Kartoshka cake
Pirozhnoe kartoshka recipe
Scrumptious chocolatey Russian kartoshka cakes made with cocoa powder and condensed sweetened milk will not stay long on the plate! Very easy to assemble, your only challenge when making these non-baking treats will be restraining yourself from eating them during the process. Happy guests would be a reward for these efforts. “Kartoshka” means “potatoes” in Russian and these cakes indeed look like the unpeeled vegetables. However the sweet chocolaty taste has nothing in common with the real “kartoshka”.The original recipe calls for a sponge cake as the base for these treats, but you can also use shortbread cookies. You will also need some butter, cocoa powder and sweetened condensed milk.
Ingredients
- 2/3 can sweetened condensed milk (270 gr/9.5 oz)
- 100 grams butter, softened (3.5 oz)
- 500 grams sponge cake or shortbread cookies (16 oz)
- 5 tbs bitter cocoa powder (the one you need to boil)
- 2 tbs cognac (optional)
Instructions
- If you use a sponge cake: Tear the sponge cake into pieces and put in to preheated to 100C (210 F) oven for 20 min to dry the cake a bit.
If you use cookies: break the cookies into smaller pieces.
- In a bowl beat up the butter and condensed milk using a wooden spoon.
- Blitz the prepared sponge cake or cookies in a blender into breadcrumb substance, add cognac. Mix in butter and condensed milk.
- Form small potato-like cakes and powder them in cocoa. Put in a fridge for at least one hour.
Tip 1: Chocoholics can add cocoa into the biscuits/sponge cake mixture.
Tip 2: Bitter chocolate instead cocoa. You can melt bitter chocolate (70 per cent cocoa) putting a bowl with chocolate into a pan with water and bringing to boil until complete melting. Cover the cakes with the melted chocolate and leave to cool down.
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Erik
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Mmm yummy! These things are good, will be making more in future for sure
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My RussianFood.com
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Thanks, Erik! And enjoy!
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Juliana
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I was wondering how much calories they are ?
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myRussianFoods.com
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Hi Juliana, 310 calories per 100 gram.
From time to time one can enjoy such a treat, why not, We only live once 🙂
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