There are many dishes that are very quick to prepare, but this does not affect their taste in any way. I recently wrote about gingerbread cake, and today I want to remind you about the wonderful delicacy of my childhood. This is a “Potato” cookie cake, it seemed the most memorable and accessible at that time. And it’s ready in just 15 minutes, if not less.
Of course, people still love to enjoy this dessert, but a lot of recipes have appeared. There are those who reproduce the GOST recipe. Some people like desserts that are not very sweet and therefore do not add milk. And those who watch their figure prefer to remove butter from its composition. In general, today there will be a lot of variations of this quick and very tasty cake.
But we will make it not from biscuit, but from cookies. You can use any that crumbles well. Shortbread cookies, such as Yubilene, are also suitable here. You can also take different crackers, such as “Maria” or fish. It is also prepared from oatmeal cookies. To make it not too sweet, add simple crackers or do not add sugar at all.
By the way, the cake can be chocolate if you add cocoa, as well as simple. Decide for yourself whether to add cocoa or not. I love both “white” and “black” delicacies.
Potato cake made from cookies - a classic recipe with milk, butter and cocoa
So, here is the most common recipe. It does not contain alcohol (which is in accordance with GOST) and therefore housewives loved it the most. After all, you can give it to children. Of course, this delicacy is quite high in calories, but it is very tasty.
By the way, this cake can be frozen in the freezer and taken out as needed. This will not affect its taste at all.
A little about the ingredients: shortbread cookies are most often used (“Jubilee”, “For Coffee”, “Baked Milk”, etc.). I recommend choosing condensed milk marked “GOST”, it is the most delicious.
We take oil with a fat content of at least 82%. It should not contain ANY vegetable oil. Otherwise, it is a spread or margarine, which does not provide any benefit to our body.
Let's take:
- Jubilee shortbread cookies - 400 gr.,
- condensed milk - 1 can (380 gr.),
- butter - 50 gr.,
- cocoa powder - 3.4 tablespoons.
For sprinkling:
- sugar - 2 tablespoons,
- cocoa - 2 tablespoons.
The dessert is prepared quickly. The hardest part here is turning the cookies into crumbs. I use a blender or meat grinder for this purpose.
1.So, the first step is to prepare the crumbs.
At this stage, you can add cocoa, but you do this at your own discretion. I decided to add that the cake was more like what we ate in childhood.
Using a spoon, begin to mix these two ingredients until the dry mixture becomes the same color.
2. Now open the tin can of condensed milk. And pour everything completely into the dry ingredients.
3. For now, let’s leave this bowl alone and start preparing the butter.
If you haven’t had time to defrost it, then remove the wrapping paper from the block and put the butter in a plate.
Then put it in the microwave for 15 seconds. This time is enough for it to melt.
4. Take out a bowl and pour its contents over the cookies. Mix this mass long and thoroughly.
As a result, we should get a thick, plastic dough. It holds its shape well and is not runny at all.
5. Let's put it aside for now. And let's think about what we will sprinkle our finished cakes with.
I suggest mixing the crumbs and cocoa separately. But you can use sesame seeds, coconut flakes, grated chocolate, powdered sugar or crushed nuts. At the very end, I will show you some very interesting ideas on how to decorate the Potato cake.
6. Well, now we need to take a flat dish or container. Let's wet our hands in water and start forming delicious balls.
Take a spoon and scoop the dough onto it. Then we roll this lump between our palms. It turns out to be a ball.
7. Roll it in sprinkles and place on a plate.
The cake can be given any shape. They make rectangular blocks, hedgehogs, balls, and oval shapes.
When we have used all the dough, put the filled dish in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. During this time, the cake will harden and hold its shape better. It will also be well soaked in oil and condensed milk.
Preparing material for crafts
Before you start making crafts, you need to select and prepare the material correctly. You need to select potatoes that are suitable in shape and size, wash them thoroughly to remove dirt and dry them with a soft towel.
Also prepare other available materials that may be needed to make crafts:
- glue,
- plasticine,
- colored cardboard,
- markers,
- threads,
- cotton pads,
- dental sticks,
- other vegetables: carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers or fruits: apples, etc.
Interesting potato crafts for an exhibition for kindergarten and school on the theme: animal world
Potato cake made from oatmeal cookies, just like in childhood
Now I offer an interesting recipe for making oatmeal cookie dessert. The taste will be different. And for even greater tenderness, take powdered milk. A slightly creamy taste will appear.
Let's take:
- 0.5 kg oatmeal cookies,
- 0.5 cups sugar,
- 0.5 glasses of milk,
- 2 tbsp. l. cocoa,
- 2 tbsp. l. powdered milk,
- 50 g butter.
