Cooking, Crafting, Mommy life : Ant Farm Cake (Muraveynik)

This cake is for about 6-8 people you can always double the recipe for a bigger crowed.

Ingredients:

6 TBsp Milk

6 TBsp Unsalted butter

1 Egg

100g Sugar

1 TBsp Vanilla

½ tsp Baking soda

1 ½ -2 cups flour

1 can Sweetened Condensed milk (boiled for at least 2 hours)

100g walnuts (optional)

Step by step:

Preheat oven to 375F

All ingredients need to be at room temperature,

Whisk together the milk, butter, egg, sugar and vanilla.

Now add the baking soda mix and slowly start adding the flour and mixing it in

Don’t add all the flour just look at the dough once it starts forming a ball add little flour at a time the dough should be soft but not stick to your hands.

Divide the dough in to 4pcs roll each piece in to logs thin enough to fit in to the opening on your meat grinder

Now feed each piece in to the meat grinder like this and just catch it at the opening

Place the strips on to a baking sheet covered with parchment paper

Bake for about 10-20mins depending on how thick you make the strips as soon as it starts turning golden take them out and let cool

Once they cool break them in to little pieces

Place all the pieces and if your using walnuts coarsely chopped in to a big bowl and add the can of condensed milk mix really well to make sure every piece is covered with condensed milk

Now line a smaller bowl with plastic wrap and place the mixed pieces in to the bowl and press down really well

Cover with plastic wrap and press down again just to make sure its holding together good

Place the bowl in the refrigerator for a couple hours to let everything stick together

Take it out of the refrigerator, open the plastic wrap on top and place a flat plate on top and flip over the cake over then just remove the bowl and the plastic wrap carefully