What touching moments will be drinking tea at a table in the circle of relatives and friends, if you please your family by cooking something with your own hands, for example shortbread cookies with jam or delicious and fragrant shortbread cookies with icing. The process of making shortcrust pastry is very simple and does not require large expenditures, which is very pleasing to housewives.
You only need to purchase the following ingredients: two packs of butter or margarine, about two glasses of sour cream, 50 g of yeast, about three glasses of flour and any favorite jam. Instead of jam, use boiled condensed milk. Prepare the baking tins in advance.
Start cooking with yeast - they must be diluted in warm milk. It is advisable to add a pinch of salt and sugar to the milk to taste. After, leave the yeast in a warm place for fermentation and then proceed to prepare the dough. It is necessary to mix the flour with mashed margarine, gradually adding sour cream. In the resulting mixture, slowly pour the diluted yeast and begin to knead the dough until it sticks to your hands. Then gently wrap the dough in cheesecloth and throw in a bucket of cold water. The dough will immediately fall to the bottom, but we need to wait until it pops up, we can continue the cooking process.
When the dough pops up, put it on a cutting board, roll it into a layer, approximately 0.5 cm thick. Using molds, we put out two types of cookies: one will be solid and the other with a hole in the middle. Their quantitative ratio should be 1/1. After receiving the desired shape, put the cookies on a baking sheet and bake in the oven until fully cooked.
The finished cookie should only be slightly browned, so we wait 20 minutes to let it cool, and then we can lubricate it with jam or condensed milk. Lubricate only solid cookies, and attach them with a hole on top to make cute cakes that can be sprinkled with powdered sugar and served. Shortbread cookies with jam will not only be a joy for the sweet tooth, but will also surprise your guests at any holiday table.
Shortbread cookies with jam can be prepared in another way - without using a bucket of water and yeast. For this shortcrust pastry recipe , butter thoroughly mixed with sugar is needed (mixed with egg, soda, a pinch of salt, ammonium and essence, and well-sifted flour is added to the resulting mass). It is advisable to knead the dough well. Next, from the rolled dough layer we create the same cute molds using improvised means and leave to bake for about 30 minutes until a rosy shade is obtained.
As the filling, you can use not only jam or condensed milk, a recipe for making a protein cream that can be mixed with any jam has become popular among housewives. The cream will require only 3 tablespoons of sugar, water, three egg whites and vanilla powder to taste.
Beat the proteins until the volume increases by about 6-7 times (the foam should be stable). Without stopping whipping, pour the hot syrup and add the vanilla powder (we prepare the hot syrup as follows: sugar and water must be brought to a boil, removing the foam and boiling the “medium ball” to the sample). The cream must be beaten for about 15 minutes, and only then can jam be added.
Together with jam, it is advisable to whip the cream a little more so that it acquires the desired appearance. Protein cream will be a great filling for your cookies, and lovers of variety can experiment with cooking peanut cookies as well. Be sure that shortbread cookies with jam or condensed milk will be a joy for children and a memorable dessert for adults. Good appetite.