“Potato” cake made from cookies and condensed milk is a taste of childhood, a favorite treat that could be found in school canteens and pastry shops, and even cooked five minutes before a friendly tea party.

The secret of popularity is simple - even a child can cook this cake, and it’s impossible to spoil the wonderful taste.

A complicated story of a simple dessert

For the first time, the recipe for the well-known “Potatoes” was published in a cookbook of the 1850s, the author was named Frederic Runeberg (wife of the famous Finnish journalist Johan Ludwig Runeberg).

According to some sources, she borrowed a recipe from an earlier cookbook by Lars Henrik Astenius, where “Potato” was not a cake, but a cake, and it was supposed to bake rather than form cookies from crumbs. Frederick, as a home-sparing economical woman, the first did not bake a cake, but cooked cakes from biscuit crumbs.

The Runeberg spouses did not live well, therefore, when noble guests came to the house, Frederick had no choice but to use the remnants of biscuit cookies for cooking. Then she specially baked a biscuit, which she then chopped, added jam and cardamom.

A little later, this dessert became one of the main delicacies that the confectioner Edward Frederic Ekberg, famous in those years, offered in his establishments.

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However, 100 years before Frederick began to form cakes without baking, and Mr. Ekberg began to bake it to order in his confectioneries, the Russian pastry chef Vasily Levshin baked a similar cake in the oven, only used dry French rolls instead of biscuit cookies, and added zest of lemon and as many as 7 eggs.

And a little later, in the “Culinary Calendar”, released in 1808 in St. Petersburg, a recipe we knew was also printed, but it was called “Bread Cake” and was intended not so much to amaze with taste, but to save the remnants of biscuit desserts that had been lying for three days and were no longer subject to sale in its original form.

So we can proudly say that “Potato” was invented in Russia and, judging by the number of cooking variations, was very popular.

This famous cake became the “recipe from the leftovers” with the light hand of the cooks from the USSR-ovskih canteen, where they saved on everything and accounted for each spoon of flour.

Now the Potato cake from cookies and condensed milk does not lose its popularity and remains a favorite Sunday dessert in haste.

The classic recipe for your favorite potato cake (according to GOST)

A classic dessert, of course, has a classic recipe - perfectly balanced proportions for a reference cake. In the store you can always compare the composition with what should be in accordance with GOST and make sure either in high quality or that the manufacturer wanted to save.

Having prepared all the products, we proceed to the preparation of the recipe with visual photos.

A high bowl is needed in which with a mixer we mix melted butter (but not melted) butter (150 g), cocoa powder, a pinch of salt and condensed milk.

In another bowl, crumble the cookies to medium-sized pieces.

Combine with the contents of the first bowl.

We make cakes similar to medium-sized potatoes from the resulting mass.

In a separate cup, mix 10 g of melted butter with icing sugar, squeeze the resulting mass through a pastry bag with small “roses”, decorating the resulting cakes.

We send ready-made round "potatoes" to the refrigerator so that they finally "seize". Keep in the refrigerator for no more than five hours.

See the video recipe for this wonderful treat below:

A treat from distant childhood without condensed milk

Such a cake will turn out not only cheaper, but also less nutritious. The downside of such a simple recipe is that the finished cake will need to be kept in the refrigerator for longer, since whole cow's milk is much less viscous than condensed milk.

For the “Potato” cake recipe from cookies without condensed milk, prepare the following ingredients:

In a small saucepan, heat the milk (but not to the point of boiling), then add sugar, continuously stirring with a whisk for perfect combination and dissolution of the ingredients.

We continue to actively stir the mass until the sugar has dissolved, remove the bowl from the heat and put in it the butter, cut into small pieces. Again, mix vigorously until all the ingredients are completely dissolved and mixed.

Grind the cookies in a meat grinder, then pour into a bowl and mix with cocoa powder. We combine the contents of both bowls, mix and sculpt the cakes in the form of medium-sized potatoes, and send them to the refrigerator for about 5 hours.

We present to view all the stages of preparing a cake without condensed milk in the video plot:

Unusual potato cake with wine

A recipe for those who like to add something new to classic ingredients. Despite the fact that there is wine in the recipe, you can’t call it alcoholic, but the spicy aroma is undoubtedly present.

