As a child, he loved homemade shortbread cookies with fresh milk. My grandmother had a small electric oven in which she baked crumbly cookies, small pies or honey cakes. True, in most cases, we limited ourselves to store-bought cookies and Artek waffles with white and dark fillings - I liked white ones more.

Grandmother always baked shortbread cookies without margarine, she preferred butter. I later learned that the recipe for this cookie is very similar to the French saber shortbread. This is a traditional type of shortcrust pastry biscuit, round and with a scalloped edge. Saber dough is usually half flour and half butter and sugar by volume. Often biscuits contain a filling of jam or jam - more often citrus fruits, or biscuits are prepared with nuts, dried berries, etc.

Dough is the basis for bakery production and confectionery art. It is a wet mix of flour and a wide range of additives, with water or liquid products not always on the ingredient list. Most often you can find butter dough from which we bake or. From choux pastry we prepare eclairs and with cream. Puff pastry - the basis for.

A special type of homemade dough is shortcrust pastry, which consists of flour and fat. Usually, we cook it for with currant jam. In French cuisine, shortbread dough is called a breeze - it is dense, does not stick to hands at all, and it is convenient to make shortbread cookies of the most bizarre shape from it - if there is an appropriate recess for the dough. In Italian cuisine, there is a wonderful apple pie based on shortcrust pastry -.

Homemade shortbread cookies are quite high-calorie. This should be taken into account, otherwise with its frequent use, you can easily gain weight. But, I know from my own experience that you can eat delicious shortbread cookies without regaining consciousness, especially when you are watching a fascinating movie.

Shortcrust pastry for crumbly biscuits is prepared without water or milk. Only wheat flour, butter and eggs. Homemade shortbread cookies can be prepared from pre-prepared dough - they keep well in the refrigerator for a while. Optionally, you can prepare shortbread cookies with nuts, raisins, and other additives. If possible, it is better to cook cookies without margarine, baking powder, soda - this will greatly affect the taste and aroma.

Shortbread cookie recipe step by step

Ingredients (700 gr cookies)

• Wheat flour 2 cups
• Butter 150 gr
• Sugar 150 gr
• Egg 1 pc
• Walnuts (kernels) 50 gr
• Baking powder, vanilla optional

1. Wheat flour of the highest quality must be sifted. Screening eliminates the presence of possible residues of shells of grains, undesirable impurities and lumps in shortbread cookies. In addition, sifting makes the flour "fluffy" and saturates it with oxygen. Take natural butter and eggs out of the refrigerator so that they warm up to room temperature.

   Flour, butter, eggs, sugar

2. There is a lot of controversy about whether baking powder is needed in shortcrust pastry. I read somewhere that if the intended homemade shortbread cookies are thicker than 1 cm, you should add a bag of baking powder to the flour. So, it's up to you. But we must remember that store-bought baking powder is a compositionally balanced mixture containing ammonium carbonate - it is completely converted into gaseous components without a trace. But it is not stored for long, and the baking powder needs fresh. It is better not to use baking soda - the aftertaste will remain, no matter how hard you try.
3. Lightly toast walnut kernels in a dry frying pan until a pleasant nutty smell appears. Grind the nuts in a mortar or blender to the state of small grains. In a bowl, mix flour, ground nuts and sugar. If desired, add baking powder, a pinch of vanilla or a bag of vanilla sugar. Stir the mixture thoroughly so that all components are evenly distributed.

   Mix dry ingredients with flour

4. Cut the butter into pieces with a knife and add to the flour. Using a fork or wooden spatula, mash the flour mixture with butter. You will get flour crumbs or small lumps consisting of flour and fat.

   Add chopped butter to flour

5. Add the contents of the chicken egg to the bowl and knead the mixture again. At first glance, it may seem that milk should be added to the shortbread dough, this should not be done. It will take a long time to knead the shortbread dough until it is completely homogeneous.

   Punch down the dough and add the egg

6. Sprinkle the table with flour and put the entire contents of the bowl on it. To make homemade shortbread cookies tasty and crumbly, the crumbs must be gently and thoroughly kneaded with your hands until a completely homogeneous dough is obtained. Do not knead the dough for a very long time - it can exfoliate and lose elasticity.

   Put the dough on the table and knead

7. Roll the dough into a ball and wrap in cling film. Put the dough in the refrigerator for 30-45 minutes. When cooled, the butter in the dough will harden a little and making cookie blanks will be much easier. The dough will not stick to the molds and clog into small cracks - cookie cutters come in a very elaborate shape.

