Anthill cake is one of the classic desserts that can be seen on any holiday table along with Napoleon, Honey cake, Bird's milk, Sour cream and Prague. This is a traditional cake of Russian cuisine, which consumers have long loved.
Dessert at home
Everyone knows that never a store-made version of the cake can be compared with a dessert prepared at home. The taste of home-made goodies is much richer, brighter, and the cake itself is more tender, because the housewives make it with love, putting their whole soul in. Let's look today at how to make anthill cake at home. The article will feature several recipes.
Calorie "Anthill"
Of course, the calorie content of the cake depends solely on what products were used in the cooking process and in what quantity. The average calorie content of a cake cooked at home is 384 kcal per 100 g of product.
When eating sweets, including cakes, watch out for a serving. People who want to lose extra pounds can eat a piece, but only until nine in the morning. Move more during the day, walk from work to home in the evening, walk with a dog or children. Only under such conditions can one eat sweets without any worries and not get fat.
Nutritional Information "Anthill"
Dieters should discard the frequent use of this treat. Now let's find out the reason.
One hundred grams of the product contains 6 g of protein, 20 g of fat and 45 g of carbohydrates.
What usually affects the figure? Of course, the consumption of fats and carbohydrates in large quantities. Many sweet tooth, certainly, at once eat not one hundred grams of the product. Not one piece is used, but two or even three. If the person losing weight has lost control of the diet, then the serving at all increases by a factor of 4. Usually, such people are able to eat a whole 1.5 kg cake.
And this is already six thousand kilocalories, one hundred grams of protein, three hundred and ten grams of fat and seven hundred grams of carbohydrates.
To prevent such overeating and prevent the occurrence of an eating disorder, lose weight wisely. And remember that one diet is not enough. Keep track of your mental health and physical activity.
Let's now go directly to the recipes. How to make "Anthill" at home?
Classic "Anthill"
The recipe is designed for approximately eight servings. The cake is preparing for about 2.5 hours.
What is required for the test:
- 2.5 packs of margarine;
- half a glass of granulated sugar;
- two chicken eggs;
- a pound of flour;
- salt;
- soda.
What we need for the cream:
- two packs of butter;
- can of condensed milk.
Cooking method:
- Boil condensed milk for an hour.
- Break eggs into a bowl, beat with a fork.
- Beat margarine with sugar until smooth.
- Constantly altering the mixture, add the eggs beaten with a fork, soda and salt (on the tip of the knife).
- Gently pour in flour, kneading the dough.
- Put the dough for an hour in the refrigerator.
- Turn on the oven 180 degrees.
- Dough, which was cooled for an hour, grate or pass through a meat grinder. Put the resulting dough in one layer on parchment, which previously covered the baking sheet.
- Bake in the oven for about twenty minutes.
- Cooking cream: beat the butter with a mixer until the color changes. The oil should become lighter.
- Continuing to beat, a tablespoon gradually add boiled condensed milk.
- Cool the dough ropes after baking and break. Now mix them with the cream. Put on the dish in the form of a slide. Put the cake in the refrigerator for an hour or two.
Serve chilled cake with tea. Invite your loved ones, friends and relatives to a tea party. An excellent excuse to see family, to have a heart-to-heart talk and just enjoy together the amazing taste of Anthill.
Anthill cake without baking
How to make "Anthill" at home without baking? Find out right now!
What we need:
- six hundred grams of baked milk ;
- five hundred grams of boiled condensed milk;
- one hundred grams of butter;
- two tablespoons of sour cream;
- thirty grams of milk chocolate ;
- two handfuls of walnuts.
Cooking method:
- Using your hands or using a blender, food processor, coffee grinder, grind cookies.
- The mixer needs to beat the boiled condensed milk. When it becomes less common, add sour cream. Whip again.
- Then combine with soft butter (remove it from the refrigerator two hours before starting cooking).
- Grind walnuts in any way, for example, using a rolling pin. Add to cream.
- Add crushed cookies to the cream and mix the mass.
- We take a flat plate, spread the whole mass in the form of a slide.
- We rub milk chocolate on a grater. Sprinkle with them our cake, which we then put in the refrigerator for two hours.
So you have learned how to make the "Anthill" from cookies. As you can see, the recipe is insanely simple. Cake can be prepared in just ten minutes. All ingredients are affordable and common. They can be found in any store near the house.
"Anthill" with honey
How to make anthill cake? The recipe can be both classic and simple, as well as advanced and more complex. We offer you to cook a treat with a honey flavor.
What we need:
- two chicken eggs;
- two hundred milliliters of water;
- a teaspoon of salt;
- three glasses of flour;
- a glass of honey;
- half a glass of sugar;
- liter of vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
- We breed salt in water. Add the egg and mix.
- Pour two cups of flour and knead the dough. Now add another glass.
- Chop off a little dough and roll it very thinly.
