Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
Prepare the ingredients according to the list. Cookies for such a delicacy are better to use shortbread type "for coffee", "tea" or other crumbly. In order for the dessert to acquire a pleasant chocolate flavor, you can use cocoa to make cream, walnuts or other additives if desired.
Step 2:
Shortbread cookies with a rolling pin or blender are crushed into large crumbs.
Step 3:
Preparing cream for a cake. Sour cream can be used of any fat content, but it is better to use thick, necessarily fresh and natural. Put sour cream in a deep bowl, add sugar, beat in a chicken egg, add softened butter. Beat the ingredients with a whisk until a homogeneous mixture is obtained. Add a pinch of vanilla to give a pleasant aroma and a couple of tablespoons of cocoa. Mix and put the bowl on a water bath.
Step 4:
Boil the cream until a thick cream consistency is obtained. Let the cream cool down to room temperature. In a bowl with cream, put the crushed shortbread cookies.
Step 5:
Mix thoroughly so that all the crumbs are soaked with cream.
Step 6:
We spread the mass on a flat dish with a slide, giving it the shape of an anthill.
Step 7:
Let the cake preparation cool and soak in the refrigerator, leaving it in the cold for a couple of hours so that the cream freezes. You can decorate the cake at your discretion, sprinkle with the remains of crushed cookies, grated milk chocolate, chopped nuts or poppy seeds to simulate ants on an anthill. The cake is ready, we serve it to the table with tea, coffee or cocoa. Enjoy your meal!
There are many interesting recipes for the "anthill" cake, popular in times of food shortage, when all these options were born. The cake was made from shortbread dough passed through a meat grinder and combined with a cream of boiled condensed milk and butter. But there are also simpler options that do not require baking, based on ready-made shortbread cookies, which allows young housewives to prepare this delicacy and even attract children. The cream for such a cake can also be made according to the availability of products and to taste – based on condensed milk or sour cream.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 20% fat content - 210 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115 kcal/100g
- Sour cream - 210 kcal/100g
- Milk-nut chocolate - 542 kcal/100g
- Nutty chocolate - 580 kcal/100g
- Porous milk chocolate - 506 kcal/100g
- Creamy chocolate - 560 kcal/100g
- Chocolate - 550 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Cocoa powder - 374 kcal/100g
- Vanillin - 288 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 80 kcal/100g
- Shortbread cookies - 716 kcal/100g