Potato cake - general principles and methods of cooking
Potato cake is an amusing dessert dish, in form and color resembling a popular and well-loved vegetable - potatoes. The traditional cake recipe is very simple, even the smallest sweet teeth can be used to make it, because the dessert does not need baking. In addition, the design of the “Potatoes” in the form of balls and their heaving in cocoa will bring real pleasure to your baby.
There are many variations of this dish. Most of them have biscuit base, nuts, butter and cocoa powder in the recipe. Many nations serve “potatoes” during the Christmas holidays - for them it has become a kind of ritual, an indestructible tradition.
The basic potato cake recipe is quite simple. For cooking chocolate “hedgehogs”, I traditionally use crumb, most often biscuit, but you can replace it with your favorite cookies, vanilla crackers or gingerbread. The simplest scheme for homemade potato cake production includes three elementary steps:
1. One kilogram of flour raw materials is thoroughly crushed into fine crumb. If desired, cocoa, nuts, coconut chips, etc. can be added to the crumb.
2. Knead scattering with soft butter (about 50-60 gr.), Sugar and cream (200-250 ml) until a homogeneous plastic mass is obtained.
3. Hands form cakes oval or round shape. Roll in cocoa powder, ground nuts, cool and use with hot tea or milk.
Potato Cake - Food Preparation
Both sponge cake and cookies, gingerbread or vanilla crackers can become raw materials for confectionery. In the course you can safely put unutilized remnants of sweet home baking. So, with the raw materials, we decided. Now it is necessary to chop it thoroughly into fine crumb. This is usually done manually or with the help of modern automated tools. In order to “glue” the crumb, we need a cream on the basis of butter which has melted at room temperature. For taste, it is flavored with condensed milk, meringue, cream, powdered sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and sour cream. And the very last small step in the making of cakes is the abundant rolling of finished products in cocoa powder. As a rule, it is pre-mixed with granulated sugar or powder.
Potato Cake - the best recipes
Recipe 1: Biscuit potato cake
The option of making delicate delicacy that is closest to GOST. For a more intense taste, add a little brandy or rum to the “potato”, with one condition - if the dessert is prepared exclusively for adults.
Ingredients:
For sponge cake:
- six eggs
- six table. spoons of sugar
- 4 tablespoons flour
- One Art. spoon of potato starch
- 30 gr. chopped walnuts
For cake:
- 150 gr. drain oils (cream)
- three table. lie sugar sand (cream)
- two eggs (cream)
- Three spoons (table) of brandy / rum
- cocoa powder or chocolate fudge
Cooking Method:
1. Making a sponge cake. Mix eggs with sand, put in a water bath and constantly beat, bringing the mass to 50C. Then remove from the bath and beat with a mixer until cooled to room temperature. Put the nuts, mix thoroughly (carefully). Add cooked and sifted flour twice. We get a soft dough. Put it in a greased form and send it to the oven, where we will bake for about forty minutes at a temperature of 200 ° C. Biscuit ready. Leave it in shape until cool.
2. Prepare the oil cream. To do this, beat eggs with sugar in a water bath, bringing the mass up to 50C. Next, beat the softened butter with a mixer. The ingredients are mixed until smooth. The cream is ready.
3. Go to the cakes. Remove the cooled biscuit from the mold and pass it through a blender (meat grinder). In a container, mix biscuit crumbs, butter cream and brandy / rum. Part of the cream is left for decoration. The resulting mass is divided into 10-12 parts, of which we form cakes. Sugar powder mixed with cocoa powder and roll the product. “Potatoes” can also be filled with ready-made chocolate fudge. We remove the dessert in the cold before cooling and eat with pleasure.
Recipe 2: Biscuit potato cake
Lightweight version of "potatoes". There is no need in biscuit, and absolutely any type of biscuit, purchased or baked at home according to the original recipe, can be taken.
Ingredients:
- 300 gr. cookies
- 150 gr. butter
- 200 gr. thick condensed milk
- cocoa powder - about four tbsp. spoons with a slide
- 100 gr. walnuts
- a teaspoon of vanilla
Cooking Method:
1. Cookies are crushed into a uniform fine crumb. Mix the condensed milk with softened butter. Do not whisk, but simply mix with a fork or a whisk.
2. Add vanillin, chopped nuts and cocoa powder to the mass. Stir. Next, combine the crumb with cream and form cakes in the form of potatoes.
3. Mix cocoa powder with sugar and sprinkle the products. We remove them in the fridge to cool and serve with tea.
Recipe 3: Gingerbread potato cake
Incredibly delicious dessert is obtained in the end! It will especially please the little sweet teeth, and it is prepared in a matter of minutes. For the experiment, add a handful of raisins to the cake, pre-washed and aged in hot water (to swell).
Ingredients:
- 200 gr. any nuts (roasted)
- 200 gr. any gingerbread without filling
- one jar of boiled milk
- 50-70 gr. dark chocolate
- a handful of dry raisins (soak in hot water for about 10 minutes)
Cooking Method:
1. Crush gingerbread in small chips. Pound nuts in powder. Mix them with gingerbread and grated chocolate.
2. There we send boiled condensed milk and raisins. Thoroughly mix, form cakes in the traditional way. Cool and enjoy.
Recipe 4: Cake potato crackers
Naturally, this is not about ordinary bread crumbs, but about dessert vanilla crackers made from a loaf.
Ingredients:
- 100 gr. butter
- 100 gr. thick cream or sour cream - to taste granulated sugar
- three to four spoons of any fruit syrup
- 500 gr. vanilla crackers
- six Art. cocoa spoons
- about 1 cup of milk
- at the request of nuts
Cooking Method:
1. Sour cream (thick cream), beat with sugar. The resulting foam combine with melted butter. Here we also add fruit syrup and two spoons of cocoa. All mix.
2. Grind crackers, nuts (if you add) too. Mix with cocoa. Fill with milk and mix until smooth. Leave for 10 minutes. Then mix the softened crackers with the cream.
3. Sculpt oval cakes, roll in cocoa powder, mixed with powdered sugar, remove them in the cold for at least an hour. We get and eat. It turned out very tasty. Enjoy your meal!
Potato Cake - useful tips from experienced chefs
- A real “potato” is impossible to imagine without a drop of good brandy, liquor or rum. We advise you to refrain from alcohol supplements, if the dessert is prepared for children;
- Purchased “potatoes” according to GOST should be light inside. A dark color (chocolate or cocoa powder is added to the mass) may indicate the poor quality of the biscuit, on the basis of which cakes are made. Manufacturers thus “paint over” the flaw.
