The classic Potato cake decorated with seeds will delight everyone at the holiday table with its unusual appearance. The seeds go well with the taste of the cake.
Number of servings: 10
A very simple recipe for homemade hedgehog-shaped “Potato” cake. Step-by-step home cooking recipe with photos for cooking at home in 2 hours. Contains only 332 kilocalories.
- Preparation time: 15 minutes
- Cooking time: 2 hours
- Calorie Amount: 332 kilocalories
- Number of servings: 10 servings
- Occasion: For children
- Complexity: Very simple recipe
- National cuisine: home kitchen
- Type of dish: Baking, Cake
Ingredients for ten servings
- Cookies - 500 Gram
- Butter - 200 grams
- Condensed milk - 300 grams
- Cocoa - 2 tbsp. spoons
- Sunflower seeds - 30 Grams
Step-by-step preparation
- The best part is that there is nothing complicated at all about how to prepare a “Potato” cake in the shape of a hedgehog. And now I will tell you how to do it simply and quickly.
- First of all, grind the cookies. It is convenient to break it in a regular plastic bag or in a piece of fabric. You can use a masher, or you can grind the cookies in a blender (then you don’t need a bag or cloth).
- Pour the crushed liver into crumbs into a deep plate, add condensed milk and cocoa to it.
- Heat the butter; you can use the microwave for this.
- Add the butter to the plate with the rest of the ingredients. Mix everything thoroughly. You should get a homogeneous, elastic mass.
- Using a tablespoon, scoop up a little of the resulting mixture and form balls with your hands. Once you have the ball, slightly flatten it on both sides to give it a hedgehog shape.
- Use the peeled seeds to decorate the cake. Stick them into the cake, it’s best to stick them deep, otherwise they will fall out.
- Once you've made all the cakes, place them on a tray and put them in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
- Once the dough has hardened in the refrigerator, the cakes can be served.
- I would also like to draw your attention to the fact that, in principle, such “hedgehogs” can be decorated as you like, you can make eyes and a nose out of various confectionery toppings - decorations.
- Good luck!
Step-by-step recipe for a hedgehog-shaped Potato cake with photo.
- National cuisine: home kitchen
- Type of dish: Baking, Cake
- Recipe complexity: Very simple recipe
- Preparation time: 20 minutes
- Cooking time: 2 hours
- Number of servings: 10 servings
- Calorie Amount: 105 kilocalories
- Occasion: For children
The classic Potato cake decorated with seeds will delight everyone at the holiday table with its unusual appearance. The seeds go well with the taste of the cake.
Number of servings: 10
Ingredients for 10 servings
- Cookies - 500 Gram
- Butter - 200 grams
- Condensed milk - 300 grams
- Cocoa - 2 tbsp. spoons
- Sunflower seeds - 30 Grams
Step by step
- The best part is that there is nothing complicated at all about how to prepare a “Potato” cake in the shape of a hedgehog. And now I will tell you how to do it simply and quickly.
- First of all, grind the cookies. It is convenient to break it in a regular plastic bag or in a piece of fabric. You can use a masher, or you can grind the cookies in a blender (then you don’t need a bag or cloth).
- Pour the crushed liver into crumbs into a deep plate, add condensed milk and cocoa to it.
- Heat the butter; you can use the microwave for this.
- Add the butter to the plate with the rest of the ingredients. Mix everything thoroughly. You should get a homogeneous, elastic mass.
- Using a tablespoon, scoop up a little of the resulting mixture and form balls with your hands. Once you have the ball, slightly flatten it on both sides to give it a hedgehog shape.
- Use the peeled seeds to decorate the cake. Stick them into the cake, it’s best to stick them deep, otherwise they will fall out.
- Once you've made all the cakes, place them on a tray and put them in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
- Once the dough has hardened in the refrigerator, the cakes can be served.
- I would also like to draw your attention to the fact that, in principle, such “hedgehogs” can be decorated as you like, you can make eyes and a nose out of various confectionery toppings - decorations.
- Good luck!
Preparation
The first thing you need to do to create a cake is crush the cookies to the consistency of crumbs. You can take different things, for example, called “Sugar”, “For tea” or “Yubileinoe”. To do this faster and easier, you can use a blender.
Now let's move on to chopping the nuts.
Take the chocolate and grate it on a coarse grater. It is advisable that it be milky, but if your children like black, you can use that too. This will give your dish personality and a pleasant chocolate aroma.
At the next stage, we move on to whipping the cream. To do this, you will definitely need a deep plate in which we place butter and condensed milk. If desired, you can add more vanillin. You can beat using a blender or manually with a whisk.
Then pour the crushed cookies into the resulting cream.
Mix the mass thoroughly. It should have a dense structure and not fall apart.
In a separate plate, mix nuts with chocolate; they will serve as a breading for our classic hedgehogs.
From the pre-mixed cookies with cream, we begin to roll small balls, as shown in the photo.
Roll the resulting balls in a breading consisting of nuts and chocolate.
As a result, we should have a ball completely covered with breading (see photo). After this, place the plate with the prepared “hedgehogs” in the refrigerator. There they should sit for forty minutes.
This completes our recipe with step-by-step photos. Classic cakes called “Hedgehogs” are ready. Now you can pour some tea and call your family to enjoy this amazing dessert together. Bon appetit!
