Quick and Famous Ukrainian Potato Cake Recipe

Step by step method

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  Step 1

  Crush the cookies into small crumbs using a crusher. You can also use a blender to crush cookies. This recipe uses baked milk cookies, but any other cookies can be used for cakes.

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  Step 2

  Wash the walnuts thoroughly under running water and dry in the oven. Grind nuts with a knife or blender.

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  Step 3

  Pour nuts into cookies and mix well.

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  Step 4

  Add cocoa powder to the nuts and mix again.

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  Step 5

  Melt butter.

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  Step 6

  Gradually pour it into the resulting mixture and mix.

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  Step 7

  Then also slowly pour in the condensed milk.

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  Step 8

  After adding all the condensed milk, knead the dough with your hands so that all the ingredients are thoroughly mixed and evenly distributed.

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  Step 9

  From the resulting dough, form cakes in the shape of potatoes and put on a tray or plate, cover with cling film and refrigerate for 2 hours.

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  Step 10

  After a few hours, serve the cakes to the table, optionally rolling them in cocoa powder and decorating with butter cream. To prepare the butter cream, beat with a mixer 50 g of slightly melted butter, and then pour in 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar and beat until a homogeneous fluffy mass is obtained.