Shortbread cookies through a meat grinder - the most tender and crumbly delicacy

Recipe 1: cookies through a meat grinder at home

• Wheat flour - 3 cups.
• Chicken egg (2 large or 3 small) - 3 pcs.
• Butter (you can use margarine) - 250 g
• Sugar - 1 cup.
• Soda - 1/2 tsp.
• Vanillin - 1/2 tsp.

Beat eggs with sugar until white.

Add softened butter or margarine, soda, vanillin, mix.

Add flour and knead into a very stiff dough.

Pass the finished dough through a meat grinder, place the flagella coming out of the grill in small piles in the form of cookies on a baking sheet, lightly greased with oil.

Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes at 180 degrees. The finished cookies can be sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Simple recipe

Anthill cake (a classic dish recipe that is easy and quick to prepare) is a delicious dessert that requires a minimum set of ingredients. This dish takes about 20-30 minutes to prepare.

Composition of ingredients

To prepare “Anthill” you will need:

• 0.5 kg of cookies;
• 1 can of boiled condensed milk;
• spices and seasonings - to taste.

To prepare the anthill, you can use any cookies you wish.

The best option is crispy cookies with a neutral taste.

Step-by-step cooking process

Preparing the dish is quite simple:

1. First you need to prepare all the ingredients on the work surface.
2. The prepared cookies need to be crushed by chopping with a knife or breaking with your hands. It is necessary to ensure that the confectionery product does not turn into crumbs, otherwise the finished cake will lose the necessary structure.
3. The prepared cookies should be placed in a deep container. You also need to add boiled condensed milk there.
4. Boiled condensed milk from a can can become candied, so to avoid getting solid pieces of boiled condensed milk, you can first pass the product through a sieve. This way the condensed milk will become very light and can be easily mixed with the total mass.
5. All ingredients, including spices, must be mixed well.
6. From the prepared dough you need to make small “hills” that resemble an anthill in appearance.
7. To prepare cookies, you can use silicone molds, or you can form the desired type with your hands.
8. The prepared cookies must be placed on a flat serving plate.

Before serving, you need to keep the prepared cake for about 1-2 hours in the refrigerator.

What can I add?

Anthill cake, prepared according to a simple recipe, is a rather monotonous dish.

Anthill cake can be supplemented with nuts, chocolate, and dried fruits.

You can diversify this product with the following ingredients:

You can also use various spices and seasonings to prepare the dish (optional). You can add vanillin, cinnamon or nutmeg to the confectionery product.

How to serve a dish

The finished dish must be served cooled. The resulting cake can be decorated with melted chocolate, poppy seeds, cream or sour cream. You can lightly sprinkle the Anthill cake with powdered sugar.

Recipe 2: homemade cookies through a meat grinder (step by step)

A fragrant, crumbly, home-made dessert, baked in the oven in almost a matter of minutes, was once the most popular on the table long ago. The reason for this is not only the economical composition of the shortcrust pastry products from which the cookies are made, but also the immediate speed of their preparation. You don’t need to roll out anything, you don’t need to find molds either - just take a regular meat grinder and pass the dough through it. We form the resulting flagella into cookies, and then put them in the oven - it’s that simple. But even this “simple” thing you need to learn how to cook, and for this you have us with our recipe for shortbread cookies through a meat grinder.

• 3 yolks;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar;
• A pinch of baking powder;
• 1 cup flour or a little more;
• 100 grams of butter;
• A pinch of salt;
• Powdered sugar for serving.

Pour granulated sugar into a mixing bowl to mix it with the egg yolks.

Carefully separate the yolks from the whites and add to the sugar.

It also wouldn't hurt to add some baking powder, but just a little. If you have baking soda, you can use it only after extinguishing it with vinegar or boiling water. Using a whisk, thoroughly stir the sugar-egg mixture until white.

Next, flavor the main ingredients for the shortcrust pastry with vanilla. Vanilla sugar will do.

We use softened butter. We cut the briquette into plates, and then into bars or cubes. Add to the liquid mixture and mix everything thoroughly again.

Small lumps of butter are allowed, but only very small ones.

We complete the preparation of shortcrust pastry for cookies through a meat grinder by adding flour with a pinch of salt. First, pour out the glass and start kneading the dough. If it turns out that there is not enough flour, then add a little more, and so on until the dough begins to stick to your hands. Important! Add flour gradually so as not to over-mix. Dough that is too crumbly will be difficult to transform into dough pieces and remove from the baking sheet after baking, because it will simply crumble and that’s it.

