The Anthill Cake is an incredibly delicious and uncomplicated dessert to create. It can be prepared both on the festive table, and on any other day just for tea. What is needed for this, what actions does the cooking process mean? This will be discussed now.
Ingredients
So, first you should talk about the classic recipe. To make the Anthill cake, you need to prepare the following products:
- sugar - half a glass;
- eggs - two pieces;
- margarine - 250 grams;
- flour - 600 grams;
- salt - a small pinch;
- soda - on the tip of a knife;
- condensed milk - one can;
- butter - 200 grams.
You need to look for a good ready-made condensed milk, so it is recommended to buy everyone you know, in a jar with a blue label, and cook it yourself. It is easy. You just need to lower the jar into a pot of water and send it to the fire for one hour.
Base preparation process
Now we can move on to the topic of how to cook the Anthill cake step by step. The actions are as follows:
- Beat the eggs properly. It is not necessary to use a blender - enough forks are enough.
- Pour sugar into softened margarine and beat thoroughly. It should turn out a lush and sweet mass, similar in texture to sour cream.
- Add eggs to the resulting mixture, then add salt and soda. Continue to beat the mass.
- Pour flour in small portions. Knead with your hands until you get a uniform dense ball.
Put the resulting dough into the refrigerator for one hour. After this time, skip the dough through a meat grinder. If there is none, you can simply grate it.
Gently distribute the resulting chips on a baking sheet previously lined with baking paper, greased with butter on top. Send to the oven preheated to 170 ° C for about 25 minutes. Willingness can be determined by the appearance of the chips - it should become rosy.
Whipping cream and cake
These are the last two stages following each other. For the “Anthill” cake, the photo of which is presented in the article, the cream is prepared elementarily.
First you need to beat the butter. And you need to do this as carefully as possible to get a very magnificent homogeneous mass. Without turning off the mixer, add pre-cooked condensed milk. It is important, by the way, not to overexpose it during cooking, since it should not be fully prepared. Properly boiled condensed milk has a pleasant beige-brown color.
Then you can do the basics. During the baking process, the chips will naturally stick together, so it will need to be broken into pieces. Then mix thoroughly with the resulting cream and put everything in a slide on the dish.
Then the Anthill cake must be sent to the refrigerator for impregnation and cooling. In principle, he can stand there at night, and in the morning he can already be eaten.
Cake without baking
Not every person wants to do their own foundation preparation. In this case, there is an alternative - anthill cake made from cookies. You will need such components:
- ordinary shortbread cookies - 400 grams;
- favorite nuts - 50 grams;
- dark chocolate - 30 grams;
- boiled condensed milk - one can;
- butter - 200 grams.
It will turn out, of course, not the classic Anthill cake, but it will be similar in taste.
All cookies must be randomly broken into pieces and poured into a blender bowl, in which ice is usually crushed. Then turn on the "Impulse" mode - you should get a big crumb. But not a powder! Otherwise, when the cream is added, it will turn out not a cake, but porridge.
No blender? Then the broken cookie can just be poured into a bag and crushed a little with a rolling pin.
The resulting mass of cookies should be poured into a separate container and add a mixture of chocolate and nuts, crushed all in the same blender.
Then you need to make a cream (beat the condensed milk with butter) and add it to the base. Mix everything carefully with a spoon. You get a sticky mass of medium humidity. It only remains to form the Anthill cake out of it, that's all!
Sour cream version with nuts: ingredients
In what variations only this famous dessert is not cooked! There are countless recipes. We present the sour cream version of the "Anthill" cake step by step (photo - further). By the way, it is considered the second most popular after the classic.
The following components will be required:
- sour cream - 100 grams;
- egg - 1 piece;
- margarine - 100 grams;
- vinegar and soda - half a teaspoon;
- flour - 350 grams;
- nuts - 100 grams;
- condensed milk - 1 can.
As you can see, the components are similar. The only caveat - this recipe involves the use of fully cooked condensed milk. That is, you need to keep it in a pan with water over a fire as expected - for two hours.
Cooking
In principle, the process of kneading the dough is the same as in the case of the classic Anthill cake.
Margarine should be softened, sifted half the flour there, add the egg and mix everything properly. Pour in sour cream, extinguish soda with vinegar, add next. To begin to intensively mix the mass, while adding the remaining flour.
The resulting dough should stand in the refrigerator for two hours. Further actions are already familiar - rubbing, baking. By the way, there is a recommendation in this recipe: it is sometimes worth looking into the oven and stirring shavings with a wooden spatula. So she does not stick together.
Then the baked crumb should be mixed with warm boiled condensed milk. Form a cake and sprinkle with pre-chopped nuts, slightly pressing them into the cake. Home "Anthill" should still stand for several hours at room temperature, after which it can be served.
Toffee Corn Stick Cake
This is a very experimental dessert option. But outwardly it is an Anthill, albeit a very atypical one. To make it, you need only three ingredients:
- 400 grams of soft fresh butterscotch;
- packing sweet corn sticks;
- 200 grams of softened butter.
First of all, you need to melt the toffee. Just pour them into a metal bowl and send to a water bath. Then, butter must be mixed in this sweet mass. Beat lightly to make a homogeneous mixture.
Then she just needs to fill in the sticks and form a slide. It is strongly recommended that it be wrapped in foil and sent to the refrigerator. So the desired configuration of the fragile design will definitely be preserved.
Secrets and recommendations
Based on the above recipes, we can conclude that any person can cook such a cake. The simplest ingredients and a little time are needed. However, despite this, this dish has some secrets and subtleties. They must be taken into account, otherwise the dessert will lose all its originality. Here are some suggestions:
- To achieve a denser cake mass, you need to bake a "thick" cake. How to do it? You just do not rub the dough on a grater, but tear it with your hands. Only then will it be necessary to reduce the time spent in the refrigerator.
- You can achieve a spicy taste by adding a little honey to the cream. Enough one tablespoon.
- Before you begin cooking, it is recommended that you take the food out of the refrigerator for about half an hour. Room temperature components will be easier to work with.
- For convenience, it is recommended not to pour flour into the liquid components, but vice versa. It must be mixed in a separate container with other dry ingredients, and then make a recess at the top. It will be necessary to pour liquid into it.
- Be sure to sift the flour. The dessert will then turn out much more magnificent.
- Korzh stuck to the pan? Then you need to put it on a damp cloth moistened with ice water. Or just hold the pan for a couple of minutes over the steam.
- Is the cream too liquid? Then you can put it on the foil and wait a bit. The mass will dry and become suitable for the formation of a cake.
And do not be afraid to experiment! Many flavors perfectly complement the aromatic range of dessert. Most often, chefs opt for nuts, glaze, whipped cream, vanillin, lemon peel and cognac. People who like to deviate from the classics and try something new will definitely appreciate each of these copyrighted options.