Many people have known and loved this dessert since distant Soviet times. It always seemed to me that he was truly our invention. It happened that it was necessary to dispose of broken cookies, so they came up with such a cake. But it turns out that the honor of being the discoverer belongs to the wife of the famous Finnish poet. From everything that was at hand, she prepared a dessert that would glorify her name for centuries. In Europe, this dessert is known as “Runeberg cake” and a sponge cake is used to prepare it. In our country, most often the base is cookies. This is how waste is turned into a classic dish, shaped like a vegetable “potato”, but tastes like an explosive dessert, as one sometimes says, “just a bomb”!
Nostalgia for Soviet times sometimes manifests itself in memories of the most delicious delicacy of my childhood - potato cake. Not far from our house, there was a “Cooking” store, and there you could always buy fresh baskets of cream, cakes, pies, puff pastries and, of course, “potatoes.” Coming back from school, my friend and I always went into this department and bought one piece of this delicacy. We savored it with such appetite that even the stern saleswoman smiled, looking at our facial expressions. Where is it all now? And in those days, in any canteen, grocery store, even restaurant, you could enjoy the freshest, most delicious dessert. According to USSR GOST, it was prepared from biscuit; it must be white on the inside and chocolate on the outside. But this is a completely different story, to which we will definitely return. And now - cookies. I cook it very rarely, but if I do, it’s in large sizes and in large quantities. I like that this sweetness does not require heat treatment, which means it can be made at home very quickly. We simply chop the products, mix everything, shape it into a tuber or ball, decorate with waffle or coconut shavings, or sprinkle with cocoa powder. We put all this beauty in the refrigerator for half an hour to wait until it hardens. And that's it, you can enjoy dessert! And now in detail, with photos and step by step.
Be sure to involve the children in preparing this dessert. They will be happy to help you, and then they will happily eat what they have “made” with their own hands. You will only need to “knead the dough”, and the rest will be created by your child’s imagination.
Call all the helpers to the table and give them a treat. What you make with your own hands is always the most delicious!
“Chocolate potatoes” are one of the most favorite desserts for most people with a sweet tooth. This popular cake actually resembles potato root vegetables in its shape. The original dessert is on the menu of many cafes and even restaurants. If you wish, you can prepare chocolate potatoes at home and pamper your household.
Homemade chocolate potatoes consist of simple ingredients, and you can prepare them according to several recipes. Before you start preparing this delicious dessert, choose the most suitable Chocolate Potato Cake recipe that will suit your taste preferences.
Chocolate potatoes with condensed milk are a common version of this popular dessert. To prepare it you will need the following ingredients:
According to this recipe for “Chocolate Potatoes” with condensed milk, prepare the dessert as follows:
Twist the cookies through a meat grinder or grind them in a blender. You should end up with bread crumbs.
In a separate bowl, combine condensed milk, half the cocoa and melted butter. Mix these components thoroughly, you should get a homogeneous mass that looks like chocolate paste.
Add the crushed biscuits to this paste and mix well.
Divide the resulting mass into 8 equal parts, form a potato with each and roll it in cocoa powder.
Chop the peeled walnuts into small pieces and lightly fry in a dry frying pan. Insert the roasted nuts into the dessert, imitating potato sprouts.
Place the finished cakes in the refrigerator.
To make the potatoes easier to serve, you can place them on pastry paper.
A delicious cake made from cookies and waffles can be made both for your household and served to the table by inviting guests to your home.
To make chocolate potatoes you will need the following products:
You can make chocolate chip cookies using this recipe without condensed milk, it all depends on your preferences.
How to make chocolate potatoes at home using this recipe? Follow these simple steps:
1. Grind the cookies and waffles through a meat grinder and mix.
2. In a separate container, mix milk, egg, flour and sugar.
3. Mix all ingredients thoroughly and place on low heat. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly, and cook until it becomes thick.
