When work takes up too much time, and friends unexpectedly decide to come visit, you still want to pamper them with a sweet, crispy, but melt-in-your-mouth dessert for tea. And let them be greeted by the aroma that comes from the oven and spreads far beyond the kitchen. Serve homemade shortbread cookies to the table, not a store-bought product completely stuffed with chemicals. We assure you that such baked goods are most often prepared on a quick fix, and the variety of recipes will help surprise your guests.
Classic recipes
It turns out that we are by no means alone in our desire to cook something that does not take up much time. Every nation of the world has in its arsenal national cuisine quick shortbread cookies. So, in Scotland they like to add rice flour to wheat flour, in Germany they bake contrasting cookies, where one of the halves is chocolate, and in Austria they like to add cinnamon and lemon zest. First, let's look at basic version cookies without various additives and excesses. Sometimes true taste can only be recognized in minimum quantity ingredients.
Cookies made with butter and yolks
What do we need if we started making shortbread cookies in a hurry? In every home at any time of the day you will find the following ingredients:
- butter - 200 g;
- granulated sugar - 100 g;
- yolks of two eggs;
- vanillin - 1 sachet.
Cooking method
If you are used to saving money, bake shortbread cookies with margarine. If you don’t have time to run to the store, but you don’t have vanilla on hand, then increase the portion of granulated sugar by one tablespoon. So let's get started. First, let's separate the whites from the yolks, remove the whites - we won't need them today. But carefully grind the yolks with sugar using a mixer. The end result should be a thick, fluffy white foam.
Take the butter out of the refrigerator in advance and add the already softened butter to the beaten yolks. Then let's add vanilla sugar and half a portion of flour, which must be sifted through a fine sieve. Shortbread cookie dough should be thick, so immediately add the remaining flour and mix quickly but thoroughly. If we do everything slowly, the butter may melt and the dough will no longer be so stretchy.
Wrap the sweet base in cellophane and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour. This is necessary for better formation of future figures.
Now you need to preheat the oven to 200 degrees and prepare a baking tray, which you need to line with oiled parchment paper. Let's prepare a work surface for rolling out the dough, a rolling pin, a little flour so that the dough does not stick, and molds (you can use a glass with a narrow neck).
Roll out the dough and form shapes
Cooled down shortbread dough For cookies, we will roll out into a large layer, the thickness of which should not exceed half a centimeter. Otherwise in finished form the culinary product will look more like gingerbread, and its insides will not be crispy. We take the molds and cut out the figures, which we immediately place on a baking sheet. Don't forget to leave a gap between the figures. We collect everything that we were not able to use right away into a small ball, roll it out again and cut out the figures again. Place the semi-finished product in the oven for 10 minutes. This time is enough for the shortbread cookies to bake completely. The aroma from the oven will be indescribable!
Recipe with mayonnaise and margarine
If you are used to buying baked goods in a store, you probably know what it contains. incredible amount food additives, extending the shelf life of the product. Take some time and bake your own shortbread cookies. A recipe for margarine and mayonnaise will not seem like a model at first glance healthy food, however, in comparison with what we buy in supermarkets, such a dessert looks a hundred times healthier. Here is a list of ingredients you will need to bake this quick dessert:
- wheat flour premium- 170 g;
- chicken egg - 1 piece;
- granulated sugar- 100 g;
- mayonnaise - 100 g;
- margarine for baking - 100 g;
- baking soda, quenched with vinegar - ½ teaspoon.
Kneading dough
Take a deep bowl and sift the flour into it, add sugar, a packet of vanillin (optional), an egg, as well as slaked soda and mayonnaise. Mix all components thoroughly. Melt the margarine separately. By the way, if you are going to treat your children to cookies, you can replace margarine with butter.
Pour the already melted margarine into the main mass and knead the stiff dough. Roll out the base into a layer and cut out the figures with molds. You can do the following. Anyone who has a meat grinder with shaped attachments can pass the dough through the unit, and from the resulting sticks form cookies as they please. Bake the culinary products in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 15 minutes. If the oven is heated to 200 degrees, the cooking time is reduced by 5 minutes.
