Such a familiar to us from childhood, cake "Potato" never ceases to delight us with its taste, even in times of crisis. This dessert is very easy to prepare and it turns out so much that you can easily feed them all your relatives and friends.
The basis for this sweet dish is biscuit crumbs or pounded cookies - this product is sure to be found in any supermarket or store. It is not for nothing that “potato” is called an economical dessert, because to create it, you can dry the remaining pieces of not eaten cake or cookies - such non-waste production!
You do not need to bake or cook anything while standing at the stove, as this cake is prepared in a matter of minutes and, in addition to great taste, is very popular all over the world. Let us enjoy its chocolate aftertaste!
To create 4 portions of cake you will need:
- 500 g of sponge crumbs;
- 120 ml of condensed milk;
- 3 tbsp. cocoa powder;
- 150 grams of butter.
You can not worry about the fact that such a dessert you may not work! Due to the lightweight composition of the products, this sweet is created easily and quickly, the main thing is to find the basis for it. These can be: crackers, two or three day biscuits and pies, cookies that nobody wants to eat.
If you decide to cook the "Potatoes" for yourself, then no one forbids you specifically for this recipe to buy a pack of cookies in the store, grabbing there and all the rest. Once you find the base - crush it into a crumb. It is best to do this in a combine - it is he who will bring the mass of biscuit or shortbread dough to the desired consistency. Immediately, it can also chop walnuts - if you plan to add them.
Then pour the condensed milk into the bowl, add the cocoa powder and add the butter. Many people advise to heat the butter first in the microwave, and only then pour it into the bowl, but this is not worth it, because the butter can coagulate due to cocoa powder. Slowly better to knead the whole mass into a homogeneous chocolate. If you or your loved ones have a sweet tooth, then if you wish, add some sugar to the mass. By the way, if you put it in the fridge, you get tasty chocolate butter - also from childhood!
Put the crushed crumb into the mass and mix everything for 10-15 minutes, until the whole base is soaked with chocolate mass. In this case, the resulting plastic chocolate dough itself will stick out from the walls of the bowl - this is practically the dish and ready!
Now pour water into a separate container and, constantly wetting the palms in it, separate the pieces from the dough and make oblong sausages from them - they make about 8 pieces (2 per serving). You are free to decorate such cakes according to your taste: dipped in a round multi-colored sprinkle, powdered with sugar or rolled in cocoa powder. In the latest version of the "potato" will be similar to the long candy "Truffle". Serve decorated cakes to freshly made tea or coffee. Good appetite!
But if you compare this dessert with the shop one, then you will see what the essential difference is:
- 500 g of sponge cake - 25 rubles;
- 120 ml of condensed milk - 10 rubles;
- 3 tbsp. cocoa powder - 10 rubles;
- 150 g butter - 20 rubles.
Total: 4 servings of this sweet will cost you 65 rubles, but, having a biscuit base in the house, you can reduce expenses and then the dessert will pay off for you 40 rubles despite the fact that in the store 1 serving of this delicacy costs 30 rubles. Cook with us and you can surprise your loved ones with tasty and inexpensive dishes!
