Of course, it’s easier to buy puff pastries in the store, but homemade ones will still be more satisfying and flavorful. Also, products made from store-bought puff pastry without yeast are, in my opinion, a little harsh. Puff pastry dough can be made at home with the addition of sour cream. Then the baked goods turn out soft and crumbly. It is very important not to overcook the puff pastry in the oven, otherwise it will turn out too hard. But you can get out of this situation, just soak the cookies in hot tea. Still, it is better to carefully monitor the cooking process and remove the products from the oven in time.

For homemade puff pastry, it is better to use creamy margarine. We take it out of the refrigerator immediately before grinding. This product must be mixed with flour and ground to a crumb state. After all the ingredients have been added, the dough needs to rest in the refrigerator.

how to make puff pastry for cookies with sour cream

Ingredients:

premium wheat flour – 400 g,
sour cream – 0.5 tbsp.,
egg yolk – 1 pc.,
cream margarine – 180 g,
sunflower oil – 1 tbsp.,
sugar – 2 tbsp,
salt - a pinch.

Cooking process:

1.For convenience, collect all the necessary products and start kneading the puff pastry. Take a dry bowl and pour the sifted flour into it, but not all of it, about 2/3 of it.

2.Now take margarine from the refrigerator. Grate it on a coarse grater and pour it into flour. If desired, you can simply cut the margarine. Then we make butter and flour crumbs with our hands or chop the food with a knife.

3. Pour sour cream and egg yolk into the general mixture, mix the mixture until a homogeneous consistency is formed.

4.Add a small amount of salt for taste, use table salt or sea salt. And all we have to do is add the remaining flour, knead the dough with our hands. The result is a non-stick lump. Chill the dough in the refrigerator for about 1-1.5 hours.

5. Roll out the dough and cut into small pieces, any size possible. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

6. Grease a baking tray with vegetable oil and place our products on it. We make sweet cookies, which means we sprinkle granulated sugar on top, but first grease the surface with vegetable oil or egg white. And if we bake unsweetened puff pastries, then serve them with boiled condensed milk or with beer.

7. Homemade puff pastry with sugar is baked for 15-18 minutes, it becomes rosy and flaky. We do not leave the cookies on the baking sheet, but remove them immediately. Place in a ceramic plate with a napkin and serve. Bon appetit!

Ninel Ivanova told how to make homemade puff pastry, with a recipe and photo from the author.

Jam puffs are a great way to start your Sunday morning. Crispy, richly filled, aromatic, they will replace the famous croissants. Those who love French breakfast will be pleasantly surprised to see such a homemade alternative on the table. The housewife will need very little time to bake a tempting delicacy at home.

To make jam puffs you will need:

puff pastry – 450 g;
jam – 100 ml;
cocoa – 2 tbsp. l;
sugar – 1 tbsp. l;
nuts – 50 g;
vegetable oil – 20 ml.

Jam puffs - recipe

We buy puff pastry in the store or prepare it ourselves. In the second case, it will take more time, but you can be sure of the quality of the products used.

We defrost store-bought ready-made dough by cutting the packaging and placing it along with the base on a flat surface in a warm place. After 20-25 minutes you can work with the dough.

From a strip of base 10 centimeters wide, cut squares 10 centimeters long. If necessary, roll out a little. We do this when we want to get a very thin base. But if you overdo it, the jam can leak and ruin the appearance of the product.

Let's prepare the filling. In a bowl, combine any thicker jam with walnuts and half the cocoa.

We take good quality nuts, and before using them we examine them for the presence of partitions and pieces of shell. If we find unnecessary garbage, we remove it. We chop the kernels with a knife.

Mix the filling and place a teaspoon on each square.

Then cover the filling with the free half of the dough so that you get a neat triangle. Use a fork to seal the edges, pressing them together. The top can be cut as in the photo.

We transfer the preparations to the parchment with which we covered the baking sheet. If necessary, it can be lubricated with vegetable oil.

We wet the tops of the triangles with water, egg or milk and sprinkle with the remaining cocoa mixed with sugar.

Bake the jam puffs for 15 minutes in an oven preheated to 250 degrees.

Serve the finished pies warm.

The appetizing puff pastries will impress with their fragility and multi-component filling. Children and adults will ask for more after the first bite. After all, the baked goods turn out to be truly delicious.

Airy, tender, tasty and crispy cookies are actually quick and easy to prepare. You can knead the dough for it yourself or purchase ready-made layers in the store. It can be yeast or without, but the main ingredients are butter and flour. It is better to bake small products from this dough with various fillings, sweet and more.

