Hello sweet food lovers!

Shortcrust pastry is easy enough to make. But to make it perfect, you need to know some secrets. In this article I will write how to make a sweet batch, from which it will be possible to create classic curly cookies, and tartlets, and tart, and baskets. Such a mass can be prepared for future use and stored in the freezer for up to 3 months.

In addition to the recipe for the dough itself, I will write how to bake delicious classic and gingerbread cookies, tangerine tart from it.

This dough is perfect. The finished mass itself should resemble wet sand in structure; when finished, it turns out to be crispy and crumbly. From this batch you can make cookies, tarts and tartlets, cake baskets, as well as cake layers.

In this recipe, I will show you how to properly knead the dough so that it rolls out well and does not break after baking. I will also share the secrets and nuances of cooking.

Ingredients:

• cold butter - 300 gr.
• powdered sugar or sugar - 150 gr. (4 tablespoons with top)
• eggs - 2 pcs.
• sour cream - 1 tbsp
• salt - 1 pinch
• low gluten flour - 600 gr.

Step by step preparation:

• Secret number 1. Butter should be cold. It is from this oil that a loose structure will be obtained. Do not take the butter out of the refrigerator ahead of time so that it becomes soft. Also, don't drown him. Melted butter will not make good shortcrust pastry with the desired texture. It will be sticky and sticky.

1. Grate cold butter. Do this quickly so that the oil does not have time to warm up from the heat of your hands. Otherwise, it will be difficult to rub it, it will float.

2. Add powdered sugar to the grated butter. You can also put sugar, but the powder will be better rubbed with cold fat, there will be no grains. With a fork, mash the butter along with the powdered sugar. Also do this quickly so that the butter does not melt.

• Secret number 2. Powdered sugar should be exactly 2 times less than butter. Too much sugar will make the dough crumbly and the cookies not so crispy.

3. Beat eggs into the dough. Beat in one egg first, stir, then beat in the next.

• Secret number 3. Put 1 tbsp into the dough. sour cream. It will make the mass more elastic, it will not crumble. But an excess of sour cream will also hurt: the workpiece will float and lose its necessary consistency.

4. After the eggs, put 1 tbsp. sour cream and mix with a fork.

5. Put a pinch of salt, stir quickly. Very little salt is put into all sweet pastries, because it reveals the taste of sugar better and gives a new flavor note.

• Secret number 4. Shortbread dough needs flour with a low gluten content (less than 20%). It is made from soft wheat varieties. If you do not have such a product, then use this advice. Take a glass of plain flour, sprinkle 2 tablespoons, put 2 tablespoons instead. starch. You will get a mixture with a low gluten content.

6. For 300 gr. oils need to put 600 gr. flour, that is, a ratio of 1: 2. If there is too much flour, the dough will turn out hard, it will not be possible to mold the necessary product from it. Sift the flour and add to the butter base, mix quickly. When the mass already looks like a crumb, knead it with your hands, but not for a long time, otherwise the cookies will not be so crispy. The finished mixture is quite tight.

In the cookie dough you need to put 1 tsp. baking powder, it is not necessary to put it in the basis for the tart.

7. Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate for 30 minutes to cool (or 2 hours). Immediately, the workpiece cannot be rolled out, dry and wet ingredients must react, then the mass will be elastic and pliable.

The process of preparing dough from 300 gr. oils. For this amount of oil, you need to take 600 gr. flour. I will divide this oil base into 3 equal parts (100 g of oil each). It turns out for each part of 200 gr. flour. From the first part we will make a classic cookie, from the second part - a tangerine tart, from the third - a gingerbread cookie with chocolate.

Raw dough can be made in advance and frozen in the freezer. It can be stored there for several months.

Cooking gingerbread cookie dough

Additional Ingredients:

• ground ginger - 1 tbsp. without a slide
• baking powder dough - 1 tsp without a slide
• nuts and chocolate for decoration

As you can see, the additional ingredients are dry, so they must first be mixed with flour, and then combined with an oil base. So, in 200 gr. flour (per 100 gr. butter) add 1 tbsp. ground ginger and 1 tsp. baking powder, mix. 200 gr. flour is 6 tbsp. with a hill. You can also add vanilla or vanillin if you wish.

For this baking, it is better to take a baking powder, not soda, because the soda acts immediately, and the baking powder gradually, during the baking process. Since our dough will still be cooling, an instant reaction is not needed.

Mix the dry mixture with the oil, knead the shortbread dough, but you don’t need to do it for a long time. Wrap in clingfilm to prevent weathering and refrigerate (30 minutes to 2 hours).

After half an hour, take out the dough, roll it out on parchment about 5 mm thick. Cut out the desired shapes with molds and bake on parchment at 200 degrees for 15 minutes.

If desired, cookies can be decorated with chocolate and nuts. To do this, take any nuts and chop them (you can do this with a rolling pin). Take any chocolate as well, but not porous. Melt it in a water bath, look do not overheat, otherwise it will exfoliate.

When the finished cookies have cooled a little, dip half of them in chocolate, and then in nuts. Place on parchment paper and let chocolate harden.

The finished liver is very fragrant and tasty.

Tangerine tart

Additional Ingredients:

• eggs - 4 pcs.
• starch - 40 gr. (2 tablespoons)
• tangerines - 4-8 pcs.
• lemon - 1 pc.
• sugar - 150 gr. (8 tablespoons)
• butter
• almond flakes - for decoration
• powdered sugar - for decoration

From tangerines and lemon, you will need zest - 1 tbsp. and juice - 250 ml

In a meat base with 100 gr. butter add 200 gr. sifted flour. There is no need to put baking powder in this baking, as in cookies. Mash the base with flour until crumbs, then quickly knead the dough for 1 minute. Wrap in cling film and refrigerate for at least half an hour.

While the dough is cooling, you can prepare the cream.

Stir the eggs with a whisk until smooth.

Tangerines and lemon should be poured with boiling water for a few seconds. Next, take the fruits out of the water and wipe them with napkins. The next step is to grate the zest of tangerines and lemon on the smallest grater. Rub, turning the fruit in a circle. Make sure that the white part is not erased, only orange is needed for the zest, otherwise the filling will be bitter. All you need is 1 tbsp. zest.

If desired, citrus zest can be replaced with finely chopped candied fruit. Or not use it at all. You can also put the zest in the dough, and not in the cream.

From fruits without zest, you need to squeeze the juice. Do it in any way, the main thing is that seeds and pulp do not get into the juice. You can grind the pulp (remove the seeds in advance) in a blender, and then squeeze through gauze or a sieve. Or squeeze the juice through a sieve using a fork. For cream you need 250 ml of juice.

Combine juice and citrus zest in one bowl. Add sugar to them, mix. Next, pour in the stirred eggs, also bring to a homogeneous state. You don't need to beat it for a long time, just mix everything together.

