Dessert appeared a long time ago. It is believed that the birthplace of the cake is Pennsylvania, where this dessert was first prepared. In the first recipes for the preparation used poppy, which resembled small ants. Form a dessert in the form of a slide, which makes it look like a real anthill.
Classic anthill cake with condensed milk - basic principles of preparation
The main advantage of the cake is quick and easy cooking, which even a novice hostess can handle. You can make a cake for a holiday or for family gatherings over a cup of tea.
Shortcrust pastry is prepared for dessert. To do this, use premium flour, which must be sieved several times in order to saturate with oxygen. Soft butter or margarine and other ingredients are added to it, and an elastic smooth dough is kneaded. Put it in the refrigerator and start cooking butter cream from boiled condensed milk. It is worth noting that for this only high-quality oil is taken, it will not work to prepare the cream from the spread. Boiled condensed milk can be purchased ready-made, or cook it yourself. To do this, take a pan with high sides. Put a metal can in it and fill it with cold water so that it completely covers it. Cook over low heat for two hours, adding water as needed. The jar must be completely cooled. The contents are combined with soft butter and whipped, gradually increasing speed, until smooth.
The dough is twisted in small portions through a meat grinder, laying on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. Bake for 20 minutes, cool and grind with a tolkushka. The crumb from the dough is combined with the cream, mixed and laid out on a dish in the form of a slide. The cake is sent to the cold.
Recipe 1. Cake "Anthill" classic with condensed milk
Ingredients
Dough:
margarine or oil - 400 g;
baking powder - 10 g;
four eggs;
milk - 300 ml;
premium flour - kg.
Cream:
oil drain. - 400 g;
walnuts - 150 g;
boiled condensed milk - 2 cans.
Cooking method
Remove the oil from the refrigerator first. When it becomes soft, put in a plate, beat the eggs. Beat until a homogeneous mixture is obtained. Pour in warm milk. Keep whipping. Gradually add flour with baking powder and continue mixing until a thick dough is obtained. Put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
For cream, combine soft butter with boiled condensed milk and beat with a mixer, gradually increasing speed, until a smooth, homogeneous mass is obtained. Finely chop the nuts and add to the cream. Stir.
Take the dough out of the refrigerator and lay it on the deco, covered with parchment in the form of thin sausages. Preheat the oven to 180 C. Put on an average level in the oven and bake for a quarter of an hour. Cut the sausages into small pieces and add to the cream bowl. Shuffle. From the resulting mass, form a slide on the dish, ramming it tightly. Sprinkle the cake with crumbs of dough or chocolate chips.
Recipe 2. Classic anthill cake with condensed milk and peanuts
Ingredients
Dough
premium flour - half a kilogram;
baking powder - 10 g;
granulated sugar - 150 g;
table salt - a pinch;
sour cream - 150 ml;
margarine or plum. oil - 200 g.
Cream:
cognac - 20 ml;
boiled condensed milk - 400 g;
peanuts - a glass;
oil drain. - a pack.
Cooking method
Melt butter or margarine, cool until warm and pour into a bowl. Add sour cream and granulated sugar, salt. Shuffle. Add the flour with baking powder in small parts, after having sifted it. Knead a soft, slightly crumbly dough. Divide it into four parts. Form a ball from each, put on a plate and send to the freezer for half an hour.
The dough will pass through a meat grinder, and put on a baking sheet covered with parchment. Bake at 180 ° C until golden brown. Roast peanuts in a dry pan and grind with a blender or rolling pin into not too small crumbs.
Put soft butter in a bowl and whisk it lightly. Enter the boiled condensed milk in small portions, without stopping whipping, until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Add cognac at the end.
Cool and crumble the dough with your hands or with a rolling pin into small pieces. Combine them with cream and mix thoroughly. Put the resulting mass in a villa in a slide on a dish, sealing it with your hands. Sprinkle with chocolate chips and send for a couple of hours, preferably in the refrigerator overnight.
Recipe 3. Cake "Anthill" classic with condensed milk and raisins
Ingredients
table vinegar - 3 ml;
egg;
soda - 3 g;
sugar - half a glass;
flour - four glasses .;
margarine - a pack;
sour cream - half a stack.
Cream:
oil drain. - half a pack;
light raisins - a glass;
condensed milk - a can.