Ideal shortbread dough is perfectly formed into figures, has a loose texture, but does not crumble into crumbs.

The resulting dough ball does not require proofing and resting, but on the contrary, it must be put to work immediately before fat begins to separate. We cut it into pieces and start passing it through a meat grinder. We form cookie blanks using our hands and a knife. As the flagella of the dough grow on the palm of your hand, which needs to be placed under the holes of the meat grinder, we determine the size of the future cookie arbitrarily.

Cover a baking tray with baking paper and place the resulting octopuses on it.

Bake in the oven at 220° for no more than 15-20 minutes. True, the oven must be preheated well. Shortbread cookies from a meat grinder have a characteristic vanilla aroma, a creamy tint and are easily removed from the baking sheet (you just need to pry it slightly with a spatula).

Place the cookies on a plate, sprinkle with powdered sugar (optional) and serve with tea or milk. Leftover cookies store well in parchment or a paper bag for up to a week.

Video recipe

In this video you can see a detailed description of the process of making shortbread cookies through a meat grinder. The author offers his own recipe for a delicacy that has been popular for decades. Many of us have been familiar with this aromatic pastry since childhood, because they first started preparing it back in the USSR.

So, now you know how to quickly and easily make shortbread cookies from a meat grinder. Tell us in the comments if you have heard of this method of preparing a sweet treat before. Or maybe you even baked similar cookies yourself, but using a different recipe? What ingredients did you use? Are there any tricks? Did you like the taste of these cookies? We will be interested to know your opinion.

Recipe 3, step by step: shortbread cookies through a meat grinder

• Sugar 75 g
• Premium wheat flour 220 g
• Chicken egg 1 piece
• Salt 1 pinch
• Soda 1/4 teaspoon
• Margarine 75 g

Let's prepare the ingredients for our cookies. Take out the margarine in advance; it should become soft.

Place margarine in a bowl, add sugar and grind until white.

Then add the egg and mix again.

Sift the flour, add the soda slaked with vinegar.

The dough should be stiff, add flour if necessary... Place the dough in a bag or wrap it in film and put it in the freezer for 15-20 minutes.

Then tear off pieces of dough and pass them through a meat grinder. Place on a baking sheet to form cookies. Bake at 190 degrees for 15 minutes until golden brown.

Original Anthill cake with honey cream

The dessert according to the proposed recipe will taste like a Turkish delicacy, since the melted cream contains honey. Use only natural product. All ingredients for cakes must be fresh. If the dough crumbs stick strongly to the baking sheet during baking, then hold it over steam or place it on a towel previously soaked in ice water.

Required:

• Eggs – 3 pcs.
• Vanillin.
• Sugar – 200 g.
• Boiled condensed milk – 380 g.
• Vanillin.
• Milk – 100 ml.
• Honey – 110 ml.
• Soda – 5 g.
• Flour – 800 g.
• Butter – 300 g.

Step by step process:

Pour the eggs into a bowl. Beat at maximum mixer speed until light foam.

Add sugar. Beat until the mixture turns white.

Pour in the milk. Pour in baking soda. Add 100 g of softened butter, then vanilla. Whisk.

Add flour little by little and mix using a silicone spatula. The dough should be elastic.

Roll into a ball.

Form into a long sausage. Cut into 4 pieces. Wrap each one in a bag. Leave in the freezer for 4 hours.

Pour flour into a bowl. Grate each sausage on a coarse grater. Sprinkle with flour.

The crumbs should not stick to each other. Place in a sieve in parts and shake out excess flour.

Place on a baking sheet. Spread in one layer.

Bake in an oven at 180°C.

Every 10 minutes. Remove and stir with a wooden spatula until the crumbs are crumbly and evenly browned. Place in a tall bowl.

Melt the remaining butter in a saucepan. Pour in honey. Add condensed milk.

Cook, stirring constantly until the mixture becomes completely homogeneous.

Add vanilla. Stir. Pour into golden crumbs.

Stir with a spoon. Moisten a champagne glass with water. Fill with sticky mixture. Compact it.

Gently shake and transfer the cake to a plate. Repeat the process until all the mixture is gone. Refrigerate before serving.