Instead of wine, you can use cognac or rum. Essential Products for Dessert:

We take a shallow bowl, put on medium heat and drown the butter, then mix the melted butter with condensed milk and cocoa powder (if used).

Grind walnuts and biscuit cookies through a meat grinder, add vanillin, pour wine, and mix with condensed milk and butter. From the resulting mass we form cakes in the form of small potatoes, put in the refrigerator.

We offer another recipe in the video. It is very simple, but it has its own “highlight” - lemon cream. We look:

Secret recipe from a mid-20th century cookbook

The recipe is designed for 100 pieces of "Potato" cakes. Therefore, this recipe is suitable for a “sweet” table with a lot of people. For example, if you have a birthday for children.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour biscuit cookies - 1 kg;
• Egg melange - 2.5 kg;
• Potato starch - 300 g;
• Whole cow's milk - 1 liter;
• Sugar - 1 kg;
• Vanilla - 20 g;
• Butter peasant oil - 1.5 kg;
• Chicken eggs - 3 pcs;
• Cognac - 10 ml;
• For sprinkling: cocoa - 100 g; icing sugar - 250-300 g.

Grind all loose ingredients through a sieve. Combine all other ingredients (except those for sprinkling) in a bowl, mix with a dry mixture, add melange.

After the formation of plastic paste, mold the pastries in the form of potato tubers. Roll the prepared cakes lightly in a breading-and-sprinkle prepared from well-mixed cocoa powder and icing sugar, place in the refrigerator.

Note that the average calorie content of this dessert is 590 Kcal / 100 g, so the dish does not suit those on a diet.

Instead of cookies, you can use trimmed cakes - it will turn out even tastier.

Cookies can be chopped with a rolling pin, then the pieces will turn out not very small, but not very large. We take two sheets of parchment paper - put one cookie on the other, close the other - and roll the rolling pin several times.

Before forming “Potato” cakes from cookies, you can add a little liquor or fruit juice to the mass, a very unusual taste will also turn out if you add candied fruits.

The formation of “potatoes” can be facilitated if you periodically dip your hands in a bowl of warm water.

For decoration, you can use almond flakes, chocolate chips or pour the finished product with glaze.

Cakes can be made in the evening and left in the refrigerator for the night - so they ideally “grab”.

Uncomplicated cake “Potato” is a favorite treat of children and adults, it is easy to cook it at home from cookies. It will take a few simple ingredients, no need to bake a cake. There are many recipes for making this delicious dessert, one of the simplest options for making “Potato” cake from cookies is given below.

Ingredients

- for the basics:

• Cookies - 250 grams (it is better to take shortbread, you can "Anniversary");
• butter - 100 grams;
• milk - half a glass;
• sugar - half a glass;
• cocoa - 2 tbsp. spoons.

- to improve the taste:

• Walnuts - 50 grams;
• 1-2 tbsp. tablespoons of cognac (vermouth, rum, liquor) or juice (for children).

- for decoration (what is):

• Powdered sugar;
• cocoa powder;
• coconut flakes;
• confectionery sprinkling;
• ground cookies.

How to cook

The cookie dough for making Potato cake should look like in the photo.

1. Grind cookies and walnuts with a meat grinder or blender. You can put cookies and nuts in a bag and grind with a rolling pin.
2. Put the mixture in a bowl.
3. Pour milk into a saucepan, add sugar and heat over a fire.
4. In hot sweet milk, add slices of butter and stir until the butter has dissolved, avoiding boiling.
5. Put cocoa powder in a cup and add a tablespoon of warm water; mix thoroughly and put the mixture into hot milk with sugar and butter, we get chocolate milk.
6. In a bowl with ground nuts and cookies, carefully pour the chocolate milk and mix the resulting mixture. Add juice or cognac (vermouth, liquor, rum). If the mixture is too liquid, you can add a little flour or starch to it.
7. Leave the chocolate mixture to “stand” for half an hour in a cool place.
8. After wetting the hands, we form billets in the form of sausages or balls from the chocolate mixture.
9. We place the blanks in the refrigerator for 1 to 2 hours to “set”. From above we cover them with cling film so as not to wind up.
10. We decorate cakes: roll in cookies crumbs, coconut flakes, almond flakes. The cakes, densely sprinkled with a mixture of cocoa with icing sugar, look beautiful.