KBJU and composition for the entire dish
Pastries and cakes that don’t need to be baked, mixed together and ready
Cake "potato", and also "sausage", and also "Hedgehog"- cake and pastry - are prepared in principle according to the same recipe, with minor variations. All of them are based on a biscuit-chocolate mass, which is given different shapes and you can add some ingredients if desired.The main advantages of these sweets are, firstly, of course, that they are delicious, and secondly, they are easy to make - you don’t even need to turn on the oven - crushed, mixed, shaped, cooled - ready!
Potato cake
To prepare a decent amount of cakes, you need to take 3 packs of 272 grams of Zhiten Dar cookies (or 2 of 370 Zakuska, see below), 1 can of condensed milk from cow's milk, 200 grams of butter, 3-4 tablespoons of cocoa, 1-2 teaspoons of cognac.
Grind the cookies through a meat grinder (if they are loose, like Zakuska, you can grate them or grind them in a blender), add cocoa, stir, add softened (but not melted) butter, and grind with the cookies. Pour in condensed milk and stir thoroughly. The mass should be quite thick, but still stirable. If it turns out liquid, you need to add some cookies. If it is too thick and you cannot mix until smooth, you can splash in a little hot water - 1-2-3 tablespoons and mix well. At the end, add cognac and stir again.
Next, form “potatoes”, place them on plates so that they do not touch each other and put them in the refrigerator to cool. “Potatoes” can be sprinkled or rolled in nuts, or decorated with cream, for example, adding “leaves” or “roots”.
Cake "Hedgehog"
The recipe is the same, only you need to form not a potato, but a round “hedgehog” with an elongated triangular muzzle.
You can use seeds or almonds for needles. If you want something really luxurious, you can make chocolate custard and make needles from the cream. Place the finished hedgehog, especially if it has cream, in the refrigerator for an hour - it will be tastier.
Sweet "Sausage"
The chocolate-biscuit mixture is made according to the same recipe, but some of the cookies should not be rolled through a meat grinder, but broken into pieces and these pieces should be put into the mixture so that they imitate pieces of lard in the sausage. Divide the mass into three parts, roll into dense sausages, wrap in polyethylene, cellophane, foil or other wrapping material at hand and put in the freezer.
After 3 hours, take out the sausage, cut into portioned rings, the dessert is ready.
What Bulgarian products do I use for this recipe?
About cookies: in Bulgaria they don’t sell vanilla crackers and “Yubileinoe” cookies, from which I made “potatoes” in Russia. There are crackers made from white bread, but they contain so many leavening agents and “improvers” that they are absolutely not suitable for cooking - when wet, they leaven and completely lose their structure. Breadcrumbs (here called "Galeta") are also not suitable, they have a specific taste, this is not for everyone.
I got a successful result with cookies:
first - "Zhiten Dar" - "biscuit biscuit" from Nestle (produced in Sofia), packaged in 272 grams,
the second is the biscuit "Zakuska" ("snack" in Bulgarian - breakfast), it is packaged in 330 grams without cocoa and 370 grams with cocoa in the composition (produced in Burgas), you can take both, but without additional cocoa Powder is still indispensable.
Butter: the best is Rhodopa Milk butter; it is possible, but a little worse than Filipopolis, Rodopea or Bor Chvor.
Condensed milk: they sell Ukrainian and Russian “Condensed Milk”, they have it in “Beryozka”, sometimes in “Gastro” and “Piccadilly”, or you can take condensed milk “Dutch Lady”, better - a red jar, I got it in “Kaufland” ". The blue one contains plant products, and the milk is somewhat empty.
Dry cocoa powder I use is Greek "Cocoa Ion".
What can you replace some products with:
- instead of cookies: leftover gingerbread (chocolate ones harmonize better in taste), waffles, cracker cookies (unsalted);
- instead of butter - nothing can replace it :-(, it must be Natural Butter; if it’s not there, it’s better not to start;
- instead of condensed milk - if there is no condensed milk, you can take half a glass of sugar, it should be added at the stage of dry ground cookies, before the butter; and after adding butter, heat a glass of milk to 40-50 degrees and add it warm, gradually stirring the mass; the spoon in the mass should “almost, but not quite” stand; in this case, do not rush, give the sugar time to melt;
- instead of cocoa, you can rub dark chocolate into the still dry mass, 100 grams will be good;
- Instead of cognac, you can add vodka or rum, gin, liqueur, wine - white or red, or do without alcohol at all, although the charm, of course, will not be the same.
Since childhood, I have loved potato cake, although I know that in the food industry of my childhood it was prepared from various leftovers and substandard products. So don’t be shy - add what you have, experiment.
Ingredients:
Any cookies (I have Yubileiny) 0.5 kg
Vanilla sugar - 1 sachet (30 g)
Butter - 150 g
Cocoa 4 tbsp. l
Condensed milk 8 tbsp
Nuts - 50 g (I have almonds)
How to cook:
Grind the cookies through a meat grinder, add vanilla sugar and butter.
In a saucepan, bring condensed milk and cocoa to a boil, stirring constantly.
Combine the mass (cocoa + condensed milk) with cookies and mix.
We make cakes in the shape of potatoes or “hedgehogs”.
Sprinkle with chopped nuts.
Place in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
My second-grader son found this recipe in a children’s newspaper (it also said “Even a first-grader can make such a cake”) and for a long time he tried to persuade me to help him make such cakes. And today is Friday, the groceries are bought, we did a little magic and... the cakes are ready...
Very inspired, the young chef dipped the cakes in nuts...
My son asked to be sure to put them here on the site and was a little upset that there were already many similar recipes here. Therefore, we put it as an option! very tasty option!
While I’m writing these lines here, my son and dad are devouring cakes on both cheeks in the kitchen!