So that the cream does not burn, it must be brewed in a water bath. To do this, boil water in a saucepan. Place the cream on top of the boiling water in a bowl or saucepan. Cook, stirring to prevent the eggs from curdling, until the foam is gone and the cream begins to thicken a little.

When all the foam is gone, put the butter in the cream, melt it.

Dissolve the starch in cold water until a homogeneous gruel (take 6 tablespoons of water for 2 tablespoons of starch). Add starch to cream and stir. Heat the cream until thickened for a few more minutes. After that, set it aside to cool.

Never toss in dry starch to thicken anything. Be sure to dilute it in cold water.

When the dough has cooled, take it out of the refrigerator. Take a form with high sides. The base for the tart needs to be rolled out thinly, about 2-3 mm thick. There are two ways to create a pie:

1. Place the mold on the parchment paper and cut out a circle along the bottom of the mold with a knife. Put the dough on this parchment circle and roll it thinly over this blank. Transfer the rolled out layer with parchment to the form. Knead it with your hands, making the sides. It is not necessary to grease the form additionally, the dough is greasy and will not burn.
2. Roll out the dough thinly, with a diameter larger than the bottom of the mold. Using a rolling pin, transfer it to the mold, lay it down and cut off the excess that hangs from the edges with a knife, form the sides.

To prevent the dough from rising during baking, it needs to be weighted. Professional chefs use special stones for this. At home, you can take beans or other dry cereals (peas, buckwheat, rice).

Cover the tart completely with parchment (the sides should also be covered) and pour beans into the mold, about 500 gr.

In an oven preheated to 200 degrees, put the tart to bake for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, the edge of the tart will become ruddy. Take out the mold, remove the parchment with the beans and send the cake to bake for another 5 minutes. After that, let the tart cool in the form.

When the tart has cooled, take it out of the mold. To do this, carefully turn the mold over so as not to break the pastries. Fill the tart with cream. Place in the refrigerator for half an hour to completely harden the cream.

When the cream has set, decorate the tart with almond flakes and powdered sugar.

Carefully cut the tart and enjoy the exquisite taste!

Classic shortcrust pastry cookies (white and chocolate)

Additional Ingredients:

• baking powder - 1 tsp
• cocoa - 1 tbsp.

To make two types of classic cookies, we divide the butter base from 100 gr. oil for 2 parts. In the first part, put flour (100 g per 50 g butter) and baking powder - 0.5 tsp.

The second part also needs flour and baking powder, but also cocoa. Cocoa is not put in addition, but replaces one tablespoon of flour. That is, put flour on 1 tbsp. less (only 2 tbsp) and 1 tbsp. cocoa. All dry ingredients must be sieved to enrich them with oxygen. First mix the flour, cocoa and baking powder separately, then add this dry mixture to the butter base.

Knead the dough and put it in the refrigerator, not forgetting to wrap it in a film.

When the dough has rested, you can roll it out, about 5 mm thick and cut out cookies with cookie cutters.

In order not to hammer the dough with additional flour, roll it out between two pieces of parchment paper. It is also good to use a cold board for this (also hide it in the refrigerator) and a cold rolling pin.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, you do not need to grease it with oil, since the cookies are quite fatty. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Sprinkle the cookies with sugar and bake for 15 minutes until browned.

Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet. The taste of this biscuit is well revealed with milk.

Prepare shortcrust pastry according to this recipe and you will get a masterpiece! Write in the comments what kind of pastry you got. I want everything to be delicious!

Calories: Not specified
Time for preparing: 30 minutes

Today we have a very simple recipe for shortcrust pastry for cookies, with which novice cooks begin their experiments in sweet pastries. There are a few tips that I think will come in handy for inexperienced cooks. Firstly, if you like crumbly, not very sweet cookies, then increase the amount of butter, reduce sugar and you can add another yolk. Secondly, if you need strong cookies, for example, for applying glaze, you need to pour more sugar, it will give the baking strength. Thirdly, keep an eye on the oven, thin shortbread baking should not be ignored, because it will take only 7-8 minutes to bake.
It will take 30 minutes to cook, 500 g will be obtained from the indicated ingredients.
From this dough, you can make not only cookies, but also a delicious pie with filling, for example.





- butter - 120 g;
- granulated sugar - 90 g;
- wheat flour - 240 g;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- salt.

Recipe with photo step by step:

Softened butter and a pinch of fine table salt without additives are rubbed with granulated sugar. For these purposes, I advise you to use a mixer, it is much more effective than a whisk or fork.




We break a raw egg into a separate bowl, separate the yolk, the protein is not needed in this recipe. Add the yolk to the butter with sugar, mix until smooth.




Sift wheat flour into a bowl to get rid of lumps and foreign inclusions, which sometimes come across in flour in our time.




We combine the sifted flour and a mixture of butter, sugar and yolk.






Knead the dough quickly. To make the cookies crumbly, the dough cannot be kneaded for a long time, 3 minutes is enough for the mass to become homogeneous and smooth.




We collect the mass in a bun, put it in a bowl. Cover the bowl with cling film and place in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.




After 20 minutes everything is ready and you can bake.
At your discretion, you can sprinkle the board and rolling pin with flour or grease with vegetable oil. The dough should be rolled out with a layer of about 4 millimeters or thinner. Cut the cookies with a knife or cut out curly molds.




The baking temperature is approximately 160-170 degrees Celsius.
By the way, this dough can be frozen, it can be stored in the freezer for a long time.
And from it you can make an interesting curly

how to make shortbread cookies

Shortbread recipe at home

The most delicate and crumbly shortbread cookies are not at all easy to prepare. The main thing is to OBSERVE PROPORTIONS of butter and flour! This is the main secret of the recipe for delicious shortbread cookies.

The ratio should be - 60-80% butter by weight of flour. That is, if you want to bake shortbread cookies in a hurry from 500 grams of flour, then you need to take:

• at least 150 grams of oil.
• maximum 400 grams of butter.

The more butter you use, the more crumbly your cookies will be. But for shortbread friability is the most relish. So I made cookies with as much butter as possible and they were very crumbly.

The cookies do not go stale long enough.

This is a basic recipe that you can modify by adding:

• cocoa,
• nuts,
• spices (cinnamon, nutmeg…)

Shortbread dough classic recipe

Ingredients:

1. flour - 250 grams,
2. butter - 200 grams,
3. eggs - 2 pcs,
4. sugar - 100 grams
5. salt - a pinch.

What other secrets of shortcrust pastry:

• to make the cookies softer you need to take 2 yolks, to make the cookies harder you need to take 1 egg;
• instead of sugar, it is better to use powdered sugar.

First of all, combine soft butter and sugar (or powdered sugar). It is better to do this either with your hands or with a spoon (fork), but not with a blender in which the oil can simply peel off. Stir until smooth and add a pinch of salt.

combine sugar and butter

Add the yolks to the creamy mass. Yolks (without proteins) will give the dough softness. Also mix well until smooth.

add yolks

Now we sift the flour into a separate container or on a cutting table (it is necessary to sift).