While still hot, the cookies removed from the baking sheet must be rolled in powdered sugar. Now our shortbread cookies, the recipe for which we are considering with margarine and mayonnaise, can be served.
Shortbread "Snail"
If you often spoil your children, you have noticed how quickly they get bored with the same desserts. Our next recipe looks simple ideal option in the event that you can’t understand what the little picky people want today. Prepare homemade “Snail” shortbread cookies for them, and they will ask you to bake this dessert again and again. For preparation you will need the following components:
- wheat flour - 270 g;
- butter - 200 g;
- granulated sugar - 60 g;
- cocoa powder - 40 g;
- chicken egg - 2 pieces;
Dough preparation method
Take a bowl and grind softened butter and sugar in it. The mass should be homogeneous. Next, add one egg, soda and sifted flour to the same bowl. You need to stir quickly, just as our first recipe recommended. The dough should be soft. Our recipe shortcrust pastry for cookies suggests a two-color baking option. Therefore, we divide the composition into two equal halves, and add cocoa powder to one of them and bring the brown composition to homogeneity.
Forming cookies
Now roll out both layers into rectangles 1 cm thick. Separately, beat the remaining egg, we will need it to lubricate the layers. Place a light-colored flatbread on a lightly floured work surface, then brush the surface with egg. Place a layer of cocoa on top, press it tightly to the bottom layer and grease it too egg composition. Now all that remains is to roll both cakes into a roll, wrap the workpiece in cellophane and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. After the dough has rested in the refrigerator and becomes pliable for cutting, take it out and cut it into pieces 1.5 cm thick. All that remains is to place it on a baking sheet and bake our hastily prepared shortbread cookies. The culinary product should be baked at 180 degrees for 25 minutes.
Shortbread cookies with cognac
Our grandmothers usually added cognac to brushwood, and we will use this alcoholic drink just as another recipe for shortcrust pastry for cookies recommends. Such baked goods are especially crispy, and alcohol vapors completely disappear when heated. For preparation we will need the following ingredients:
- wheat flour - 300 g;
- cognac - 20 g;
- butter - 200 g;
- granulated sugar (vanillin) - 50 g;
- soda slaked with vinegar - ½ teaspoon.
Cooking method
Sift the flour and combine with soda, mix everything thoroughly. Grind the softened butter with sugar in a separate bowl. Next, we will pour cognac into the oil, and also add flour mixture. Quickly knead the dough. In the future, after the base has cooled, we will form the cookies as follows. Pinch off a small piece from the base, form a sausage and roll it out to 1 cm thick. Now you can work on the edges. Using circles of small diameter, you can give the edges of the cookies a carved shape. Place each piece on a baking sheet and then into an oven preheated to 220 degrees for 5-10 minutes.
Some recommendations and tips
We have learned how to make shortbread (cookies) at home, let's summarize the important points:
- The dough must be kneaded as quickly as possible and be sure to be placed in the refrigerator for a short time before rolling out.
- Shortbread cookies (you see the photo as an illustration) turn out to be especially crumbly, crispy and melting in your mouth if you replace granulated sugar with powder or add vanillin.
- The mass fraction of fat in the recipe should be equal to half that of flour. The less oil you put in, the harder the dessert will be.
- You can use three types of fats in equal proportions: lard, margarine and butter.
- For variety, shortbread cookies can be decorated with chocolate icing, melted in a water bath, and also made into a kind of sandwiches. To do this, you need to take cookies in pairs and use them as a layer. thick jam, marmalade or boiled condensed milk.
- Since this dessert is stored for quite a long time, it can be prepared for future use.
Enjoy your tea!
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All sorts of surprises await even a good housewife in the family: unexpected but dear guests will suddenly appear; the children will want sweets, but it’s too late to go to the store; I had a long emotional conversation with a friend - I need to come up with something for tea.
In any similar situation, a simple magical recipe can help out. shortbread cookies hastily. You can always find the ingredients for it, even in the most modest refrigerator; you need a minimum of skill in working with dough and about an hour of time.
But the result is a win-win: the aroma throughout the house creates a festive mood, and everyone is drawn to the table. These are cookies and hearty breakfast, and decoration for evening tea. Every little detail, suggested by imagination and added to classic recipe, transforms it and makes it a real work of art.
