Do you like to enjoy a taste that you have known almost since childhood? Do you know who invented the dessert? These cakes are a hello from my distant childhood. Every child and adult loved and ate them. They were sold in every store, even despite the food shortage that reigned at that time. During our distant childhood, it never occurred to anyone to cook these wonderful cakes at home, since they were everywhere, but the ingredients for their preparation could not be found. Nowadays, potato cake made from cookies is also sold in pastry shops, but something has changed in it. Perhaps they have become too elegant (which is not surprising in our era of food abundance), perhaps the recipe has changed. Let's make these wonderful cakes at home. And for this we will use a recipe that most accurately conveys the taste of cakes from our childhood.

To prepare we need:

• 400 g of any cookies;
• 50 g butter;
• two tablespoons of cocoa powder (and a little more for dusting the cakes);
• condensed milk 150 g.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Calorie content - 250 kcal.

1. The basis of potato cakes consists of cookies, but since in the process of preparing the cakes the cookies have to be crushed and crumbled, there is no need to buy beautiful and expensive cookies for this purpose. It would be advisable to use the simplest cookies. To begin, grind the cookies into fine crumbs. This can be done either by hand (using a mortar or rolling pin), or by grinding it using a meat grinder or food processor.

3. Following the cocoa, add pre-melted butter, then lightly mix the mixture.

4. Condensed milk should be added to the mixture in several stages so as not to miss the right moment and not make our mixture too liquid.

5. After each time adding condensed milk, mix the “dough” thoroughly so that the condensed milk is evenly distributed throughout the entire volume of the mass. When our dough is completely soaked in condensed milk, we begin to knead it. Knead the dough for about two minutes. This process allows the entire mass of crumbs to be evenly soaked in condensed milk and butter.

6. Roll the finished dough into a ball and let it stand for ten minutes. Then we tear off pieces the size of a small tangerine from the mass and roll them into a ball, and then give them an oblong shape (like a potato).

7. If desired, the formed cakes can be rolled in cocoa powder or powdered sugar, and the cakes can also be decorated with cream. Enjoy your tea!

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Who invented "Potato"?

“Potato” owes its history to Frederike Runeberg, the wife of a 19th-century Finnish poet, who one day prepared cakes from the simplest ingredients - jam, cherry liqueur, sour cream and cookies. The guests really liked the small lumps decorated with berries, and the fame of “Potato” spread to all corners of the country. Over time, the recipe changed somewhat - they began to make the cake from sponge crumbs and a variety of creams.

I love “potatoes”, but I don’t manage to eat them so often, because they have recently become much more expensive (And the recipe, it turns out, is so simple! I’ll definitely try to make it)

Since childhood I have loved Potato cake. I was inspired by this recipe and prepared it, it’s not complicated, but the taste is really similar to the one it had in childhood)

I followed the recipe exactly and it turned out delicious.

I love it, our family’s favorite cake)

I recently saw these cakes being sold in a store, but I couldn’t even think that they could be made at home. Thank you for the delicious and very simple recipe) The potatoes turned out just great)

Very simple, affordable, and most importantly delicious. Thanks for your hard work.

I tried your recipe and it was very tasty. Everyone in the family loves potatoes, but now they are expensive to buy ((and I tried your recipe, we really liked it, now we eat it almost every day)) thank you for sharing such a delicious recipe!)

Tasty and fast

I love “potatoes”, I made it and it’s really tasty)))) I recommend it)

Potato cake is the best cake, but I also add nuts to the cocoa

it's very tasty and fast

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This popular delicacy is known and loved by everyone. But lately it has been difficult to find a truly tasty product in stores and cafes. So let's find out how to make potato cake yourself.

There are a lot of dessert options, but... the traditional recipe is always the best.

To prepare you will need:

• can of condensed milk;
• packaging of butter;
• tsp Sahara;
• about 700 grams of cookies;
• six spoons of cocoa.