Recipe 4, ancient: cookies through a meat grinder (step-by-step photos)

• wheat flour - 4.5 tbsp; (highest grade, naturally)
• mayonnaise - 230 gr.; (preferably without mustard, but homemade is also possible)
• granulated sugar - 1 tbsp;
• margarine or butter - 200 gr.;
• baking soda - 1/2 tsp.

Prepare a dry container for mixing ingredients. In the beginning, we will almost completely repeat the process of preparing shortcrust pastry.

Grate butter or margarine on a coarse grater, in my case butter.

Add wheat flour and granulated sugar to the butter.

Quench baking soda with a teaspoon of vinegar. Grind all ingredients with your hands until smooth.

Add mayonnaise to the resulting mass.

Here, in fact, are all the ingredients for shortbread cookies through a meat grinder. All that remains is to knead the shortbread dough.

I knead the dough for these cookies with my hands, it seems to me that this is how it tastes better.

It is not recommended to knead shortbread dough for a long time, since if you overdo it, the fat will begin to melt and the baked goods will turn out tough and less crumbly.

In the end, I kneaded the dough for literally 5-7 minutes.

The cookie dough is ready through a meat grinder and this is what it should look like.

Prepare a meat grinder, I have an electric one, I live in the 21st century, I keep pace with the times, stumbling. But it is precisely for these cookies that a manual meat grinder from the past is needed. It is difficult to regulate the size of cookies in an electric meat grinder due to its high speed.

Prepare a baking tray. There is no need to lubricate it with fat; shortbread dough does not stick to the surface due to the fat included in its composition in sufficient quantities.

Pass the finished shortbread dough through a meat grinder.

Adjust the size of the shortbread using a knife.

This is what raw shortbread cookies look like through a meat grinder.

The cookies will increase in volume during baking, so they must be placed at some distance from each other.

Heat the oven to 180 degrees. Bake cookies at the set temperature until golden brown.

The most delicious and crumbly shortbread cookies are ready through a meat grinder!

How to make cookies with mayonnaise

Let's move on. And I also came across a popular recipe for similar cookies through a meat grinder, but with the addition of mayonnaise in the recipe. This option is softer. Perhaps because more fat is used. However, the cookies remain sandy and crispy.

We can't do without:

• butter or margarine - 250 g,
• two chicken yolks,
• 180 g sugar,
• 5 tbsp. mayonnaise,
• baking powder - 1.5 tsp. (or 0.5 tsp soda, quenched with lemon juice or vinegar),
• 2 g vanillin,
• 500-550 g flour.

As before, we try to soften the butter in advance.

Then transfer it to a bowl and grind with sugar. This is convenient to do with a mixer, whisk or fork.

Take the eggs and separate the whites from the yolks. We put the whites in the refrigerator. In this recipe we use only yolks. We send them to the oil. Add a pinch of salt if desired. We’ll also add the required amount of mayonnaise. You can make it yourself, but I use a store-bought one on a natural basis without dyes, GMOs or preservatives. I won’t name the brand, in case there is something like this in your region.

Add pre-sifted flour in small portions. Add vanillin and baking powder to it.

Mix the dough. If you have a combine, use it. Sometimes I knead the dough in a bread machine using a special mode called “Kneading”.

There is no need to knead the dough for a long time - just bring it to a homogeneous state. We need the mass to be soft and smooth.

Wrap it in film and cool it in the refrigerator for half an hour.

For now, let's do the meat grinder.

If you have a special grid for cookies, then insert it into the meat grinder, removing the knife and the minced mesh. You don't have to do this. Just remove the knife, leaving the grid for minced meat.

We take out the dough and twist it in parts. Cookies will begin to come out of the meat grinder. We wait until its length is 5-7 cm and cut it off at the grill with a knife.

Place on a baking tray lined with baking paper.

Set the oven temperature to 180 degrees and bake the dessert for 17 minutes. I got 10 minutes without convection and 7 minutes with convection.

Then we take it out and enjoy. It turns out rosy and aromatic. It’s very tasty to crunch on them, washed down with milk.

Recipe 5, simple: chrysanthemum cookies through a meat grinder

Chrysanthemum cookies through a meat grinder are one of the simplest and fastest dishes! You will be pleased not only with the result, but also with the process itself. To get a dessert in the form of flowers, you don’t need special attachments or equipment, just a meat grinder. Even a child can handle the preparation, and the baked goods will turn out tender and aromatic.