But it also has disadvantages - high calorie content.
Classics: composition, proportions, technology
The basis of any work of art, including culinary, is a classic. This is a basic set of ingredients, their required ratio and procedure for production.
Ingredients for quick classic shortbread:
- flour – 500 g;
- creamy margarine – 250 g;
- sugar - 200 g;
- soda – 10 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs.
Production time is about 1 hour.
Calorie content – 400 kcal/100 g.
This set is subject to various variations, but 5 ingredients are always present in it. Margarine can, for example, be diluted butter, sour cream, use powdered sugar instead of sugar, and use baking powder instead of soda. The amount of other ingredients also depends on the amount of flour.
Manufacturing technology does not require special effort V pre-treatment products. For example, you should not beat eggs white, divide them into white and yolk and add them separately; kneading the dough in a food processor is also unnecessary; it can be easily kneaded by hand.
Classic shortbread cookies are made in a hurry as follows:
- All products included in the recipe are added to the sifted flour in this order: first softened, but not melted until liquid state margarine, then add sugar, add lightly beaten eggs, and lastly add soda;
- Using your hands, knead into a smooth, elastic dough; You will have to work for 10-15 minutes. The dough rests in the refrigerator for half an hour to make it easier to cut into shapes;
- Roll out ready dough it doesn’t need to be very thin: the thickness of the cake should be a little more than half a centimeter; if you roll out thinly, the cookies will turn out to be overdried; if you roll out thickly, you will get unbaked gingerbread instead of cookies;
- Cut portions from the rolled out dough. This can be done with a thin glass, culinary molds, or figures from a children's sandbox. All figures are laid out on a baking sheet, lightly greased vegetable oil, at a short distance from each other;
- The duration of baking in the oven depends on its features, but does not exceed 15-20 minutes. The temperature is set to 180 degrees;
- Pour the browned “masterpieces” onto a plate. If they are not eaten completely fresh, store them in a container or sealed container.
Two-color shortbread cookies “Snail”
Looking at the intricate yellow-brown curls of this product, you can’t help but think about the incredible culinary talents of the housewife who created such beauty. In fact, the secret of “Snail” is simple, like everything ingenious. These are ordinary shortbread cookies with the same composition of ingredients and their proportions, and can be prepared in a hurry.
Snail Cookie Ingredients:
- flour – 500 g;
- creamy margarine – 250 g;
- sugar – 200 g;
- soda – 10 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- cocoa – 45 g.
Manufacturing time: 1-1.5 hours.
Calorie content: 420 cal/100 g.
There are some changes in the cooking technology compared to regular shortbread cookies:
These cute cookies are spreading around unique aroma and delight with their appearance and delicious taste.
Chocolate cookies for children in molds
The recipe for this cookie is more difficult to prepare, but if you follow the technology, it always gives good result. Due to the fact that the dough does not need to be kneaded by hand and kept in the refrigerator, the production time is reduced.
Composition of ingredients culinary product common for shortbread cookies, but excludes soda:
- flour - 500 g;
- margarine - 250 g (it can be replaced in this recipe with butter or taken equally: 125 g butter + 125 g margarine);
- sugar - 200g (powdered sugar can be used instead);
- 2 eggs;
- cocoa – 60 g;
- salt - 5 g.
Production time: 45 minutes.
Calorie content: 440 cal/100 g.
Making quick chocolate shortbread cookies:
- In a deep bowl, sifted flour and cocoa are mixed well;
- In a blender, beat the butter and sugar until homogeneous mass, similar to cream;
- Well-beaten butter and sugar are added to the flour and mixed thoroughly using a mixer;
- The egg white is separated from the yolk, salt is added to it, everything is whipped with a mixer into a foam;
- Whipped protein is added to a mixture of flour, cocoa, butter and sugar; The contents are quickly and thoroughly mixed with a spatula. The resulting dough has a jelly-like consistency;
- Using a spatula, spread the dough into cookie cutters, it is better if they are larger; small cookies dry out quickly in the oven;
- Baking occurs at temperature conditions 180 degrees for 12-15 minutes.