Cooking process:

1. The selected cookies must be crushed into very fine crumbs. This is best done with a blender, but if you don’t have one, use a meat grinder or simply crush it with your hands.
2. Soften the butter a little (it shouldn’t just come from the refrigerator shelf), mix with condensed milk and beat thoroughly. Then add cocoa and mix the mixer a little more.
3. Carefully add cookie crumbs into the resulting mass, bring the mixture to homogeneity and mold into shapes in the form of potatoes.
4. Grind the specified amount of sugar with a large spoon of butter and form “eyes” for the cakes from this mixture. But decorating them in this way is not at all necessary.

Cookie recipe

Potato cake made from cookies is prepared very quickly and does not require large material costs, but it turns out invariably soft and tasty.

Simple “For Tea” or “Anniversary” cookies are very suitable as a filling.

Required Products:

• three spoons of cocoa;
• 0.15 kg butter;
• 200 grams of condensed milk;
• 0.4 kg of cookies.

Cooking process:

1. We turn cookies into small crumbs in any convenient and accessible way.
2. Mix it with the specified amount of cocoa. If you like a richer chocolate taste, add a little more powder.
3. Pour condensed milk into the dry ingredients and add butter, cut into small cubes (it should be quite hard).
4. Mix all ingredients thoroughly until soft and homogeneous. If the mass comes out a little dry, then you need to add a little more oil or condensed milk.
5. Shape the cakes into appropriate shapes and refrigerate before serving. If desired, they can be decorated with nuts.

How to do it according to GOST

Required Products:

• 70 grams of cocoa;
• 50 grams of condensed milk;
• three eggs;
• 15 grams of starch;
• three tsp. rum or cognac;
• about 150 grams of butter;
• 70 grams of flour;
• 0.1 kg sugar.

Cooking process:

1. Combine the yolks and some of the sugar until a fairly thick light mass is formed.
2. We also beat the whites so that they form foam. Mix them with the remaining sugar and bring to a dense state, beating the mixture a little more.
3. We combine both prepared masses with each other, and then with starch and flour.
4. Transfer the resulting dough into a mold and bake for about 12 minutes at 200 degrees. After this, cool it completely and let it stand for 10 hours before further use.
5. After the specified period of time, turn the cake into fine crumbs using any method, for example, using a blender.
6. Mix the powder with butter and pour in the condensed milk, continuing to work with the mixer. A little cream (literally, a teaspoon) needs to be set aside.
7. Spread this mixture over the biscuit crumbs, pour in the alcohol of your choice and stir until smooth. We form the cakes and roll them in cocoa.
8. We make small “sprouts” from the reserved cream and attach them to the dessert.

A simple dessert made from crackers

Required Products:

• half a glass of sugar;
• two glasses of milk;
• 0.4 kg breadcrumbs;
• half a stick of butter;
• three spoons of cocoa;
• nuts and coconut flakes to your taste.

Cooking process:

1. Bring the butter to a liquid state on the stove and mix with sugar. Then add cocoa to the resulting mass, add milk and mix.
2. As soon as all the ingredients have melted, add breadcrumbs to them and stir until smooth.
3. While the mixture is still warm, form the cakes. To taste, roll them in aromatic white shavings, nuts and cocoa and put them in the refrigerator for an hour before serving.

From biscuit with condensed milk

Required Products:

• a glass of flour and the same amount of sugar;
• four eggs;
• tsp baking powder and vanillin;
• 0.1 kg cocoa and powdered sugar;
• about 150 grams of butter;
• condensed milk – 50 grams.

Cooking process:

1. Combine sugar with vanilla and eggs, beat, then add baking powder and flour. Knead the mixture until smooth and bake the cake from this mass at 180 degrees for about 35 minutes.
2. Cool it completely and leave it overnight to dry thoroughly. After that, grind it into crumbs in any way.
3. Mix powdered sugar with condensed milk and butter, beat with a mixer until cream forms. Add this mixture to the crumbs, knead and form into cakes.
4. Roll each piece in cocoa and let the finished dessert stand in the refrigerator for some time before serving.

Potato cake with hazelnuts

Required Products:

• two tablespoons of powdered sugar and cocoa;
• 0.1 kg hazelnuts;
• 130 milliliters of milk;
• 100 grams of butter;
• about 300 grams of cookies.