   Refrigerate shortcrust pastry

8. After cooling, take the dough out of the refrigerator, discard the film. Sprinkle the table a little with flour and roll out or knead the dough into a thin layer - 6-8 mm thick. While the shortbread dough is cold, it is necessary to form cookie blanks. By and large, if there are no molds and recesses for cookies, you can roll the dough into a roller and cut it with a knife into thin round pieces, as for shakarlam. Or, mold a thin and wide “loaf”, then cut it across - as is done for or.

   Roll out the dough and shape the cookies

9. Line a baking sheet with baking paper. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Since homemade shortbread cookies contain a lot of butter, you don't need to grease the grease paper. Arrange the cookie cutters on a baking sheet and place in the preheated oven.

   Lay cookies on a baking sheet

10. Shortcrust pastry cookies are baked quickly - 20-25 minutes and it is ready. You can brown the cookies a little if you like. It is important that the cookies do not burn. It is very difficult to catch the moment when the taste of shortbread cookies from sweet with vanilla changes to the taste of burnt dough. So it's best not to experiment.

    

Simple and tasty cookies you can quickly and easily cook yourself. Simple recipes are always very popular with hostesses. Homemade cookies always taste better than store-bought ones. For example, you can make even the simplest shortbread cookies with or without filling, sprinkle nuts on top or cover with some kind of glaze.

Cooking delicious cookies will not take a lot of time, and you will surely be able to please your family who want something delicious. The size of the cookie, its shape - it depends only on your desire. When baking cookies at home, you can add condensed milk, oatmeal, cocoa, chocolate to it. It can be with the addition of candied fruits, crushed dates, poppy seeds and vanilla. Let's bake the most delicious homemade cookies, there are never too many homemade cookies.

Consider the simplest shortbread cookie recipe. Simple and tasty cookies do not require special efforts, expensive products, shortbread cookies come out crumbly and tasty. There are many variations on this delicacy. Let's choose the simplest recipe for margarine cookies.

Ingredients

• good margarine - 300 grams;
• wheat flour - 2.5-3 cups;
• sugar - 1 cup;
• soda - about 0.5 teaspoon;
• eggs - 2 pieces.

Cooking method

1. Sift the flour, add soda to it and spread this mixture in a slide.
2. In the margarine, which we softened in advance, gradually add the eggs, pour it into the flour. Vigorously chop the mass with a knife and collect in a lump. The dough must remain cold, otherwise the margarine will melt, soak the flour and the structure of the dough will change.
3. A lump of dough wrapped in a film is transferred to the cold for half an hour.
4. We make a not very thick sheet of dough, 5-7 millimeters thick.
5. Shortbread cookies are made from a very plastic dough, so you can give it any shape. You can simply cut it into rhombuses with a sharp knife, you can squeeze out mugs with a glass with sharp edges, you can cut out cookies with molds, and then you will have any shape - a crescent, an asterisk, an oval.
6. We heat the oven to 180-200 degrees. Sprinkle a baking sheet with flour, lay out our blanks.
7. We stand in the oven until the pastry takes on a pleasant golden ruddy color.

Cookies "Log"

Consider the recipe for a simple but delicious raisin cookie. It is prepared instantly, it turns out spicy and very fragrant.

Ingredients

• 750 grams of margarine;
• 300 grams of raisins;
• 600 grams of sugar;
• two eggs;
• 1 teaspoon of slaked soda;
• 2.5-3 cups of flour;
• one egg for greasing.

Cooking method

1. Melt margarine and refrigerate.
2. Mix the eggs with sugar with a whisk or mixer.
3. Pour salt, slaked soda and raisins into the sifted flour.
4. Add eggs and flour to margarine, knead. The dough should be soft, plastic, not steep.
5. From the dough with a curly knife, form small flagella, “logs”.
6. Transfer these flagella to a pastry sheet and brush with beaten egg.
7. Soak the cookies for 25-35 minutes in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees.

Shortbread with milk

Let's analyze a simple recipe for cookies that are made very quickly, light, crumbly, tender, and have a delicious milky aftertaste. These delicious shortbread cookies do not go stale for several days.

Ingredients

• milk - 100 milliliters;
• flour - 3 cups;
• butter (margarine) - 150-180 grams;
• sugar - 1 glass;
• chicken eggs - 2 pieces;
• soda (baking powder for dough) - 1 teaspoon.

Cooking method

1. Knead soft butter with sugar by hand or with a mixer until we get a homogeneous mass. Beat in the eggs one at a time, gradually pour in the milk, whisking constantly until a homogeneous mixture is obtained.
2. Pour flour with baking powder into this mixture, knead a soft dough. If your dough is runny, add a little more flour.
3. Cover the dough with a damp cloth and refrigerate for 30-40 minutes.
4. Roll out the plate with a thickness of 8-10 mm. With a knife, a glass or various cutters, cut out the cookies of the shape that you like.
5. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees in advance, place the baking sheet with the figures for 15 minutes. After baking, crush the cookies with coconut flakes or powdered sugar.