Cooking method
Combine the egg with sugar in a deep bowl. Beat everything with a mixer, increasing speed gradually. Melt the margarine over low heat and refrigerate. Insert the melted margarine into the egg mixture and stir. Add the baking soda in small portions of the butter-egg mixture, quenching it with vinegar and sifted flour. Knead the dough well and divide it into three parts. Send to the freezer for half an hour.
Take out the frozen dough and quickly grate directly on a baking sheet covered with baking paper in one layer. Preheat the oven to 180 C. Put a baking sheet in it and bake until golden brown. Remove the cake from the oven, and cool directly in the pan.
Combine boiled condensed milk with soft butter and carefully rub. Then, with a mixer, gradually increasing speed, beat until smooth. Put raisins in a bowl, pour boiling water and steam for a quarter of an hour. Then drain the water, and dry the dried fruits on a paper towel and dry.
Break the cake and put it in the pan. Add raisins here and mash everything to a state of not very small crumbs. Add cream, mix thoroughly. Put the resulting mass on a slide-shaped dish, tamping well. Top you can decorate with chocolate chips or small crumbs.
Recipe 4. Cake "Anthill" classic with condensed milk without baking
Ingredients
100 g of chocolate;
a bag of vanillin;
600 g of friable cookies;
a glass of walnuts;
pack of plums. oils;
2 cans of boiled condensed milk;
icing sugar and coconut.
Cooking method
Place cookies in a double plastic bag. We tie the free end with a thread and, using a rolling pin, chop it into not too small crumbs.
Oil take them out of the refrigerator. Transfer it to a container, add vanillin and boiled condensed milk and beat with a blender, gradually increasing speed. Fry the walnut kernels in a dry pan, cool, chop finely and add to the cream. Beat slightly again. Add crumbs of dough to the cream, stir.
Spread the resulting mass on a plate in the shape of a slide, ramming it well. Sprinkle the cake with grated chocolate and coconut. Refrigerate until completely cooled.
Recipe 5. Cake "Anthill" classic with condensed milk on kefir
Ingredients
Dough:
120 ml of kefir;
2 g of soda;
stack granulated sugar;
2 g of salt;
3 eggs;
100 g of drain oil .;
5 stack premium flour.
Cream:
100 g of drain oil .;
10 g of honey;
1 can of boiled condensed milk;
poppy.
Cooking method
Kefir combine with eggs and granulated sugar. Beat with a mixer until smooth. Add soft butter, soda, salt and four cups of flour. Knead the dough. Keep kneading it, adding a little flour. Pass the finished dough through a meat grinder. Cover it with baking paper and lay the dough on it. Bake at 180 ° C until golden brown. Cool to a warm state and crumble.
Combine soft butter with boiled condensed milk and honey. Beat with a mixer, gradually increasing speed, until a smooth cream is obtained. Combine it with crumbs and mix thoroughly.
Put the resulting mass on a dish, ramming it to make a slide. Garnish with plenty of poppy seed cake.
Option 6. Cake "Anthill" classic with condensed milk "under the snow"
Ingredients
pack of oil drain .;
50 g of milk chocolate;
100 g of 20% sour cream;
a thickener bag for cream;
½ stack. white sugar;
200 ml of 30% cream;
4 g of soda;
can of condensed milk;
three stacks. premium flour;
50 g of poppy confectionery.
Cooking method
Combine half a pack of soft butter with soda, sour cream, sugar and flour. Grind everything to a state of crumbs. Add poppy, stir. Cover the finished dough with foil and send for half an hour to the refrigerator.
Cover the baking sheet with baking paper. Twist the dough in a meat grinder and put on a baking sheet. Bake until golden brown. During baking, you can stir the dough once to make it brown evenly.
Put the contents of the jar in a container, add half a pack of oil and beat with a mixer until smooth. Brown walnuts in a dry frying pan, cool and grind in a blender. Add crumbs to the cream and stir.
Cool the finished dough and crumble directly into a container with cream. Stir and place on a slide-shaped dish, ramming tightly. Send for half an hour in the cold.
Pour the cream into a bowl, add a thickener and whisk for a minute. Cover the entire surface of the cake with whipped cream. Remove the chocolate chips with a peeler. Garnish the cake with it and sprinkle with poppy seeds. Soak in the refrigerator for two hours.
Cake "Anthill" classic with condensed milk
As a flavoring, you can add vanilla, lemon zest or cognac to the cream.
You can grind the dough with a grater or a meat grinder.
You can decorate the holiday cake with mastic, making small ants, a blade of grass or twigs out of it.
For a change, you can add almonds, raisins, sunflower seeds, etc. to the cake.
