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Ant hill cake made of cookies without condensed milk

No-Condensed-Milk Anthill Cake from Cookies

A simple, quick cake to make for tea! The "Anthill" cake made from cookies was a popular treat in Soviet times. But condensed milk was sometimes hard to find, so some home cooks made this cake with a sour cream filling. The taste is every bit as good as the classic "Anthill."

Snezhana

Recipe author

Ant hill cake made of cookies without condensed milk

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Shortbread cookies

200

Sour cream

300

Butter

100

Cocoa powder

Vanilla

Sugar

100

Chicken eggs

Chocolate

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 8 % 5 g

Fats 39 % 24 g

Carbohydrates 53 % 33 g

438 kcal

GI: 6 / 45 / 48

Cooking method

Cooking time: 30 min

Step 1:

Let's prepare the listed ingredients. For a treat like this, it's better to use shortbread cookies - the "coffee" or "tea" type, or other crumbly ones. To give the dessert a pleasant chocolate flavor, you can use cocoa in the filling and, if you like, walnuts or other add-ins.
Step 2:

Crush the shortbread cookies into coarse crumbs with a rolling pin or blender.
Step 3:

Make the filling for the cake. You can use sour cream of any fat content, but thick, fresh, natural sour cream is best. Put the sour cream in a deep bowl, add the sugar, beat in the egg, and add the softened butter. Beat the ingredients with a whisk until smooth. Add a pinch of vanilla for a pleasant aroma and a couple of tablespoons of cocoa. Mix and set the bowl over a water bath.
Step 4:

Cook the filling down until it's thick. Let it cool to room temperature. Add the crushed shortbread cookies to the bowl of filling.
Step 5:

Mix thoroughly so all the crumbs soak up the filling.
Step 6:

Mound the mixture on a flat dish, shaping it into an anthill.
Step 7:

Let the assembled cake chill and set in the fridge, leaving it in the cold for a couple of hours so the filling firms up. Decorate the cake as you like - sprinkle it with the leftover crushed cookies, grated milk chocolate, chopped nuts, or poppy seeds to mimic ants on an anthill. The cake is ready - serve it with tea, coffee, or cocoa. Enjoy!

There are many interesting recipes for the "Anthill" cake, which became popular during times of food shortage - that's when all these variations were born. The cake used to be made from shortbread dough pushed through a meat grinder and combined with a filling of boiled condensed milk and butter. But there are simpler, no-bake versions too, based on ready-made shortbread cookies, which makes this treat easy enough for young cooks to make and even gets kids involved. The filling for this cake can also be made from whatever you have and to taste - based on condensed milk or sour cream.