Cookie. Recipe with sour cream

For many sweet teeth, the most delicious is shortbread, the recipe of which includes sour cream. This simple cookie is prepared very quickly, the taste is tender and soft. Of course, in many respects the taste depends on the fat content of sour cream, the fatter the sour cream, the more airy the baking will turn out.

But in any case, all household members will enjoy the cookies made by your hands. The taste of cookies can be very different, because you can add honey, zest, raisins or nuts to it, you can sprinkle the surface with sesame seeds or a mixture of cocoa and sugar.

Ingredients

• margarine - 150 grams;
• sour cream - 300 grams;
• sugar - 1 glass;
• eggs - 3 pieces;
• a pinch of soda (no need to extinguish with vinegar, sour cream is quite sour);
• flour - 3-4 cups;
• vanilla, cinnamon or lemon zest - to taste.

Cooking method

1. Soften margarine in advance, rub thoroughly with sour cream and eggs. If desired, you can take margarine and butter in half, the airiness and taste of your dessert will improve.
2. Pour sugar and soda into flour, mix thoroughly. Add margarine to this mixture, knead soft plastic dough. Try to do everything quickly so that the dough does not have time to heat up, otherwise its friability will decrease.
3. Divide the dough into several pieces so that it cools faster, and wrap each lump in a film. Transfer the dough to the refrigerator for half an hour. Chilled dough is much easier to work with.
4. Chilled dough roll out the dough into a sheet of 6-8 millimeters thick, cut out figures of arbitrary shape. Transfer your workpieces to a greased sheet and send them to an oven heated to 180 -200 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes.
5. You can slightly moisten the surface of the cookies with water or an egg before baking and sprinkle with poppy seeds, sesame seeds, powdered sugar.

Bagels with jam

There is also a delicious variety of margarine cookies - shortbread rolls with marmalade or jam. This is a fragile crunchy delicacy that literally melts in your mouth. Jam or jam should be taken very thick, it is better if it is slightly sour, the taste will be especially piquant. There is no sugar in the dough, so baked bagels should be sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Ingredients

• sour cream - 300 grams;
• margarine - 300 grams;
• flour 4-4.5 cups (more can go);
• soda -0.5 teaspoons;
• jam - 300 - 350 grams;
• powdered sugar - 5-6 teaspoons.

Cooking method

1. We soften margarine in room conditions for 1.5-2 hours. Mix sour cream with soft margarine.
2. Add soda to flour. From sour cream, margarine and flour, vigorously knead a fairly steep dough. We divide it into 4-5 parts, wrap each with polyethylene, and send it to the cold for 1.5-2 hours.
3. We take out one piece of text from the refrigerator, roll out a thin circle 0.5 cm thick. With a sharp knife, divide each circle into 8 segments (triangles).
4. We spread our jam on the wide part of the triangle, roll it up with a bagel, starting from the wide end.
5. We bring the temperature of the oven to 190-200 degrees, line the sheet with parchment, send our bagels to it.
6. The exposure time in the oven is approximately 30 minutes. Please note that since there is no sugar in the dough, the bagels remain almost white.
7. Cool the finished cake, sprinkle with powdered sugar to taste.

This dessert is stored for a long time, does not get stale for several days.

Rye flour cookies

There are cookie recipes that use rye flour instead of wheat flour. The addition of seeds, honey and dried apricots makes this pastry not only very fragrant and unusual in taste, but also healthy.

Ingredients

• refined vegetable oil - 0.5 cups;
• wheat flour - 0.5 cups;
• rye flour -1.5 cups;
• water - 1.5 cups;
• eggs - 3 pieces;
• seeds - 1 tablespoon;
• honey - 1 tablespoon;
• dried apricots - 4-5 pieces;
• salt on the tip of a knife;
• powdered sugar for decoration.

Cooking method

1. Pour water, oil, honey into a heat-resistant dish and bring it all to a boil.
2. Add flour, stir. Beat in the eggs one at a time, be sure to mix after each egg is added. Add the seeds and chopped dried apricots to the dough, mix.
3. With wet hands or a spoon, form cookies. Transfer it to a foil-lined baking sheet.
4. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and keep the cookies at this temperature for 25 minutes. Then cool the oven to 160 degrees and continue cooking for another 10-15 minutes.
5. After baking, cool the cookies, sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Homemade cookies are always tastier, more aromatic and richer than what you can buy in the distribution network. Indeed, in addition to high-quality proven products, you give him the warmth of your hands and fill him with love.

We offer recipes for homemade shortbread cookies in butter. This is a variant of the simplest and at the same time incredibly delicious pastry made from shortcrust pastry, which will delight both children and adults.