• flour – 400 gr.;
• kefir – 150 ml;
• margarine - 100 gr.;
• egg – 1 pc.;
• sugar – 150 gr.;
• baking powder (or soda slaked with vinegar) – 1 tsp;
• powdered sugar for sprinkling.

Let's place the necessary products on the table. Butter is not present among the ingredients, but it can be added to make the dessert less dry. 70 grams will be enough.

Now mix the ingredients for chrysanthemum cookies (recipe with photos step by step). First, beat the egg with sugar, then add kefir and melted margarine. It is recommended to bring kefir to room temperature, that is, to heat it up if it is just from the refrigerator, and, on the contrary, to cool liquid margarine a little.

Gradually add flour and baking powder, stir thoroughly. Our goal is to obtain a homogeneous shortcrust pastry. Ideally, it should be soft, elastic, and not stick to your hands.

It's time to install an electric or regular meat grinder: the main thing here is the grate itself with holes (preferably medium-sized), and the knife can be removed. Tearing off small pieces, you need to put them in the hole and scroll. At the exit, a kind of long “vermicelli” will appear, which must be supported by hand and cut off at certain intervals. The cut edge is gently pressed with your fingers. This is how you get sweets in the form of flower buds, but in general the shape can be any - just round, like a heart, a rose, etc.

Place chrysanthemum cookies from childhood ((or cookies through a meat grinder) onto a baking sheet. Don’t forget to grease them with butter (sunflower) or place parchment on the bottom. The top of the baked goods can also be greased with a small amount of butter (butter or sunflower) or, as an alternative, egg yolk, to give a rich color.

The baked goods are placed in a preheated oven and cooked at 180-200 degrees. And after 15-20 minutes it is ready. This can be easily determined by the browned edges of the cookies. You can also pierce them with a toothpick: there should be no raw dough left on it.

Take out and cool, then sprinkle with powder.

Chrysanthemum shortbread through a meat grinder goes perfectly with condensed milk or jam. It can be eaten not only with tea or milk, but also with kefir and jelly. Bon appetit!

Useful tips

To make the finished dish tender and tasty, you can use the following recommendations:

1. The taste and consistency of the finished dish directly depends on the preparation of the cream. The airiness of the cream can be ensured by thoroughly grinding boiled condensed milk with the addition of butter or cream. This way the cream will have a creamy note and will become less cloying.

2. After forming the required size and structure of the cake, you must place the finished dish in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. During this time, the cream will have time to set, thanks to which the finished dessert will better hold its shape. The cream will also imbue cookies (or homemade dough) with a creamy taste.
3. If walnuts are used as an additive during the cooking process, they must be thoroughly fried in a dry frying pan before adding to the cream. This way the taste of the tart nuts will be revealed better.

It is also necessary to take into account the rules for serving the finished dish. To prevent the finished dessert from being too sweet and cloying, you can diversify the resulting dish with sour cream with a slight sourness and dark chocolate (melted in a water bath).

The Anthill cake, which is the prototype for the creation of the cake of the same name, originated in the United States of America. The recipe for this dessert is called “meat grinder cake.” The product originates in Pennsylvania - introduced by German-Dutch colonists. It has gained immense popularity at carnivals, fairs and sports festivals in the states. For a long time, this dessert became widespread in other countries of the world - each nation introduced something new to the dessert, due to which a lot of different recipes appeared.

Recipe 6: margarine cookies from childhood through a meat grinder

Tender and crumbly cookies, prepared using a meat grinder, are familiar to us from childhood and were created, perhaps, back in Soviet times. Cookies according to this recipe can significantly save time on preparing dessert. It is not necessary to purchase special attachments for a meat grinder - just replace the blade on it with a grid with medium-sized holes.

Even a person who has taken up culinary utensils for the first time can cope with this baking. Regardless of your experience in cooking, the baked goods will turn out delicious and tender.

The huge advantage of such a dessert is not so much that it looks very impressive and appetizing, but its short preparation time. The recipe itself provides the finished liver with a crumbly structure.

Cookies can vary in shape. You can leave its original shape, slightly rounding the edges; you can actually form a small chrysanthemum out of the dough by twisting one edge. You can make a rose: a bunch of dough is flattened on both sides and carefully straightened out from the inside.