In the center we spread the creamy mass and start sprinkling it with flour, combine it into a soft dough. Of course, doing it by hand is also better.

sift the flour

What to do for those who are used to kneading in a combine. You can also use a food processor, BUT it is VERY important not to overmix the dough. Hands feel very good. Yes, and it mixes very, very easily. Feel the dough too very pleasant.

Unfortunately, I missed the photo of the finished test (((

The finished dough should be wrapped with cling film and put in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes. There it should "reach".

mix buttermilk with flour

When 40 minutes have passed, you take the dough out of the refrigerator and divide it into several parts and roll it into a layer the thickness of your cookie.

Cut out with a cookie cutter. Placed on a baking sheet lined with parchment.

roll out into thin layers

Shortbread cookies are baked at a temperature of 180-200 degrees, but with a light brown crust (until cooked). Depending on the oven, it will take you 10-15 minutes to bake.

And in order to bake chocolate cookies from the same dough, you need to put 220 grams instead of 250 grams of flour. And replace 30 grams with 300 grams of cocoa.

Cocoa should be added to the flour and then the brown flour should be combined with the creamy mass. Cocoa gives a light chocolate bitterness. So if you like very sweet cookies. add a little more sugar.

how to make cocoa shortbread cookies

To prepare crumbly and tender shortcrust pastry, special efforts are not required. You don’t even need scarce products for decoration and any frills - it is incredibly tasty and appetizing in itself. It is called sandy precisely because of the friability. You can bake the dough with a large cake, and then cut it into small pieces - it all depends on the specific recipe and type. In this case, you need to pierce the cakes in several places so that carbon dioxide does not accumulate. Mix the products quickly, and then leave the workpiece in a cold place for several hours. Certain rules should be observed when baking cookies. For example, the oven temperature should be 150-200 degrees, at a higher temperature, the cookies may crumble due to the rapid dissolution of the butter. Before baking, brush the cakes with a beaten egg, milk, or just water.

Shortbread - food preparation

The main components are butter or margarine, flour and sugar, additional ones are eggs, cocoa, raisins, dried apricots, cottage cheese and many others. Experienced chefs know many secrets to ensure that the dough is exactly as prescribed by the recipe:

The amount of fat affects the softness of the finished product - the less fat, the denser and tougher the cookies are;
- the dough is especially crumbly if you use powdered sugar instead of sugar, and put only yolks into it;
- it is better to choose flour with a low gluten content, the dough will be more elastic, and the cookies will turn out tastier;
- if you add a little water, the dough will look good, but the cookies will become tougher.

Shortbread - the best recipes

Recipe 1: Chocolate shortbread cookies

For lovers of chocolate treats, a real surprise is a simple and tasty cookie with cocoa in the dough, and to enhance the taste, pour it with melted dark chocolate.

Ingredients: butter (100 grams), sugar (1/4 cup), flour (1 cup), cocoa powder (1/4 cup), dark chocolate for decoration.

Cooking method

Since the preparation of the dough takes very little time, turn on the oven so that it warms up well. Beat butter and sugar with a mixer. Sift cocoa and flour right here, beat until the dough becomes homogeneous, “knead” it with your hands. Form a total of 16 balls, approximately like walnuts. On a baking sheet with parchment, lay them out at a distance and press lightly with a fork - you get an interesting pattern. Small molds can be pierced with a toothpick or a match, 2 pairs crosswise - you get the original “button” cookies. Bake for 20 minutes and let it cool down. It remains to melt the chocolate and decorate the cookies - pour each circle with a small spoon. Leave the chocolate to harden - everything is ready for tea drinking.

Recipe 2: Shortcake with Coconut and Almonds

Almonds are a very healthy nut, but they should not be eaten in large quantities. Our recipe contains just enough of it to bring the greatest benefit to the body, but we are not thinking about it, but about its wonderful taste in the company with coconut.

Ingredients: flour (250 grams), sugar (and vanillin) 1 cup, coconut (pulp ½ piece or chips 1 sachet), butter (90 grams), almonds (50 grams), coconut chips for decoration.

Cooking method

Beat eggs with sugar, add flour and butter. Grate the peeled coconut core and chop the almonds. Add these ingredients to the resulting mass and beat well. Initially, the dough is sticky, add flour, gradually, so that it stops sticking to your hands. Leave for 1 hour in a cold place. We make cookies, decorate with shavings. We cover the form with parchment and bake the cookies for 15 minutes at a low temperature (160 degrees).

Recipe 3: Layered Shortbread Recipe

Unexpected guests on the doorstep, and you do not know what to treat them? Do not despair. Put the kettle on and use this recipe. The cookies just melt in your mouth, none of your friends will leave until you eat them all. The most important thing is that the layer does not need to be prepared separately - thick jam or jam, for example, from apples or plums, will fit.

Ingredients: flour (2 cups), sugar (1/2 cup), margarine (150 grams), egg (1 pc.), Salt (half a teaspoon), soda (a quarter of a teaspoon), jam or jam for a layer (50 grams ), powdered sugar.

Cooking method

We prepare the classic dough from sugar flour and margarine and eggs, add soda and salt to the flour. Roll out into a layer of about 5 mm. We cut out cakes for the dough, they turn out very beautiful if you use a corrugated recess. We spread the blanks on a baking sheet and bake at a temperature of 240-250 degrees. Bake for only 10-12 minutes. We glue the halves with jam or marmalade. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. The most beautiful cookies can be obtained if you form them from cakes of different sizes - stick a small one on a large one. Happy tea!

Recipe 4: Shortbread Cottage Cheese Cookies

A simple recipe for unsweetened cottage cheese cookies, similar to shortbread.

Ingredients: flour (350-400 grams), butter (can be margarine, 250 grams), cottage cheese (250 grams), sour cream (200 grams), sugar (1 spoon).

Cooking method

Pour the flour into a bowl and put softened butter or margarine, chop with a knife, pass the cottage cheese through a meat grinder and add to the dough along with sour cream and sugar. You can add more sugar than indicated in the recipe. Stir the dough, knead it with your hands and leave for 1 hour in a cold place. Roll out on a board and fold in half. Then take it out to the cold again. So continue 3-4 times every 10-15 minutes. Cut the dough into shortbreads and bake in the oven for about 10-15 minutes.

Recipe 5: Shortbread with poppy seeds and lemon zest

Poppy not only gives an original taste, but also greatly decorates products. Ordinary shortbread cookies with the addition of poppy seeds look very nice, and if you add lemon zest to it, as they say, "you will lick your fingers." It is prepared quickly, but two hours of time for maturation and cooling of the dough will still have to wait.