Butter shortbread cookies - recipe

• wheat flour - 280-300 g;
• butter - 195 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• granulated sugar - 195 g;
• soda - 5 g;
• salt - a pinch.

We take the butter out of the refrigerator in advance and let it thaw well. Then put it in a bowl, add granulated sugar, salt and carefully grind everything together. Crack the egg into the mixture and stir until smooth. Next, gradually sift the wheat flour into a bowl and knead the dough until a soft and absolutely non-sticky consistency is obtained. We determine the resulting lump in the refrigerator for about thirty minutes, wrapping it with cling film.

After the time has elapsed, roll out the dough with a layer of about five millimeters and cut out cookies from it using molds, or simply cutting the layer into cubes, rectangles or rhombuses.

We place the resulting cookies on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper and put in an oven preheated to 185 degrees for about fifteen minutes or until golden.

The taste of finished products directly depends on the quality of the butter used. If desired, the dough can be flavored with vanilla sugar or cinnamon, and poppy seeds, dried fruits, nuts, candied fruits or sesame seeds can be added to it for additional taste.

Shortbread cookies with butter on yolks

• wheat flour - 260 g;
• egg yolks - 2 pcs.;
• butter - 190 g;
• granulated sugar - 90 g;
• vanilla sugar - 15 g;
• salt - a pinch.

Softened butter is rubbed with granulated sugar, vanilla sugar, salt and egg yolks. Sift the flour into the mixture little by little and knead a soft, elastic and completely non-sticky dough. We determine it for twenty-five minutes in the refrigerator. Then we roll out the dough until a layer is five millimeters thick, and cut it into cubes or pieces of a different shape, and if there are molds, we form figured cookies. We lay them out on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and bake in an oven preheated to 185 degrees for ten to fifteen minutes or until golden brown.

Shortbread with butter and sour cream

• wheat flour - 480-520 g;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• butter - 190 g;
• granulated sugar - 110 g;
• sour cream - 110 g;
• baking powder - 15 g.

Combine sour cream with granulated sugar and beat well with a mixer until fluffy and airy. Then add eggs, salt, soft butter and baking powder and mix until smooth. Next, sift the wheat flour into the mixture and start the dough. It should turn out plastic and not stick to your hands. Let it lie in the refrigerator for twenty minutes, wrapping it with cling film beforehand.

After the time has elapsed, roll out a lump of dough until a layer about five centimeters thick is obtained and cut out cookies using cookie cutters. We place it on a baking sheet, which was previously covered with parchment paper. After about fifteen minutes of being in an oven heated to 185 degrees, the cookies will brown and be ready.

Let it cool and decorate as you wish. You can simply crush the products with powdered sugar, and for a more original and unique taste and appearance, cover them with chocolate or sugar icing.

shortbread recipe

To the attention of cooks, we offer shortbread cookies with butter, a recipe with a photo. It is quite simple and will take about half an hour to prepare and prepare.

Ingredients

To get amazingly tasty shortbread cookies, you will need the following products:

• butter - 250 gr.;
• sugar or its powder - 1 cup;
• vanilla sugar - 1 package;
• flour - 1.5 cups;
• potato starch - 1/3 cup.

This amount of ingredients is enough to make 20 cookies.

Allow the butter to thaw at room temperature before you start cooking. You can grind sugar yourself into powder or buy it ready-made.

Cooking

Steps for making shortbread cookies with a photo:

1. Place the powder and butter in a tall bowl and beat until fluffy with a mixer.
2. Add starch, vanilla sugar, half the flour and mix again.
3. Add the remaining flour and knead with your hands until smooth.
4. Divide the dough into pieces, give them the shape of a cake with a thickness of not more than 1 cm and cut out figures with molds.
5. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, 1.5 cm apart.
6. Bake at 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

Delicious butter shortbread cookies are ready to eat. Bon appetit!

Delicious shortbread cookies: recipe with photo

• Butter - 200 gr.
• Sugar - 200 gr.
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Vanillin - 2 gr.
• Soda - 1 tsp
• Flour - 2.5 cups

People are such creatures that love to eat delicious food, despite all the usefulness of the product, sometimes you really want sweets. So sometimes we really want just crispy, sweet shortbread cookies, the recipe of which I share in this article. There is one caveat in this recipe: it is better for children to cook shortbread cookies in butter, and not in margarine.

For children under 3 years old, it is still better to cook more dietary cookies, such as oatmeal. and when they grow up, you can sometimes indulge in sand.

Cookie shortbread recipe:

1. Mix two eggs with a glass of sugar.

2. Add 200 grams of soft butter and mix. To make the butter softer faster, you can use the microwave (timer for 10 seconds).

