A potato cake recipe is a great option to please yourself and your loved ones with something delicious.

Classic Potato Cake

Not everyone knows that in the traditional recipe must be used cognac for a pleasant aroma.

Essential products for making biscuit:

  • four large spoons of flour;
  • approximately 50 grams of sugar;
  • a spoonful of starch;
  • six eggs.

Ingredients for Cream:

  • two tablespoons of cocoa;
  • about 150 grams of oil;
  • six large spoons of condensed milk;
  • two tablespoons of brandy;
  • 20 grams of powdered sugar.

Cooking process:

  1. Combine all the products that are indicated for the biscuit, send to the oven, bake. Wait until it cools down and make small crumbs out of it.
  2. In a separate bowl, mix the ingredients for the cream, do not forget to add cognac and cocoa. The more cocoa, the richer the color.
  3. Combine the crushed biscuit mass with cream and fashion cakes of any shape.

How to make breadcrumbs?

If you don’t have a biscuit or products for its preparation at hand, you can make a potato cake using crackers.

The required composition of the components:

  • crackers - about 300 grams;
  • half a glass of sugar;
  • two tablespoons of cocoa;
  • milk - 100 milliliters;
  • approximately 150 grams of oil;
  • nuts to taste.

Cooking process:

  1. Cracked potato cake is one of the simplest recipes. Pour the milk into the pan and let it heat. Add sugar and cocoa there. Wait until the mixture begins to boil.
  2. After that, add oil to boiling products and mix well, so that a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
  3. Leave the mixture to cool slightly, and at this time grind the crackers so that crumb is obtained. Mix it with the milk mass.
  4. If you decide to use nuts, then crush them into small pieces, but so that they are not completely small. Add to other products and mix everything.
  5. Fashion the cakes of the shape you like and remove for a couple of hours to cool.

Cookie potato cake

Cookies are the most common cooking option. Now it is used much more often than classic, because it is simpler and takes less time.

Required Products:

  • about 200 grams of butter;
  • a small spoonful of cognac, wine or liquor;
  • condensed milk - one can;
  • vanillin;
  • nuts - to your taste;
  • three tablespoons of cocoa;
  • cookies, preferably shortbread - about 800 grams.

Cooking process:

  1. Start cooking with this recipe should be with butter. It must be melted. This can be done in the microwave or in a pan on the stove. Then add condensed milk to it and mix well.
  2. Now turn cookies into small crumbs. This is best done with a blender, but you can use a rolling pin or even hands. If you decide to use nuts, then they also need to be chopped. Mix them with cookies, add vanillin, a spoonful of selected alcohol, cocoa. Put all this in a container with oil and condensed milk.
  3. Stir the mixture so that it turns out to be whole, without lumps and thick enough. If it is too liquid, then remove it for some time in the cold.
  4. Blind the cakes in the desired shape and cool slightly.

Recipe in accordance with GOST of the USSR

A recipe in accordance with GOST USSR potato cake is one of the most delicious delicacies of that time. Moreover, in this recipe, cocoa is almost never used, except for sprinkling.

Required Products:

To make a biscuit:

  • 150 grams of flour;
  • about 200 grams of sugar;
  • 30 grams of starch;
  • six eggs.

To prepare the cream:

  • 100 grams of condensed milk;
  • 200 grams of oil;
  • about 50 grams of cocoa;
  • icing sugar - 100 grams.

Cooking process:

  1. First you need to cook a biscuit. To start doing this is to separate the proteins from the yolks. Then the white part should be removed for a while in the refrigerator.
  2. While they are cooling, using a mixer, combine a piece of sugar, about 120 grams and yolks. Do the same with proteins, but use only 50 grams of sugar.
  3. In the dishes with the yolks now you need to add flour and starch, and then the protein mass.
  4. Make a cake from the resulting mixture. Bake it for about 50 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
  5. When the baking is ready, wait for it to cool. Take care of the cream at this time.
  6. In a bowl, beat the butter well, then add about 100 grams of powdered sugar and beat again. Now, trying not to stop, add condensed milk to other products.
  7. By this time, the cake should have cooled down and it must be turned into crumbs, chopped in any way possible and mixed with the cooked cream.
  8. From the resulting mixture, make a form in the form of potatoes, roll it first in cocoa, and then in powdered sugar. Put in the cold for 15 minutes.