1.Now we need to grind all the cookies. It is harder than sand and crumbles worse. Therefore, first we break it into pieces with our hands, and then grind it into crumbs with a blender. If you don’t have it at hand, then take a coffee grinder or meat grinder.
2. Add 2 tbsp from the entire volume of crumbs. into a separate bowl, in which we will roll the cake.
3. Now add cocoa, milk powder and sugar to the total dry ingredient. These two components are added as desired. Oatmeal cookies are already quite sweet, so you can avoid granulated sugar altogether or reduce its amount.
4. Next, you can proceed in two ways.
- Take out the butter and defrost it. If it has already been left for two hours at room temperature, it has already become soft. If you forgot to take it out earlier, then melt it in the microwave or in a water bath. Spread the butter over the crumbs. Add milk little by little and mix everything.
- The option is faster. Pour the milk into a ladle and heat it over the fire until it boils. Remove from the stove. Then we take the butter, cut it into pieces and add it to the hot milk. It will melt and both masses will mix. Pour this mixture into the dry dough and mix everything.
Let's look at the consistency. It should not be too thick or, conversely, liquid. The dough turns out dense and pliable.
We use a spoon to separate the required amount and roll it into a ball.
Don't forget to roll in crumbs.
Ready product
After a written explanation of how to make a pirate hat out of paper, compare your craft with the finished hat. As you can see, you can slightly modify the shape by making the narrow edges taller. The top of the hat has a few centimeters of flat surface.
Draw the pirate emblem on a white sheet of paper, and then outline it with a black marker so that it looks three-dimensional. If you don’t have artistic abilities, it doesn’t matter, you can print such a popular drawing on a printer by taking an image of a skull and crossbones on the Internet.
The best recipe for cooking according to GOST USSR at home
So, here is a historical recipe. It was this that was prepared in restaurants, cafes and delis in the country that was called the USSR. It is this taste that we remember from childhood and try to reproduce in moments of nostalgia.
But I warn you right away that this cake contains a small dose of alcohol to improve the taste. And therefore, decide for yourself whether you will treat your children to it.
Let's take:
- 550 g shortbread cookies,
- 250 g butter,
- 100 g condensed milk,
- 130 g granulated sugar,
- 4 tbsp. l. cocoa (30 g),
- cognac or rum - 4 tbsp. l. (40 g).
1. As always, we will grind the cookies into crumbs. You do this at will in any way possible. For example, in a blender or coffee grinder.
In this recipe we will do everything manually using a rolling pin. Now I'll tell you how.
We take two bags, insert one into the other for strength. Pour the cookies inside and carefully roll over them with a rolling pin. You can use a kitchen hammer and hit all the cookies.
Pour the crumbs into a deep bowl.
2. Grind the sugar into powdered sugar. Pour it into a separate bowl. Add vanilla. Place the melted butter there.
3. Take a mixer and beat this mass until the butter and powder are completely combined. This will take about 3 minutes.
4. Then add condensed milk, whisking it constantly. We've got cream.
5. Pour cocoa into the cookies. Stir until smooth. Then add the buttercream and add cognac or rum.
For children, you can replace alcohol with grape juice.
Mix until the dough becomes plastic.
6. Separately, grind another 80 g of cookies for sprinkling.
7. Roll into balls and roll in nuts and crumbs.
Freeze the entire dessert in the freezer for about an hour.
How to make “Potato” from shortbread cookies and wafers with chocolate without condensed milk
Now here is another modern recipe with the addition of chocolate. It already turns out sweet, so we’ll skip the condensed milk here. And for a change, mix cookies with waffles.
Let's take:
- waffles – 300 g,
- cookies – 300 g,
- 200 g butter,
- 3 tbsp. cocoa,
- 2 cups walnuts,
- 100 g dark chocolate,
- almonds, sesame to taste.
1. Let's start by preparing the solid ingredients. In a blender, grind waffles, cookies and walnuts separately. Mix all these ingredients in a deep bowl.
2. Separately, melt the butter.
3. Grate the chocolate. And pour it into the crumbs, add cocoa.
You can not add chocolate inside, but melt it in a water bath and pour the cakes on top, like glaze.
4. Mix the butter and shortbread until a homogeneous dough is obtained.
5. Then we divide it into parts and give each of them any shape: round, oval, rectangular.
For beauty, roll them in sesame seeds. Garnish with a slice of almond if desired.
Let the cakes sit in the refrigerator for about 1 hour.
Pigs
You need to prepare the material in advance:
- 1 medium-sized and 2 very small potato tubers.
- 1 carrot.
- 6 black peppercorns.
- Toothpicks.