3. Quench a teaspoon of soda in vinegar and add to the dough. Mix.

4. Sift 2 cups of flour and start kneading the dough. If during the kneading process you can see that there is not enough flour, add more.

5. As a result, you should get such shortbread dough that does not stick to your hands. It holds its shape, but at the same time is soft and it is easy to tear off a piece from it.

6. Put the finished shortbread dough in a plastic bag and refrigerate for 20 minutes.

Preparing shortbread cookies:

7. After 20 minutes, you need to get the dough out of the refrigerator and gently roll it into a layer on a table sprinkled with flour. I roll out the dough with a thickness of 0.5-0.7 cm. We squeeze out different figures from the dough or simply cut it into squares. Or you can make neat round cookies without molds using a glass. The remaining dough is again formed into a ball, rolled out and cut out cookies.

8. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper (parchment) and lay out the cookies. Put in a preheated oven (180 degrees).

9. After 10-12 minutes, the cookies will be covered with a golden crust. This is a sure signal that they need to get it.

In these recipes, we will point out the basic rules for making delicious shortbread cookies with margarine, butter for molds, as well as how to make homemade cookies with jam and crumbs in the oven. From the name it becomes clear about the structure of sweet pastries - it is sandy, crumbly, and it is quite simple to prepare.

There are a lot of recipes for making shortbread cookies. This article contains some of the simplest and most delicious options that even a schoolboy or a novice cook can master. Following the recipes and recommendations, you can quickly bake fragrant homemade pastries that melt in your mouth when you bite into them.

When kneading shortcrust pastry, observe the proportions of fat and flour. If you put less than the specified rate of margarine or butter, then the dough will come out tough, and the cookies will not be crumbly.

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The most popular is margarine cookies; it is tender, pleasant in taste, and in this recipe we will tell you how you can make the best shortcrust pastry for home baking.

These ingredients are enough for baking on a large baking sheet.

• flour: 3 cups;
• margarine for baking: 180 grams;
• chicken eggs: 2 pieces;
• sugar: 200 grams;
• baking powder: 2 grams;
• vanillin: half a teaspoon.

Homemade shortbread cookies, margarine recipe:

To make the products even and beautiful after cutting, use special cookie cutters.

1. Cut margarine into pieces and combine with sugar in a glass microwave saucepan.
2. Put the saucepan on heat and melt. Stir, add baking powder, cool slightly.
3. Add eggs, beat until smooth.
4. Sift a glass of flour into the resulting mixture.
5. Add vanilla, stir until smooth.
6. Sift the remaining flour again and knead the dough, which will be soft, but crumbly.
7. When the shortbread dough has cooled, separate a piece from it and put it on a sheet of parchment, cover with a second leaf on top.
8. Roll out the dough between the parchment into a layer. Then remove one sheet and cut out with a cookie cutter or glass. Do the same with the rest of the test.
9. Transfer the blanks to a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Place the baking sheet in the preheated oven and bake the cookies for no more than 15 minutes.

To decorate the finished margarine shortbread cookies according to this recipe, you can use pieces of marmalade, melted chocolate or icing.

For more even baking of cookies, shortcrust pastry should be rolled out thinner, the ideal thickness is at least 5 mm, maximum 10 mm.

Homemade shortbread cookies with butter

There is no doubt that the quality of shortcrust pastry cookies depends entirely on the quality of the butter and not only - the thicker and fatter the sour cream, the more tender the pastry and the more it crumbles.

• white flour: 500 grams;
• sour cream: 100 grams;
• chicken eggs: 2 pieces;
• butter: 100 grams;
• sugar: half a glass;
• baking powder: 1 tablespoon with a slide;
• vanillin: 2 teaspoons.

Homemade shortbread cookies, butter recipe (for molds):

The easiest to prepare is shortbread cookies with butter; We recommend making the dough according to this simple recipe if you want to get delicious homemade cakes.

1. In a bowl, mix eggs, vanilla.
2. Add soft butter, sour cream, mix.
3. In a separate bowl, mix the sifted flour with the baking powder.
4. Knead the dough, transfer to cling film, place in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
5. Take the shortbread dough out of the refrigerator, roll it into a thin layer, cut out with cookie cutters.
6. Spread the cookies on a baking sheet covered with parchment, put in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 15 minutes.

Sprinkle cooled cookies with powder or pour fudge.

In order for shortbread dough to become as crumbly as possible, you need to replace sugar with powdered sugar and increase the amount of butter or margarine.

Crumbly shortbread cookies with jam

From childhood, we all remember rhombuses and squares made of shortcrust pastry, covered with jam with crumbs. Those children's homemade cookies remain popular to this day, and every year the number of recipes in various variations only grows.

