A “creamy log” is a cake that can be prepared without baking. The result is an amazing dessert that can impress not only loved ones, but guests as well. This recipe is especially popular. After all, a cake can be prepared without an oven. Ideal for tea drinking with friends.
After spending a little time, you can prepare a delicate, soft, full-bodied dessert, covered with chocolate icing. It takes 50 minutes to create the Creamy Log Cake. Plus 2 hours for soaking the dessert.
“Creamy log”: recipe
To prepare goodies you will need:
- Cookies - 800 grams. Ideal "Baked milk" or "Jubilee."
- Butter made from animal cream is approximately 250 grams.
- Nuts - 1 cup. You can use peanuts or walnuts.
- Condensed milk - 380 grams.
- Powdered cocoa - 4 tablespoons. If condensed milk with chocolate is used for cooking, then there is no need to add this component.
Product Preparation
So, how to cook "Creamy Log"? The recipe is quite simple. To begin with, it is recommended to prepare some components. Cookies must be crushed into crumbs. You can use a dry rolling pin for this. It is not worth turning it into dust. The pieces should be medium in size.
Nuts can be chosen to your taste: walnuts, peanuts, cashews, almonds and so on. They must be cleaned, dried, and then detailed. In a deep container, chopped nuts and cookies should be mixed.
How to make a cake
Soviet recipes are unique. In this case, nothing needs to be baked. A cake is formed as follows:
- Melt the butter in a water bath, cool slightly, and then mix with condensed milk. This component does not need to be cooked.
- The prepared mixture should be used for pouring the dry component of the dessert (cookie crumbs and crushed nuts).
- The products should be mixed well, and then placed in a bag of dense material. This must be done quickly before the mass has cooled.
- To get a “Creamy Log,” the filled bag must be squeezed gently. The result should be a neat cylinder. This future is logged.
- The edges of the bag should be well tied, and then placed in the cold for 2 hours. To make the cake shape more even, you can bandage the cylinder with threads.
How to decorate dessert
After the specified time, the creamy log cake can be removed from the refrigerator. The kulek should be removed, and the dessert pour melted milk or bitter chocolate. At the end of the treat you can sprinkle with nuts and decorate. For this, you can use dragees in combination with a variety of marmalade figures.
You can also cover the cake with whipped cream and gently sprinkle cocoa. Top dessert can be decorated with fresh raspberries or strawberries, as well as beautifully cut fruits. For decoration, you can use a cream, creating original floral compositions from it. Using chocolate, you can create an imitation of wood.
"Creamy log": GOST
The recipe for this delicacy according to GOST is significantly different. To prepare a dessert you will need:
- Sugar - 400 grams.
- Whole milk - 400 grams.
- Molasses - 1 tablespoon.
- Butter from animal cream - 70 grams.
- Hazelnut kernels - 100 grams.
- Powdered Sugar - 70 grams.
For decoration, it is worth preparing in advance:
- Creamy fudge - 100 grams.
- Butter from animal cream - 40 grams.
- Hazelnuts - 4 nuts.
Cooking fudge
Soviet recipes are significantly different from modern ones. After all, there is nothing complicated in them. If desired, everything can be cooked at home. To make a creamy log cake, you need to make syrup.
In a deep container, mix sugar and whole milk. The pot with the mixture should be put on fire. The syrup should be boiled until the color changes, stirring regularly. You can also check readiness on a soft ball. The mass may be stratified. About 10 minutes before the syrup is ready, add molasses to the container. If this component is not available, then you can replace it with invert syrup. You need to cook everything for half an hour, periodically changing the intensity of the flame.
Note: to test for a soft ball, you need to drip a little syrup on a saucer. After some time, the mass can be carefully rolled up.
Further cooking
The finished mass should be cooled to a temperature of 45 ° C. To do this, the container must be immersed in dishes with cold water. After this, the finished fudge must be gently whipped with butter. The result should be a crystalline mass having a light brown color. Such a mixture should resemble boiled condensed milk mixed with butter. To decorate the cake should be set aside about 100 grams of such fudge.
The remaining mass should be mixed with nuts, previously dried, peeled and crushed. After that, you can add powdered sugar into it.
Formation and decoration
To form a creamy log log cake, cover the baking dish with parchment and then grease it with animal cream butter. Ready fudge must be poured into the container. Also for these purposes, you can use cling film. Dessert should be placed in the cold for about 4 hours.
100 grams of fondant left for decoration should be mixed with softened oil. It will be a cream. The finished cake needs to be removed from the refrigerator. It must be decorated with cream, applying a relief pattern. On top you can lay out nuts, colored dragees, marmalade figures. If desired, you can use a multi-colored cream. This will create original floral arrangements on the dessert surface.