- A cardboard box with low sides.
- 2 sheets of yellow paper for the straw bedding and brown for the trough.
- Corrugated cardboard for a fence.
- Paper sleeve.
- Pine tree branch.
- Yellow plasticine.
- Glue "moment".
- Millet cereal.
- Stationery for gluing, drawing lines, cutting and erasing.
Progress :
- Prepare 3 potatoes.
- From the narrow part of the carrot, 3 different circles of 3-5 mm are separated - a large one for the largest tuber, and the rest for the smallest ones.
- In each blank, stick 2 broken toothpicks into the spaces intended for the patch.
- Carrot circles are strung on them.
- From the same vegetable, a pair of ears is cut out for each of the 3 future piglets.
- Break 6 toothpicks - 2 parts for each ear.
- The parts are tried on and placed in the required area for all products.
- The next part of the creative process is cutting out 4 carrot legs for the pigs.
- Take 6 toothpicks - half for each leg.
- Having turned the product over, maintaining symmetry, they are placed in the place of the intended legs.
- Attach craft elements.
- Where the eyes are, make miniature openings into which glue and peppercorns are placed.
Now the piglets need to make a home out of a cardboard box with a fence. It is drawn on corrugated cardboard - only 4 parts on each side of the box. The length should be the same, and the height should be slightly larger than the side, for example, 4 and 6.5 cm.
If the dimensions of the box are 25 and 17 cm, then you will need to have 2 fence parts 25 x 6.5 cm and the same number 17 x 6.5 cm.
The fence is attached using glue to the sides of the box. Pine branches are attached with plasticine in the future house. Paper cut into strips is used as straw bedding. Lightly crumpled sheets are scattered chaotically across the bottom of the box, slightly fluffed up.
The trough imitates a toilet paper roll cut longitudinally, to which brown sheets are glued. Glue the other part of the trough. The pigs are placed in the box. They are given millet to feed them. This way the children take care of them themselves.
The potato piglet craft is ready! You can make this animal as a symbol of the year, present it as a handmade gift, or find a suitable corner for it in the house!
How to make a cake from cookies and crackers
There are options for making Potato cake that are not as sweet as the previous ones.
To do this, cookies are diluted with ground breadcrumbs. Remove the condensed milk.
Instead of sugar, use powder so as not to wait for the sugar to dissolve in the dough.
Let's take:
- cookies and homemade crackers - 150 grams,
- powdered sugar - 50 g,
- cocoa - 1-3 tbsp. spoons,
- milk - 70 ml,
- butter - 50 grams,
- vanilla,
- nuts - 30 grams (optional).
1. Grind the cookies and crackers into crumbs. To do this, take a bag, put cookies in it and roll it over it with a rolling pin, so you get crumbs. Of course, you can use a blender or coffee grinder. Leave a few crumbs for deboning.
2. Mix this crumbly mass with powdered sugar.
3. Spread the butter, it has already sat down and become very soft. You can also add small pieces of walnut kernels at this stage. This is optional.
4. Rub the oil into the dry ingredients.
5. Now pour in milk at room temperature and mix. Add a little vanilla.
6. Form a homogeneous mass.
We will see that the dough already holds its shape well. So it's time to roll the balls.
7. Take a dessert spoon and scoop out the dough mass. Roll the ball with your palms.
Sprinkle it in crumbs, cocoa or coconut.
Before serving, cool the treat in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Hedgehog with spines
You will need to stock up on materials in advance:
- Not a large potato.
- Toothpicks - 40-50 pieces.
- Carrots, dried berries or raisins.
- Plasticine.
Step-by-step instruction :
- Toothpicks are broken in half; the more needles there are, the more interesting the product looks.
- The sticks are carefully inserted with the non-spiky side around the entire perimeter, leaving the front part, which is intended for the muzzle, free.
- The result was a prickly ball.
- The eyes are made of black plasticine, which is placed in the holes made. A couple of black peppercorns, berries or raisins, glued with superglue or pinned with a toothpick, will do. They should fit snugly to the body.
- For the nose and mouth, take clean carrots and cut off oblong strips.
- The legs will be cut pieces from potato rings, which are also carefully attached.
- For effect, leaves, cranberries or a small apple are placed on the thorns. They are placed randomly on the back.
A hedgehog stocking up on food for the winter looks especially funny. As a stand, you can take a leaf of maple or any other tree. To make a potato hedgehog, you can use another option with buckwheat. It’s easy to make needles by pressing the buckwheat with your hand.
Good recipe for Maria cookies, easy and simple
Here is the incomparable cracker recipe. Alcohol will be present among the ingredients. Of course, the dose is very small, but you never know. I'd better warn you in advance.
