Ant Hill cake with boiled condensed milk

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make Ant Hill cakes at home? First, prepare the necessary ingredients according to the list. Take the flour of the highest grade. Condensed milk is thick, high-quality. Condensed milk should not be liquid and have an unnatural smell - this is a sign that the product should not be consumed. Sour cream needs a fat content of 20% and above. The oil should be of high quality, at room temperature, so take it out of the refrigerator in advance.

2. Step 2:

   

   Sift the flour into a bowl. Add soft butter at room temperature, sour cream and baking powder.

3. Step 3:

   

   Knead a soft elastic dough. Shortbread dough can not be kneaded for too long, otherwise the cookies will turn out solid. In the first moments of kneading, the dough is quite sticky, but as it is kneaded, when the ingredients are combined with each other, the dough thickens and comes off from the hands. I didn't need any extra flour, but if the dough sticks to my hands a lot when kneading, you can add 1-2 tbsp. l. Be careful, don't clog the dough with excess flour!

4. Step 4:

   

   Assemble the dough into a ball, wrap it in foil and put it in the freezer for 45 minutes.

5. Step 5:

   

   Rub the cooled dough on a coarse grater on a baking sheet covered with parchment. Place the baking sheet in a preheated 180 ° C oven for 10-15 minutes and bake the dough until golden brown. The time and temperature are indicated approximately, be guided by your oven. Cool the finished dough to room temperature.

6. Step 6:

   

   Rub the cooled grated dough with your hands into a coarse crumb.

7. Step 7:

   

   Chop the walnuts.

9. Step 8:

   

   Combine the resulting crumbs with boiled condensed milk and chopped walnuts.

10. Step 9:

    

    Knead everything thoroughly. Condensed milk should disperse throughout the liver and nuts.

11. Step 10:

    

    Form not very high cone-shaped cakes from the resulting mass. If the mass sticks strongly to your hands, slightly moisten your hands with water. I got 9 cakes.

12. Step 11:

    

    Sprinkle some of the cakes with poppy seeds on top or lower the tops into a bowl with poppy seeds.

13. Step 12:

    

    Pour the rest of the cakes with chocolate topping or melted chocolate from a pastry bag. You can do without poppy seeds and topping - it will be delicious in any case.

14. Step 13:

    

    Decorate the cakes with mint, fruit or berries and serve to the table. Bon appetit!