4. Remove the cream from the stove, add the butter and stir until it is completely dissolved. Leave the cream to cool.
5. When the cream has cooled slightly, pour waffle and cookie crumbs into it, mix thoroughly and form a medium-sized “potato”.
6. Melt the chocolate in a water bath, add a little butter to it.
7. Cover each cake with chocolate glaze, and sprinkle crushed walnuts on top.
8. Place the cakes in the refrigerator for several hours. so that they are well soaked.
There are many recipes for making chocolate chip cookies at home.
You will need:
Follow this step-by-step recipe for chocolate chip cookies with photos:
1. Twist the cookies in a meat grinder or grind them in a mortar, turning them into fine crumbs.
2. In a separate container, beat eggs with sugar. Gradually add melted butter and milk to the eggs, continuing to whisk everything.
3. Place crushed cookies and cocoa into this mixture. You can take more cocoa powder than indicated in the recipe, this will only improve the taste of the dessert.
4. Start forming “potatoes” from the prepared mass.
By showing imagination and creativity, you can form cakes of absolutely any shape from the “chocolate” mass. These can be hearts, mushrooms, small mice or hedgehogs. Such original cakes in the photo below are presented in their variety; they will be especially interesting for small children:
Instead of cookies, the main component of such a dessert can be crackers.
For this recipe for chocolate chips made from crackers you will need the following ingredients:
Don't know how to make chocolate chips with breadcrumbs? You will need the following step-by-step instructions:
1. Pour milk into a saucepan, put it on fire, boil and cool it.
2. Separately, place the slightly melted butter in a bowl and pour in the condensed milk. Beat these ingredients with a wooden spoon until smooth.
3. Add cocoa powder to the bowl and mix everything thoroughly.
4. Grind the vanilla crackers into crumbs. To do this, they can be grated or passed through a meat grinder. Chop the nuts with a knife.
5. Add crushed crackers to the mixture with condensed milk and butter, stir, add nuts and mix again.
6. Pour cooled milk into the mixture and mix well again. You should end up with a thick, homogeneous dough-like mass.
7. Form balls the size of tangerines from the chocolate “dough” and refrigerate.
8. After an hour, sprinkle the cakes with powdered sugar and serve.
If you're looking for a fun recipe for making chocolate chips without cookies, this delicious dessert recipe might be just the thing for you. You will need these ingredients:
To make brownies, use this photo recipe for chocolate chips without cookies:
1. Grind the gingerbread into crumbs; it is best to grind them in a meat grinder.
2. Fry the nuts in a dry frying pan and grind them into powder.
3. Grate the chocolate bar on a coarse grater and mix with chopped gingerbread and nuts.
4. Add swollen raisins and condensed milk to these ingredients.
5. Mix all the ingredients until a homogeneous mass is formed, and form it into balls of the same size.
Place the finished cakes in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours, then eat them with tea or another drink.
“Chocolate potatoes” made from cookies and milk are very tasty and tender. To prepare this dessert, you can use many recipes that include these two components.
You can use the following detailed photo recipe for chocolate potatoes based on the following products:
The recipe with a photo of these delicious chocolate potatoes looks like this:
1. In a deep bowl, crush the cookies using a mortar.
2. Add cinnamon and cocoa powder to this crumb, mix.
3. Pour the milk into a small saucepan, add the egg, sugar and vanillin, mix everything thoroughly, then add the flour.
4. Place the pan over low heat, bring to a boil and cook until thick, stirring constantly.
5. Remove the pan from the heat, add butter to the hot mixture and stir everything well.
6. Pour the resulting mixture into a bowl with the cookies, mix everything with your hands until a mass of homogeneous consistency is formed.
7. Use your hands to form evenly sized cakes.
8. Decorate the “potatoes” at your discretion. To decorate the dessert, you can use coconut flakes, chopped walnuts or chocolate chips.
9. Place in the refrigerator, and after two hours enjoy the amazing taste of your favorite dessert.
You can make Potato Brownies from chocolate chip cookies without using cocoa powder.