• 4 cups flour,
• 250 grams of mayonnaise,
• 250 grams of margarine,
• egg,
• a quarter teaspoon of soda,
• three quarters of a glass of sugar,
• vinegar.

Add mayonnaise and soda slaked with vinegar to the bowl and break an egg. Carefully add sugar and mix everything until smooth.

Then flour is gradually added. Its quantity largely depends on the consistency of the dough - it should be soft, thick and more like plasticine.

The margarine is placed in a bowl and carefully disassembled.

It is divided into several parts - this makes it more convenient to work.

The baking sheet is covered with a sheet of paper, a meat grinder is installed, through which the first part of the dough is passed.

Use a knife to separate every three to four centimeters of dough coming out of the meat grinder. The resulting pieces are laid out on a baking sheet.

As soon as the dough runs out (or the baking sheet is filled), the cookies are sent to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 15-20 minutes.

The finished cookies are sprinkled with powdered sugar and served to the table.

Anthill cake with caramel cream - video recipe

A visual and very appetizing recipe is presented in the following video. You'll see how easy it really is to make these sweets for a small family celebration or tea party.

Anthill cake is a delicious dessert that does not require much effort and time. You can decorate with powdered sugar, coconut flakes, melted chocolate, or confectionery sprinkles. Be sure to cool before serving.

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Cookie cakes “Anthill”

Anthill is a dessert that almost everyone loves. And sometimes you really want to enjoy this favorite cake or pastry, but you don’t even want to go to the store... In this case, this simple recipe for making “Anthill” cookie cakes, which don’t even need to be baked, will help you out. You, your loved ones and guests will definitely appreciate this quick and tasty delicacy.

To prepare the Anthill cake you will need:

For the base: 350 g of cookies; 100 g of peeled nuts (any).

For the cream: 1 can of boiled condensed milk; 200 g butter; 2 tsp. milk.

For chocolate glaze: 20 g dark chocolate* (99% cocoa); -10 g butter; 2 tbsp. l. granulated sugar;* - chocolate must contain at least 75% cocoa, I used chocolate with a cocoa content of 99%, so I added granulated sugar to the glaze. If you don’t like too sweet icing and use chocolate with a cocoa content of up to 99%, you don’t need to use granulated sugar. You can simply melt the chocolate in a water bath (without oil) and use it.

Cooking:

• Chop the cookies with a knife, quite finely, but leave a little larger pieces (if convenient, break the cookies with your hands). Do not use a blender or chopper; they will chop the cookies quite finely.
• Let's prepare the cream. Add boiled condensed milk, softened butter at room temperature into a deep container, beat for 1 minute, add cold milk and beat for about 2-3 minutes. The cream for Anthill cakes is ready.
• Chop the nuts with a knife and dry in a dry frying pan for 2-3 minutes with constant stirring. Cool. Add chopped nuts and cream to the cookies and mix the resulting mass thoroughly.
• With wet hands, you need to form mini anthills, send them to cool while we prepare the chocolate glaze.
• To make the glaze, place all ingredients in a saucepan and heat with constant stirring until the granulated sugar is completely dissolved, about 2 minutes.
• Decorate the cakes with chocolate glaze and let them cool for at least 2 hours.
• Cakes from Anthill cookies are prepared quite simply and quickly, but they turn out tasty and impressive.

Enjoy your tea! Eat with pleasure!

Liver cutlets with rice

A unique variation on the meatball theme, it goes well with sour cream or tomato sauce.

You will need:
450 g of liver, 250 g of boiled rice, 1 onion, 1 egg, spices.
Preparation:

Pass the liver and onions through a meat grinder and add boiled rice to them. At the end, add the egg and spices and mix well. If the minced meat is too liquid, add a little flour, but usually this is of no use with rice. Form cutlets and fry them in a frying pan or cook in the oven for 10-15 minutes at 220-250 degrees.

Liver cutlets with beets

And with a pleasant pinkish tint, they will also be beautiful.

You will need:
400 g chicken liver, 1 beet, 1 egg, 1.5 tbsp.
starch, 1 onion, 40 g butter. Preparation:

Bake or boil the beets in advance and grate them on a fine grater. Finely chop the onion, fry it in butter and let cool. Place the liver in a blender along with the onion and mix with the rest of the ingredients. Fry the cutlets in a frying pan.