Let's take:
- 2/3 tbsp. milk (1 glass = 250 ml),
- 0.5 tbsp. Sahara,
- 80 g butter,
- 300 g biscuits “Maria”,
- 3 tbsp. with a slide of cocoa,
- 2 tbsp. liqueur or rum (optional).
For decoration:
- cocoa and coconut
1. We take out the biscuits.
And by lightly pressing the blender button we turn it into small pieces.
Pour into a bowl and mix with cocoa. Use a whisk to combine the two ingredients.
2. Heat the milk in the microwave for 1.5 minutes. Pour sugar and butter into it until everything dissolves.
If you cut the butter into pieces, it will dissolve in the milk faster.
Pour the milk mixture into the dry mass.
3. Add liqueur or rum. Mix well.
4. Wet your hands in water.
Cover the cutting board with a plastic bag. And we begin to roll balls, placing them on the board.
Sprinkle them with cocoa or coconut flakes.
Then let the dessert brew and serve.
Diet cake “Potato” without oil for children
This is a very tasty alternative to the classic “Potato”. Less calorie and more healthy. In the composition you will see dried fruits and cottage cheese. You won't find sugar or butter at all. Intrigued? I think yes.
Especially those mothers who are trying to instill a food culture in their children or are simply watching their figure. By the way, this version of the cake is another way to feed your child cottage cheese, even if he can’t stand it. Note that you can make a casserole, pie or cookies with cottage cheese.
Let's take:
- 100 grams of oatmeal cookies or oatmeal,
- 100 g crackers or fish,
- 200 g low-fat cottage cheese,
- 1 apple,
- 1 tsp cinnamon,
- vanilla to taste,
- 50 g dried fruits,
- 2 tbsp. cocoa.
1. Grind cookies and crackers into crumbs.
To add fiber to your dessert, take rolled oats or oatmeal instead of oatmeal cookies.
2. Now soak the raisins in boiling water and set them aside for 3 minutes. Then drain the water. and with it the dirt. The berries will swell, become larger and softer.
3. Peel the apple and immediately cut the pulp into pieces.
4. Add cottage cheese, vanilla, and raisins to the apple mixture. Grind it all with a blender. If you don’t get a homogeneous mass, it will be even tastier (I think so).
5. Add cookies and mix with curd and fruit mixture. The result is a paste that sticks together easily.
6. Form cakes from it and roll them in cocoa.
Leave it in the refrigerator for an hour and try it.
Raisins can be replaced with dates or prunes.
cat
An interesting and creative idea for crafts made from potatoes would be to create a cat. Moreover, a child can make a portrait of his pet from these vegetables.
To create this craft you will also need carrot pieces.
Procedure:
- Choose two potatoes of different sizes. The small vegetable will become the head, and the large one will become the body. They need to be connected together with toothpicks. In this case, it is necessary to indicate the kitten’s position: it can sit or stand.
- You need to cut out the legs from the carrots, which will be oblong and triangular ears. A tail is also formed from a carrot. The parts need to be attached to the body.
- Finally, you need to draw claws on the paws with a marker, and a face on the head. The craft can be placed on cardboard and the space around it can be decorated with dried grass.
Advice. For complex parts: paws, ears, you can use plasticine. This will make the crafts more lively and neat. And the beautiful figures will inspire your child to create new characters.
How to beautifully decorate Potato cakes for children
Oh, now is the most interesting time for creative people. As children, we got used to the fact that “Potato” looks more boring than other types of cake. But modern housewives do not want to agree with this and are happy to decorate it.
This dessert is perfect for children's birthdays, Halloween and other holidays. And the guys themselves will be happy to help you.
Here, one housewife made a “Potato” cake in the shape of bats with Oreo cookies.
The result was a very original decoration. And here is the video itself with a description.
You can decorate the dessert with colored sprinkles or colored coconut flakes. Reminds me of Christmas balls.
The idea of decorating a treat with cream. You can make cones out of them if you add oatmeal or corn flakes. Small candies are also suitable.
Piglets are made from Potato cake. To do this, you need to cook the icing with pink dye and white chocolate.
You can shape the hedgehogs with seeds or put them in shaped silicone molds.
I also liked the idea with flowers.
Thank you for your attention! I wish you delicious tea parties!
Useful tips
The following tips will help you prepare the famous potato cake:
- Before molding the products, it is recommended to place the cookie dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- If the mass turns out to be too sticky and wet, add a little more crumbs to it. Only after this can you make cakes.
- In addition to walnuts, you can add chopped dried fruits and orange zest to the dough.
Experiment and surprise your household with new products, delicious cakes and various sweets.
