And, of course, decorated and decorated in different ways. For example, you can take any Stump Cake recipe and turn it into a seasonal one, making fall, winter, spring or summer versions. To do this, decorate your dessert with “fallen leaves”, “snow”, “fresh herbs”, bright “flowers”. Or the usual “moss” and “mushrooms” for a universal option.

As mentioned above, preparing the Stump cake, or Penek, cannot be considered easy to implement. Because the main thing here is the decoration, which needs to be given a lot of time and attention. Plus, some cake recipes involve baking not one, but several types of cakes, followed by cutting them into pieces, “gluing them together” with cream and assembling them in the shape of a real stump.

Is there the simplest recipe for Stump Cake? Yes, there is a good way for beginner pastry chefs. For it you need to bake one thin and soft sponge cake. Then cut it into long strips the width of the cake. Coat with any suitable cream (butter, butter, condensed milk, custard, protein are suitable). Roll into a roll, being careful - because the roll will be much larger and thicker than usual. Turn over with cut edges up and place on a plate. And coat the sides of the resulting stump with thick chocolate glaze. Then go over it with a fork, creating the appearance of tree bark.

The top part of such a cake remains spiral-shaped, as a result there is no need to decorate it in any way on top. You can put mushrooms here and there and leave it at that.

By the way, there is a known variety of this cake called Rotten Stump. It is precisely prepared from “glued” pieces and is often not shaped like a stump, but simply coated with cream.