Good, accessible by components, and most importantly, tasty and easy to prepare recipes for shortcrust pastry pies will delight all gourmet sweet tooth! The filling can be made very different: from cottage cheese, berries, fruit puree, lemon and so on.
And our recipes and recommendations will help to prepare real culinary masterpieces for loved ones and loved ones.
About shortcrust tarts
Baking from shortcrust pastry so firmly fit into the diet of modern man that it is simply impossible to imagine life without shortbread cookies, cream baskets, as well as crumbly and fragrant cakes with filling.
Children and the female half of the population are especially fond of such products. But there are also real sweet tooths among men who not only love to feast on finished products, but they themselves cook and share their recipes.
The whole secret is that the composition of the shortcrust pastry is quite simple, the process of kneading it takes a minimum amount of time, and baking - only 20-40 minutes.
Well, the taste of ready-made pies or other desserts is very gentle, soft, piquant, and they are easy for the body to absorb.
A little about sandy dough
The classic version, which is also called the breeze, is a dense batch in which there are 3 main components: margarine (fat, oil), sugar and flour. Moreover, when cooking, the components are taken in the following proportions: 1 part sugar, 2 - margarine (or other fat), 3 - flour.
But there are also shortcrust pastry recipes, which include chicken eggs, water, baking powder, spices and other components.
To get a quality kneading, you need to follow some recommendations:
- In the kitchen space when kneading dough, a reduced temperature is necessary.
- It is important to cool the ingredients before cooking.
- When connecting the components to each other and directly mixing, a minimal touch on the hand test is recommended (then the finished products will be the most soft and gentle).
- You can experiment with the fat component of the recipe - combine butter and margarine, you can also add animal fats (goose, pork and others).
- Permanent moistening of the dough - with a spray bottle and ice-cold water bottle.
- Before making pies (and other confectionery), the dough (wrapped in foil or polyethylene) can be put in the refrigerator (for 20-30 minutes), then the rolling process will be absolutely easy and quick.
- To avoid sticking to the work surface, it can be sprinkled with flour.
- If the dough breaks, it is necessary to moisten this place with water and "glue".
- Elimination of stretching when laying out in the form.
- For best results, you can use glass or metal forms (matte) - with high sides.
Delicious apple pie
In this recipe for shortcrust pastry pie (with photo), there are no troubles, and the finished dish will already appear on the table in 60 minutes, which is very useful if guests unexpectedly arrived or just want to treat the family with something sweet.
Ingredients and Preparation:
- Pass wheat flour (400 grams) through a sieve.
- Add soda (3 grams), citric acid (3 grams), sugar (150 grams), butter (160 grams), sour cream (100 grams), yolk (1 piece).
- Knead the dough in high-speed mode so that the fat component does not have time to melt.
- Divide the finished batch into 2 koloboks, put in a container and cover with polyethylene, put in a cold place for 60 minutes.
- Put parchment paper greased with vegetable oil (10 milliliters) into the mold.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- On a surface with flour, put the koloboks one by one and roll them out.
- Place the first cake, apply the filling (applesauce with cinnamon) and cover with the second cake on top, fixing the edges.
- Top with whipped protein with vanilla sugar (10 grams).
- Bake for 30-45 minutes (until golden brown).
Amazing Jam Cake
Loose and tasty dessert, with which tea drinking turns into a real family or friendly holiday.
Shortcake pastry recipe can be made open or closed. As a filling, any jam with a thick consistency is suitable.
Components and cooking steps:
- Pour 500 grams of flour, 150 grams of sugar, 5 grams of vanillin, 4 grams of soda, 6 grams of salt into a mixing container.
- Add 200 grams of butter or margarine, chopped into pieces, grind with flour.
- Add eggs (2 pieces).
- Knead a homogeneous dough, minimally touching it with your hands.
- Make 2 blanks: put the big one in the refrigerator, and the small one in the freezer, after wrapping it in polyethylene for 30 minutes.
- Roll out most of the dough on a work surface covered with a thin layer of flour.
- Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil (5 milliliters), align the edges.
- Ready jam (200 grams) evenly apply on cake.
- Grate a smaller piece of dough on top.
- Bake the cake in a preheated oven (up to 200 degrees) for 25 minutes.
Simple shortcake with berries
This is an easy dessert recipe with cherries and strawberries. And this pie from shortcrust pastry with berries is low-calorie, which will especially please lovers of diet sweets.
Components and cooking steps:
- Grind margarine (butter) - 250 grams.
