Thinking about the fact that you can bake tasty and sweet at home to please your relatives, you start sorting through the recipes. After all, I want it to be fast, inexpensive and always tasty.
Therefore, today we will tell you how to make shortbread cookies (homemade). Each housewife has a recipe (in butter, margarine) of such baking, it’s another thing that they rarely pay attention to it. Like, everything is too simple, not original. But in vain!
What is shortbread cookie?
Speaking about how to make shortbread cookies, I want to tell you that it got its name thanks to the test from which it is prepared. This is a dense mass that is kneaded in butter (margarine) and flour. Eggs or water is used as a connecting component.
It is allowed to use a small amount of sour cream or other fats.
Shortcrust pastry can be made both sweet and savory. You can add nuts, seeds, cinnamon, vanilla to it. Based on it, pies and pastries are prepared.
Homemade cookie
Do you like cookies? Shortbread, homemade ... The recipe for butter is what you need! Before moving on to cooking, I would like to mention that it is better to cook such a delicacy in oil. Of course, margarine is a good substitute, but you can’t get a wonderful creamy taste when using it. It costs a little more, but the result will be much tastier!
So, how to cook homemade shortbread cookies? The recipe for butter involves the use of the following set of products:
- Sugar - one glass.
- Butter - one pack.
- Flour - about 300 g (2.5 cups).
- An egg is one piece.
- Salt, soda - one third of a teaspoon.
Shortbread Recipe Step by Step
Once again, the biggest secret is to use butter, not margarine. The better product we buy, the better our cookies will be.
The oil needs to be removed from the refrigerator, let it sit for several hours at room temperature. It will become softer, such a consistency will suit us better. You need to add sugar, salt, soda, and also an egg to it. Mix all this thoroughly, gradually pouring flour. For the speed of the process, you can knead the dough with the help of a processor, and if you wish, then knead manually, transferring your positive energy.
Adjust the amount of flour yourself. Sometimes not enough, and sometimes you need to add. It all depends on the products themselves. Focus on the consistency of the test. If you hold a clean palm against it, it will not stick. When using the harvester, there should be no dough residue on the sides of the bowl. The resulting batch must be put in the refrigerator for a while. But if you are in a hurry, then this moment can be neglected.
Next, you need to roll out the dough and cut out individual cookies from it. We put them on a baking sheet covered with parchment and bake at a temperature of 180 degrees. Fifteen minutes is enough. Baking should acquire a beautiful golden color.
Cookies Additives
Delicious homemade shortbread cookies will have an amazing taste and aroma if you add poppy seeds to the dough. As additives, nuts, caramel chips, sesame seeds are suitable. You can put dried apricots, dried, it becomes even tastier. In general, any dried fruit, even candied fruit: kiwi, prunes, raisins, will be appropriate.
You can also divide the egg into protein and yolk, grease some cookies with yolk, and others with whipped protein, which is sprinkled with sugar on top.
Soft shortbread cookies can be used as Christmas tree decorations. When it is raw, you can cut small round holes in it, into which ribbons are threaded after baking. It looks just awesome!
Shortbread Cookies on Sour Cream
Conducting a conversation on how to make shortbread cookies, you need to remember the recipe for sour cream. To implement it, take the ingredients:
- Butter - 150 g.
- Sour cream (preferably fatty homemade) - 200g.
- Sugar - one glass.
- Eggs are two.
- Vanilla.
- Flour - 300-400 g.
- Baking powder - a teaspoon.
- Powdered sugar.
The flour must be sieved in advance to enrich it with oxygen. Add baking powder to it. We put the softened butter in a pan, adding vanilla and sugar, then grate it all with a whisk. One by one we introduce the eggs, constantly mixing. And then put sour cream and mix everything again.
Gradually introduce flour and baking powder and knead soft dough. It will turn out very viscous and sticky, but this should not bother you. You can put it in a bag and put it in the refrigerator overnight. In the morning it will be very convenient to work with him.
Roll the chilled dough into a cake with a thickness of seven to eight millimeters. Thin roll is not worth it, because the finished cookies will be hard.
Next, cut out the details with molds. Put cookies on a baking sheet.
We will bake at one hundred eighty degrees no more than fifteen minutes. And do not wait for the moment when the cookies turn golden. You overdo it, and it will be very solid. Ready-made pastries should be light in color.