Ingredients: butter (softened, 180 grams, ¾ packet, sugar (200 grams), egg (1 pc), milk (1 spoon), lemon zest from one lemon. Vanillin, lemon juice (1 spoon), flour (2.5 cups ), poppy (2 tablespoons).

Cooking method

Beat butter with sugar and add the egg. Pour in the milk, mix everything with vanilla and lemon juice (you can use a few drops of food flavoring), little by little add the sifted flour and poppy seeds. We form two sausages from the dough, about 20 cm each and wrap in a film, leave in the refrigerator for 2 hours. Expand the sausages and cut into circles, put on a baking sheet at a small distance from each other. Bake for 10-15 minutes at 180 degrees. Leave the cookies on the baking sheet for 2 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack and cool completely.

When kneading the dough, you need to soften the butter. Try to think about it in advance, as it cannot be melted at a high temperature. It is better to take it out of the refrigerator overnight, or use the microwave at room temperature.

An interesting form for cookies can turn out in the form of baskets. They can be filled with any sweet content - cottage cheese with raisins and dried apricots, jam, jam or boiled condensed milk.

I was always surprised how mothers of two children manage to cook not only everyday meals, but also homemade cookies. It turns out that everything is simple if you know the recipe for shortcrust pastry.

Chocolate shortbread cookies

Cooking shortbread cookies is very simple and fast. On weekends, my family is at home, and in order not to buy store-bought cookies, we make them ourselves. Most often we use the recipe for shortcrust pastry for cookies. Although we cook different cookies. This weekend we made chocolate chip cookies. We took natural cocoa powder and added it to the dough, replacing some of the flour. We liked the recipe for chocolate chip cookies, and we wrote it down in our cookbook. Now the kids and I will often return to this recipe.

Shortcrust pastry for cookies is not very convenient for cutting out figures. An adult can cope with this task, but children do not always succeed the first time. When only the eldest son helps me, we make simple shortbread dough with him, and when the youngest son joins us, we add an egg to the shortbread dough. It gives elasticity to the dough, therefore, it is easier to cut out figures or sculpt what you want. Ready-made cookies are distinguished by their structure with an egg, which is denser, and without an egg, tender and crumbly.

Simple shortbread cookies after baking are very tender and tasty. You don't need a lot of ingredients to make shortbread cookies. Let's see what we need and let's cook.

• 100 grams of butter;
• 50 grams of sugar;
• 150 grams of flour;
• a pinch of salt;
• 3 tablespoons of cocoa.

Step-by-step instructions for the dish "Shortbread with cocoa":

The butter must first be taken out of the refrigerator so that it becomes soft. I usually take out the butter in the morning, and after a couple of hours, when it comes to cookies, they are already soft. If you want to make the butter soft in a shorter time, then you need to cut it and put it near the heat.

Soft butter mode into pieces. Add sugar to it. Mix butter and sugar well. I like to do it the old fashioned way, with a big wooden spoon. It's calming. But a mixer will also do.

Add to butter with sugar - flour and cocoa. Knead the dough first in a bowl, and then on the table. We form a ball. We put this ball in a bag and send it to the refrigerator for 20 minutes.

After 20 we take out the dough. It will crumble a little. Roll out the dough to whatever thickness you like. Carefully cut out the cookies. Lay the cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. We bake shortbread cookies for 15 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees.

Let the finished cookies cool completely and serve.

Homemade shortbread cookies with cocoa and nuts

In case of "quick" guests, there should be a quick recipe for a delicious treat, such as shortbread cookies. In other words, if in half an hour friends should drop by for a conversation with tea, then you will have little time to cook. But, if you have a shortbread cookie recipe and the ingredients you need to make it, then half the battle is already done! The classic shortbread cookie recipe can be slightly modified by adding walnuts and cocoa. It will turn out unusual, tasty and fragrant. Turn on the oven, in a matter of minutes you will make the dough, and while the cookies are baking in the oven, you will even have time to restore the appearance of order in the house! What could be better when a guest, even at the entrance, smells the pleasant smell of baking and understands that they are waiting for him, they are preparing for his arrival (even if spontaneous)!

• chicken egg - 2 pcs.;
• sugar - 0.5 cups;
• wheat flour - 1.5-2 cups;
• butter - 100-120 g;
• cocoa powder - 4-5 tbsp. spoons;
• walnuts - 10-12 pcs.

Step-by-step instructions for the dish "Shortbread with cocoa and nuts":

First prepare the cookie dough. Separate the yolks from the whites. In a saucepan, mix sugar with yolks, proteins are not used in the recipe.

Rubbing the yolk-sugar mixture can not be until the sugar grains are completely dissolved. In addition, powdered sugar can be added to the dough instead of granulated sugar. Soft butter cut into pieces, add to the pan, then rub with a whisk until the dough is creamy.

Then add cocoa powder and mix again with a whisk. After that, wheat flour is added, you need to mix it in parts, at first you will be able to mix the dough with a whisk, and then you need to knead it with your hands, adding flour.

The finished dough should rest a little, 10 minutes is enough for this. During this time, you can peel the walnuts, cover the form with parchment and grease it with a little butter. Divide the rested dough into small pieces, about the size of a walnut, roll into balls and lightly press the middle with your finger.

The middle of a simple cocoa shortbread cookie should be occupied by nuts. In addition to walnuts, you can use any others.

Preheat the oven, put a baking sheet with shortbread cookies on the middle level, bake for 20 minutes at 180C.

Shortbread with cocoa and nuts cools quickly, so you don’t have to languish in a long wait for a delicious treat with a sweet treat.

Help yourself!

Shortbread cookies "Hearts" with chocolate

Shortbread cookies with a chocolate pattern are a real delicacy for all children in the world.

All sweet lovers will love this shortbread cookie recipe. This delicacy is very easy to prepare. And it tastes like perfection! For tea, such a treat will always be appropriate.

So, what do you need to know in order to make excellent shortbread cookies? The first is that instead of sugar, we use powdered sugar. It is very easy to knead into shortcrust pastry dough. It turns out elastic and pliable dough. In addition, it is also crumbly, which is also important for shortcrust pastry.

For better cookies, it is better to use fresh butter. You can also use margarine, but then your pastries will not be as perfect as you would like. But at the same time, homemade shortbread cookies will be tasty, crispy and fragrant.

To prepare shortbread cookies, you need to put the butter out of the refrigerator in advance so that it becomes soft, but does not melt completely. This room temperature butter is easily kneaded and combined with other ingredients. Yolks can be added to shortbread cookie dough. But you can get rid of them. Egg yolks improve the taste of the product and make it crumbly and tender.

Another important point in preparing cookie dough is to send it to the refrigerator for a while after kneading in order to make it easier to work with the dough. However, don't freeze it too hard because the dough won't roll out as easily.

Well, let's start the production of a delicate crispy treat. Presented to your attention is a shortbread recipe with a photo.

