"Anthill" - a cake from childhood.

"Anthill" - a cake, the taste of which is familiar to everyone,probably, from childhood. We were all prepared by his grandmothers and mothers. The appearance of this cake justifies its name completely - it is very similar to a real ant house. How to cook an "Anthill"? The recipe is quite simple, there are several variations of cooking. The principle remains unchanged - slices of sand dough are stacked by a slide and watered with cream. You can replace the short pastry with a regular pastry, then generally the preparation does not require special skills, and even children can make a cake. Now we will talk about how to bake the "Anthill".

To prepare the dough for an "Anthill with condensed milk" cake, you will need:

- white flour - three and a half glasses;

- sugar - half a cup;

- sour cream shop - two hundred grams;

- butter - one packet;

- salt.

For cream:

- boiled condensed milk - one pot;

- Butter - one packet.

Thoroughly sift through the sieve flour, enriching itoxygen and getting rid of the lumps. Add the butter and sour cream to the flour. Mix well, throw salt, a little soda and sugar. The dough should be kneaded very well, if there is no food processor. Then put the dough in the freezer for ten minutes, so that it hardens a little. We'll cook a meat grinder. Let's pass the dough through the meat grinder and carefully distribute the resulting lumps on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper soaked in vegetable oil. We will bake short pastry for no more than twenty minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

While the dough will be baked, you can do it.cream. Take the mixer and we'll take the boiled condensed milk with the softened butter. When the shortcake is ready, it will need to cool and break not small pieces. It is better to do it with your hands, because if you do it with a rolling pin, you get a lot of crumbs. And we need small pieces to make a real anthill. The cake will keep its shape when it cools in the refrigerator, thanks to a sweet cream and butter. We need to thoroughly mix the pieces with the cream. Take a nice dish and lay a short pastry with cream in the form of an ant lodge.

An anthill is a cake from our childhood, beforeprepared from more affordable products, because not always in the store you could buy even the most ordinary condensed milk, the more boiled. Below we will get acquainted with the very same recipe for honey cake, where the dough is not baked, but is fried in oil.

"Anthill": traditional cake with honey

We will need:

- eggs of chicken - three pieces;

- flour - so much to get a steep dough;

- fat for frying;

- honey - one glass;

- sugar - half a cup;

- walnuts - half a cup;

- a pinch of salt.

Eggs and salt mixed with flour. We knead a tight dough and leave a little to stand. Then roll the resulting dough into thin layers and cut it into slices, like noodles. We will fry this noodles in small batches in hot fat. The dough will be cooked very quickly, so you do not need to yawn, and quickly, as soon as it is browned, get it with a noisy and spread on a dish, woven with napkins or paper towels, to remove excess fat.

While the dough will cool down, we will prepare "pouring"for the "Anthill". To do this, in a water bath, we will melt sugar and honey to a homogeneous mass, add finely chopped walnuts. We mix the melted honey with the toasted dough and on the dish we will form the "Anthill". Cake can be sprinkled to decorate with poppy seeds, or pour melted chocolate bar. The external resemblance to a real anthill, an unmatched sweet taste and ease in cooking make this cake a welcome one on any table, whether it's a festive dinner, a birthday or a family tea party. Bon Appetit!

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