Biscuit confectionery sausages are one of the favorite treats for children. They are very easy to prepare, the dessert is ideal for family tea drinking, and even an inexperienced housewife can make it. There are many recipes for treats, you can add cocoa, chocolate butter, raisins, nuts, grated apples and other delicious ingredients to the cookies.
Cookie sausages: what they are
Those who do not know how to knead the dough or are afraid that they will not be able to make a complex dessert correctly do not have to limit themselves to purchased delicacies. At home, it is easy to make a delicious sausage based on sugar, biscuit or shortbread cookies. Softened butter is added to it, which can be replaced with quality margarine. The addition of cocoa powder, powdered or condensed milk, chopped nuts will help to diversify the taste. The list of ingredients often includes coconut flakes, chopped dried fruits, grated apples, cinnamon, dark or white chocolate, marshmallow pieces. It all depends on the imagination of the culinary specialist and personal taste.
It is simple to form a finished product: the thick mass rolls up in the form of a sausage, tightly wrapped with cling film and placed in the refrigerator. You should not use foil, the pieces will stick to the dessert and spoil its appearance. It will take several hours to solidify for the sausage to reach the desired condition faster, it is better to make it thin and long. After hardening, the delicacy is cut into slices with a sharp knife and served with tea or coffee. The dessert turns out to be quite fatty; it is not recommended to drink it with cold drinks.
Chocolate sausage: classic version
Biscuit sausage with butter and cocoa powder is a budget alternative to expensive chocolate. The dessert is high in calories, 100 g of the product contains about 500 kcal. In order not to harm the figure, it is worth serving a couple of small slices for tea. A cutaway chocolate sausage looks beautiful in photographs so that it does not lose its shape, the product must be frozen well.
Ingredients:
- 500 g sugar cookies;
- 200 g butter;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 100 g walnuts or peanuts;
- 100 ml of milk;
- 2 tbsp. l. cocoa powder.
Peel the nuts, fry the kernels in a dry frying pan and cool. Crush them in a mortar into coarse crumbs or pass through a blender. Put butter in a bowl, add sugar, milk and cocoa powder. Put the mixture in a steam bath and, while stirring, heat to avoid boiling. All components should be mixed, and the sugar should be completely dissolved.
Break the cookies into small pieces, mix with chopped nuts and pour in the butter-milk mixture. Mix the resulting mass well, put it on cling film and roll tightly, giving the products the shape of sausages. From the specified number of products, you can form 3 sausages, so that they freeze faster, the products do not need to be made too thick. Tie them with thread or twine and place in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours. After the products are cut for tea, the leftovers must be removed to the refrigerator; at room temperature, the sausage quickly melts and loses its shape.
Sweet sausage with nuts and dried fruits
A quick dessert for those who don't like chocolate too much. For cooking, you can use sugar or shortbread cookies, both purchased and baked yourself. The proportions of the ingredients change to taste, instead of the proposed dried fruits, you can use others: figs, dates, prunes, dried cherries.
Ingredients:
- 400 g cookies;
- 1 glass of dried apricots;
- 1 glass of raisins;
- 1 cup walnut kernels
- 200 g butter;
- 1 can of condensed milk;
- coconut flakes for sprinkling.
Rinse dried apricots and raisins, soak for half an hour in warm water. Throw the dried fruit in a colander, letting the liquid drain, then dry on a paper towel. Finely chop dried apricots. Fold the cookies in a plastic bag and roll them several times with a rolling pin. Fry the kernels in a pan, cool and crush in a mortar.
Beat the softened butter with condensed milk; a submersible mixer will help speed up the process. Mix the resulting cream with nuts, cookies, pieces of dried fruit. Spread the thick mass on a piece of plastic wrap, roll up with sausage and roll in coconut flakes. Wrap the product with foil, tighten the ends tightly. Place the sausage in the cold for 4 hours, cut into neat pieces before serving.
Sausage with cookies and apples: a simple dessert for tea
It is easy to make a high-calorie, but very tasty treat from sugar cookies. The sausage is tender and juicy thanks to the grated apples added to the mass. It is better to choose aromatic sweet and sour fruits, the taste of the dessert will be more expressive.
Ingredients:
- 200 g cookies;
- 200 g apples;
- 200 g butter;
- 200 g of sugar.
Peel and core the apples. Grate the fruits on a coarse grater. Crumble the cookies by placing the honey in two layers of cling film and rolling it out with a rolling pin. The pieces should not be too large.
Grind softened butter with sugar into a homogeneous mass, add grated apple and cookies. Stir everything thoroughly, put not a piece of cling film. Roll the product in the form of a sausage, wrap it with coarse thread so that the product retains its shape. Place the sausage in the freezer for 1 hour, then you can move it to the refrigerator.
Sausage with dark chocolate and sour cream
The main disadvantage of dessert sausages is their high calorie content. It can be reduced by replacing some of the butter with low-fat sour cream. Natural dark chocolate with a high percentage of cocoa will add interesting flavor notes.
Ingredients:
- 400 g of shortbread cookies;
- 80 g butter;
- 0.5 cups low-fat sour cream;
- 50 g of walnut kernels;
- 50 g icing sugar;
- 50 g dark chocolate;
- a pinch of vanillin.
Fry walnuts in a dry frying pan or roast them in the microwave. Cool, crush in a mortar. Grind the cookies with a rolling pin. Beat sour cream with powdered sugar and vanilla until smooth. Add butter and melted dark chocolate, beat again.
In a deep bowl, combine cookies, nuts, sour cream and butter mixture. Put the thick mass on polyethylene, roll into a sausage and tie tightly with thread. Keep in the cold for at least 3 hours before serving.
Fruit sausage with bananas and liqueur
A very interesting option for fruit lovers. To make the sausage tasty, it is better to take ripe, but not overripe bananas, if desired, their number can be increased. Liqueur is included in the delicacy, so it is not suitable for children.
Ingredients:
- 300 g shortbread cookies;
- 300 g butter;
- 3 tbsp. l. cocoa powder;
- 0.5 cups powdered sugar;
- a pinch of salt and grated nutmeg;
- 0.5 tsp ground cinnamon;
- 0.5 tsp vanilla sugar;
- 2 tbsp. l. brandy or liquor;
- 200 g of hazelnut kernels;
- 200 g pitted prunes;
- 1 large ripe banana.
Rinse the prunes, add hot water for half an hour. Dry the dried fruit on a paper towel. Pour boiling water over the nuts, remove the tough brown peel. Fry the kernels in a dry frying pan until creamy, cool, crush in a mortar. Cut the banana and prunes into slices.
Beat softened butter with powdered sugar, a pinch of salt, vanilla and cocoa. Chop the cookies, mix with spices, drizzle with brandy or liqueur. Add fruit and butter cream, mix everything thoroughly. Put the mass in a mold or roll up in the form of a sausage and pack in plastic wrap, place in the cold for 3-4 hours. It is better to serve dessert on chilled plates so that the pieces of sweet sausage retain their neat shape.