• flour: 3 cups;
• margarine: 200 grams;
• chicken eggs: 2 pieces;
• sugar: half a glass;
• drinking soda: 0.5 teaspoon;
• salt: 0.5 teaspoon;
• thick jam (candied) or jam;
• starch: 1 tablespoon.

Shortbread cookies with jam, recipe:

It is important! Butter can be used instead of margarine. All products (including margarine) must be taken out of the refrigerator before baking, they must be at room temperature.

We offer to cook delicious cookies with jam according to the classic recipe with appetizing sand crumbs, and the problem with the disposal of last year's jam will be resolved by itself.

1. Put margarine, sugar, salt, soda, eggs cut into pieces in a blender bowl. Stir until smooth, no special whipping of the mass into a cream is required.
2. Now it remains to add the sifted flour to the contents. You need to add not all at once, but in parts (more conveniently, half or a whole glass at a time).
3. The dough should be soft and buttery. Divide into two parts: one slightly larger than the second, roll both into a ball.
4. Wrap a smaller part of the shortcrust pastry in cling film and place in the freezer.
5. On a cutting board, spread a piece of parchment that matches the size of the baking sheet, and directly on it roll out the second bun of dough into a rectangle. Transfer the dough sheet to a baking sheet.
6. The amount of jam or jam depends on its density, you need to put so much so that it does not run away from the cake. So, mix about 5-6 tablespoons of jam in a separate bowl with starch.
7. Spread the jam filling evenly over the surface of the cake.
8. Remove the second ball of shortbread dough from the freezer, and holding a large grater over the pie, grate the dough on it, filling the entire surface of the pie with it.
9. Put the baking sheet with the pie in the oven preheated to 180 ° C and bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown.
10. After 5 minutes, cut the whole cake into equal rectangles, transfer to a dish and brew tea.

The most successful and delicious filling for shortbread cookies with jam is jam or jam from currants, cherries or apricots.

If you are new to cooking or prefer quick baking then this easy cookie recipe is perfect. After kneading, shortbread dough does not need to be put in the cold, you can immediately start rolling and baking.

• flour: 2 cups;
• kefir: half a glass;
• chicken eggs: 1 pc.;
• sugar: half a glass;
• vegetable oil: 0.5 cups;
• soda: half a teaspoon;
• salt: a pinch.

Shortbread cookies, a simple recipe at home:

In the absence of kefir, fermented baked milk or homemade yogurt will do, but keep in mind that substitutes affect the classic taste of shortbread cookies, or rather, its layering, friability and tenderness.

1. Combine flour with salt and butter, mix.
2. Grind the mass, you should get a crumb.
3. Add sugar, egg, kefir mixed with soda to the dough.
4. Knead a stiff shortcrust pastry.
5. Roll out the dough on a table or cutting board into a large layer.
6. Cut out cookie cutters.
7. Transfer to a baking sheet, sprinkle sugar on top.
8. Put in an oven preheated to 180 ° C and bake for 15 minutes. Cool slightly on a baking sheet and transfer to a plate.

A simple shortbread cookie is ready - it is very tasty and soft, and crumbles pleasantly when biting.

Now you know about 4 recipes for making homemade shortbread cookies, although there are many more in cooking.

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Pastry made from shortcrust pastry comes out very tasty, airy, melting in your mouth. Cookies get their crumblyness due to the high fat content in the recipe. The dish has a high calorie content, but for those who are not used to counting calories, sand products are a real pleasure.

How to make shortcrust pastry

Delicious crumbly homemade cakes can take different forms and be supplemented with any additives - chocolate, raisins, dried fruits, nuts - depending on the personal preferences of the cook. Store shelves are filled with different varieties of cookies, but even the most delicious type of factory baked goods cannot be compared with the taste of a home-cooked dish. The recipe is very simple, but inexperienced housewives may have difficulty kneading the cookie base. How to make delicious shortcrust pastry? To do this, you need to know certain cooking tricks.

How to knead shortbread dough

1. All components used must be refrigerated. At the same time, the kitchen should also not be preheated (do not turn on the oven in advance).
2. The more fat (margarine or butter) in the composition, the more crumbly the cookies will turn out. In oil, the dish will be tastier, but not so fragile, so experienced chefs advise mixing both components 1: 1. It is important to use only high-quality products, as they affect the taste of the finished product. If little fat is added, the dish will turn out hard and dense.
3. Cookies will be more tender if sugar is replaced with powdered sugar.
4. You can safely add any spices to the cookies - the dish perfectly absorbs flavors.
5. If the recipe calls for eggs, it's best to limit yourself to yolks only, as whites can make pastries tougher.
6. It is important to knead the dough quickly so that the butter/margarine does not have time to melt.
7. Water for kneading is recommended to take very cold.
8. The ideal flour for shortbread cookies is low in gluten. If you cannot check this indicator, add a little starch to it - so the products will be as crumbly as possible.
9. It is not necessary to knead the dough for a long time, otherwise it will lose its plasticity.
10. The finished baking base should stand in the refrigerator for half an hour, then the cookies will not crack during baking.

