Each hostess in the personal cookbook has a lot of recipes for delicious pastries. Crispy buns, crumbly cookies, delicate cakes and hearty pies, which can be prepared for the arrival of guests or to pamper households. But despite this, every housewife is looking for new original recipes for cooking dishes and ways of original serving.
Interesting cookie
Chess cookies - a non-standard version of baking. It can be served at the festive table or at a theme party. Thanks to the combination of chocolate and vanilla parts, the cookie acquires an exquisite taste, and the alternation of dark and light squares looks original on the table. Such a treat will certainly not go unnoticed.
You can bake chess cookies in the form of figures, which are cut from the dough sheet using molds or a stencil. Such devices can be bought at the store or, being smart, made from improvised materials. Having made dark and white sweet figures, you can arrange a real tournament. There will be no losers in such a contest. You can also make a stylization for the game board on each cookie. You will have to tinker a bit, but the result is worth it.
Another option is to make thirty-two squares of chocolate dough and the same amount of light. Put them in a checkerboard pattern. Also cut and bake figurines. This option will be a real celebration for young chess players.
Culinary Tricks
A chess cookie recipe can be taken from any home cookbook and slightly modified. Or use the recipes below. The main trick of cooking is the alternation and combination of dark and light dough.
Delicious cookie
The dessert baked according to this recipe is quite simple, but will require skill in cooking. You can’t do it in a hurry, because it takes time to part the dough.
200 g of butter, which melted a little, need to be cut into pieces. In a bowl, beat a glass of sugar and 2 eggs and drive in pieces of butter. Pour the flour gradually and knead well so that there are no lumps. When the consistency is similar to thick sour cream, divide it equally. Add a pinch of vanillin and another flour in one part to make a rather cool dense dough. Pour a bar of melted chocolate into the other half, or pour 4 tablespoons of cocoa and add the remaining flour. Knead this half well too. Just take a pound of flour.
Put both parts in the refrigerator for at least half an hour. After that, take out the dough, make four sausages of equal thickness from each piece, put them together in a checkerboard pattern. The sides of each strip can be moistened with water or egg white for better bonding. Roll the preforms wrapped in a film slightly with a rolling pin to square them and enhance adhesion. Put in the refrigerator for a couple more hours. The dough should harden to make it easier to work on.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, cut the dough workpiece, like sausage, into equal pieces. Arrange them on a baking sheet covered in butter and send to bake for 15 minutes.
In this recipe, you can experiment not only with chocolate or cocoa. You can also replace vanilla with orange zest. The result will be amazing.
Simple recipe
Seeing a chess cookie, the photo of which is given in the article, it is difficult to resist and not cook it right there. Moreover, the most common products are needed. They can be found in any refrigerator or in the nearest supermarket.
Chess shortbread cookies are prepared simply and melted in the mouth. First you need to mix 100 g of chopped butter with half a glass of sugar. Then beat one egg into this mixture. To two glasses of flour add a spoonful of baking powder and knead the dough. If necessary, more flour can be added.
The dough should be tight, not stick to your hands. Divide it into three parts. In one piece, add a couple of spoons of cocoa. Remove all pieces in the cold for half an hour. To prevent the dough from blowing, you need to wrap it with plastic wrap or put it in plastic bags.
Roll one white piece into a rectangular layer. Roll out two sausages from each remaining piece. Adjust the length to fit the rectangle. Place sausages in the center of the bed, alternating colors. It turns out black and white in the bottom row and white and black in the top. Wrap everything in a layer of light dough. Cut like a sausage, and bake for about 20 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.
Another cooking option
In the recipes considered, it was necessary to roll out sausages, but you can do it a little differently. Chessboard cookies can be prepared in different ways.
The recipe can be taken from the above options or according to your favorite recipe from your home cookbook. Having prepared two pieces of dough of different colors and cooling them, you need to roll out two layers of equal thickness. It is advisable to make them rectangular in shape, of equal size. Grease one layer with egg white and lay the second on top. Cut in half lengthwise and again missing with an egg, fasten two halves. Get four stripes. Next, you need to carefully cut into strips, the thickness of which will correspond to the width of one color strip. Fold the prepared layers so that there is an alternation of colors. For reliability, sides are also lubricated with protein. It remains to cut into plates and send to bake a checkerboard cookie.
Dressing
For decoration, you can melt the tiles of dark and white chocolate separately. Using a pastry syringe on finished cookies, draw chess pieces or other signs in contrasting colors.
No matter how baked a chess cookie is, it will in any case be a favorite on a sweet table.