Cooking process:

1. Using a blender, turn the nuts and cookies into fine crumbs.
2. Heat the milk, combine with cocoa and powdered sugar. Add the chopped butter and stir until it melts into the milk. Wait for the sweet mass to cool.
3. Combine the liquid mixture with the crushed ingredients, stir until smooth, form into cakes and roll them in cocoa.

Simple oatmeal treat

Required Products:

• four spoons of cocoa;
• banana;
• half a glass of oatmeal;
• 100 grams of coconut flakes.

Cooking process:

1. Grind the flakes almost into flour, mix with cocoa and shavings. It is advisable to pass this mass through a food processor or blender again.
2. We turn the banana into puree, add it to the other ingredients and get a homogeneous mixture.
3. All that remains is to make any shaped potatoes out of it, which you can roll in cocoa to taste and freeze a little before serving.

How to replace condensed milk in dessert

If you really want to make cakes, but don’t have condensed milk on hand, try replacing it with a small amount of milk or cream with added sugar.

• A dietary option is to use banana puree, which goes very well with cocoa.
• Also, instead of condensed milk, jam or preserves are quite suitable. But adjust the amount of sugar so it doesn't turn out too sweet.

Potato cake is a delicacy that is still relevant and loved. And no matter what recipe you use, the dessert will always turn out very tasty.

Potato cake is a taste familiar to many from childhood. Previously, when there was not a large selection of cakes and pastries as there is now, these dark cakes, reminiscent of potatoes in color and shape, were especially common. Now it has become a little more difficult to find them in stores. But it is very easy to make cakes at home.

You can make Potatoes from crackers, cookies or homemade biscuits. Try all the options and decide which one is closer to you. I prefer to cook Potatoes from homemade sponge cake. The cake turns out more tender, lighter and tastier. One of the keys to success in preparing this dessert is good condensed milk. Do not take condensed milk with vegetable fats; it is low-quality condensed milk. It is also very important to find a good cocoa powder that will give the brownies a rich chocolate flavor. And I additionally add a teaspoon of cognac to the cream; it gives its noble aroma to this dessert. You can skip the cognac, but this will deprive the cakes of some flavor.

The cakes can be made in any shape you want. Traditionally, they are rolled into balls by hand or into an oval shape. But you can also diversify the recipe and use shaped molds. In addition, the cakes can be decorated with berries and fruits, sprinkled with grated chocolate, powdered sugar or coconut. A friend of mine sticks eyes, a smile and forelocks to the cakes - so the cakes look like smiley faces. As they say - everything is up to your imagination.

Ingredients:

• Eggs 5pcs
• Sugar 100g
• Flour 100g
• Butter 1 pack
• Condensed milk ½ can
• Cocoa 5 tsp
• Cognac (optional) 1 tsp

Potato cake recipe.

Since Soviet times, many people have retained their love for the cake, which has a rather simple name - “Potato”. Why this name arose is clear if you look at the shape and color of the dessert. Today, “Potato” cake can not only be bought in stores, but also prepared at home using the simplest and most affordable ingredients.

There are many recipes for making Potato cake and each of them is good in its own way. Some prepare it from crackers or biscuits, others from cookies or gingerbread, some prepare the dough with condensed milk, and some make do with only butter and sugar. Below are several different cake recipes, one of them in accordance with the famous GOST.

Classic potato cake made from cookies with condensed milk at home - photo recipe step by step

The first recipe will tell you about preparing a cookie dish with the addition of condensed milk, nuts and cocoa. The products are very tasty, nutritious and appetizing to look at.

Cooking time: 2 hours 50 minutes

Quantity: 10 servings

Ingredients

• Baked milk cookies: 750 g
• Walnuts: 170 g
• Cocoa: 4 tbsp. l.
• Butter: 170 g
• Condensed milk: 1 jar

Cooking instructions

Rusk dessert recipe

The classic base of the cake is a specially baked sponge cake, but many housewives have found a faster and easier way to prepare it. They do not use sponge cakes, but crackers, grinding them using a meat grinder or blender.