The photo shows one of the options for decorating the “Potato” cake in the form of a sprinkle of cookies and ground nuts. The “Potato” cake quickly melts in your hands, so it is recommended to place each cake in a paper mold or place a piece of pastry paper under it.

In Soviet times, this delicacy could be found in dining rooms, shops and even in a restaurant. A cookie potato cake is prepared very simply and quickly. For cooking, you can use any type of cookie.

The classic recipe for “Potato” cake from cookies

If you want to enjoy a delicious dish, but not enough time to cook, it’s worth preparing the famous potatoes for everyone.

Ingredients:

• cookies - 320 g;
• nuts
• milk - 180 ml;
• waffle shavings;
• cognac - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• butter - 110 g;
• cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. spoons.

Cooking:

1. Put cookies in a mortar, grind. Pour in cocoa.
2. You will need soft oil. Pour in warmed milk. Insist a couple of minutes. Pour into crumbs.
3. Pour in a serving of brandy.
4. Grind nuts.
5. Stir.
6. Make cakes, shape potatoes.
7. Roll in waffle chips.
8. Put in the refrigerator for an hour.

How to cook in accordance with GOST?

From simple products you can get a masterpiece. Prepare this wonderful delicacy according to a proven recipe.

In small private stores you can buy cookies not in good condition, otherwise - scrap. It will come out much cheaper, but it will not affect the taste.

Ingredients:

• cookies - 310 g;
• cognac - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• butter - 145 g;
• liquor - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• ground nuts;
• condensed milk - 190 g.

Cooking:

1. Cookies must be crushed. You can use a blender.
2. Leave the oil on the table until soft.
3. Fall asleep cocoa. Mix.
4. Throw oil into the crumbs.
5. Pour in the liquor. Then cognac.
6. Knead.
7. Twist the balls.
8. Turn into ovals.
9. Roll in chopped nuts.

No added condensed milk

Even without condensed milk, you can cook a delicious dessert. Connect the children to the process, then you will not only receive a delicate delicacy, but also have a good time.

Ingredients:

• cookies - 350 g;
• milk - 120 ml;
• sugar - 55 g;
• butter - 75 g.

Cooking:

1. Heat the milk.
2. Add sugar. Dissolve.
3. Add oil. Stir.
4. Crumble cookies. You can wrap it in a bag, cover it with a towel and beat it off with a rolling pin. Or do it easier and use a blender.
5. Mix the crumbs with the liquid mixture.
6. Knead. Roll ovals.
7. Put for an hour in a cold place.

From biscuit cookies

This taste is familiar to everyone since childhood. A cake of cookies and condensed milk is a good option for busy housewives, because you don’t have to bother with dessert for hours, but you can cook great sweet products in a matter of minutes.

Ingredients:

• biscuit cookies - 420 g;
• nuts - half a glass;
• condensed milk - 190 ml;
• cocoa powder - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• butter - 140 g.

Cooking:

1. Grind cookies, for chopping you can put in a processor or use a blender.
2. Fall asleep cocoa.
3. Pour with condensed milk.
4. Cut the butter, it should be soft. Put to products.
5. Knead mass.
6. Roll up medium sized ovals.
7. In each potato, place the nuts in the center.

Unusual wine option

Dessert is suitable for fans to add novelty to familiar desserts. With ordinary products, but with the addition of wine, the cake will acquire an amazing aroma.

Ingredients:

• biscuit cookies - 820 g;
• condensed milk - 420 ml;
• vanillin;
• sweet red wine - 2 tsp;
• cocoa powder - 4 tbsp. spoons;
• butter - 140 g;
• walnuts - 140 g.

Cooking:

1. Melt the butter.
2. Pour condensed milk. Fall asleep cocoa. Mix.
3. Through a meat grinder, skip cookies, then nuts.
4. Add vanillin. Pour the wine. Mix.
5. Combine with condensed milk mass. Knead.
6. Roll ovals. Cool.

From oatmeal cookies

Oatmeal pastry cake is made with a rich taste and aroma.