- Add 1 egg, 100 grams of sugar, 6 grams of salt, 10 grams of baking powder, 150 grams of starch - mix.
- Pour 0.5 kilograms of wheat flour to the ingredients and knead the dough with a plastic consistency.
- Divide the kolobok into 2 parts (approximately ¼ and ¼).
- Make the cake out of the larger one by placing it in a form with parchment (leveling by hand).
- Spread 250 grams of seedless cherries (frozen, canned, fresh) and 250 grams of fresh strawberries evenly on the dough, sprinkle berries with 100 grams of powdered sugar.
- Lay out the previously rolled cake on top (you can make a “mesh” of strips), fixing the edges.
- Bake in a preheated oven (200 degrees) - 20 minutes.
According to this recipe, you can also make a pie from shortcrust pastry with cherries.
Cottage cheese
The original version of the preparation of sand-curd delicacies will not leave indifferent even the most demanding gourmet. This shortcrust pastry pie with cottage cheese is somewhat reminiscent of an American cheesecake.
Components and preparation:
- Flour wheat flour (250 g) through a sieve.
- Put sugar (10 g), salt (2 g), yolk (1 piece), butter (250 g), pour water (40 milliliters).
- Knead your shortbread dough with your hands.
- Wrap the bun in foil and refrigerate for 60 minutes (in the refrigerator).
- Pass 750 grams of cottage cheese through a metal sieve.
- Add the yolk (3 pieces), sugar (300 grams), potato starch (50 grams), vegetable oil (50 milliliters), mix.
- Separately, put proteins (4 pieces) in a bowl and beat with a blender, add to the curd filling.
- Roll out the cake from the dough and put it into a mold (with high walls) with oiled parchment, align it.
- Apply the curd evenly.
- Bake in the oven (preheated to 200 degrees in advance) - 60 minutes.
You can chill the finished dish directly in the oven, but with the door open. Garnish with chocolate, berries or fruit if desired.
Delicate Lemon Cream Pie
And for those who want to bring more positive and vibrant colors to their daily lives, as well as to the lives of loved ones, this recipe is a beautiful and sunny lemon shortcake pie.
The whole process takes a little more than an hour, the sequence of each step is quite simple, but the result exceeds all expectations.
Components and preparation:
- Pour 8 grams of baking powder, 100 grams of powdered sugar and 300 grams of flour into a large container for kneading dough, mix.
- Grind butter (150 grams) at room temperature and add to the ingredients, grind.
- Drive 1 egg into the mixture.
- Knead soft, tender and plastic dough.
- Cool for 30 minutes by wrapping the bun in polyethylene.
- For the cream, make lemon juice by squeezing it out of 1 piece (medium in size) of lemon.
- Heat 30 grams of butter (over low heat on the stove), pour lemon juice, passed through a clean gauze.
- Pour 130 grams of powdered sugar and beat in 2 eggs, stir, cook to a thick consistency.
- Roll out ¾ of the dough and put it in the form with parchment.
- Pour lemon cream evenly onto the cake.
- ¼ Grate part of the dough and sprinkle on top or lay out “ribbons”.
- Preheat the oven (up to 180 degrees).
- Bake dessert for 30 minutes.
Serving the finished lemon pie is recommended chilled.
Blueberry Shortcake
A delicious and airy dessert that combines tender dough and whipped squirrels with blueberries.
Components and preparation of the pie:
- Grind 2 egg yolks with powdered sugar (100 grams), add 1 egg and 200 grams of butter (room temperature), stir.
- Pour 400 grams of wheat flour, 100 grams of sour cream, 2 grams of vanilla and 5 grams of soda (slaked vinegar) into the mixture.
- Knead soft dough.
- Prepare a form with parchment, lay out a cake (thickness 1 centimeter), make the edges slightly raised.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Bake the cake for 25 minutes.
- Grease the chilled pie with fat sour cream (150 grams), put 400 grams of fresh blueberries on top.
- Beat whites (2 pieces) with powdered sugar (40 grams).
- Apply air mass evenly on top of the berries.
- Garnish the cake with another 100 grams of blueberries.
- Bake dessert in a preheated oven (up to 160 degrees) for 15 minutes (until a pinkish tint of protein mass).
It is recommended to cool the cake from shortcrust pastry on a wooden surface (flat dish, board). When serving, cut into portions.
Additionally
The list of recipes is inexhaustible. And besides sweet shortcakes, you can cook salted ones. As the filling, mushrooms, meat, fish and so on will go - all that the hostess and her household wish.