Pastry sausages from ready-made cookies are one of the favorite children's treats. They are very easy to prepare, the dessert is ideal for family tea drinking, and even an inexperienced housewife can make it. There are a lot of goodies, cocoa, chocolate butter, raisins, nuts, grated apples and other delicious ingredients can be added to the liver.
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Cooked sausages: what are they
Those who do not know how to knead the dough or are afraid that they will not be able to make a complex dessert correctly need not be limited to purchased goodies. At home, it is easy to prepare a delicious sausage based on sugar, biscuit or shortbread cookies. Softened butter is added to it, which can be replaced with high-quality margarine. Variety of taste will help the addition of cocoa powder, powdered or condensed milk, chopped nuts. The list of ingredients often includes coconut, chopped dried fruits, grated apples, cinnamon, dark or white chocolate, slices of marshmallows. It all depends on the imagination of the cook and personal taste.
It is simple to form the finished product: the thick mass rolls up in the form of sausage, tightly wraps with cling film and placed in the refrigerator. It is not worth using foil, the pieces will stick to the dessert and spoil its appearance. It will take several hours to solidify, so that the sausage reaches the desired condition faster, it is better to make it thin and long. After solidification, the treat is cut into slices with a sharp knife and served with tea or coffee. The dessert turns out to be rather fatty; it is not recommended to drink it with cold drinks.
Chocolate sausage: classic
Cookies sausage with butter and cocoa powder - a budget alternative to expensive chocolate. Dessert has a high calorie content, 100 g of product contains about 500 kcal. In order not to harm the figure, a couple of small slices should be served for tea. A cutaway chocolate sausage looks beautiful in photographs so that it does not lose shape, the product must be well frozen.
Ingredients:
- 500 g of sugar cookies;
- 200 g butter;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 100 g of walnuts or peanuts;
- 100 ml of milk;
- 2 tbsp. l cocoa powder.
Peel the nuts, fry the kernels in a dry frying pan and cool. Pound them in a mortar into large crumbs or pass through a blender. Put butter in a bowl, add sugar, milk and cocoa powder. Put the mixture in a steam bath and, stirring, heat, avoiding boiling. All components must be mixed, and sugar completely dissolved.
Break the cookies into small pieces, mix with chopped nuts and pour the butter and milk mixture. Mix the resulting mass well, put on a plastic wrap and roll it tightly, giving the products the shape of sausages. From the specified number of products, 3 sausages can be formed so that they solidify faster, products do not need to be made too thick. Tie them with thread or twine and place in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours. After the products are cut for tea, the leftovers must be removed in the refrigerator, at room temperature the sausage quickly melts and loses shape.
Sweet sausage with nuts and dried fruits
A quick dessert for those who don't like chocolate too much. For cooking, you can use sugar or shortbread cookies, both purchased and baked independently. The proportions of the ingredients vary to taste, instead of the proposed dried fruits, you can use others: figs, dates, prunes, dried cherries.
Ingredients:
- 400 g cookies;
- 1 cup dried apricots;
- 1 cup raisins;
- 1 cup walnut kernels;
- 200 g butter;
- 1 can of condensed milk;
- coconut flakes for sprinkling.
Rinse dried apricots and raisins, soak for half an hour in warm water. Fold dried fruits in a colander, letting the liquid drain, then dry on a paper towel. Finely chop the dried apricots. Put the cookies in a plastic bag and roll a rolling pin several times. Fry the kernels in a pan, cool and crush in a mortar.
Beat softened butter with condensed milk, an immersion mixer will help speed up the process. Mix the resulting cream with nuts, cookies, dried fruit slices. Put a thick mass on a piece of plastic film, roll the sausage and roll in coconut. Wrap the product with a film, tighten the ends tightly. Place the sausage in the cold for 4 hours, before serving, cut into neat pieces.
Sausage with cookies and apples: a simple dessert for tea
Sugar biscuits are easy to make High-calorie, but very tasty treat. The sausage is tender and juicy thanks to the grated apples added to the mass. It is better to choose aromatic sweet and sour fruits, the taste of the dessert will be more expressive.
Ingredients:
- 200 g of cookies
- 200 g of apples;
- 200 g butter;
- 200 g of sugar.
Peel the apples, remove the core. Grate the fruits on a coarse grater. Crumble cookies by placing honey in two layers of cling film and rolling it with a rolling pin. Pieces should not be too large.
Rub the softened butter with sugar into a homogeneous mass, add the grated apple and cookies. Stir everything thoroughly, put out not a piece of cling film. Roll the product in the form of sausages, wrap with a harsh thread so that the product retains its shape. Place the sausage in the freezer for 1 hour, then you can move it to the refrigerator.
Sausage with dark chocolate and sour cream
The main disadvantage of dessert sausages is their high calorie content. It can be reduced by replacing part of the butter with low-fat sour cream. Natural dark chocolate with a high percentage of cocoa will add interesting flavoring notes.
Ingredients:
- 400 g shortbread cookies;
- 80 g of butter;
- 0.5 cups low-fat sour cream;
- 50 g of walnut kernels;
- 50 g of powdered sugar;
- 50 g of dark chocolate;
- a pinch of vanillin.
Fry walnuts in a dry pan or bake in the microwave. Cool, grind in a mortar. Grind cookies with a rolling pin. Beat sour cream with powdered sugar and vanilla into a homogeneous mass. Add butter and melted dark chocolate, whisk again.
In a deep bowl combine the cookies, nuts, sour cream and butter mixture. Put a thick mass on polyethylene, roll into a sausage and tightly tie a thread. Keep at least 3 hours in the cold before serving.