"Penek", cake: recipe for cooking

"Penek" - a cake that many remember from childhood. There are many recipes for a similar dessert. However, not all of them are suitable for home cooking. The recipe described below is considered the easiest. He can master even a young hostess without any experience in cooking. The main thing is to follow the sequence of preparation. The cake "Penek" turns out fragrant, soft, gentle and original.

What is required for cooking

"Penek" - a cake that is prepared from the available products. To bake it, you will need:

1. Eggs of chicken - 3 pcs.
2. Sugar usual white - 1 glass.
3. Bakery powder (baking powder) - 1,5 tsp.
4. Flour of the highest grade wheat - ¾ cup.
5. Potato starch - ¼ cup.
6. Cream 30-35% - up to 250 g.
7. Milk chocolate, nuts are allowed - 100 g.
8. Cocoa - 1 tbsp. a spoon.
9. Oil based on animal cream - from 200 to 250 g.

What inventory will

What will it take to make a dessert "Penek"? The cake is cooked very quickly. Especially if you have the necessary equipment at hand. In this case, you will need:

• Brush, with which you can smear the baking tray;
• meat grinder;
• The capacity at which mixing of components will occur;
• Pots;
• baking dish;
• Mixer or blender;
• baking paper.

The process of mixing the dough

So, how to make a pie? The recipe for this dessert is very simple. First, mix the dough of the desired consistency. In a deep tank you need to drive in eggs, add starch, flour, baking powder, and 2/3 cups of regular sugar.

Components are recommended to be beaten with a mixer or blender so that the mass becomes homogeneous and without lumps.

Preparation of cakes

When the dough is ready, you can begin to prepare the cake. For this, the form in which the billet will be baked is covered with parchment paper, and then carefully oiled. Here it is necessary to pour in the dough and carefully level it out so that a uniform thickness is obtained.

The form should be placed in the oven. In this case, it is recommended to heat it up to a temperature of 180 ° C to 200 ° C. Bake the cake for 7-10 minutes. Check the readiness of the workpiece by using a wooden match or a wooden stick.

When the cake is ready, it should be taken out of the form with the paper, and then rolled up with a roll. In this form, the workpiece must remain until completely cooled.

Preparation of chocolate base for cream

"Penek" - a cake that is difficult to imagine without a delicious and tender cream. How to cook it? This will require a small saucepan. In it you need to pour in the cream, heat them, and then add chopped chocolate, cocoa, and the remains of sugar. After this, the pan should be placed on a water bath or on a very small fire. Products must completely dissolve. The resulting mass should be cooled. To do this, a pot of chocolate can be placed in a container filled with cold water.

In conclusion, the basis for the cream must be shaken. To do this, it is best to use a mixer or blender. How to connect the base for the cream with butter?

The cake "Penek", the photo of which is presented above, turns out to be very gentle, if you properly prepare the cream. Chocolate paste is recommended to be combined with butter. In this case, it is worth considering several rules. Butter from cream should have a temperature just below room temperature. It should be placed in a bowl, and then beat with a blender, gradually adding a chocolate base. It is recommended to place the ready mix in the cold for about half an hour.

Recommendations for the preparation of cream

It is worth considering that the fat content of cream affects the speed of preparation of the cream. The higher this index, the faster the mass thickens.

After mixing the chocolate base and butter, the product should be placed in the refrigerator. If the finished cream for a long time does not thicken, then you need gelatin. A packet of this component should be filled with ¼ cup of water. The liquid must be cold at the same time. A saucepan with gelatin should be placed in a container filled with boiling water. It must be stirred until it is completely dissolved. Ready gelatin must be poured into the cream, and then mixed. Finally, the mass is recommended to be placed in the cold, so that it thickens. The cream will be completely ready, when it will not spread and will not completely solidify when smeared.

Cake "Penek": a master class

When the workpiece and the cream are ready, you can begin to form a cake. To begin with, it is recommended that the roll is carefully untwisted, and the edges should be cut to make a neat rectangle.

The cake should be divided into several parts. They should be the same width. You need to apply a cream to such preparations. If desired, the strip can be impregnated with syrup. Covered with cream blanks should be carefully rolled up with rolls. To do this, one edge of the strip must be applied to the edge of the second. Strongly squeeze the blanks do not need. Otherwise, the whole cream will flow out. When forming it is worthwhile to ensure that the chocolate mass does not spoil the end light strips of cakes.

Roll should be placed vertically and carefully smeared with cream. Remains of chocolate mass can be mixed with crumb and form roots. You can make the cake more realistic by making another cake, chopping it into a crumb. The resulting mass must be mixed with the cream and cover all the edges of the cake. Outwardly it will resemble a bark.

Cake is recommended to put the clock at 6 in the cold, so that the layers are well soaked. If desired, the dessert can be decorated with chocolate or coconut shavings, multicolored mastic, whipped cream and nuts.

Recommendations for making cake

Pieces that remained after cutting the edges of the cake, should not be thrown away. They can be used to decorate baking. It is enough to put them in the oven, dry them, and then grind them with a meat grinder.

It is not necessary to add oil to the cream. In it you can add more cream, sugar and chocolate.

If desired, you can make the cakes dark, and the cream is white. In this case, cocoa should be added to the dough. The cream is prepared from cream or cottage cheese.