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Sand stars on mayonnaise
Mayonnaise is considered to be a seasoning for fish, meat, and vegetables, but not a confectionery ingredient. Meanwhile, it includes vegetable oil, eggs, vinegar, sugar, salt - products in confectionery widely used. Moreover, mayonnaise in shortbread cookies makes them tender and increases their shelf life to several weeks.
Quick star-shaped shortbread cookies with mayonnaise have the following ingredients:
- flour - 500 grams;
- margarine - 250 grams;
- sugar - 200 grams;
- egg - 1 piece;
- soda - 10 grams;
- vinegar - 30-40 grams;
- mayonnaise – 200 ml.
Production time – 1.5 hours.
Calorie content - 435 kcal/100 g.
Technology for making these quick cookies:
It remains to be reminded that shortbread cookies with mayonnaise are not even a dietary product.
In Europe it is “Vienna”, and in Russia it is “Styopka-Rastrepka”
If you have an open jar of jam or marmalade on hand, and you want to whip up something unusual, then this recipe is perfect for execution. 40-45 minutes is enough for him.
Ingredients for Vienskoe cookies:
- flour - 500 g;
- margarine - 250 g;
- sugar - 200 g;
- soda - 10 g;
- 1 egg;
- jam – 200 grams (rolled currants with sugar are best, jam can also be used);
- vinegar 9% - 1-2 tablespoons.
Calorie content - 381 kcal/100 g.
Viennese shortbread cookies with jam are quickly prepared as follows:
- Sugar is added to the beaten egg soft margarine and quenched soda;
- Gradually add flour and knead a fairly stiff dough; a fourth of it goes into the freezer, and the rest of the dough is distributed on the baking sheet in an even layer;
- Jam, marmalade or marmalade is spread onto the dough layer. The frozen dough is removed from the freezer and smoothed evenly onto the surface of the jam with a grater;
- Place the finished “structure” in the oven for a quarter of an hour, the usual temperature for shortbread cookies is 180 degrees;
- After removing from the oven, cut the finished product with a knife until it cools down. Portions can be of any shape.
The frozen crispy cookies amaze the imagination with their exotic appearance and will not disappoint anyone with their taste. Only there are no calories in it, besides, 75% of it consists of carbohydrates, which will instantly turn into fats in the body.
No eggs? - replace it with milk!
In this recipe, unlike classic cookies, no eggs. The role of the protein component is played by milk.
We invite you to prepare the simplest and fastest shortbread cookies without eggs in a frying pan. Ingredients of required products:
- flour - 500 grams;
- margarine (butter) – 250 grams;
- sugar – 200 grams;
- milk – 180 ml.
Production time – 40-45 minutes.
Calorie content – 390 kcal/100 g.
The process of making quick cookies:
- Grind margarine or butter with sugar;
- Gradually add milk to obtain a homogeneous mass;
- Add flour, knead elastic elastic dough;
- The simplest thing is to roll the dough into sausages and cut them into rounds half a centimeter thick;
- Heat a frying pan without oil and place the future cookies on it, not very tightly;
- One side will brown in 1-2 minutes, turn it over to the other, you can reduce the heat, cover the pan with a lid and let it sit for about 4 minutes.
Making homemade shortbread cookies in a hurry is a useful activity in all respects: there is always a wonderful treat for tea in the house, without harmful additives and unnecessary costs. And the process and the result invariably bring great satisfaction to the hostess. After all, baked goods are eaten with appetite and pleasure!
Many people buy shortbread cookies, but only a few bake them at home.
Probably just not everyone knows quick recipes this wonderful delicacy.
It can be easily prepared and fills your home with a wonderful aroma.
Shall we indulge in some shortbread cookies?
Quick shortbread cookies - general cooking principles
Fats are always used for shortcrust pastry. It can be butter or vegetable oil, margarine, confectionery fat, lard. The choice of product depends not only on the recipe, but also on the availability of the ingredient in the house. Many fats are interchangeable, but baked goods may taste different.
What else is put into the dough:
Wheat flour;
Leavening agents.
Depending on the recipe, dairy products, cocoa, vanillin, nuts, and poppy seeds may be added. They often prepare baked goods with jam or jam, adding raisins and candied fruits.
