During perestroika in the USSR, when all products disappeared from the shelves at once, this dessert, along with the Anthill and the Potato cake, was practically the only treat for children. And still, many children prefer this dessert, rather than multi-level cream cakes. This article describes in detail the principle of preparation of this dish - sweet sausage from cookies. Recipes with photos can satisfy different tastes, because someone likes the traditional way of cooking, while others like more refined options.
Easiest option
In fact, the ingredients for this dessert are almost identical, when compared with the “Potato” cake recipe, you just don’t need to bother with the piece by piece: just roll the prepared mass into polyethylene and then cut into pieces, getting a great sweetness for tea.
The classic recipe for sweet sausage from cookies looks like this:
- Mix one hundred grams of softened oil and 2/3 cans of condensed milk, add three tbsp. tablespoons of cocoa powder and mix well.
- Break 500 grams of plain cookies (Yubileynoe, Tea, with baked milk) into small pieces. It is to break, not chop in a blender. Leave half of the whole portion as is, and grind the second to small crumbs with a rolling pin.
- Combine all the ingredients together, mix well and put on a cling film in the form of a stick of salami five centimeters thick. Wrap tightly and clamp the side edges.
Cooked according to this recipe, sweet sausage from cookies and cocoa, place in the refrigerator and let it cool and soak well for two to four hours. Then cut with a sharp knife, like an ordinary sausage, and serve with tea. Households will be delighted!
Dessert without Cocoa
Not everyone likes the chocolate flavor in combination with butter, so for such people there is another recipe for sweet sausage from cookies: without cocoa powder. But since just cookies with butter are not very attractive, prunes, raisins or dried apricots can become an additional ingredient that gives the product a unique taste. Dried fruits should be cut into small cubes, so that when cutting, the finished dessert holds the shape of slices well.
To prepare a sweet sausage from cookies and condensed milk according to the recipe in this variation, you should:
- 70 grams of dried fruit cut.
- Grind 300 grams of plain cookies to crumbs.
- Take 200 grams of butter and condensed milk, mix.
- In one dish, combine all the ingredients into a plastic mass, form a sausage with a cling film and leave in a cool place for several hours.
With nut mix
In this recipe for sweet sausage, cookies with condensed milk are additionally flavored with cognac, and nut grains give the dessert a special look. To prepare the base, you should take:
- 200 grams of different nuts: walnuts, roasted peanuts, cashews or hazel. You can also add a little peeled almonds. Grind them into small pieces, just do not need to grind to a state of flour, the highlight will be lost, because it is so wonderful to crack open a large nut!
- 400 grams of shortbread biscuits are divided into two parts: one is finely chopped, and the second is slightly larger so that the pieces, caught in the finished dessert, imitate lumps of meat, like in real sausage.
- 170 grams of butter. It must be left in the heat so that it melts a little, then the cookies will easily soak them.
- Three tbsp. tablespoons of cocoa and fresh milk. They must be mixed together and add to them one spoonful of quality cognac or liquor.
Mix all the prepared ingredients together and form a sweet sausage from cookies. The recipe for production is always the same: to form, wrap in a film, give time to soak, cut into slices.
Gourmet
If you want to turn the usual recipe for sweet sausages from cookies into a masterpiece, then you can use the secret weapon of all culinary specialists - spices. With their help, even an inconspicuous dish can become the ultimate dream of the most inveterate gourmet, the main thing is to know the subtleties of the combination and adhere to the recipe:
- three hundred grams of shortbread cookies and butter;
- two hundred grams of walnuts and pitted prunes;
- two ripe bananas;
- 80 grams of powdered sugar and cocoa powder;
- 40 grams of good quality liquor or cognac;
- five grams of grated nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla.
How to cook?
Beat powder, cocoa and soft butter into a light foam. Grind nuts and cookies into small pieces, cut prunes into four parts (each), combine everything in one bowl, pour with liquor mixed with spices.
Mix everything with your hands. Add the bananas, cut into small pieces. Put the mass on cling film and, tamping, form a kind of sausage, tighten tightly and place in the refrigerator for several hours to soak. Fragrant dessert for tea will appeal to even indifferent to sweet people.
Stuffed Sausage
This option for preparing goodies is somewhat different from the previous ones in that it has a heterogeneous structure, and the middle is in the form of a filling of coconut flakes. The recipe for sweet sausage from cookies involves the use of such ingredients:
- 150 grams of butter and toffee candy;
- 220 grams of plain cookies;
- 80 grams of cocoa;
- 30 grams of flavoring liquor, but if the dessert is prepared for children, this product can not be added, but replaced with vanilla or fruit essence.
For the filling you will need: 60 grams of coconut, powdered sugar and butter. Mix everything to a uniform state. To prepare a sausage, grind cookies with a blender to fine particles, mix with cocoa. In a bowl with a thick bottom over low heat, melt the butter and add toffee to it, stirring, bring to a homogeneous molten mass, pour in cognac and immediately mix with crumbs from cookies. It is worth noting that the mixture will quickly harden, so the cling film should be prepared in advance, that is, pre-spread on the table. Spread the resulting mass in an even layer, place the filling in the middle in the middle and roll the sausage with the help of a film, pressing it firmly with your fingers. Let the dessert cool in the refrigerator (2-3 hours), and then cut it into slices with a sharp knife.