A set of products for making shortbread cookies:

• - 200 grams of butter;
• - 160 grams of powdered sugar;
• - 250 grams of flour;
• - 1 sachet of vanilla sugar.
• - a bar of dark chocolate.

Step-by-step instructions for the dish "Shortbread with chocolate pattern"

In a bowl, mash the butter or margarine with a fork. Add the powdered sugar, be sure to sift so that the powder is airy and without lumps. To this add a bag of vanilla sugar.Pour through a sieve and flour, gradually kneading shortbread dough for cookies.

When the dough is ready, it will look like this. It must be placed in a film and sent to the refrigerator for half an hour or forty minutes.

Shortbread dough for cookies will become hard, but it will be great to roll out on the table. Let's divide it into two parts. We will work with one, and send the other back to the refrigerator.

In order to roll out the shortbread dough, lightly sprinkle the table with flour and roll out the dough with a rolling pin, first up and down, then to the right and left. Thus, we repeat the steps until the dough acquires a thickness of about 5-8 mm. Shortbread dough for cookies is very easy to roll out.

After rolling out the dough, cut out the desired figures from it. You can use both cookie cutters and glasses or other containers.

Put the finished figures on a baking sheet. For convenience, it is better to cover the baking sheet with parchment. We send shortcrust pastry cookies to bake in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for about 10 minutes. The baking time will depend on the thickness of your products and on the characteristics of the oven. Homemade shortbread cookies are ready.

Take out the products after they are reddened.

Put the finished shortbread cookies on a flat surface. Then melt the chocolate. This can be done in the microwave or in a water bath by breaking the chocolate into pieces. In the microwave, melt the chocolate for one minute in two passes, remove and mix.

We place the melted chocolate in the cornet and draw patterns on the products through a small hole, as fantasy tells.

Happy tea!

Shortbread cookies "Balls"

Shortbread cookies "sugar balls" are distinguished by their free-flowing structure and therefore simply melt in your mouth!

How often do we sit down at the table with our relatives, family and start drinking tea? Perhaps this is a special meal for many, because at this time we solve a lot of issues or just have the opportunity to chat. But how important at this time is what we have on the table. After all, it's not a secret for anyone that a lot depends on food (mood, positive and other feelings associated with this).

Today I will offer you a very simple, but such a delicious recipe with a photo of shortbread cookies for this very meal. And we will call these shortbread cookies "sugar balls". You will see how difficult it will be to break away from this delicacy. So I warn you right away - you can double the portion! And then someone may not have enough of this delicacy.

A set of products for making shortbread cookies:

• wheat flour - 350 grams;
• margarine or butter - 100 grams;
• soda - ½ teaspoon;
• mayonnaise - 4 tbsp. spoons;
• granulated sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• chicken egg - 1 pc.;
• granulated sugar ½ cup for sprinkling.

Step-by-step instructions for the dish "Shortbread "sugar balls":

Here is a cookie recipe. Prepare a deep and dry bowl for convenient kneading shortbread cookie dough. We sift wheat flour through a sieve, so it will be enriched with oxygen, and as a result, the products will turn out to be more lush and airy. Add baking soda to flour and mix ingredients. Melt margarine in a separate metal container, cool. Then pour it into the center of the flour. Lightly fold the margarine into the flour.

Add two tablespoons of granulated sugar to the dough.

Now let's beat one chicken egg. Let's add mayonnaise. Slowly begin to mix the contents with a regular spoon or spatula.

Knead the dough, it will be quite fat. Lay out a sheet of parchment paper on a baking sheet.

We begin to form our balls from the dough. Send granulated sugar (about ½ cup) to a regular plate. Tear off a small piece of dough and roll it into a ball. Balls should be no more than 2 cm in diameter. We roll each of them in sugar. And distribute on a baking sheet on parchment paper at a sufficient distance from each other, as shown in the photo.

We bake cookies in an oven preheated to 180 degrees Celsius for about 20-25 minutes. We carefully monitor their readiness in your oven - it is important not to overexpose them there so that they do not burn, but at the same time, it is necessary that homemade shortbread cookies are completely baked. Then it will be very tender and crumbly.

So the shortbread cookies on margarine "sugar balls" are ready, let's cool it and serve it to the table! Enjoy your meal!

The dish "Shortbread "Sugar balls"" was prepared by arivedrchy

Shortbread cookies are easy to prepare. It is suitable for tea drinking in a narrow family circle, and for a festive feast. For example, the Golden Field fragrant crumbly shortbread cookies (recipe below) can adequately replace. If there are children in the family, you can ask them to help. They will be delighted to help you cut out figures from rolled out dough, sprinkle them with berries and nuts, and also break chocolate into pieces.

Shortcrust pastry is very fat, so the baking sheet is not greased before baking. The amount of sugar can be reduced or increased depending on personal ideas about how sweet it should be. For baking shortbread cookies, the temperature in the oven should not be too high (180-200 degrees), as they are thin. Products are baked for approximately 20 minutes.

cooking secrets

1. Firstly, the dough for crumbly shortbread cookies must be kneaded very quickly so that the baking powder does not lose its activity and the cookies turn out to be delicate in taste.
2. The ingredients must be warm. In cold dough, baking powder does not work.
3. The baking powder must be mixed with flour, and not poured into the liquid.
4. Butter and margarine for shortbread cookies should be soft, not liquid, otherwise the products will turn out to be too hard.
5. If not butter is taken, but margarine, it must be of good quality, without water, otherwise shortbread cookies will not be crumbly. If there is no high-quality margarine, you can replace it with refined vegetable oil, reducing the amount by a quarter.
6. Sour cream for crumbly shortbread cookies should be high fat (at least 20%).
Shortbread cookies can be divided into three types: simple homemade, healthy and delicious. For daily tea drinking

The recipe for making universal shortcrust pastry at home is extremely simple.

Ingredients:

Granulated sugar (1 part),
butter (2 parts) and sifted flour (3 parts).
For every 100 g of sugar, 1 teaspoon (tea) of baking powder is added.

Cooking method:

Butter is kneaded with sugar. Sprinkle flour with baking powder and quickly knead the dough. Such a simple recipe opens up great opportunities for creativity. Based on it, you can:
Crumbly shortbread cookies are classic: roll out the dough with a layer of 0.5 cm, sprinkle it with sugar, roll it gently with a rolling pin and then cut out any figures.
Crumbly shortbread cookies with cherries, blueberries, currants: roll out the dough, cut circles in a pile, then put berries in the center of each circle and sprinkle with sugar.
Crumbly gourmet cookies with walnuts, raisins and chocolate: add chocolate pieces, nuts and raisins to the dough, mix, form cakes.
For kids
In healthy shortbread cookies for children, there is a high content of products containing microelements. Carrots, pumpkin, cottage cheese can be added to the dough for healthy baking.

carrot shortbread recipe

This is a very economical recipe, but such cookies are rich in vitamins, recommended for children with a sweet tooth. It is a beautiful bright orange color.

