Many people like to pamper themselves with sweet delicacies, but often you want dessert to be useful, and therefore not to be purchased, and it took a long time to tinker, because the rhythm of modern life does not always leave enough time for standing at the stove. One of the simplest treats is the "Potato" cake made from biscuits. Surely, many will remember how in childhood, with pleasure, they molded the "Potato" from the sweet mass, and then they cooked the tea together under hot tea. Remember the carefree childhood and repeat. Well, for those who forgot, we recall how to make a cake "Potato" from a cookie.
This recipe is called basic because it can be infinitely varied: for example, to add cut nuts, dried fruits or berries, raisins, chocolate chips. You can decorate the cake with any glaze (most easily - melted chocolate). You can even make a coconut dessert using a basic dessert.
The beauty of delicacy is that this is a simple recipe, the "Potato" cake made from biscuits is cooked without baking, so even in the summer hot days you can enjoy home dessert. To begin with, we advise you to choose the simplest and best-known recipe for the "Potato" cake.
How to make a cake "Potatoes" from cookies with condensed milk?
Ingredients:
- cookies "Whipped milk" - 450 g;
- cocoa powder - 5-6 tbsp. spoons;
- condensed milk with sugar (strictly according to GOST) - 1 pot;
- oil "Peasant" - ½ pack;
- walnuts - 10 pieces;
- Vanillin - 1 sachet (optional).
Preparation
So, take a bowl, dissolve the butter, mix it with condensed milk. Stirring, butter and condensed milk, slowly add cocoa, leaving 1 spoon for sprinkling. Add vanillin - if desired. While the mass is infused, crush the cookies into crumbs. The baby should be as small as possible, so we use a food processor, a chopper or just a meat grinder. If the cookie is quality, you can wrap it in a plastic bag, on top - in a towel and roll it well with a rolling pin - you will also get a little crumb. Pour the crumb into our bowl and carefully mix our mass. It should become homogeneous both in consistency and in color. From the mass roll balls or cylinders, in shape resembling potatoes.
Then cakes can be either poured with glaze and decorated with nuts, or sprinkled with waffle crumbs, or use coconut chips. We remove the cakes for 2-3 hours in the fridge and leave the house - otherwise "Potatoes" are not worthy: cakes are eaten very quickly.
For those who do not like sweets very much or just do not like condensed milk (there are such, though not often), we suggest preparing a "Potato" cake from cookies without condensed milk.
Recipe for a cake "Potato" from cookies without condensed milk
Ingredients:
- biscuits or crackers "Vanilla" - 0.5 kg;
- chocolate dark (not less than 56%) - 200 g;
- nuts (peanuts or walnuts) - 1 glass;
- oil "Peasant" - 1 pack;
- powdered sugar - ½ cup;
- milk - 0.5 liters.
Preparation
First grind the breadcrumbs or biscuits into small crumbs and pour warm milk. While the milk is absorbed, we melted the chocolate in a water bath, stir constantly and gradually add oil. Nuts should be roasted in a dry frying pan or baking sheet and crushed. In a bowl, mix the crumbs, powder, nuts and chocolate butter. After weighed the mass, roll the cakes and, decorating to your liking, send it to the fridge. Of course, it is best to serve the "Potato" cake from cookies better with milk, but also green or black tea, coffee, rooibos, cocoa.