For some reason, many people think that cookies are baked exclusively in the oven. But it is not so. There are several very simple recipes for preparing delicacies in microwave oven and even in a frying pan.
Recipe 1: Quick “Sugar” shortbread cookies
These quick shortbread cookies require kefir. But you can also use yogurt or fermented baked milk. It won't be any worse with them. Vegetable oil is used, preferably odorless.
Ingredients
Flour 2 cups;
100 ml oil;
Sugar 0.5 cups;
100 ml kefir;
1 pinch of salt;
0.5 spoon of soda.
To sprinkle the cookies you will need about 50 grams of granulated sugar.
Preparation
1. Shake kefir with soda, sugar and salt. Stir to dissolve the grains.
2. Add the egg to them and immediately pour in the vegetable oil. Stir thoroughly.
3. Add flour and slaked soda. Stir the stiff dough and roll it into a log. If the recipe flour is not enough, then feel free to add more. The quantity is affected by the consistency of kefir.
4. Sprinkle the table with flour and roll out the flatbread. The thickness is about half a centimeter. To prevent the rolling pin from sticking, you can sprinkle the layer with flour.
5. Take a knife and cut diamonds, triangles or squares. You can use a pastry knife with a curved edge.
6. Transfer the cookies to a baking sheet. Lightly grease with water and sprinkle with sugar. Do not wet it too much so that the granulated sugar does not melt.
7. Set at 200 degrees and bake for about 12 minutes. Let's look at the color.
Recipe 2: Quick shortbread cookies with mayonnaise
Very crumbly and soft cookies in a hurry, the dough for which is kneaded with ordinary mayonnaise. Of course, it is advisable to use quality sauce with normal fat content. You can use homemade mayonnaise.
Ingredients
Sugar 0.1 kg;
Mayonnaise 0.1 kg;
0.1 kg margarine;
0.5 tsp. soda;
1 cup flour.
Preparation
1. Sift the flour into a large bowl.
2. Add granulated sugar and mayonnaise.
3. Next, pour in the melted margarine. Or we use butter.
4. Start stirring with a spoon and add a raw egg, and then slaked soda. You can add vanilla powder for flavor.
5. Knead the dough with your hands and you can start shaping.
6. Roll out the dough into a layer, cut out or squeeze out cookies of any shape. Also, the thickness of the layer does not matter much.
7. Place on a baking sheet, prick the products with a fork and send to bake. If desired, raw products can be greased and sprinkled with sugar or poppy seeds.
Recipe 3: Quick Viennese shortbread cookies with jam
Recipe amazing baked goods, which can be served even to the most dear guests. And they are unlikely to guess that the cookies were prepared in a hurry before they appeared on the doorstep.
Ingredients
Egg 1 piece;
0.2 kg margarine;
0.2 kg jam;
. ½ tsp. baking soda;
0.2 kg sugar;
0.4 kg flour.
Preparation
1. Beat sugar with chicken egg, add melted margarine and soda, which must be quenched in acetic or citric acid.
2. Pour in flour and knead into a stiff dough. Pinch off a quarter of the dough and add another spoonful of flour to it to make the mass thicker. We make a block and throw it in the freezer for a few minutes while we shape the cookies.
3. Roll out the remaining dough into a sheet or simply knead it on a baking sheet with your hands.
4. Grease with jam. Similarly, you can use any jam, fruit or berry jam.
5. Take the block out of the freezer and grate it on a coarse grater on top of the jam. We try to do this evenly. It is not necessary to cover the filling completely; let there be gaps.
6. Bake for about 15 minutes. We take it out and while the product is hot, quickly cut it into squares, rectangles or any other shape. When Viennese cookies Once it cools, it will become very crispy and crumbly.
Recipe 4: Quick shortbread cookies without eggs
Don't have an egg at home? Well, it is not necessary! You can also cook without it great baked goods. The recipe is for simple shortbread cookies, which are prepared with milk without adding eggs.
Ingredients
0.18 kg flour;
60 ml milk;
0.12 kg butter;
0.07 powder;
A pinch of vanilla.
For taste, you can add a little poppy or sesame seeds.