Ingredients:

200 g carrots
1 egg
180 g sugar
100 g refined vegetable oil,
195 g flour
5 g soda
vinegar.

Cooking method:

Rub on a grater (small petals) and squeeze lightly. Add sugar and vegetable oil, add the sifted flour, mix with a spoon. Add the egg and soda quenched with vinegar, mix quickly again. Put the dough with a dessert spoon on a baking sheet, giving a rounded shape.

Recipe for cottage cheese shortbread cookies.

It is also very useful for children, as it is rich in calcium and milk protein.

Ingredients:

2 parts cream margarine (by weight)
3 parts cottage cheese crumbly,
4 parts flour
one teaspoon of baking powder for every 4 parts of flour,
sugar for the filling.

Cooking method:

Softened margarine is thoroughly kneaded with cottage cheese. Knead elastic dough. Roll it out, cut it into squares. Place a teaspoon of sugar in the center of each square, fold the square diagonally and bake.
For guests
For a festive feast, you can bake delicious crumbly shortbread cookies. Such recipes are more complex, and you need to strictly adhere to the technology. But guests will appreciate the abilities of the hostess and will definitely ask for the recipe, and this is the best compliment.

Hawaiian Crumbly Shortbread Recipe

These delicious shortbread biscuits are sure to please your little guests. The recipe contains coconut flakes, which can be bought at the supermarket.

Ingredients:

200 g butter
0.5 cup sour cream
1.5 cups of sugar
4 eggs,
0.5 teaspoon of soda,
2 cups of flour,
200 g shredded coconut.

Cooking method:

Mix butter, sour cream, sugar and eggs. Add flour and soda and stir. The dough will be runny at first. After adding coconut flakes, it will immediately thicken. Take the dough with a teaspoon, form small round cakes from it and lay it out on a baking sheet.

"Golden Field"

Finished products are light, airy, they get 2 full plates. The recipe is not difficult, but it takes time and patience.

Dough Ingredients:

200 grams of creamy margarine,
60 grams of sour cream,
2.5 cups flour
0.5 teaspoon flush with the edge of the soda.

For cream:

150 g butter,
1 cup of sugar,
3 tablespoons cream
2 tablespoons of cocoa.
For rolling:
100 g of any waffles without filling.

Cooking method:

Knead the dough from sour cream, margarine and flour with soda. Roll out the dough half a centimeter thick and cut into narrow rhombuses, put in the oven. Then make the glaze. Put all the products for the glaze on a small fire. Stirring, bring to a boil. Immediately removed from the fire. The glaze is cooled. Waffles are crushed into small crumbs. The cooled diamonds are dipped into the glaze, and then generously sprinkled with wafers on all sides. Shortbread cookies "Zolotaya Niva" are fragile, so they put it on a plate very carefully.

how to make shortbread cookies

Shortbread recipe at home

The most delicate and crumbly shortbread cookies are not at all easy to prepare. The main thing is to OBSERVE THE PROPORTIONS of butter and flour! This is the main secret of the recipe for delicious shortbread cookies.

The ratio should be - 60-80% butter by weight of flour. That is, if you want to bake shortbread cookies in a hurry from 500 grams of flour, then you need to take:

• at least 150 grams of oil.
• maximum 400 grams of butter.

The more butter you use, the more crumbly your cookies will be. But for shortbread friability is the most relish. So I made cookies with as much butter as possible and they were very crumbly.

The cookies do not go stale long enough.

This is a basic recipe that you can modify by adding to it:

• cocoa,
• nuts,
• spices (cinnamon, nutmeg…)

Shortbread dough classic recipe

Ingredients:

1. flour - 250 grams,
2. butter - 200 grams,
3. eggs - 2 pcs,
4. sugar - 100 grams
5. salt - a pinch.

What other secrets of shortcrust pastry:

• to make the cookies softer you need to take 2 yolks, to make the cookies harder you need to take 1 egg;
• instead of sugar, it is better to use powdered sugar.

First of all, combine soft butter and sugar (or powdered sugar). It is better to do this either with your hands or with a spoon (fork), but not with a blender in which the oil can simply peel off. Stir until smooth and add a pinch of salt.

combine sugar and butter

Add the yolks to the creamy mass. Yolks (without proteins) will give the dough softness. Also mix well until smooth.

add yolks

Now we sift the flour into a separate container or on a cutting table (it is necessary to sift).

In the center we spread the creamy mass and start sprinkling it with flour, combine into a soft dough. Of course, doing it by hand is also better.

sift the flour

What to do for those who are used to kneading in a combine. You can also use a food processor, BUT it is VERY important not to overmix the dough. Hands feel very good. Yes, and it mixes very, very easily. Feel the dough too very pleasant.

Home baking differs not only in the way of preparation, but also in the high content of microelements. After all, even products for shortcrust pastry can be chosen fresher, and relatives and friends will always be happy with hot or warm baked cookies from shortcrust pastry.

classic dough

Simplicity, lightness, the minimum set of products for creating dough is great for baking homemade shortbread cookies.

The correct kneading of such a dough allows you to increase its shelf life up to 3 months, which is suitable for preparing a soft, airy, “melting in your mouth” delicious dessert for the weekend, holidays - you just have to defrost at room temperature and you can start cooking cookies at a convenient time.

To create a shortcrust pastry you need:

• wheat flour - 0.4 kg;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• butter - 200 g;
• sugar - ½ cup;
• salt and soda - 3 g each (a pinch).

It will take half an hour to knead, and it will take an additional hour to cool, and at the same time, the calorie content of one hundred grams will be 440 kcal.

Before starting cooking, you should hold the butter at room temperature so that it becomes soft, not liquid, or freeze it well, and then grate it into a deep container. Pour sugar, salt to it and beat well with a whisk until the grains are completely dissolved.

After that, beat the egg into the mass, mix carefully again. Sift the flour and add to the rest of the products along with soda.

Knead the dough quickly so that it does not have time to warm up too much, because the pastry will then become hard and brittle.

By its consistency, shortbread dough should be soft, not sticky to hands and have a matte lemon color.

It should be placed in the refrigerator for one hour, and only after that you can start baking cookies, which takes about fifteen minutes at a temperature of 190 °. In this case, the rolled layer for dessert should be no thicker than eight millimeters.

Recipe for a simple shortcrust pastry for cookies without eggs

There are many options for making shortcrust pastry, including creating it without the use of eggs and animal fats. Cookies can be served with jam, jam, tea and compote. It turns out soft, lean and quite low-calorie in comparison with other types of dessert. For cooking you will need:

• flour - 2.5 cups;
• deodorized vegetable oil - 200 ml;
• sugar - 150 g;
• water - 200 ml;
• salt - 3 g.

