Sweet sausage is a favorite childhood dessert. Moms prepared this for their birthday, on the occasion of the end of the school year and on other special occasions. The advantages of this dessert are the speed of cooking, simplicity and the absence of the need to turn on the oven. That is, a cake “Sausage” from cookies can be made even in the country.
Easiest option
It does not require expensive ingredients. You can use what is at hand. Sausage cake from cookies can be made from debris. To do this, ask for scrap in a candy store, they usually give it a lot cheaper. This recipe will not require special cooking skills. Even a child can cope with it perfectly. All you need is a little time, a refrigerator and simple ingredients.
Sausage cake from cookies can be prepared in dozens of different ways. Mistresses add dried fruits, chocolate, iris, caramel, in general, everything that is found at home. For the base, any cookie is suitable, both store-based and home-made, sponge cake or shortbread cake.
So, for cooking you will need:
- Any cookies are 250 g. Try to choose without fruit flavors, otherwise the taste of the finished product will change.
- Condensed milk - 0.5 cans.
- Butter - 100 g.
- Cocoa - 3 tsp.
Let's make a cake “Sausage” from cookies
First of all, you need to chop the cookies. To do this, you can use a blender or a meat grinder. If there is nothing at hand, then use a rolling pin. Leave a few things and break them by hand. Large pieces will imitate fatty inclusions in sausage.
In the crushed cookies, put the softened butter and mix. Add condensed milk and knead as dough. In the end, you need to pour out large pieces of cookies. Now on the table we lay out a piece of film, on which we place the resulting mass. We form a sausage, twist the ends and put it in the freezer for at least 2 hours, and preferably at night. After that, you can get and cut into beautiful slices. It turns out a great treat for tea. Sausage cake from cookies without baking is suitable as an option for school tea drinking. The main thing is to cook it on the eve or in extreme cases in the morning.
Walnut dessert
The tender base of shortcrust pastry is best complemented by walnut or almond kernels. Moreover, many culinary specialists consider such a recipe a classic. Sausage cake from cookies without baking in this case is prepared on the basis of the following ingredients:
- Butter - 100 g.
- Sugar - 3 tbsp. l
- Cocoa - 2 tbsp. l
- Milk - 3 tbsp. l
- Shortbread Cookies - 200 g.
- Walnuts - 80 g.
Nuts need to be dried in a pan. Then the taste of the product will be more pronounced. Do not crank them through a meat grinder, better chop with a knife. Let large fragments remain, they will be very interesting to look at the cut. Half of the cookies need to be crushed into crumbs, and half broken into small pieces. Mix cookies with nuts. The dry part will wait in the wings.
Chocolate glaze
In a suitable saucepan, mix sugar and cocoa. Add milk or cream. Mix again and put the pan on the fire. At first the mass will be very thick, then the sugar will begin to melt, and it will become liquid. When the contents of the pan begin to boil, you can remove from the heat and let cool slightly. Introduce the cubed butter and mix well.
The recipe for Sausage cake from cookies allows you to adjust the structure of the finished product. At this stage, we have icing and sand and nut crumbs. In parts, we begin to add dry ingredients and mix well each time. We continue to work until we achieve the desired consistency or the mixture of cookies and nuts is complete. Knead well again. We prepare a suitable piece of foil, spread the mass and form a sausage of the desired thickness. Chocolate sausage cake from cookies should match the name, so try to repeat the form.
Tighten the edges tightly and put in the freezer for 2-3 hours. Wrap the chilled sausage in parchment paper and tie it with a rope. As such, it can be stored in the freezer for a long time. If necessary, just take it out and let it lie for about 15 minutes in a warm place. After that, you can easily cut it with a knife into beautiful pieces. Sausage cake made with cookies with condensed milk will be an excellent option in case guests unexpectedly come.
Make diversity
If you already make preparations for the future, then for every taste, so that every time you can surprise your home with something new.
- We select several types of cookies (plain, chocolate, baked milk), any nuts to your taste.
- Dried fruits are very good in this dessert. It can be dried apricots, raisins, prunes, dried cherries.
- Marmalade, toffee or caramel.
- Slices of black, milk or white chocolate.
- Sunflower seeds
- Candied fruit.
You can cook one "Sausage" of each type and sign them. Then it will be possible to make assorted slices or to get different types each time. Of course, you should not prepare for the year ahead. But the month of dessert lies calmly.
Creamy Sausage
The combination of soft caramel and cookies can hardly be called unsuccessful. No wonder the Twix bars are so popular. And today we will learn to make a home analogue, only tastier. Creamy iris, crumbly cookies and chocolate. A delightful trio. For cooking you will need:
- Good iris ("Kies-Kies" or "Golden Key") - 200 g.
- Unsweetened cookies, like cracker - 200 g.
- Butter - 150 g.
- Chocolate - 100 g.
Now about the cooking method. Expand the toffee and send to the microwave. While they are melting, you can chop the cookies and soften the melted butter. Put butter in melted iris and immediately add cookies. In a slightly warm mass, add chocolate and spread it on a spread film or foil. Now it remains only to tightly roll the sausage and send it to freeze. Iris makes the dessert structure denser, but it tastes great. Add cocoa and nuts as desired.
Lightweight version
This is a quick option that will help out if the child suddenly brought friends to visit, and you want to treat them. A minimum of products will be required, and the result will please not only babies, but most adults are sweet. A delicate, airy treat will bring true pleasure. By the way, if you compare it in calories with those prepared according to previous recipes based on a shortcrust pastry, then it clearly wins.
For cooking you will need:
- Pack of Sweet Corn Sticks - 100 g.
- Soft Toffee - 400 g.
- Butter - 150 g.
Corn sticks can be replaced with cereal or chocolate balls from the cooked breakfast series. Today we are considering a classic recipe, and then you can experiment at your discretion.
The cooking method is simple. Each corn stick must be cut into 3 to 4 pieces. Put the cup on the fire and melt the toffee and butter in it. Do not pay attention to the fact that they melt separately from each other. Soon they will become one. Stir the caramel periodically. When the mass becomes liquid and homogeneous, add corn sticks and immediately remove from heat. Divide the mass into two parts and put it in different packages. Use your hands to fit the shape. Now it remains only to put it in the freezer for 1.5 hours, after which it can be taken out and cut. A very tasty and quick recipe if you want to please the children and make an uncomplicated dessert. Modifications also take place, feel free to add chopped prunes, dried apricots, raisins, chocolate. In general, everything you want.
Instead of a conclusion
A biscuit cake without baking is a real help if you need to serve something for tea, and your culinary skills are far from ideal. The recipe helps out in case of extreme lack of time. Just 30 minutes is enough to make several such sausages and put them in the freezer. Fortunately, the recipe can be varied with additives, so it will never get bored. Now you can get sweets as needed and delight your family with a tea party. On the one hand, nothing complicated. On the other hand, in every bite they will feel your care and warmth.