Ingredients:

• oatmeal cookies - 110 g;
• cognac - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• oat flakes - 20 g;
• pinocchio cookies - 60 g;
• honey - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• nuts - 45 g;
• cocoa powder - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• dried fruits - 45 g.

Cooking:

1. Grind the liver into crumbs.
2. Fall asleep flakes, cocoa.
3. Grind nuts, dried fruits.
4. Pour honey, brandy.
5. Adjust the amount of liquid and dry foods yourself. The mass should be sticky.
6. Roll up balls. Roll in cocoa.
7. Place on a baking sheet.

Ingredients:

• chocolate chip cookies - 320 g;
• dried fruits - 20 g;
• biscuit cookies - 90 g;
• cocoa powder - 4 tbsp. spoons;
• milk - 230 ml;
• nuts - 20 g;
• candied fruits - 20 g;
• butter - 75 g;
• sugar - 110 g.

Cooking:

1. Sugar pour milk, heat, constantly stirring. It should completely dissolve. Instead of regular white sugar, you can use a brown product. Then you will achieve a unique taste and get interesting ductility.
2. Remove from the stove. Add butter. Stir until dissolved.
3. Grind cookies into crumbs. You can use a blender or a meat grinder.
4. Mix with cocoa.
5. Pour in a sweet milk mass. Stir.
6. Grind nuts. Pour into mass.
7. Grind dried fruits, add to the mass with candied fruit. If candied fruits are big - cut.
8. Knead until smooth.
9. If this delicacy is not eaten by children, then brandy can be added.

Cake "Potato"  in the Soviet Union was no less popular than lemon or custard cake. It was possible to buy a delicious “Potato” cake in every school cafeteria, cafeterias of enterprises, pastry shops and grocery stores. It was not expensive and therefore few people at that time thought about how and from which it is prepared at the factory, as well as how to make Potato cake at home. Although it is necessary to mention here that some housewives still tried to cook it at home according to recipes for cookbooks, or recipes for friends, mothers or grandmothers.

I still remember the day when I first cooked the Potato cake. Then I was in seventh grade, and my sister and I decided to bake. It so happened that the cake the sponge cake did not rise, as it should, and even as luck would have it burned to the sides. Looking at an unsuccessful experiment, it became clear that making a cake out of it would not work. But the biscuit itself looked so unappetizing that I did not want to cut it into pieces and put it on the table for tea either.

Going through my head ideas about where it can be applied or what to turn into, I remembered the recipe for a potato cake.  We passed the biscuit through a meat grinder. Raw condensed milk and cocoa powder were added to it. The mass was kneaded and formed cakes. They rolled in cocoa. Thus, the unsuccessful biscuit turned into a delicious Potato cake.

History of the Potato cake

There is some confusion with the history of the origin of the familiar and beloved Potato cake. Someone claims that the recipe for the cake was invented by Soviet cooks, others believe that the roots of the cake should be sought in other countries.

The classic “Potato” cake recipe was given in one of the cookbooks in 1950. According to the recipe, the cake was made from crumbs of biscuit and butter cream, which included butter, sugar, milk, eggs, rum or brandy. That is, the original Potato cake is white and not brown! Only on top of the cake was breaded in cocoa. An interesting fact is that the cake was round, and not oval in shape familiar to us.

And the most interesting thing is that the cake was covered with white droplets of cream, which should represent the potato eyes. Now it becomes clear why the potato cake is decorated with butter cream on top.

So, from all this it follows that gost Potato cake  prepared from or from biscuit crumbs. In the culinary industry, cake cutters or culinary marriage of biscuits were used very efficiently and cost-effectively, that is, they went to the Potato cake or to the breadcrumbs. Biscuits in Soviet pastry shops for this cake no one and never specifically baked. The birth of this delicious dessert, we owe the Soviet economy in production.

Ingredients:

• Shortbread cookies - 1 kg.,
• Powder black cocoa - 3 tbsp. spoons + cocoa for sprinkling,
• Powdered sugar - 80 g.,
• Butter - 250 gr.,
• Rum essence - a couple of drops,
• Milk 2.5% fat - 0.5 cups

Cookies “Potato” cake - recipe

Having prepared all of the above ingredients, you can proceed with the preparation of the Potato cake. In the photo you see that I used. It must be chopped. Before it was rubbed on a fine grater, today it is more convenient to grind it into crumbs using a blender.

