Homemade cake recipes from the Soviet past are usually simple and affordable even for those with little cooking experience. Anthill cake from shortbread cookies was baked not only by adults, children coped with it perfectly. The most difficult thing was to wait until the cake was full and not eat it whole and at once, because the cake turns out to be very sweet and delicious!
It is necessary
- Products for the test:
- • Wheat flour - 4 cups
- • Granulated sugar - 1 glass
- • Butter - 200 gr
- • Sour cream 20% - 1 glass
- • 1 tsp. soda (quench with vinegar)
- Cream products:
- • Boiled condensed milk - 1 can (270 gr)
- • Poppy - optional
- • Walnuts - optional
- Kitchen tools:
- • Meat grinder
- • Baking paper or mat
Instructions
Step 1
Cake preparation consists of 3 stages: kneading shortcrust pastry, baking and combining cookies with cream. Wheat flour is sifted into a bowl, granulated sugar, softened butter (margarine) and thick sour cream are added there. Measure out the soda with a teaspoon without a slide and, dropping vinegar, quench the soda. Stir the slaked soda thoroughly and add to the dough. The resulting shortbread dough is kneaded by hand, rolled into a ball and briefly put into the refrigerator.
Step 2
Having prepared a meat grinder, pass the dough through a meat grinder. The skipped dough resembles "lanes". Pieces of 5-6 cm are torn from the strip of "paths" and placed on a baking sheet. In this case, the baking sheet must first be covered with baking paper, a rug or greased with oil to make it easier to remove the cookies. Pieces of dough are baked at 180 degrees for about 20 minutes. Take out the cookies when they are slightly browned and the edges have darkened. Cookies need to be cooled and broken with a crush (rolling pin) or hands into small pieces.
Step 3
Boiled condensed milk is placed in a bowl and mixed in parts with crushed cookies. A single mass is spread on a serving plate, forming a slide, and removed to infuse in a cool place for at least 2-3 hours. If desired, the cake can be decorated on top with poppy seeds, grated chocolate, nuts for a better resemblance to a real anthill.