Preparation
1. Grind soft butter With powdered sugar. You can use a mixer if you are pressed for time. It will be even faster.
2. Add milk in small portions, stirring the butter thoroughly. It is desirable that the products have the same temperature.
3. Add vanilla and flour, stir. The dough will not be hard, but soft.
4. Place the mixture into a pastry bag or just a bag and cut off the tip. Place cookies in the form of fingers, rings or any other on a baking sheet. You can use curly nozzles with teeth.
5. If not pastry bag or experience in squeezing dough out of a bag, you can simply place the products on a baking sheet with a spoon.
6. Bake until golden color. The time depends on the thickness of the cookies. Temperature 200.
Recipe 5: Quick shortbread cookies in the microwave
It turns out that you don't even need an oven to whip up some types of shortbread cookies. They can be quickly prepared in the microwave. Great idea for breakfast.
Ingredients
0.1 kg butter;
0.06 kg of powder;
0.13 kg flour;
0.03 kg starch.
Preparation
1. The butter must be softened. If it is hard, you can also use the microwave and defrost program. Combine the product with wheat flour and starch. Grind it.
2. Add powdered sugar. If you like more porous baked goods, you can add a pinch of baking powder.
3. The dough will crumble, this is normal.
4. Place it on a sheet of parchment, cover with a second sheet and roll out the flatbread with a rolling pin.
5. Cut into 8 pieces; no need to move the pieces apart.
6. Place in the microwave and cook for 2 minutes at maximum power. That's all!
Recipe 6: Quick “Chocolate” shortbread cookies
For chocolate chip cookies You will need regular cocoa powder, but without sugar. We use butter, but you can also use any margarine or fat.
Ingredients
0.22 kg butter;
1.5 tsp. baking powder;
60 grams of cocoa;
0.18 kg flour;
0.14 kg sugar.
Preparation
1. Beat the softened butter with a mixer for a couple of minutes. Next, add sugar and stir for another two minutes.
2. Add the egg to the dough, but little by little, so that it combines with the oil mixture.
3. Combine flour with cocoa powder and baking powder. Sift the ingredients.
4. Combine the dry mixture with the butter mixture, stir and the dough is ready!
5. Take a deep spoon, as for ice cream. But an oval one will do. In general, any, but not small. We collect the dough and place the cookies on a baking sheet with parchment so that the top is smooth from a spoon and round.
6. Bake for a quarter of an hour at 180 degrees. But if the cookies are thin, it may take even less time.
Recipe 7: Quick Coconut Shortbread Cookies
To prepare, you will need ordinary coconut flakes, which are sold in the baking department. You can also use colored ones, the cookies will turn out more interesting.
Ingredients
2 spoons of milk;
0.15 kg coconut flakes;
0.1 kg sugar;
1 tsp. without ripper slide;
0.34 kg flour;
0.2 kg butter;
Preparation
1. Remove the oil to a warm place in advance. Place in a cup, add sugar and beat for three minutes.
2. Next add milk.
3. Add shavings, baking powder, a little vanilla and flour, which we add gradually. If the oil is of high quality and does not contain a lot of water, then a little less flour may be needed. We adjust it ourselves, but the dough for coconut cookies it should turn out cool.
4. We form any products. You can squeeze cookies out of a layer, roll them into balls or make sticks. Let's turn on the imagination! And if there is no time, then quickly cut into squares or strips.
5. Place the products on a baking sheet and bake until done.
Recipe 8: Quickly baked shortbread in a frying pan
Another option amazing cookies, which bakes without an oven! All you need is a frying pan. Choose a vessel with the largest diameter so that cooking takes less time.
Ingredients
Flour 0.2 kg;
1 spoon of vegetable oil;
0.1 kg butter;
1 tsp. cinnamon (optional);
1 spoon of water;
80 grams of powder;
1 tsp. ripper.
You will also need some oil to grease the pan.
Preparation
1. Mix all dry ingredients: cinnamon, flour, baking powder and powder.
2. In another container, mix melted butter with vegetable oil, add an egg and a spoonful of water.
3. Combine both mixtures, knead the mass well until smooth and immediately roll it into a layer of 4-5 millimeters.
4. Turn on the frying pan and grease it with oil.
5. Cut out cookies with a glass or cut with a knife. Place in a frying pan and fry until golden brown. Turn over to the other side. We do not add oil.