Ingredients:
Preparing dessert:
1. Wrap the cookies in cling film, put it on the table and roll it with a rolling pin in different directions. This way you can easily and quickly turn cookies into crumbs.
2. Combine softened butter with condensed milk and stir everything until smooth.
3. Pour the crushed cookies into this mixture and mix well with your hands. The mixture should be quite thick.
4. Form cakes from it, put in the refrigerator for two hours.
If desired, you can use cognac, wine or rum when preparing the dessert. These alcoholic drinks will give the cakes a pleasant taste and aroma, but only adults can enjoy their taste.
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If you want the cake to avoid the bitterness that chocolate gives, add more sugar.
Prepare the Potato cake from chocolate sponge cake as follows:
1. Dry the hazelnuts in a frying pan. The nuts must be stirred constantly so that they do not burn, otherwise the “Potato” will be bitter.
2. Peel the dried nuts and grind them in a food processor.
3. Place the cream and softened butter in a saucepan, and put it on low heat. Bring the mixture to a boil, boil for a minute and remove from the stove.
4. Break the chocolate bar into small pieces and place in a saucepan with hot cream and butter. Stir vigorously until the chocolate is completely melted and the mixture has a uniform consistency.
5. Add sugar and cognac to this mixture, stir well again until the granulated sugar is completely dissolved.
6. Grind the slightly dried chocolate biscuit into crumbs with your hands. It is necessary to use stale biscuits, since fresh ones do not crumble well. Mix biscuit crumbs with chopped nuts.
7. Pour the chocolate mixture into the biscuit-nut mixture, mix everything carefully with your hands, without crushing the biscuit crumbs.
8. Roll small balls from the resulting mass, roll them in cocoa powder and place on a plate lined with parchment paper.
9. Cover the top of the cakes with cling film and refrigerate for two hours.
Sometimes housewives wet their hands in water while preparing such a dessert. In fact, this is not worth doing, since this mass will stick more and more each time.
Now you know how to make chocolate potatoes from cookies, crackers, gingerbread and biscuits at home. More “Chocolate Potato” recipes in the video below:
The taste of childhood is small muffins with raisins, milk shortcakes and always crumbly Potatoes. A simple and quick version of dessert at home, even the process of creating which gave children a lot of pleasure. How to make Potato cake to get that same sweet delicacy from your Soviet childhood?
If you look at old photos from Soviet confectionery shops, especially focusing on this dish in cross-section, you will notice that the inside of the Potato was light. According to GOST, cocoa was used only for the purpose of sprinkling: just like a real tuber of the same name with a dark skin. The composition of the classic cake included:
Housewives who were looking for a way to make Potato cake at home were forced to prepare the biscuit base themselves. Today everything is a little simpler: you can buy a simple substitute, which also turns out very tasty - cookies. The general scheme remains unchanged: the dry base is crushed, combined with the liquid one, “potatoes” are formed from the “dough,” which are rolled in cocoa and cooled.
Below you can find 3 simple versions of this sweet dish. The delicacies obtained from them are as close as possible to what was found in Soviet confectionery shops. Professionals give a few tips to make it tasty and perfect in appearance:
The very classic “Soviet” version of this amazing delicacy, which bore the GOST marking, was created on the basis of a biscuit. The delicious homemade Potato cake made from cookies and condensed milk is not inferior to it, and if you don’t reveal the recipe to anyone, either in the photo or in personal testing, no one will notice the difference. Cause? Homemade sponge cookies taste almost similar to the sponge cake in the Potato cake from the USSR.
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This recipe is one of the first that a child who wants to make their own dessert begins to master. Delicate sweet potato cake made from cookies and milk according to this recipe always tends to turn out delicious, so be sure to try to figure out how to cook it with your baby. The step-by-step technology described below should relieve you of all questions.
