Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
Prepare the ingredients according to the list. In addition to the standard set of products, you can add nuts, chocolate, sesame seeds or poppy seeds to decorate the cake.
Step 2:
Cookies for cake are better to use shortbread, crumbly, sugar. Cookies are broken into small pieces, you can do this with your hands or with a rolling pin, rolling cookies in a bag with it. You can, of course, do it faster with a blender, but the main thing is to stop in time so that all the cookies do not turn into crumbs, part of the cookies should be pieces.
Step 3:
Condensed milk can be purchased ready-boiled right away, but it will taste better if condensed milk is brewed independently, you can cook it directly in a jar for about 2 hours in a saucepan with water. Put the condensed boiled milk in a bowl, add the softened butter. For a more beautiful color and a pleasant chocolate flavor, you can add a couple of tablespoons of cocoa. Mix with a mixer until a homogeneous cream consistency is obtained.
Step 4:
In a deep bowl, spread the shortbread from the cookies and pour it with condensed milk cream, mix well so that all the cookies are soaked in cream.
Step 5:
We spread the mass on a flat dish, carefully with clean hands giving the cake the shape of an anthill. On top of the cake, you can sprinkle poppy seeds, grated chocolate or cookie crumbs. We send the cake preparation to the refrigerator for 3 hours to solidify. After cooling, the cake is easily cut into pieces. We serve the cake to a festive table or to a tea party with the family. Enjoy your meal!
The ant hill cake in our country originated in Soviet times, when there was no special abundance of products for making desserts and baking, enterprising housewives came up with such a recipe from what was available and was at hand. However, there is another opinion that the recipe for the "anthill" goes back to the popular "funnel cake" in the USA, although the principle of cooking the latter (cooking custard dough in oil) it is completely different from the "anthill" beloved by many.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- 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
- Boiled condensed milk - 328 kcal/100g
- Shortbread cookies - 716 kcal/100g