Classic soviet-era anthill cake

8 servings
1 hour 30 min

How to make a Soviet-era Anthill cake? Prepare the products. First for the test. Take the best quality oil, natural, in accordance with GOST. Sour cream is suitable for fat content of 20-25%. Take very little vanillina, at the tip of a knife. Salt in sweet dough acts as a flavor enhancer.

First of all, make shortbread. How to make dough? Melt the butter by any of the methods described at the end of the recipe. I took a thick-bottomed saucepan, put oil in it and melted it on the smallest heat with constant stirring. Leave the melted oil to cool.

Until it cools, prepare the dry ingredients. Take a deep bowl and sift flour into it. This will not only remove the garbage, but also saturate the flour with oxygen, which will make baking more airy.

Add vanillin and baking powder to the flour, mix them well until smooth.

Pour sugar, salt into the cooled butter, add sour cream.

Mix the mass well until smooth.

Start kneading the shortbread dough by pouring the butter mixture into the flour in portions. Stir a spoon first, then, when all the butter has been added, knead with your hands. The dough will quickly become homogeneous, pliable, soft and absolutely not sticky. The flour can take you more or less, so focus on the dough.

Divide it into two, wrap each in cling film and put in the freezer for half an hour. This is done to make the dough easier to grate. I would advise you to divide it into 4 parts, so the pieces will turn out smaller and harden faster, and the halves inside remained a little soft, it was not very convenient to rub them.

After half an hour, remove the dough and rub it over a coarse grater.

Take a baking sheet, line it with baking paper. Spread the grated dough evenly over it. It should turn out a rather thin bark, thick one may not bake. I have a standard oven tray - 30 * 40cm.

Place the dough tray in an oven preheated to 180C. Bake the cake for about 20-25 minutes, until golden. Determine the exact time and temperature by your oven.

Remove the finished cake from the oven and cool a little. Then break the bark into small pieces. It turns out to be crumbly and it is not difficult to do it at all. Set aside the sand crumbs for now and make a cream.

Prepare the cream products. Oil for him, as well as for bark, take the best, tasty, the quality of the cream will depend on it. Take it out of the fridge beforehand, it should be soft. You can take the condensed milk ready or cook it yourself. I have a purchased one.

How to make a cream? Put the softened oil in a bowl. Whisk it with a mixer for 3 minutes until lush, light. Do not beat longer, the oil may begin to delaminate.

Add the cooked condensed milk to the oil. Whisk the cream until the condensed milk and butter are completely mixed. The cream should become uniform, a pleasant caramel color.

Pour the sand crumbs into the butter cream. Mix the mass well so that each piece is coated with cream.

Put the resulting mass on a dish, forming a slide in the form of an anthill.

Decorate the cake on top with something dark to make it look like an ant slide - chocolate, poppy or pastry sprinkle like mine. Refrigerate the cake for a few hours to make sure the dough is as creamy as possible. And then serve it to the table. Enjoy your meal!