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This version of this incredible delicacy is popular with children who do not like too sweet desserts. It is also ideal for those who cannot tolerate milk sugar. Do you think that the sweet diet cake Potato without condensed milk, whole and in cross-section, looks different from the classic one? Take a look at the cooking photos of professionals to see otherwise.
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Potato cake is a taste familiar to many from childhood. Previously, when there was not a large selection of cakes and pastries as there is now, these dark cakes, reminiscent of potatoes in color and shape, were especially common. Now it has become a little more difficult to find them in stores. But it is very easy to make cakes at home.
You can make Potatoes from crackers, cookies or homemade biscuits. Try all the options and decide which one is closer to you. I prefer to cook Potatoes from homemade sponge cake. The cake turns out more tender, lighter and tastier. One of the keys to success in preparing this dessert is good condensed milk. Do not take condensed milk with vegetable fats; it is low-quality condensed milk. It is also very important to find a good cocoa powder that will give the brownies a rich chocolate flavor. And I additionally add a teaspoon of cognac to the cream; it gives its noble aroma to this dessert. You can skip the cognac, but this will deprive the cakes of some flavor.
The cakes can be made in any shape you want. Traditionally, they are rolled into balls by hand or into an oval shape. But you can also diversify the recipe and use shaped molds. In addition, the cakes can be decorated with berries and fruits, sprinkled with grated chocolate, powdered sugar or coconut. A friend of mine sticks eyes, a smile and forelocks to the cakes - so the cakes look like smiley faces. As they say - everything is up to your imagination.
Ingredients:
1. Separate the whites from the yolks. Let's take care of the yolks first, and you can put the whites in the freezer or refrigerator for a couple of minutes - well-chilled whites whip easier and faster.
2. Beat the yolks with half the sugar until light in color, and the cooled whites with the remaining sugar until strong peaks form.
3. Gently mix using a spoon using movements from bottom to top.
4.Add flour and mix again very slowly, using a spoon.
5.Place the biscuit dough into the mold.
6.Bake the biscuit at 200 degrees for about 20 minutes, depending on the height of the mold. Remove the biscuit pan from the oven and cool completely. The sponge cake, which is quite fluffy at first glance, will shrink a lot, but don’t worry, it will remain tasty and airy.
When the biscuit has cooled completely, you can remove it from the mold.
7. Grind the cooled biscuit into crumbs using a blender, meat grinder, or by hand)
8. Leave the butter at room temperature until softened.
9.Add condensed milk to the softened butter and beat with a mixer until smooth.
10. Add cocoa, cognac. Mix well again.
11.Combine the biscuit crumbs with the cream.
12.Form the cakes.
13. Decorate as desired: you can roll the cakes in some, pour melted chocolate on them, decorate with cream or nuts. I decorated with fresh berries.
Potato cake is ready at home and can be served immediately with tea. Bon appetit!
I remember the taste of this dessert from early childhood. It was the Potato cake that my dad bought for me when we went for a walk in the park. It seemed to me then just an unearthly delicacy; my mother never bought me anything like this. And when my children arrived, I wanted to treat them to dessert as well. But the store-bought cakes didn’t taste the same as I remembered. Homemade potato cake is the most delicious treat for children.
Potato cake is a quick, sweet dessert that does not require baking. Many people have mixed feelings about this cake, especially store-bought ones. But the taste of this delicacy can be easily manipulated and you can choose the option that suits you best.
Store-bought potatoes are almost always dark inside, since the remains of both white and black sponge cake are used to prepare them. Write down the best recipes for Potato cake, you will definitely need them!
Ingredients:
Potato cake prepared according to GOST - step-by-step recipe with photos:
Separate the yolks from the whites. Beat the latter until stiff peaks form, gradually adding about 50 g of granulated sugar during the process.
In a separate bowl, add the rest of the sugar - 130 g - to the egg yolks. Beat the yolks with sugar into a thick, homogeneous mass.