Products:

• Rusks – 300 gr.
• Milk – ½ tbsp.
• Sugar – ½ tbsp.
• Peanut nuts – 1 tbsp.
• Butter – 150 gr.
• Cocoa powder – 2 tbsp. l.
• Chocolate – 2-4 slices.

Technology:

1. First you need to grind the crackers and nuts, you can use a meat grinder or blender.
2. In a separate pan, mix cocoa, sugar, pour in milk. Put on fire, add chocolate there, heat over low heat until chocolate and sugar dissolve.
3. Then the mass must be left to cool, add chopped nuts and crackers to the already cooled chocolate milk.
4. If the cakes are being prepared for a children's company, you can add vanillin; for an adult - 2-4 tablespoons of cognac.
5. Form small potato-shaped cakes from the nut-chocolate mixture, roll in cocoa powder and ground nuts.

Serve this chocolate beauty chilled!

How to make a cake according to GOST

The simplest thing is to make a dessert from crackers, but few people know that the classic recipe that met state standards in Soviet times includes a sponge cake. It is this that serves as the base for the cake.

Products for biscuit:

• Premium wheat flour – 150 gr.
• Potato starch – 30 gr.
• Chicken eggs – 6 pcs.
• Granulated sugar – 180 gr.

Products for cream:

• Butter – 250 gr.
• Condensed milk – 100 gr.
• Powdered sugar – 130 gr.
• Rum essence – ¼ tsp.

Products for sprinkling:

• Powdered sugar – 30 gr.
• Cocoa powder – 30 gr.

Technology:

1. Making cakes begins with baking a sponge cake. At the first stage, carefully separate the whites from the yolks. For now, put the whites in a cool place.
2. Start grinding the yolks, gradually adding sugar, but not all, but only 130 g.
3. Then add starch and flour to this mass and grind well.
4. Take the whites out of the refrigerator, add a little salt, start beating with a mixer, add sugar little by little.
5. Next, add the whipped whites one spoon at a time to the dough, stirring gently.
6. Bake in the oven or in a slow cooker. Leave the finished biscuit for a day.
7. The next step is preparing the cream. The butter should stand at room temperature, then beat it with powdered sugar until smooth.
8. Add condensed milk spoon by spoon, continuing to whisk, and rum essence.
9. Leave a little cream for decoration. Add biscuit crumbs to the main part and mix.
10. Divide the tasty mixture into equal portions, form into sausages, and cool.
11. Mix cocoa powder and powdered sugar. Roll the sausages, making two holes in each. Squeeze out a drop of the remaining cream from the pastry bag.

How similar these cakes are to those that mothers and grandmothers bought many years ago, and just as delicious!

How to cook a biscuit dish

In different recipes for Potato cake you can find cookies, crackers, oatmeal, but the correct recipe is a sponge cake. You can buy it ready-made, or even better, make it yourself.

Products for biscuit:

• Chicken eggs – 4 pcs.
• Premium wheat flour – 1 tbsp.
• Granulated sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Baking powder – 1 tsp.
• Vanillin – 1 sachet.

Products for cream:

• Condensed milk – 50 gr.
• Butter – ½ pack.
• Powdered sugar – 100 gr.

Products for sprinkling:

• Powdered sugar – 50 gr.
• Cocoa powder – 50 gr.
• Peanuts – 100 gr.

Technology:

1. If you buy a ready-made sponge cake, you just need to leave it to dry and then grind it into crumbs. If you cook it yourself, it will take more time and effort, but the result will make the housewife proud.
2. For homemade sponge cake, separate the whites and yolks. Grind the yolks with sugar (1/2 portion) until white, add baking powder, flour, vanillin.
3. In a separate container, beat the whites with sugar until a stable foam forms.
4. Now combine everything together, pour into a mold, put in a heated oven and bake. Like the finished biscuit, the baked one should also be left for a day, and then crushed to a crumb state.
5. The second stage is preparing the cream. To do this, beat softened butter and sugar, add condensed milk a spoonful at a time and continue beating.
6. Pour crumbs into the cream, mix, and form into cakes. Roll the resulting products in a mixture of cocoa, powdered sugar and chopped nuts.

