Chocolate potato recipes are known to many modern housewives. After all, such a dessert was very often made in Soviet times, when there wasn’t such a variety of sweets on the shelves as now.
Chocolate potato, the classic recipe of which will be discussed later, is a simple and very tasty treat. You can cook it at home in many ways.
In this article, we will present you two simple options, one of which requires the use of shortbread cookies, and the other of crushed crackers.
Chocolate potato crackers: recipe (classic)
To implement this simple and affordable recipe, you must purchase:
- high-fat cow's milk - 1 full glass;
- small beet sugar - 1 full glass;
- unsalted butter - ½ pack (i.e. approximately 140 g);
- cocoa powder - 3 large spoons in the base and the same amount for deboning;
- crushed wheat crackers - 4 cups;
- roasted peanuts (whole) - 2 tablespoons.
Making the basis for a cracker cake
Chocolate potato recipes must be known to all housewives. After all, this is a simple and easy dessert, for the implementation of which it does not take a lot of time. To make it, in a separate bowl, put fresh butter, and then add cow's milk to it and put on low heat.
Once the cooking oil has melted, the products are removed from the stove and sugar is added to them. The resulting mixture is thoroughly mixed so that the sweet product is completely dissolved.
After the described actions, cocoa is added to the crushed wheat crackers. After mixing the bulk components, a previously prepared warm mixture is gradually poured into them. In this case, a homogeneous mass of chocolate color is obtained, which lends itself well to molding. If the mixture crumbles, then you can add a little more sugar syrup to it.
How to form a cake and serve it to the family table?
Chocolate potato, the recipe with a photo of which we are considering in this article, is formed very simply. To do this, they take about two dessert spoons of the prepared mass from crackers into their hands, and then make a ball or an oblong sphere from it. Next, one core of roasted peanuts is carefully introduced into the center of the product.
Having adjusted the shape of the potato, it is immediately rolled in cocoa and laid out on a flat dish. Having formed all the other products in a similar way, they are also placed on a plate, and then sent to the refrigerator. After 3-4 hours, chocolate potatoes are presented to the family table. As a rule, it is consumed with unsweetened tea.
Chocolate Chip Cookies: A Step-by-Step Recipe
The considered method of making dessert is more modern than the one presented above. To implement it at home, we need:
- chocolate or cream shortbread cookies - about 350 g (you can take Yubileinoe);
- good quality condensed milk (i.e. thick) - about 2/3 cup;
- fresh butter - about 100 g;
- cocoa powder - 2-3 large spoons (for crumbling products);
- walnut (whole) - about 150 g (optional, for filling).
Chocolate making
Chocolate potato recipes may include completely different products. For faster cooking of this dessert, many housewives use condensed milk. Thanks to this component, cookie crumbs hold their shape well and do not fall apart.
For the preparation of potatoes, you can use cookies of the brand "Jubilee". It is crushed by a meat grinder, and then a little melted and slightly chilled butter is added. After mixing the components, good quality condensed milk is also poured into them.
By combining all the ingredients, they try to form a small ball from them. If the mass is not collected, then a little more condensed milk is added to it or sugar syrup is boiled separately.
Walnut is also treated separately. It is washed and dried in a microwave oven. This component is useful to us for the filling.
The process of forming a cake and serving it to the table
To form a chocolate cake should be exactly the same as described in the previous recipe. To do this, cookies with condensed milk are collected in a tight lump. Its shape can be any. Most often, dessert is made round or slightly oblong, not very large.
A walnut kernel is also placed in the center of each cake. After that, all products are thoroughly crushed in cocoa. In some cases, powdered sugar, coconut flakes or confectionery powder are used instead of the last product.
Having beautifully laid out the dessert on a flat plate, it is sent to the refrigerator. After 3-4 hours, the cake is taken out and served to guests along with unsweetened tea. You can use such a treat with your hands, or with a skewer, fork or regular toothpick.
To summarize
Now you know the step-by-step recipes for chocolate potatoes. Observing all the recommendations that were described in this article, you will definitely get not only very tasty, but also a beautiful home-made delicacy. Using various mixtures in the form of confectionery crumbs, coconut flakes and other products to roll it, you will get an original dessert that can be safely presented even to a festive feast. Bon Appetit!