Add sifted flour with starch and whipped whites to the yolk mixture. Gently mix with a silicone spatula from bottom to top. The finished biscuit dough should turn out airy, it does not pour, but slowly flows from the spatula.
Pour the dough into a baking dish, pre-greased with butter, and place in a preheated oven.
Bake for 50 minutes at 180C. Cool the finished biscuit and let it stand for about 12 hours. It's best to bake it the night before so you can make the cakes in the morning. If you can’t wait that long, let the biscuit rest for at least 2-3 hours.
We turn the biscuit into crumbs in any convenient way.
To make the cream, combine butter at room temperature with powdered sugar. They need to be beaten, but not for long, otherwise the whey will start to come off. Add 2 drops of rum essence.
The next step is to add condensed milk. Add condensed milk gradually while whipping. We leave literally a tablespoon of cream for decoration.
Mix biscuit crumbs with cream until smooth. We make our own cakes. Divide the dough into pieces equal in weight. We form them in the form of balls or oblong sausages. Place in the refrigerator for 15 minutes to allow the dough to set - this will make it easier to work with.
Mix cocoa powder with powdered sugar. Roll each cake in breading. We put the cream that we left in advance into a pastry syringe and plant oil sprouts on our potatoes.
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How to prepare Potato cake using custard method:
Chop the nuts or grind them in a meat grinder, mix with crumbs. Add cocoa.
Preparing the custard: Pour sugar, flour and vanillin with a small amount of milk (stir with a whisk so that there are no lumps!)
Beat in the egg and mix. Pour the rest of the milk into a saucepan and heat. Pour the egg-milk mixture into the hot milk in a thin stream, stirring constantly, over low heat!
The milk mixture thickens quickly!
Add the oil and stir until it is completely dissolved. Remove from heat. Gradually add the crumbs into the hot cream. Forming a cake.
Roll the finished cake in cocoa or Nesquik drink. Decorate as desired.
A simple and quick recipe for a delicious Potato cake made from cookies and cocoa with condensed milk.
Product composition:
How to cook:
Break the cookies. Grind in a blender or masher into fine crumbs. Mix crushed cookies with cocoa. Add soft, but not melted butter, stir until smooth.
Add condensed milk spoon by spoon until you get a mass that is soft and resembles plasticine. Pour in cognac and knead again.
Wrap the resulting dough in film or a bag and put it in the refrigerator for 15-30 minutes.
Remove the mixture from the refrigerator, divide into 8 parts and roll into barrels. Roll the cake in a mixture of cocoa and sugar.
If desired, decorate with cream roses or nuts.
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Ingredients (for 20 pieces):
Cooking method:
First you need to grind the crackers into fine crumbs. This can be done using a meat grinder or mill, the main thing is that there are no unground pieces left.
In a separate bowl, mix a can of condensed milk with cocoa powder. You need to take 2 heaped tablespoons of cocoa. Grind until lumps disappear, add butter, cut into pieces and put on low heat (until the butter melts)
Next, melt a bar of dark chocolate in a bowl over a water bath. To do this, pour hot water into a saucepan, place a bowl of broken chocolate in the water and put it on the fire so that the water constantly boils.
Add half of the chocolate mass to the chocolate butter cream, i.e. 50 grams, and the rest will be used for decoration.
At the end, mix two tablespoons of cognac into the chocolate cream (for flavor).
Now mix the crumbs and chocolate cream.
The result will be chocolate chips. If the “dough” turns out dry, add a little milk to it.
To form potatoes, it is better to first form sausages from the dough, cut them into equal pieces and roll them into balls or sticks.
You can put some filling inside, preferably something with a bright taste. Alternatively, candied citrus fruits (to taste).
For decoration, we cut the same candied citrus fruits into very thin strips.
Heat the chocolate remaining from preparing the dough again to a liquid state. Coat the top of each cake with chocolate and add two pieces of chopped candied fruit.
Now we wait for the chocolate to harden. The cakes taste best the next day, when they are thoroughly soaked.