You can make the dough yourself at home. The main thing is the presence of flour, butter and a small amount of salt. Of course, it will take a lot of time to knead it, but the result will definitely not disappoint. True, there are many “quick” recipes when beer, yeast, water, sour cream or cottage cheese are added to the batch.

Yeast-free

To make cookies from yeast-free dough you need flour (about half a kilogram), butter (350 g), water (250 g), salt (0.5 tsp).

Mixing is done in the following order:

Pour salt into the flour, stir (leave a little flour for sprinkling).
Pour in water and softened butter (a seventh part).
Make the dough by kneading it for about a minute.
Place in plastic and refrigerate for an hour.
Make a plate about 1cm thick from the remaining butter.
Roll out a ball of dough, cut it crosswise in the middle, open the “petals”, roll them out.
Place an oil plate in the center and cover it with “petals” so that there are no gaps.
Sprinkle with flour, lightly beat with a rolling pin and roll out carefully so that the dough does not tear.
Fold the rolled sheet into thirds, wrap it in plastic and put it back in the refrigerator for an hour.
The rolling and folding procedure is repeated three more times, not forgetting to put the dough in a cold place afterwards.

Yeast

To make it you will need fresh (70 g) or dry (about 25 g) yeast. In addition, for 250 g of flour: a pack of margarine, 50 g of sour cream, 25 g of sugar, yolk, 0.5 tsp. salt and a quarter glass of milk.

How to knead:

Dissolve yeast and sugar in heated milk, stir in a spoonful of flour. Leave to ferment in a warm place.
Combine flour with salt, add margarine chopped into pieces and knead until crumbs form.
Separately mix the yolks and sour cream, pour them into the crumbs, mix thoroughly.
Pour in the fermented yeast and knead the dough.

On beer

Delicate homemade cookies can be made from dough mixed with beer. This recipe involves mixing flour with hot oil. At 8 tbsp. flour take half a kilogram of margarine and a glass of light beer.

Making this dough is easy:

Melt the margarine and immediately pour into the flour. Stir.
Pour in beer and knead the dough.
Wrap it in film and put it in the freezer.

To prepare cookies, the dough is defrosted, rolled out thinly, folded into several layers and rolled out again. Next, cut out various shapes, place them on a baking sheet and bake until golden brown.

Ready puff pastry

You can buy it in the store to bake a quick and delicious dessert for your family. As they say, little cost - a lot of pleasure. You can make cookies from yeast dough or choose a yeast-free option. It is usually sold in packs of half a kilogram. This is convenient in the sense that it is enough to bake dessert for dinner, and there is a guarantee that nothing will go to waste.

Cookies with various fillings

Puff pastries can be prepared with or without various fillings. It all depends on the preferences of the particular cook. What are puff pastry cookies made with?

With cottage cheese

To prepare cookies with cottage cheese filling for half a kilo of dough, you will need 125 g of cottage cheese, grated through a sieve, a few raisins (2 tbsp), a couple of eggs, 2 tbsp. granulated sugar and powder for sprinkling.

How to do:

Mix cottage cheese, eggs, sugar and raisins - this is the filling.
Roll out the dough and divide into small squares.
Place 1 tsp in the center of the squares. mixture, collect corners, press.
Each puff pastry is placed on a baking sheet (pre-grease) and coated with beaten egg.

After cooling, the rosy cookies with cottage cheese should be sprinkled with powder.

With jam

You can bake original “Windmill” cookies with jam (150 g per half a kilogram of dough).

It's easy to do:

Roll out the dough (about 5 mm thick).
Divide it into squares (the side of the square is about 8 cm).
Place a teaspoon of jam in the middle.
Cut the corners of the squares in half down to the jam core. You should get a kind of flower with four triangular petals.
Bend the corners to the center through one another: you get cookies in the form of a weather vane.
Place the resulting cookies on a baking sheet, brush with yolk mixture if desired.
Bake for 18 minutes at 190°.

With jam

To make cookies with jam, half a kilogram of dough will require 300 ml of jam and an yolk to grease the surface (optional).

What we do next:

Roll out the dough after defrosting it first.
We grease with jam, we try to do it carefully so that it does not drip.
Roll the dough into a tube, cut diagonally from left to right and right to left alternately: you get trapezoidal pieces.
Place them on a baking sheet, wide side down.
Beat the yolk separately and brush the surface with it.
Place in the oven, preheated to 180°, for half an hour.