6. Cool and you're done! If suddenly the cookies turn out to be greasy, then place them on paper napkins. They will absorb oil from the surface.
How thick should I roll out the cookies? Any! But the thicker it is, the softer it will be and the more gingerbread-like it will be. Thin products will be crispier.
Shortbread dough keeps well in the freezer for about two months. But before freezing it needs to be packed in a plastic bag.
Shortbread dough does not like heat. Therefore, it is not recommended to stir it for a long time and keep it warm. The butter will melt, the mass will become sticky, and finished goods will become tough.
Shortbread dough requires strict adherence to proportions. This is especially true for liquids and fats. Otherwise, baking may simply not work out.
Dry ingredients must be stirred before adding to the liquid mass. Otherwise, the ripening agent or spices may be unevenly distributed.
How great it is to come home from work, lie down on a soft sofa, cover yourself with a blanket, and make a delicious hot tea and don’t forget to pair it with fresh, fragrant cookies, which are prepared very, very quickly!
1. Coconut cookies
Ingredients:100 g flour
100 g sugar
200 g coconut flakes
2 eggs
1 tsp. baking powder
Beat eggs with sugar.
Add coconut flakes, mix.
Add flour and baking powder and mix again.
Place the dough in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Wet your hands with water and form the dough into cookies.
Bake at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes.
2. Apple cookies
Ingredients: 120 g sugar
1 packet of vanillin
4 eggs
200 g margarine
500 g flour
1 packet of baking powder
3 apples
Grind the eggs with sugar and vanilla, add melted margarine, mix, then flour mixed with baking powder and knead the dough with a spoon. Peel and cut the apples into small cubes, add to the dough. Place small mounds with a tablespoon on sheets covered with baking paper and bake in an oven preheated to 200°C until golden brown for literally 10–15 minutes.
3. Sesame cookies
Ingredients: 70 g flour
60 g butter
120 g sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract or 1 packet of vanilla sugar
1 tsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice
160 g sesame seeds
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
Mix flour, baking powder and salt. Beat softened butter with sugar. Then add egg, vanilla and lemon juice and beat for 20-30 seconds with a mixer. At low mixer speed, add flour in small portions. Using a spatula, stir in all the sesame seeds (you can fry them in advance). Heat the oven to 180 degrees. Place flat cakes on sheets of baking paper (required!) with a teaspoon at a distance of 3–4 cm from each other, as the cookies may spread. Bake for 8–15 minutes depending on the size.
4. Chocolate cookies
Ingredients: 240 g chocolate for melting
4 tbsp. l. butter
2/3 cup flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 large eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla sugar
150 g chocolate, cut into pieces
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Chop the chocolate into pieces. Mix sugar, eggs and vanilla sugar with a mixer (about 4 minutes). Melt 240 g of chocolate with butter in a water bath or in the microwave. Add melted chocolate to sugar-egg mixture and mix on low speed. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt. Add to the chocolate mixture and stir. Place the remaining 150 g of chocolate pieces into the dough and stir. Use a tablespoon to place round cookies on a baking sheet, 5-7 cm apart. Bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes.
5. Homemade oatmeal cookies
Ingredients: 100 g butter
1 cup of sugar
2 eggs
1 cup oatmeal
1 cup flour
nuts, candied fruits, dried fruits
To begin, put the butter and sugar in a convenient bowl and knead with a fork. Then mix with a mixer until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Add eggs and mix. Pour out a glass of oatmeal. Mix and add filling to taste: nuts, dried apricots, raisins or candied fruits, or you can and all together. A total of about 2 cups of filling. Stir and add flour. Make balls from the resulting mass, dip in flour and shape into cookies. Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and greased with olive oil. Bake at 200 degrees for 15 minutes.
