Shortcrust pastry is ideal for preparing various types of cookies and cake cakes. From it you can create culinary masterpieces not only in the factory, but also at home, and this does not require special skills. The dough is prepared very simply and quickly enough. Thus, in a very short time, you can cook both cookies and the cake anthill beloved by many, the recipe of which will be given below.
To prepare shortcrust pastry you will need a pack of butter or margarine, that is, at least 200 g, a glass of sugar and flour - 600-800 g, that is 3-4 glasses. Oil or margarine needs to be melted a little, for this it is put in a warm place for half an hour. There is no need to wait for the appearance of a liquid, softness can be considered sufficient, which makes it easy to grind the mass with sugar. The mixture is brought to a homogeneous state, after which the flour is added. To make an anthill cake later on , the recipe can be a bit varied by adding eggs. One egg will be enough. After thorough mixing, a baking powder is added to the dough (you can simply mix citric acid and baking soda separately in the palm of your hand)., Mix again, transfer to a plastic bag and put in the freezer for an hour.
To prepare an anthill cake, the recipe for the dough for which has already been given, you need to use the dough scrolled through a meat grinder or rubbed through a coarse grater, so you do not need to overexpose it in the freezer. Otherwise, you have to wait until the lump melts a little, which in itself covers the process.
Scrolling the dough through a meat grinder, you can cook both a cake and cookies. The only difference is that biscuits will often need to trim the emerging straw. For a cake, on the contrary, it is better to make the straw as long as possible so that it is easier to break. Nevertheless, the anthill cake can be prepared from cookies, the recipe is the same, all the difference in convenience. If there is no desire to twist the dough or rub it, then simply cut out fancy figures with the help of forms or with an ordinary knife. You need to try if there are children in the house, because for them this will be an additional reason for tea drinking.
In any case, the dough is baked at 180 ° C until a golden crust appears. It is important not to overdo it so that crackers do not turn out. If the goal was to prepare cookies, then at this stage the process can be considered completed, however, you will have to tinker if the ant hill cake was conceived. The recipe requires manually breaking the resulting dough into small pieces. Separately, it is necessary to prepare the cream by adding boiled condensed milk in whipped butter. When the mass turns out homogeneous and magnificent, it is mixed with the prepared pieces and laid down a hill.
Anthill cake is similarly prepared. The recipe has no differences, however, it is recommended to make smaller pieces, as in this case it will resemble a cake in miniature.
In some cases, the cream is prepared without butter, but then more condensed milk will be needed, and the impregnation will turn out worse. Regardless of whether the cake or anthill cake was reproduced, it is worth decorating the pastries with chocolate, grated nuts, powdered sugar and other things. For a children's holiday, it is better to arrange a cake in the form of a bear's head, make an inscription and do not forget about decorative candles.
Even if the shortbread cookie is left and no one wants to eat it, you need to make an anthill cake out of cookies. The recipe has already been told, it remains only to show imagination in the design, because the slide is a classic that you can retreat from, especially in cooking.
The main rule in making a cake or cake for this recipe is not to eat immediately, since the cream should be absorbed closely into the shortbread. Otherwise, the taste will be completely different.