Sweets with sugar

The recipe for puff pastry cookies with sugar is as follows:

Prepare the products: for 250 g of puff pastry, take 1 egg and about 3 tbsp. Sahara.
The defrosted dough is rolled out (0.4 cm thick). At the same time, turn on the oven to heat up.
Beat the eggs, brush the dough with the resulting mixture and sprinkle with sugar.
Use cookie cutters to squeeze out cookies and place them on a baking sheet sprinkled with water.
Bake for 20 minutes at 230°.

With spices

You can sprinkle the puff pastry with sesame seeds, poppy seeds and cinnamon (all at once or just one) and make original cookies with an unforgettable taste. For 1 kg of dough you will need 2 eggs, 8 tbsp each. sugar and sesame seeds, 4 tbsp. poppy seeds and a teaspoon of cinnamon.

Having prepared all the ingredients, let’s start preparing the dessert:

Coat the rolled out puff pastry with beaten egg.
Sprinkle with sugar mixed with poppy seeds and sesame seeds, press down a little. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
Cut into strips 2 cm wide and twist them into a spiral.
Place the spiral cookies on a baking sheet and bake until browned at 220°C.

Chocolate - with cocoa

To prepare chocolate tongues you need 0.3 kg of flour, 0.2 kg of margarine and sour cream, 50 g of cocoa and sugar (optional).

First knead the dough:

After sifting the flour, knead it with pieces of margarine until crumbly.
Mix with sour cream, roll into a ball and, wrapped in film, leave for a couple of hours in a cold place.

Then start creating cookies:

The dough is rolled out to form an elongated rectangle.
The middle is sprinkled with a mixture of cocoa and sugar (about a third of the plate).
Cover with the side, sprinkle the top with the mixture again.
Cover with the other side and roll out the long plate again.
The procedure of sprinkling with a mixture of cocoa and sugar is repeated, after which the dough is rolled into a tube and rolled out.
Divide the rolled sheet into small pieces, twist them a little and place them on a baking sheet.
Bake for a third of an hour at 200°C.

No filling

It happens that all family members have different tastes: some want unsweetened cookies, while others prefer fruit-filled cookies. You can get out of this situation by preparing cookies without filling (after all, the dough is initially unsweetened!) and serving it with sauce or syrup.

Without filling, you can make cookies of various shapes:

“Shapes”: cut out various shapes from the rolled out dough with a knife or molds;
“Bows”: cut the rolled sheet into squares, fold them diagonally, make 2 cuts to the left and right of the central corner towards the middle, unfold the workpiece, wrap the base with the cut strips, forming a bow.

All recipes for making “ears” have the same technology for creating cookies: first, the dough is rolled out into a rectangular shape, then sprinkled with filling, then rolled from opposite ends to the middle, the resulting “double” tube is divided into 4 cm pieces, placed on a baking sheet and baked . The recipes differ in the filling or dough composition.

Classic recipe

To make “ear” cookies from puff pastry according to the traditional recipe, you need to take 500 g of cottage cheese, butter and flour (you need the highest grade so that the cookies are softer and airier), 6 tsp. baking powder, 1.5 cups of sugar, a little salt, lemon juice (can be squeezed from 2 lemons) and 0.5 liters of powdered sugar. The dish takes almost 2 hours to prepare, taking into account the time the dough will cool in the freezer.

To knead the dough you need:

Combine flour with salt and baking powder.
Add chopped butter, cottage cheese and knead the dough.
Roll it out to 5mm thick, fold it in half and roll it out again. Perform these steps at least 8 times.
Place the dough in the refrigerator for 8 hours or in the freezer for an hour.

The dough is ready. You can make cookies filled with sugar. A baking tray is covered with baking paper, cookies are placed on it at a distance of about half an “ear” and sent to the oven for a quarter of an hour, preheated to 220°.

While the ears are baking, make syrup. To do this, mix lemon juice with powder. Dip the finished cookies into this syrup and enjoy the unforgettable taste of airy cakes with a lemon flavor.

Quick recipe

For dessert, take ready-made dough (0.5 kg) and sugar (4 tbsp).

How to cook:

Sprinkle the thinly rolled out dough (about 4 mm) with water and sprinkle with sugar (you can add vanillin).
Fold opposite sides towards the middle. If the layer is wide, then you need to fold it again and lightly press down.
Sprinkle with sugar again and fold in half, covering the bottom side with the top, press down again.
Cut the resulting sausage into pieces 3 cm thick.
Place side down on a baking sheet.
Bake in an oven preheated to 180° for about 12 minutes.

You can prepare a puff dessert with honey: take it in the amount of 2 tbsp. using the same proportions of dough and sugar as in the previous recipe. In this case, the layer is smeared with honey, and the place where the tubes meet is coated with it. The formed cookies are sprinkled with sugar and baked until golden for 12 minutes.