Pour the crumbs of cookies into a bowl.

Add cocoa powder to it. For baking and desserts, I use not simple, but dark cocoa. Even a small amount of such cocoa colors the product in a deep dark brown color, and its aroma is more saturated.

Mix the crumbs of cookies with cocoa powder.

Now you need to prepare a butter cream based on butter and icing sugar. Dice the butter at room temperature.

Pour powdered sugar into it.

Beat with a mixer until a cream of uniform consistency is obtained.

Transfer the cream into a bowl with, while leaving a little cream to decorate the Potato cake.

To make plastic dough out of cookies and cream, pour in the milk. Add essence.

Stir the dough without baking from the cookie with a spoon until it becomes a homogeneous consistency and plastic.

Properly prepared chocolate dough from cookies turns out to be thick, but at the same time it will stick to your hands. In order to roll up the base of the Potato cake without any problems, it is recommended to wet your hands with cold water. Nip off a small amount of mass, roll a ball out of it. Twisting his palms, give it an oval shape.

Our Potato cake from the cookies is almost ready. It remains to decorate it. Pour a little dark cocoa into a bowl. Roll potatoes in it. Put the cookies on a plate.

In a syringe, type cream. Squeeze out three flowers for each cake. You can use a teaspoon to put drops of cream on the pastries.

That's all, pastry “Potato” from cookies  without condensed milk is ready. Before serving it to the table, it is recommended to keep it in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.

Cake "Potato" from cookies. Photo

You can also cook the Potato cake from cookies with condensed milk.

Ingredients:

• Cookies - 1.5 kg.,
• Butter - 200 gr.,
• Raw condensed milk - 200 ml.,
• Cocoa - 70 gr.,
• Rum or brandy - 1 tbsp. a spoon.

Cake “Potato” from cookies with condensed milk - recipe

Grind the liver in a blender. Heat the butter at room temperature until it becomes soft. Add to it in small portions and whip the cream with a mixer. Leave some of the cream to decorate the Potato cake. Transfer cream to a bowl of cookies, add cocoa powder and rum. Mix the mass. Form potatoes, roll them in cocoa and garnish with cream. Good appetite.

Cake "Potato" has gained popularity since Soviet times. Then this sweet treat could be found in any cafeterias, canteens and bakeries. And even now, after several decades, this simple and tasty dessert continues to be actively in demand along with and.

Today we are preparing a delicious Potato cake from cookies and condensed milk. We organize a sweet tea party for the whole family, nostalgic and remembering the magical taste from childhood.

Ingredients:

• shortbread cookies - 300 g;
• condensed milk - 170 g;
• brown sugar (or plain white) - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• butter - 100 g;
• cocoa powder - 2-3 tbsp. spoons.

For cream:

• powdered sugar - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• butter - 10 g.

Homemade Potato cake recipe from cookies and condensed milk

How to make a Potato cake at home

1. Grind cookies to the minimum possible crumbs using a blender / meat grinder.
   
2. Pour the condensed milk into a refractory container, add a block of butter, as well as granulated sugar. In our example, we used brown sugar, since it gives the cake an interesting flavor “shade”, but you can do with plain white.
   
3. Stirring, warm the sweet mixture until the oil and sugar grains are completely dissolved in the hot liquid. After removing from the stove, pour cocoa powder and beat the mass with a whisk, achieving a homogeneous composition of the chocolate shade.
   
4. Pour the resulting warm solution into sand crumbs.
   
5. Carefully knead so that the crushed cookies are soaked evenly.
   
6. Getting to the formation of cakes. We pluck small pieces from the sweet sand mass, roll up the oblong blanks in the form of potatoes. We send for a couple of hours to the refrigerator.
   
7. Before serving, arrange the cake with a simple cream. To do this, rub a spoonful of powdered sugar until smooth with softened butter. We transfer the cream to a cooking bag and apply it to the surface of our cakes to simulate potato sprouts.
   

Cake “Potato” from cookies is completely ready! Serve with a cup of aromatic tea / coffee or with other drinks. Bon Appetit!