The dough preparation time, excluding food preparation, is one hour, and the energy value of 100 grams will be 390 kcal.

First, you will need to cool the water very much - it should be icy, but not frozen. Pour oil into it, add sugar, salt and using a blender, beat until
acquisition of this mass of white.

The flour should be sifted and, adding parts to the oily liquid, knead a rather steep, non-sticky dough, which should be matte. It is better to leave it in the refrigerator for one hour before cooking, so that when rolling out the layer, it becomes more plastic.

If possible, it is better to replace vegetable oil with butter (200 g) in the recipe, and use sour cream (120 g) instead of water. The dough will be easier to roll out thinly, the flour consumption will decrease, which will make baking without eggs softer, and fresh cookies will not be so greasy.

Dough for homemade cookies with jam in a hurry

The main rule when creating shortcrust pastry, of course, is that all the utensils that are used for cooking must be cold, like the products themselves.

But there is always an exception to the rule, and if the cooking time for cookies with jam is limited, then you can use the recipe for which you need:

In total, the process of preparing the dough will take forty minutes, and the cookies are baked for twenty minutes in the oven. The calorie content of one hundred grams of this semi-finished flour product is 450 kcal.

Any selected flour should be sifted through a sieve before kneading. Separate the egg yolks and beat with a whisk. Pour flour into a bowl, make a depression in the center, into which pour granulated sugar, soft crushed margarine, yolks and cinnamon. Mix the mixture inside well and quickly knead the dough. Send it to the refrigerator for thirty minutes.

Cookies can be made in several ways, but for quick baking, divide the dough into small balls. They need to be pressed down, making a cake, and in the center squeeze out small indentations with the bottom of the glass, which are sprinkled with nuts and put half a teaspoon of jam in them.

Cookies will be baked in fifteen minutes in an oven preheated to 220 °. Sprinkle powdered sugar on top of each and leave to cool directly on the baking sheet so as not to break.

How to make cookie dough for molds

Due to the fact that when creating shortcrust pastry, very few products are required that are always available in the kitchen, this type of dessert is the most accessible, famous and popular. Cookies can be eaten with jam, jam, sour cream and cream. To prepare the dough for molds you will need:

• flour - 3 cups;
• chicken egg - 1 pc.;
• granulated sugar - 180 g;
• margarine - 250 g;
• soda - ½ tsp

It will take forty minutes to create a blank for baking cookies, and there will be 457 kilocalories in one hundred grams.

Pour granulated sugar into a separate container, beat in an egg and beat everything thoroughly until all sweet grains are completely dissolved. Margarine should be well softened and only then added to the egg mass, which should be mixed to a state similar to cottage cheese.

Only after that add the sifted flour, soda. Quickly knead the dough so that it does not have time to heat up, roll it into a ball, wrap it with cling film and place in the refrigerator for half an hour.

At the end of this time, the dough is divided into parts and rolled into a layer with a thickness of four millimeters (up to a maximum of 8 mm). To make beautiful cookies, you should take molds and make blanks that will be baked for twenty minutes at a temperature of 180 °.

Shortbread dough through a meat grinder for delicious cookies

Many people remember from childhood how beautiful shortbread cookies were often served on the table, made in an original, very interesting form, which was given to them with a meat grinder. The recipe for preparing this blank in the form of a dough is very simple. To prepare such an easy, but terribly tasty dessert, you will need:

• 3 egg yolks;
• 180 g of sugar;
• 120 ml low-fat sour cream;
• 3 art. flour;
• 120 g margarine (butter);
• 10 g of soda;
• 3 g salt.

The time spent on creating a semi-finished product for cookies will be forty-five minutes, while cookies are baked for twenty, while the nutritional value of one hundred grams of dough is 350 kcal.

The yolks will need to be ground with sugar, margarine until a homogeneous consistency. Pour sour cream into the resulting mass, add soda and mix everything gently. Flour should be added gradually, observing the consistency of the dough, which should be thick and not stick to your hands.

The biscuit blank will need to be divided into several parts and placed in the refrigerator for thirty minutes. At the end of this time, take out the parts of the semi-finished product and, scrolling through them in a meat grinder, cut them with a knife, forming cookies of the required size (5-8 cm). In a preheated oven, they will need to be baked on a baking sheet covered with paper at a temperature of 180 °.

Shortcrust pastry cookies should be very tender, soft, tasty and fragrant. There are several tips for creating a semi-finished product for this dessert:

1. You should not feel sorry for butter, margarine for dough - the tenderness of a sweet dish depends on this;
2. Crumbs at the very beginning of cooking should be rubbed very well with your hands - the dough will, of necessity, be crumbly in its structure;
3. Products before baking should be pierced with a fork, a toothpick - so that the cookies are well baked;
4. A baking sheet, paper, a baking dish do not need to be additionally lubricated with oil;
5. Sand preparation is combined with fruits, berries, cottage cheese, caramel, nuts for cookie filling;
6. Fast kneading makes the dough not so hard and tight;
7. The oven must be preheated before starting the baking process.

After several experiments in creating shortcrust pastry for cookies, which consists in adding aromatic and healthy secondary ingredients (cinnamon, vanilla, powder, cottage cheese, jam, jam), you can treat your guests, relatives and friends with amazingly delicious homemade cookies.

Many people have known this tender, fragrant and crumbly biscuit since childhood. This type of baking has not lost its popularity even today. To prepare the dish, you need a minimum of free time and culinary skills, and the result is just “you will lick your fingers”. Below are simple recipes for shortbread cookies.

Cooking shortbread

Pastries made from shortcrust pastry are a delicious, easy-to-prepare delicacy that adults and children like. This dessert requires little financial and time investment, which makes it very popular for many years. Shortbread cookies can be stored longer than other baking options, when they dry out a little, they become tastier. There are many different ways to create a dessert, the most famous are presented below.

The main products for a crumbly tender dish are: flour, sugar, eggs, margarine, soda. There are many interpretations of the classic recipe: dessert with cottage cheese or jam (jam, jam), nuts, cocoa. You can add butter, sour cream to the dough, there is also a lean recipe without eggs and with vegetable oil. Such food is definitely tastier than store-bought confectionery. How to make shortbread cookies?

Shortbread recipe at home

Especially for those who are just starting to comprehend the culinary arts, there is a simple and quick recipe for delicious shortbread cookies. The basis for this dessert does not have to be kept in the cold, you can immediately roll it out and bake it.

• flour - 400 grams;
• kefir - 100 ml;
• sugar - half a glass;
• eggs - 1 piece;
• vegetable oil - 100 ml;
• baking soda - ½ teaspoon;
• salt - on the tip of a knife.