Classic shortcrust pastry recipe

The traditional shortbread base is prepared from a minimum set of products and without chicken eggs. Using it, you can make not only cookies, but also cakes, pies, cake layers, etc. If desired, butter is replaced with high-quality margarine. Classic shortbread dough is combined with any fillings - cottage cheese, berry, cream. The technology for preparing the base for baking is described in detail and with a photo below.

Ingredients:

• soft butter - 200 g;
• flour of the 1st grade - 3 tbsp.;
• salt - ¼ tsp;
• sugar - 1 tbsp.;
• sour cream - 3 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

1. Put the softened butter in a glass bowl, knead thoroughly with a fork.
2. Add sugar to the butter, grind the components, removing large lumps.
3. Add flour, salt. Knead the food with your hands until fine crumbs form.
4. Next, you need to slowly add sour cream, stirring the mass. When the base for cookies becomes uniform and elastic, cover it with a film, put it in the refrigerator for 40 minutes.
5. After that, you can start making curly cookies.

Tender on sour cream

The recipe for homemade shortcrust pastry for cookies may differ, but, according to experienced chefs, it is easier and faster to prepare it from sour cream, while it is better to take a fatter product. The main advantages of baking from a sand base are a delicate taste, softness and ease of preparation. However, cookies will turn out to be successful only if you choose quality products for them. How to cook shortbread dough with sour cream?

Ingredients:

• egg;
• margarine - 70 g;
• flour - 150 g;
• baking powder - ½ tsp;
• sugar - 1 tbsp. l.;
• fat sour cream - 50 g;
• vanillin - 1 pack.

Cooking method:

1. Beat sugar, margarine, salt until fluffy.
2. Add the egg here, then work with the mixer for another 30 seconds.
3. Add the baking powder to the flour, start pouring the dry mixture into the prepared liquid base.
4. When the mass becomes homogeneous, cover the bowl with a film, send it to the refrigerator.
5. After at least half an hour, you can roll out the dough and cut out cookies using special molds or skip the mass through a meat grinder.

On margarine

Making these cookies is very simple: you do not need to freeze or heat anything beforehand. Shortcrust pastry with margarine will turn out tasty, tender and crumbly, provided that all the components used are of high quality, so you should not save on products. You can serve the dish with homemade jam or jam and hot tea. How to make shortcrust pastry for homemade cookies?

Ingredients:

• soda - ½ tsp;
• sugar - ½ tbsp.;
• flour - 2 tbsp.;
• egg;
• margarine - 120 g.

Cooking method:

1. Mix the egg with sugar. Whisk the mixture.
2. Remove the margarine from the refrigerator, cut into small pieces with a knife.
3. Combine the ingredients by carefully kneading them with a fork.
4. Add baking soda and flour to the dough. With hands previously lubricated with vegetable oil, knead the base. Form a ball, which should stand in the cold for half an hour.
5. After that, roll out the layer no thicker than 1 cm, cut out cookies from it with the help of molds, place the products on a baking sheet covered with parchment, and bake for 10-15 minutes at 180 degrees.

No butter or margarine

Loose shortbread dough for cookies is the most common and beloved all over the world, this explains the variety of recipes for its preparation in cooking. Despite the general love for such pastries, it can be given to children in very limited quantities, since the cookies contain a large amount of fat. Below is a dietary recipe for a dish that even small children can eat. How to cook shortcrust pastry without butter and margarine?

Ingredients:

• sour cream 20% - 100 ml;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• slaked soda - ½ tsp;
• sugar - 1 tbsp.;
• flour - 3 tbsp.;
• vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

1. First you need to combine salt, flour, vegetable oil.
2. Eggs are beaten with sugar, then slaked soda and sour cream are added.
3. All ingredients are combined and flour is slowly added, kneading the dough until elasticity is obtained.
4. Next, the table should be sprinkled with flour, roll out a layer on the prepared surface, cut out curly cookies from it with molds.
5. Products are laid out on an oiled baking sheet, sent to bake at 180 degrees. After 10 minutes, the cookies are served with tea, after sprinkling with powdered sugar (this is not necessary).

Easy shortcrust pastry recipe

It is very easy to prepare such a baking base: it does not require the addition of baking powder and other components to give the products a loose structure, tenderness, and friability. Even without special additives, simple shortcrust pastry for cookies turns out to be airy, tasty, melting in your mouth. You can also use it for baking open pies, cake layers, tartlets and other products. Below, in detail and with a photo, it is described how to bake shortbread cookies.