Delicious aromatic cookies with a milky taste will be obtained if the rolled out dough is first coated with heated butter mixed with milk, and then sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.

Puff pastry cookies with cocoa rich in vitamins and minerals such as: vitamin B1 - 17.7%, magnesium - 11%, phosphorus - 19.6%, chlorine - 19.5%, iron - 19.6%, manganese - 57.1%, copper - 11.6%, molybdenum - 11%, selenium - 18.1%

What are the benefits of Puff Pastry Cookies with Cocoa?

Vitamin B1 is part of the most important enzymes of carbohydrate and energy metabolism, providing the body with energy and plastic substances, as well as the metabolism of branched amino acids. A lack of this vitamin leads to serious disorders of the nervous, digestive and cardiovascular systems.
Magnesium participates in energy metabolism, synthesis of proteins, nucleic acids, has a stabilizing effect on membranes, and is necessary to maintain homeostasis of calcium, potassium and sodium. A lack of magnesium leads to hypomagnesemia, an increased risk of developing hypertension and heart disease.
Phosphorus takes part in many physiological processes, including energy metabolism, regulates acid-base balance, is part of phospholipids, nucleotides and nucleic acids, and is necessary for the mineralization of bones and teeth. Deficiency leads to anorexia, anemia, and rickets.
Chlorine necessary for the formation and secretion of hydrochloric acid in the body.
Iron is part of proteins of various functions, including enzymes. Participates in the transport of electrons and oxygen, ensures the occurrence of redox reactions and activation of peroxidation. Insufficient consumption leads to hypochromic anemia, myoglobin deficiency atony of skeletal muscles, increased fatigue, myocardiopathy, and atrophic gastritis.
Manganese participates in the formation of bone and connective tissue, is part of enzymes involved in the metabolism of amino acids, carbohydrates, catecholamines; necessary for the synthesis of cholesterol and nucleotides. Insufficient consumption is accompanied by slower growth, disturbances in the reproductive system, increased fragility of bone tissue, and disturbances in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism.
Copper is part of enzymes that have redox activity and are involved in iron metabolism, stimulates the absorption of proteins and carbohydrates. Participates in the processes of providing oxygen to the tissues of the human body. Deficiency is manifested by disturbances in the formation of the cardiovascular system and skeleton, and the development of connective tissue dysplasia.
Molybdenum is a cofactor for many enzymes that ensure the metabolism of sulfur-containing amino acids, purines and pyrimidines.
Selenium- an essential element of the antioxidant defense system of the human body, has an immunomodulatory effect, participates in the regulation of the action of thyroid hormones. Deficiency leads to Kashin-Beck disease (osteoarthritis with multiple deformities of the joints, spine and limbs), Keshan disease (endemic myocardiopathy), and hereditary thrombasthenia.

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With beans. Delicate bean puree is quite neutral in taste. Therefore, it is perfect for sweet fillings that do not burn or leak out during baking. And it can be given the most varied taste. Try the chocolate one too!

Ingredients for Chocolate Layered Cookies:

Layered Chocolate Cookies Recipe:

I cook the beans using a regular pressure cooker without pre-soaking. To do this, pour a glass of beans (Kidney TM "Mistral") into a saucepan, pour three glasses of boiling water, add a spoonful of vegetable oil to avoid excess foam and clogging of the pressure cooker valve. Don't add salt! Cook for about an hour.

Puree the finished beans using a blender along with the remaining cooking liquid. This makes approximately 600 g of finished bean puree. You will need a quarter for the cookies. Unused puree can be stored in the freezer.

Add honey and cocoa to the bean puree. Gradually pour in strongly brewed coffee and stir until a non-liquid plastic mass is obtained.

Thaw the dough sheet and roll it out quite thin. Spread the filling over the dough and roll into a roll. Cut pieces 2 cm thick, make cuts on each side on both sides. Turn out the cut ends, forming “flowers”.

Place the resulting pieces on a parchment-lined baking sheet, brush with egg and sprinkle with brown sugar. Decorate the centers of the “flowers” with chocolate drops or chocolate pieces. Bake at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

Makes 12-14 crispy, moderately sweet cookies with a bright chocolate flavor. Invite your family for tea!

After 40 years, hormonal changes begin in a woman’s body. Metabolic processes decrease, we begin to lose muscle tissue, which is replaced by fat. Protein is needed for muscle growth. Red beans are an ideal source of vegetable protein without the animal fat found in meat.

I come home and everything is prepared: meat, bean salad, cookies... And my wife listened to my worries about work. I think this is happiness. It turned out to be the rear bumper.
Bon appetit and good mood!