Kartoshka made from cookies – quick no bake recipe

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This kartoshka is a quick version of the popular Russian sweet potatoes. It is prepared from butter cookies and without an oven. The mini cakes taste crumbly, chocolatey and fluffy. You can find a detailed kartoshka made from cookies recipe with exact quantities and step-by-step instructions here at the very bottom.

Which cookies?

This no bake kartoshka recipe is a great way to use up leftover cookies that no one wants to eat anymore. Instead of throwing them away, you’ll turn them into delicious mini cakes that no one is guaranteed to resist.

For the recipe you can use any butter cookies** or shortbread cookies. You can use supermarket cookies or homemade ones, such as Scottish shortbread.

If you use chocolate-flavored cookies, like the chocolate pine cone cookies, omit cocoa powder from the recipe.

Refine cookie mass

Just as with the kartoshka made from rusk, you can also refine the cookie mass with various ingredients, such as nuts, spices, alcohol. In this way, you can give a special flavor to your mini cakes.

For example, you can add walnuts, peanuts, almonds or hazelnuts to the cookie mixture. You can also add vanilla or cinnamon. Instead of rum you can use cognac.

Shape and decorate kartoshka made from cookies

Depending on your mood, you can shape and decorate your mini cakes any way you like.

I intentionally gave them different crooked shapes this time to make them look like real potatoes. I also used a small amount of butter cream to pipe “sprouts” onto the sweet potatoes.

Such a dessert is perfect for a party and is guaranteed to attract the attention of all your guests.

Vegan kartoshka made from cookies

These kartoshka mini cakes are very easy to make vegan.

For this you take vegan cookies, which contain vegan butter or margarine and no egg.

You can make a vegan version of sweetened condensed milk yourself.

Instead of animal butter you use vegetable butter or margarine.

And you get a delicious vegan no bake dessert.

These mini cakes are

• chocolaty,
• crumbly,
• fluffy,
• unbelievably delicious,
• aromatic,
• with butter cookies,
• no bake,
• easy and quick to make with five ingredients,
• ideal for a party or for dessert during the week,
• classic of Russian cuisine in a hurry.

5 ingredient no bake recipe

For the kartoshka recipe you’ll find in the recipe box here at the end of the post, you’ll only need five ingredients. Plus, the mini cakes are ready in a flash.

Unlike the classic kartoshka according to GOST or the chocolate kartoshka, you don’t need to make a sponge cake here. In less than 30 minutes you can have the mini cakes on the table. It’s just best to chill them for a while before serving.

First, finely crumble butter cookies and mix them with cocoa powder. Mix softened butter, sweetened condensed milk and a little alcohol.

Now add the butter mixture to the cookie mixture, so that a well moldable mass, like for cake pops, is created.

Form “potatoes”, roll them in a mixture of ground cookies and cocoa powder and chill them for about an hour.

How to make kartoshka from cookies: tips and tricks

• You can use any butter or shortbread cookies for the recipe.
• If your cookie mixture is too dry, add some more sweetened condensed milk. If it’s mushy, add more ground cookies.
• You can adjust the amount of cocoa powder to taste, depending on how chocolatey you like your mini cakes.
• You can add different nuts to the cookie mixture.
• You can omit alcohol from the recipe.

Have you made kartoshka from cookies according to this recipe? I’m looking forward to your result, your star rating and your comment here below, how you succeeded and tasted the mini cakes.

Looking for more delicious no bake cake recipes? Try some more:

• Napoleon tarts: recipe for quick mini variant of the Russian cake
• Coconut egg cookies with mascarpone & cherries – recipe without baking
• No bake waffle cake – lightning 3 ingredient recipe

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