Subject to our advice, baking (shortbread cookies) should turn out to be soft and tender, slightly crumbly. Sprinkle in powder form.
Shortbread Cookies with Nuts
Surely many are familiar with this recipe. He's pretty straightforward. But the cookies are very tasty thanks to the roasted nuts. Usually they are made out in the form of rings. Remember, in our childhood such nut rings were sold in all bakeries.
According to the classic recipe, cookies are not baked to a golden hue, as usual, but only until cooked. But the rings are soft, delicate and melting. This is their highlight, and also in the nuts that cover the surface with a thick layer: after all, the more they are, the tastier it turns out.
Ingredients for Cookies with Nuts
To prepare shortbread cookies with nuts, stock up on products:
- Flour - 200 grams.
- Powdered sugar - 50 grams.
- Butter - half a pack.
- Roasted peanuts - 40 grams.
- Eggs are two.
- Baking powder - a third of a teaspoon.
- Salt, vanillin.
Making nut rings
Oil must be removed from the refrigerator in advance and softened. Then beat with a mixer to a cream. Then add an egg to it, which should also be at room temperature, then our mixture will not coagulate. Mix and add flour, salt, vanillin and baking powder. And again we mix everything. The dough should be tender and soft. Send him to rest in a plastic wrap or bag for half an hour in the refrigerator.
Rested cold dough needs to be rolled out, but not thinly. Using a round cookie cutter, cut out the rings, and then a glass of their center. Grease one side of the cookie with yolk. Peanuts need to be chopped. And then they should sprinkle the rings well so that more nuts stick to the yolk.
We put the cookies on a baking sheet, which may not be greased, since it is enough inside the dough itself. We will bake at one hundred and fifty degrees and fifteen minutes.
If you want a softer cookie, do not wait for the rings to brown. Ready-made rings can be kept in a closed box for two to three weeks, and it will not turn black and will not lose its wonderful taste. This is the easiest shortbread recipe that does not require a lot of effort and time. And the result speaks for itself.
Shortbread cookies with cognac
For cooking you need:
- Butter - a pack.
- Flour - 0.3 kg.
- Eggs are two.
- Cognac - two tablespoons.
- Sugar - half a glass.
- Salt is a quarter teaspoon.
Sift flour into a bowl, adding salt and sugar. Shuffle. After making a deepening in the mixture, pour the yolks and cognac there.
Stir the mass and add the softened butter. Now knead the dough, and then put it in the refrigerator. Thirty minutes later, you can get it. Roll it and cut out the rings with a circle in the middle. Dip each cookie on one side in sugar. And then put the rings on a baking sheet covered with parchment. We will cook at two hundred degrees no more than twenty minutes.
Shortbread cookies "Lovers"
We also want to offer you a very original version of shortbread cookies. We hope you enjoy its unusual shape and delicate crumbly taste with the smell of cocoa and nuts. It is stored for a long time, without losing its taste.
Take:
- Sugar - half a glass.
- Egg - 1 piece.
- Butter - 150 g.
- Salt, baking powder.
- Flour (premium) - 250 g.
- Cocoa powder - two teaspoons.
- Almond kernels or walnuts.
Remove oil in advance from the refrigerator and soften. Grind the nuts in a blender. Beat one egg in a mixer bowl until a stable foam is formed. Gradually add salt, sugar, vanilla and baking powder there. Then add soft butter and stir everything until creamy.
Pour half the flour gradually and beat with a mixer at low speed. And then add the rest of the flour. Knead further with your hands until the dough does not lag behind the walls of the dishes.
Divide the finished dough into two parts (equal) and decompose them into different dishes. Pour cocoa in one part and nuts in the other. Knead well separately.
Then, pinch off a piece of each test and roll the same balls. You should get the same amount of brown and white. Then the balls need to be rolled into sausages.
We take two sausages: one white and the second brown. We twist them very tightly.
Next, put the cookies on a baking sheet so that they are not very close to each other, as they will increase in size during baking.
We will cook at a temperature of 170-180 degrees to a golden hue (about 20 minutes).
Carefully remove the finished cookies from the pan, remember that it is very fragile when hot.
Instead of an afterword
We shared with you information on how to bake shortbread cookies. Homemade (recipe in butter), prepared by loving hands, it turns out to be much tastier than purchased.