1. Flour, oil and salt are mixed in a deep container.
2. The mass is crushed into crumbs.
3. After that, an egg (protein and yolk), kefir, granulated sugar, soda are added. The dough is kneaded.
4. On a table sprinkled with flour, a large layer is rolled out, from which various figures are cut out (as in the photo).
5. The blanks are laid out on a baking sheet, sprinkled with a little sugar.
6. Sweet for tea is baked for 15 minutes at 180 degrees.

Homemade shortbread cookies - a recipe for margarine

The classic method of making margarine cookies allows you to bake a delicious dessert that melts in your mouth. You can decorate the dish with chocolate, powdered sugar, icing or marmalade.

• flour - 600 g;
• margarine - 180 g;
• sugar - 1 tbsp.;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• baking powder - at the tip of a teaspoon;
• vanillin - ½ teaspoon.

1. In a bowl or small saucepan, margarine, cut into cubes, and granulated sugar are mixed.
2. The resulting mass is placed in a water bath, melted. Baking powder is poured to it, everything is mixed and cools a little.
3. Eggs are introduced, the dough is beaten to a homogeneous consistency.
4. Flour, vanillin are gradually poured into the rest of the products.
5. The mass is kneaded until it becomes soft and crumbly.
6. Then it is rolled out, the future dessert is cut out of it (using a glass, cup or molds).
7. The figures are laid out on a baking sheet or in a deep frying pan. The bottom of the mold is covered with baking paper.
8. The dish according to the traditional recipe is sent to the oven or electric oven for 20 minutes (baking temperature 160-180 degrees).

Shortbread with jam

Homemade sweets are very easy to make when you have a step-by-step recipe for shortbread cookies with jam on hand. This type of dessert will not leave anyone indifferent. In this case, apricot or cherry jam (jam) is ideal.

• margarine - 200 g;
• sugar - 100 g;
• flour - 3 tbsp.;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• salt - a couple of pinches;
• starch - Art. l.;
• thick jam or jam - to taste;
• soda - ½ teaspoon.

1. Using a whisk, blender or mixer, a homogeneous mass is made of sugar, pieces of margarine, eggs, soda, salt.
2. After that, flour is introduced. It is better to add it in portions, gradually mixing the ingredients.
3. A soft, buttery dough is kneaded, which is divided into two pieces (larger and smaller in size).
4. A smaller part is wrapped in cling film and placed in the freezer.
5. The rest of the dough is rolled out on parchment (cut according to the dimensions of the baking dish).
6. The resulting layer is laid out on a baking sheet along with paper. From above, it is smeared with jam mixed with starch.
7. The frozen part of the dough is rubbed on a coarse grater over the filling. Beautifully distributed over the surface (as in the photo).
8. The pie is placed in an oven heated to 180°C. Cooking - 25 minutes.
9. The cake is cut into pieces. The treat is ready.

Shortbread with sour cream

Another good option on how to prepare a treat for tea is a recipe for delicious shortbread cookies with sour cream. Such a dish turns out to be very tender, fragrant and crumbly. To create a dessert, you need to stock up on a small amount of available products.

• flour - 300 g;
• sugar - 180 g;
• sour cream - 100 g;
• soda - 0.5 tsp;
• egg;
• butter - 1 teaspoon.

1. Flour is poured into a deep bowl. Mixed with sugar, mixes well.
2. Butter, sour cream are added to it.
3. A soft dough is kneaded, from which a bun is made.
4. The mass is covered with a napkin or towel, sent to the refrigerator for half an hour.
5. Then it is rolled out to a thickness of about 2 cm. Blanks are cut out on its surface.
6. They are smeared with whipped yolk, baked for 15 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

Shortcrust pastry with butter

If you cook shortbread cookies in butter, then it will turn out to be no less tasty than sweets made according to the classic recipe. The main thing is to adhere to the proportions and actions that are described in the cooking scheme.

• sour cream - half a glass;
• butter - 100 g;
• flour - half a kilo;
• sugar - 100 g;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• baking powder - 1 tbsp. a spoon.

1. In a deep container, butter, sour cream, eggs mix well.
2. Separately, baking powder and sifted flour are combined.
3. Then all products are mixed. A crumbly, tender dough is made from them, which is placed in a cold place for two hours.
4. After that, a rectangular layer is rolled out of the dough. Figured cookies are cut out on it (photo).
5. The baking dish is covered with special paper, on which the future sweetness is laid out.
6. Cooking lasts 15-20 minutes (oven temperature 180°C).

Cookies in vegetable oil without eggs

The following method of preparing a sweet does not require the use of animal fats and eggs. Cookies with vegetable oil "Minutka" turns out to be lean, low-calorie, but very tasty. This quick dessert is recommended on the Dukan diet menu, so don't worry about extra pounds.

• refined vegetable oil - 220 ml;
• sugar - 150 g;
• cold (preferably ice) water - 220 ml;
• flour - 500 g;
• salt - a pinch;
• cinnamon - to taste.

1. Oil is poured into very cold water, salt is added.
2. These products are whipped with a mixer or blender until the mass brightens.
3. Flour is poured into the resulting mixture, a non-sticky, plastic dough is kneaded.
4. Cookies are cut out of the rolled out dough.
5. The oven is preheated to 200°C.
6. Dessert is baked for 15 minutes.

Shortbread cookies with cottage cheese

A good way to prepare a treat for guests is cookies with cottage cheese. This type of baking is more tasty, juicy and crumbly. In addition to this, dairy products are very useful.

• homemade fatty cottage cheese - 300 g;
• flour - 350 g;
• sour cream - 1 cup;
• soft margarine - 250 g;
• sugar - 60 g;
• nuts - to taste.

1. The sifted flour is poured into a bowl. Margarine, cut into large cubes, is added to it. Products are chopped with a knife until a crumbly consistency is obtained.
2. Cottage cheese is passed through a meat grinder. Fall asleep to flour with margarine. Sour cream is laid out there, sugar is poured.
3. The ingredients are well mixed, put in a bag and sent to the cold for 30 minutes.
4. The dough is rolled out, folded into a "sheet", rolled out again and folded. Repeat these steps 4 times.
5. Cookies are cut out, laid out on a baking sheet. Sprinkled with chopped nuts.
6. Bake sweets for 40 minutes.

How to make shortcrust pastry for cookies - cooking secrets

Before you make cookies from shortbread dough, you should learn about a few interesting secrets known in cooking:

1. All components for the dough must be warm, as the baking powder will not "react" with cold ingredients.
2. Margarine and butter should be soft but not runny. Otherwise, the sweet dish will turn out to be too tough.
3. To make shortbread cookies crumbly and tasty, the baking mass must be kneaded quickly, otherwise the baking powder will lose its functions.
4. It is better to buy fat sour cream for dough (at least 20 percent).
5. The baking powder is mixed with flour, and not poured into liquid components.
6. You need to take exceptionally high-quality margarine. If this is difficult to find, then it is better to replace this ingredient with refined sunflower oil, the amount of which must be reduced by a quarter.