Chocolate rum balls “kartoshka”, chocolate icebox cake and chocolate roll (one recipe three decadent desserts)
Cakes
Uzbek cuisine
If you go to a fancy pastry shop in Russia or now days in America, you will see behind the counter, next to the delicate and colorful Parisian-style mille-Feuillet’s and fruit tartlets and cream-filled éclairs, something that looks like nothing more or less than a little potato. It is coaled “Kartoshka” a favorite pastry of many kids and adults as well. The name comes from Russian potato, as the pastry looks like it. These are easy to make and require absolutely no baking or prep work. The pastries come in many deferent coatings: cocoa powder, coconut shavings, powdered sugar, nuts, chocolate sprinkles and melted chocolate. Following the same recipe you can make also a Chocolate Ice Box cake or Chocolate Rolls (photo #8) which are filled with Fruit Jellies, pieces of dried fruits, marshmallows, broken nut-brittles and keep in the freezer for weeks. The butter, cookies, chocolate and milk all really become one and just melt into each other. It makes for amazingly creamy fudge-like or truffle pastries. I dare you to eat just one. There are many versions of the recipe for "Kartoshka". Here is mine, which I coated in cocoa powder and decorated with some chocolate sprinkles, cranberries in powdered sugar and pomegranate seeds (photo #6).
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