Ingredients:

• flour - 2 tbsp.;
• vinegar - 1 tbsp. l.;
• 1 grade sugar - 2 tbsp. l.;
• butter - 250 g;
• soda - 2/3 tsp

Cooking method:

1. Add the pieces of butter to the flour, start kneading the mass. You can do this both in a large bowl and on the table.
2. When you see sand crumbs, add soda and sugar slaked with vinegar to it. Sprinkle some more flour if necessary.
3. The finished base should stick together in one lump, which should be sent to the cold for 20 minutes.
4. After that, roll out the layer 1 cm thick, use a glass or special molds to cut out cookies from it, put them on a baking sheet and bake until a golden hue appears.

With kefir

Many people like this type of baking base due to its versatility: it is combined with almost any fillings and additives. Shortbread dough on kefir for cookies comes out very plastic, so it is very easy to sculpt products from it. The finished dish is crispy, very tasty, tender, crumbly. Feel free to add nuts, candied fruit, or your favorite spices to your baking. Below is a detailed recipe with a photo of a sand base on kefir.

Ingredients:

• egg;
• margarine - 100 g;
• flour - 0.7 kg;
• soda - ½ tsp;
• kefir - 300 ml.

Cooking method:

1. First, melt the margarine over low heat. Add kefir, soda, egg to the liquid.
2. Mix all products thoroughly (it is better to use a mixer).
3. Add flour to the mixture, kneading a plastic, thick base. At the same time, she should stop sticking to her hands.
4. Put the dough in the refrigerator for half an hour. After forming cookies, bake it at 180 degrees.

on mayonnaise

According to the classic recipe, shortbread dough with mayonnaise does not involve the addition of any spices. However, for a savory taste, baked goods can be seasoned with a little turmeric, paprika, vanilla, cinnamon, or other spices. Based on the preferences of your household, you can add nuts, raisins, candied fruits, sesame seeds and other products to the dish. How to prepare shortbread dough for cookies?

Ingredients:

• egg;
• lemon juice - ½ tsp;
• medium-fat mayonnaise - 200 ml;
• flour of the 1st grade - 3 tbsp.;
• soda - ½ tsp;
• vanillin;
• butter - 0.2 kg;
• sugar - 0.2 kg.

Cooking method:

1. Combine sugar, egg, mayonnaise. Stir the products until perfect uniformity.
2. Add soda slaked with lemon juice, vanillin to the mixture.
3. Start adding flour in small portions, constantly kneading the base for baking.
4. Add softened butter cut into pieces.
5. The resulting mass should not be too steep, tight.
6. Form small balls out of it, put on an oiled baking sheet. Press each circle with a fork to decorate the product with a pattern.
7. Send the baking sheet to the oven for 15 minutes at 200 degrees. Ready cookies can be sprinkled with sweet powder or cocoa powder.

Sweet shortbread dough

If desired, you can add chopped lemon zest, chocolate pieces, nuts, vanillin, cocoa to the dish. Experienced chefs advise separately combining dry and liquid ingredients to make the cookies crumbly. At the same time, it is better to add a little starch to the flour, then the products will turn out crispy and tender. Ready cookies can be decorated with butter cream. How should you prepare shortbread-yeast sweet dough?

Ingredients:

• cold water - 4 tbsp. l.;
• flour of the 1st grade - 150 g;
• sugar - 4 tbsp. l.;
• salt;
• sweet butter - 75 g;
• yolk.

Cooking method:

1. Combine the oil with salt, grind the products.
2. Beat the yolk with sugar, add water.
3. Start adding flour to the egg mixture, mixing the ingredients with a knife with a round end of the blade.
4. Mix flour mass with butter. After kneading thoroughly, roll out the base on a countertop sprinkled with flour.
5. Form cookies of any shape, size. After that, you can send them to bake for 10-15 minutes at 220 degrees.

Cottage cheese shortbread

A wonderful dessert for tea is homemade cottage cheese and shortbread cookies. This delicacy is equally loved by adults and kids. The recipe below is good because, if desired, granulated sugar can not be used at all. Honey will serve as its replacement, and in this case, cookies will become more useful. How to cook cottage cheese shortbread dough?

Ingredients:

• cottage cheese - 250 g;
• baking powder - 15 g;
• butter - 200 g;
• granulated sugar - 50 g;
• flour - 0.5 kg;
• lemon zest - 1 tsp

Cooking method:

1. Combine cottage cheese with softened butter, lemon zest.
2. Mix flour with baking powder, salt, then sift.
3. Add the flour mass to the curd gradually, kneading the dough without lumps.
4. Divide the resulting cookie base into 3 equal parts.
5. Alternately roll out the layers on the table, cutting out figured products from them and folding them onto the prepared baking sheet.
6. Bake cookies for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.

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