Cookies are a favorite treat for both adults and children. They come in a variety of forms and types. Cooking cookies takes a little time and effort, and the result always justifies the means. You can take cookies with you as a tasty snack, share them with your friends and just enjoy a sweet treat. Thanks to a wide variety of cookie cutters, it is possible to give the dessert its original shape.
What form to choose for baking cookies?
When choosing a baking dish, the material from which it is made is important. For baking cookies, silicone and metal molds are most often used.
Silicone molds are good in that they can not be lubricated with oil, since the pastries in them do not burn. They are convenient to operate, the finished product easily slides out of the mold. The form itself is made of environmentally friendly material, easy to clean and durable. It is worth remembering that it can not be used when heating the oven over 240 degrees. The form may deteriorate or burn.
Unlike silicone molds, metal must necessarily be well lubricated with oil. If there is a scratch on the mold, then in this place the pastries will burn. Metal molds must be handled very carefully so that they last a long time.
If you opted for cooking cookies in cookie cutters, then do not forget about these recommendations. Below are some recipes for making delicious cookies.
Star shaped cookies
This recipe is perfect for baking cookies in silicone molds. If you want to take cookies with you, then it is better to start cooking 8-10 hours before leaving, so that the icing does not spread during transportation.
For cookies we need:
- 3 cups flour;
- 3 eggs;
- 140 g of sugar;
- 180 g butter;
- 10 g of vanillin;
- a pinch of soda;
- 4 teaspoons powdered sugar.
Glaze Needed:
- an egg - 2 pieces;
- icing sugar - 300 g.
The recipe for cookies in molds:
- Break eggs into a bowl, mix with sugar. Mix.
- In a microwave, warm the butter until soft. Add it to the bowl. Stir with the rest of the ingredients.
- Put vanillin and soda, mix.
- Gradually add flour, mixing thoroughly.
- Cover the baking sheet with parchment, put the molds on top and fill them with dough.
- The oven is 20-25 minutes until cooked at a temperature of 180 degrees.
After the cookies have cooled, you can apply the icing. It is better to cook it with a mixer or a blender, since you need to whip the proteins for a long time and efficiently.
Glaze Recipe:
- Separate the whites with the yolks.
- Beat the whites until a thick foam appears.
- Add a little powder. Beat at low speeds.
The longer you whisk, the thicker and denser the glaze will become. If the density is not enough, then you can add a little more powder.
Chocolate hearts
This recipe uses batter. For baking, both metal and silicone molds are suitable. Baking is soft and crumbly, a bit reminiscent of a muffin.
For cookies, we need:
- a glass of flour;
- 1 egg
- 60 g butter;
- half a glass of sugar;
- 150-200 g of sour cream or thick kefir;
- 2 g of vanillin;
- 1 tbsp. l cocoa;
- 2 tsp starch;
- 1 tsp baking powder.
Silicone cookie cookie recipe:
- In the microwave, soften the oil. Put it on a plate.
- Add sour cream and sugar to it. Beat until sugar is dissolved.
- Add the egg, vanillin, cocoa, starch and baking powder. Beat until smooth.
- Pour the dough into molds. Bake on a baking sheet for 25-35 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees until cooked.
Cooled cookies can be sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Oat cookies
Such cookies can be baked by spreading the dough with a spoon or using a silicone mold. Oatmeal cookies are not only tasty, but also healthy. Instead of sugar, you can add sweetener. In this case, such cookies will not harm your figure during the diet.
Grocery list:
- one and a half glasses of oatmeal;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 100 g butter;
- half a glass of nuts with raisins;
- 4 tsp honey.
Cookie Recipe for Molds:
- In a saucepan, heat the butter until liquid, add raisins, nuts and sugar. Simmer, stirring occasionally.
- Add oatmeal, honey.
- Put oatmeal in molds.
- Bake until cooked at 180 degrees.
Such cookies will delight both adults and children.
Ginger cookie
Gingerbread cookies are associated with the winter holidays, warmth and hot tea. To create a cozy cookie, we need metal baking dishes. Cookies in molds do not have to be in the form of men, they can be hearts, and Christmas trees, and butterflies.
Required Products:
- a glass of flour;
- 100 g of powdered sugar;
- 0.5 tbsp. l cocoa;
- 100 g butter
- 1 tbsp. l ginger
- 0.5 tsp cardamom;
- 0.5 tbsp. l cinnamon
- honey (to taste);
- egg;
- 0.5 tsp soda.
The recipe for cookies in molds in the oven:
- In a bowl, mix flour with cocoa, soda and spices.
- In a second plate mix butter and powder until smooth. Put the resulting mass in the first bowl.
- Break the egg and add a couple of tablespoons of honey. Mix.
- Knead the dough, wrap in a plastic bag and put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
- Thinly roll out the dough (2-3 mm). With the help of molds cut curly cookies out of it.
- Put the cookies on a baking sheet covered with parchment.
- Cooking time 5-6 minutes. at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Wait until the food cools completely before eating. Cookies can be decorated with icing or left in their original form.
Curabier
Curabier is known as French shortbread jam with jam. The cookie has the shape of a flower. To recreate it, you will need either a silicone mold or a pastry syringe. Consider cooking cookies in cookie cutters.
Required Products:
- 100 g butter;
- 1 egg white
- 180 g flour;
- 4 tsp powdered sugar;
- jam;
- vanillin - a pinch.
Procedure:
- In a bowl, rub the softened butter and powder, add the egg white. Get in the way.
- Add vanilla and flour. Stir - first with a spoon, then with your hands. The dough should look like plasticine. If there is little flour, add a little more.
- Arrange the dough in tins. Add jam in the middle of the flower.
- Bake at 200 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
After the cookies have cooled, they can treat guests.