6. Milk shortcakes
Ingredients: 400 g flour
200 g sugar
100 g butter
1 egg
80 ml milk
1/2 tsp. baking powder
Cream softened butter and sugar. Add egg, milk and baking powder, mix. Add flour and knead elastic dough. Roll out the dough into a layer 7–10 mm thick. Use a special mold with wavy edges or a regular metal tartlet mold to cut out the shortcakes. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Heat the oven to 180 degrees. Transfer the cut out shortcakes to a baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes until the edges are lightly browned. The main thing is not to overcook the shortcakes in the oven, otherwise they will turn into ordinary cookies.
7. Banana cookies
Ingredients: 2 large soft bananas
1 glass of rolled oats
nuts, raisins, chocolate, cinnamon (optional)
Mash bananas with rolled oats, mix. Add nuts, raisins, chocolate. Cook at 180 degrees in the oven on parchment paper for 15 minutes.
8. Madeleine cookies
Ingredients: 120 g flour
2 eggs
80 g sugar
90 g butter
1 tbsp. l. lemon juice
Lightly melt the butter, add eggs and sugar to it. Beat everything with a mixer or whisk. Add flour and lemon juice. Mix thoroughly. Place the dough into Madeleine molds (or any other). Bake at 190–200 degrees for 12–15 minutes.
9. Cookies "Coffee beans"
Ingredients: 4 tbsp. l. milk
5 tbsp. l. instant coffee
200 g butter
200 ml cream (30%)
250 g sugar
3 tbsp. l. cocoa
650 g flour
Dissolve coffee in hot milk. Then add butter, sugar, cream, cocoa. Beat everything. Then add flour and knead the dough. From the dough, tearing off pieces, make balls, stretching them slightly and giving the shape of grains. Then, with a stick or toothpick, make a longitudinal cut, deep, but not completely. Place the grains on a sheet. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 12–15 minutes.
10. Cookies for tea “Guests on the doorstep”
Ingredients:
2 egg yolks
1 packet vanilla sugar
230 g flour
80 g powdered sugar
120 g butter
3/4 tsp. lemon zest
Preheat oven to 175 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, grease and sprinkle with flour. Sift flour and sugar into one bowl. Add softened butter, egg yolks and lemon zest. Stir the ingredients until smooth. Knead for 5–10 minutes until the dough takes an elastic shape. Form the dough into a “sausage” and cut into circles. Place the circles on a baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes.
Today we will whip up shortbread cookies. This is a great and inexpensive option sweet pastries for tea for unexpected guests, as well as for your family. IN this recipe If you wish, you can use margarine instead of butter. This dish can also be prepared with filling - berries and pieces of dark or milk chocolate, so don't be afraid to experiment. If you wish, you can add baking powder to the dough, thanks to which the cookies will rise a little during baking and will look fluffier.
Ingredients
- Butter - 200 g
- Wheat flour - 200 g
- Sugar - 100 g
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Vanilla sugar - 6 g
Information
Sweet pastriesServings - 6
Cooking time - 40 min
Quick shortbread cookies: how to cook
First you need to prepare all the ingredients for the cookies: butter, flour, sugar, eggs and vanilla sugar. Get a separate bowl for the shortcrust pastry. Break eggs into it, add sugar and vanillin. Beat everything thoroughly with a whisk.
Take the butter out of the refrigerator first so that by the time you start cooking it reaches room temperature. Add softened butter to the dough, rub the entire contents of the bowl until smooth with a fork or spatula.
Now add flour to the bowl. It is advisable to sift it with a sieve before doing this.
Knead the dough. It should be smooth and soft, but not crumbly. When the dough is ready, pack it in cling film and put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Next, remove the dough from the refrigerator. Prepare baking paper, roll out the dough on it in big damn approximately 2-3 cm thick.
To prepare baked goods, take out special molds. With their help, cut out individual cookies from the dough; the remaining scraps can also be rolled out and a few more pieces cut out. Prepare a baking tray, place baking paper on it, and place the formed cookies on it. Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 180°C for 15-20 minutes. If you don't have cookie cutters, you can shape the dough into circles or rolls. Don't be afraid to show your imagination.
When the cookies are ready, remove them from the oven and place them on a plate. Sprinkle powdered sugar on top for decoration. Shortbread cookies with butter are ready in a hurry, you can serve them with tea! Enjoy your meal!
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