Biscuit potato

A recipe for those who like to do home-baking and have free time for it. In addition, not everyone gets a good biscuit.

Essential Ingredients:

For cake:

  • a small spoon of baking powder;
  • four eggs;
  • some vanilla sugar;
  • four eggs;
  • about 200 grams of flour.

For cream:

  • 50 grams of condensed milk:
  • about 100 grams of powdered sugar;
  • a little more than 100 grams of oil;
  • 100 grams of cocoa and powdered sugar;
  • nuts - optional.

Sequencing:

  1. During the preparation of the dough for baking cake, you should turn on the oven so that it has time to warm up to a temperature of 180 degrees.
  2. While the oven is warming, break the eggs into a bowl, mix them with regular sugar, vanilla sugar and beat all this for at least 10 minutes.
  3. Now carefully pour in the starch and flour, continuing to stir and bring the mass to a dense consistency. Transfer it to a baking dish and set for 30 minutes.
  4. Wait for the cake to cool and turn it into crumbs.
  5. Now is the time to do the cream - mix the butter with icing sugar, pour in the condensed milk and beat.
  6. Spread the resulting mass in a bowl with chopped biscuit, mix and proceed to modeling. Make any shape of cake as you wish. Roll them in a mixture of cocoa and powdered sugar.

No added condensed milk

Condensed milk is a fairly high-calorie product and is present in all variants of the preparation of this cake. But it turns out that you can make a treat without it.

Stock up on products:

  • a small packet of butter;
  • about 50 milliliters of milk;
  • approximately 300 grams of cookies;
  • some sugar and cocoa.

Cooking process:

  1. Whatever you make this cake from, you have to grind the foundation of everything. In this embodiment, the cookies are ground with a blender or hands.
  2. Pour sugar into the resulting mass, and then milk and melted butter. Mix so that there are no lumps, and sculpt cakes of any shape. Finished forms can be decorated with cocoa or powdered sugar.

Dietary option with oatmeal

This is not just a diet cake, but also a useful product, because no harmful ingredients are used.

Necessary products for cooking:

  • about 200 grams of low-fat cottage cheese;
  • a couple of spoons of cocoa;
  • some honey;
  • 100 grams of oatmeal.

Cooking process:

  1. To start, fry the flakes in a hot pan for five minutes. Then they need to be crushed.
  2. Put the cottage cheese in a separate bowl and add cereal and honey to it. Here it is used instead of sugar to give a small level of sweetness.
  3. Roll balls or oblong potatoes from the resulting mass, roll lightly in cocoa.

From gingerbread with nuts

In addition to biscuit and cookies, gingerbread cookies can also be used as the basis for this cake.

Product Composition:

  • two tablespoons of any nuts;
  • a glass of sugar;
  • about 700 grams of gingerbread;
  • pack of butter;
  • a spoon of cocoa;
  • near a can of condensed milk;
  • coconut flakes - to your taste.

Cooking process:

  1. As in other cooking options, the base is necessarily crushed - we turn the gingerbread into small crumbs in any way. We do the same with nuts, they should not be quite small and mix them with gingerbread cookies.
  2. In the obtained gingerbread mass, pour condensed milk and oil. Note that it is best to soften the oil slightly before use, either on fire or at room temperature. All this is brought to uniformity through mixing.
  3. We make cakes of any shape and roll them in sprinkles. It is made from cocoa and sugar. Remove in the cold for a couple of hours before serving.