- Cut the rolled dough into thin vermicelli.
- Fry vermicelli from the dough in a liter of vegetable oil in a skillet or slow cooker.
- We take out the fried vermicelli, put on a napkin to allow excess fat to drain.
- Pour honey into the pan, add sugar. We put on a slow fire. Stir until sugar dissolves. Remove the pan from the heat as soon as the mass boils.
- Put the fried vermicelli in a pan. Pour with hot honey and mix.
- On a flat dish we form a cake with a slide. Let cool and put the plate in the refrigerator for at least an hour.
So, a cake can be not only tasty, but also healthy. So it was made by honey, an incredibly useful product for people of all ages. But it was this honey that turned the cake into a real high-calorie bomb. So be careful when consuming it, so as not to gain extra pounds.
Cake "Anthill"
If you don’t have much time, the guests are already on the doorstep, and you have nothing to treat them to tea, then we will consider another quick way to prepare the Anthill cake-cake. How to make this dessert from cookies? Consider the recipe.
What we need:
- four pieces of unsweetened bread Korner;
- two tablespoons of honey;
- two tablespoons of peanut butter;
- fifty milliliters of milk;
- twenty grams of dark chocolate.
Cooking method:
- Grind bread, crush or chop in any way.
- In a saucepan, mix honey, milk and peanut butter.
- Put the stewpan on a small fire, bring the mass to a thickening, stirring constantly.
- Add crumbs of bread to the mass from the stewpan. Now you need to mix thoroughly.
- Cover with a cling film a flat plate, put the whole resulting mass in a slide. Put in the refrigerator under the press. The cake should stand for two hours.
- Pour melted dark chocolate before serving.
In addition, due to the fact that we use bread rolls as dough and cakes, the dessert is more useful. This dish can be safely consumed by adherents of proper nutrition.
Anthill from old cookies
If you have a lot of cookies left that are about to dry out, and your family don’t eat it, we suggest you make a delicious dessert out of it. Agree, a very interesting recipe. How to make "Anthill" from the remaining cookies? Let's find out.
What we need:
- four hundred grams of cookies;
- fifty grams of honey;
- eighty grams of butter;
- can of condensed milk.
Cooking method:
- Cook condensed milk on a minimum heat for about three hours.
- Grind cookies in any way.
- Beat butter with a mixer until color changes. Add condensed boiled milk gradually over a tablespoon.
- Mix cookie crumbs with condensed milk.
- We form a cake, laying out the mass in the form of a slide.
- We put dessert in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
- Pour honey before serving.
So we breathed new life into cookies. Treat yourself and loved ones with a delicious cake!
"Anthill" with poppy seeds and orange zest
Now we’ll diversify the classic recipe for the Anthill cake, adding poppy seeds and orange zest. Cooking delicious pastries for the sweet tooth.
What we need:
- egg;
- half a glass of granulated sugar;
- four tablespoons of milk;
- a teaspoon of soda;
- a tablespoon of vinegar (9%);
- two packs of margarine;
- four glasses of flour;
- can of condensed milk;
- three hundred grams of butter;
- a glass of peanuts;
- poppy;
- lemon zest.
Cooking method:
- Put butter and margarine in advance from the refrigerator two hours before cooking.
- Beat the chicken egg together with granulated sugar. Then add milk, mix.
- To extinguish soda with vinegar. Pour into the egg and milk mixture. Mix everything with softened margarine.
- Sift the flour and add to the bowl with the egg-milk mixture and margarine. Knead the dough. Divide it into four parts, cover with cling film and refrigerate for half an hour.
- Boil condensed milk for an hour. After cooling it, mix with softened butter. All together you need to beat.
- Grate the chilled dough. Lay out on a baking sheet. Bake for twenty minutes at 200 degrees.
- Grind peanuts in any way.
- With cream and nuts, mix the finished cake. We spread it on a dish with a slide. We put in the refrigerator for four hours.
- Before serving, sprinkle the cake with orange zest and poppy seeds.
Orange zest gives the cake a refined, spicy touch. Make a cake for breakfast, afternoon snack or dinner. Also, dessert will look good on the festive table.
Cooking features
Cake "Anthill" was insanely popular in Soviet times. That is how it is now. It can be found in almost every supermarket. But we all know that home-cooked cake is much better than the store version. Consider the recommendations below, and you get the perfect Anthill Cake:
- Put all the ingredients in the refrigerator before cooking. They should be at room temperature.
- To make the dough airy, sift the flour.
- If margarine is specified in the recipe, do not replace it with butter. Follow the recipe clearly.
- During the preparation, mix dry and liquid ingredients separately and only then combine.
- What can I do to prevent the cake from falling apart in the refrigerator? Wrap it in cling film or foil.
Conclusion
So, now it’s clear how to make the Anthill Cake. Indulge yourself and your loved ones with this sweet masterpiece!