All household members will be endlessly happy with this fragrant dessert!

Recipe option without condensed milk

Cream for Potato cakes is traditionally made from butter, sugar and condensed milk, but there are recipes that do not require milk. The finished dessert turns out to be more dietary.

Products:

• Cookies “Baked milk” – 2 packs.
• Milk – ½ tbsp.
• Sugar – ½ tbsp.
• Butter – ½ pack.
• Rum essence – 2 drops.
• Cocoa – 3 tbsp. l.

Technology:

1. Pour milk into a saucepan, add sugar, put on the stove. Heat until sugar dissolves.
2. Remove from heat, add butter, stir until butter dissolves, add cocoa powder and stir.
3. Grind the cookies into crumbs. Add to sweet milk-chocolate mixture. Mix thoroughly.
4. Cool the mixture slightly and only then form the cakes. If you do this right away, they will fall apart.
5. After forming the cakes, you can additionally roll them in a mixture of cocoa and sugar.

It will be even tastier if you add grated nuts to the topping!

Diet option

Many girls lead a healthy lifestyle, follow diets, and strive for healthy food. But it will be difficult for them to refuse the dish, especially if it is prepared according to a special recipe using healthy and tasty ingredients.

Products:

• Oatmeal – 400 gr.
• Low-fat cottage cheese – 200 gr.
• Applesauce – 1 tbsp.
• Cinnamon – 1 tsp.
• Cocoa powder – 4 tbsp. l.
• Ready-made coffee – 2 tbsp. l.
• Cognac – 2 tbsp. l. (if for adult tasters).

Products for sprinkling:

• Cocoa powder – 40 gr.
• Powdered sugar – 40 gr.

Many people have known and loved Potato cake since childhood. This delicious delicacy can easily be prepared at home with your own hands. It won’t take much time, because we won’t have to bake anything. There are several options for preparing this cake - from cookies, from vanilla crackers and even from gingerbread, as well as the classic version from a ready-made, pre-baked sponge cake. If a children's party, a meeting of friends or a party is approaching, surprise your guests with Potato cake, success is guaranteed. The products needed for this dessert are simple, inexpensive, and any housewife can find them. You can involve children in the preparation; they will be happy to help shape the potatoes by rolling balls.

Ingredients:

• cookies 300 g (anniversary, strawberry, tea, baked milk)
• butter 100 g
• condensed milk 200 g (half a can)
• vanillin 1 g
• cocoa powder 2-3 tbsp. l.
• cognac (liqueur, rum) 2 tsp. - optional

• a few peanuts or almonds for garnish

How to make Potato cake:

Potato cake at home is most easily made from shortbread or biscuit cookies, because they are the easiest to crush. But grinding crackers will be a little more difficult. The cookies need to be crushed to crumbs in a blender or meat grinder.

If you have neither one nor the other, you can roll the cookies directly in a thick plastic bag several times with a rolling pin until they are crushed. If you have leftover homemade sweets, they can also be used in this dessert.

Mix condensed milk with soft butter. Do not melt the butter, it should just become soft after standing at room temperature. Add cocoa powder, vanillin and alcohol to the cream, I use VanaTallinn aromatic liqueur. Mix well. The cream can be of different consistency depending on the oil and. Today my cream turned out to be quite thick.

Combine cream and cookie crumbs.

Stir this mass very well, it turns out dense and thick.

Now we form the cakes into round or oval shapes.

For decoration I used peanuts, you literally need three grains. Peel it, chop it finely, and stick it into cakes in the form of potato sprouts.

Place the cakes in the refrigerator for several hours. You can, of course, eat it right away, but be patient a little, and you will see that after standing, the dessert will only become tastier.

A favorite delicacy from childhood - homemade potato cake is ready! Enjoy your tea!!!

We thank Oksana Baibakova for the recipe for Cookie Potato cakes!