The simplest cookie is a unique dessert, which can be sweet or savory, puff, shortbread, and butter. Cookies are one of the oldest delicacies; ancient Persia is considered to be their homeland. Europe began to feast on this dessert in the fourteenth century. Hundreds of thousands of cookie recipes! It can include a variety of ingredients, fillers - there are cookies from carrots and pumpkins, potatoes and corn, oatmeal cookies, cottage cheese, semolina, walnut cookies, chocolate and many, many others.
But if guests are on the doorstep, then any housewife can cook cookies quickly and easily, from the most basic products that are always at hand. Even if it is prepared according to a simple recipe, it will certainly delight guests. After all, it is just from the oven: hot, fragrant and crispy. With a little effort, connecting imagination, the hostess is able to turn the simplest cookies into a masterpiece. Star cookies, months, funny faces that will undoubtedly please the kids may appear from under her rolling pin. You can also take advantage of the variety of special cookie shapes that are sold in stores. You can decorate this dessert with anything you like - boiled condensed milk, nuts, candied fruits, sprinkle with powdered sugar, poppy seeds!
The easiest shortcake shortcake recipe
- premium wheat flour - four glasses;
- granulated sugar - one glass;
- chicken eggs - three pieces;
- margarine (butter) - one pack.
First, beat the eggs and sugar until the last is completely dissolved, and the mass itself becomes white. Melt the margarine (butter) and add it to the eggs and sugar. Mix well and add the flour, breaking the lumps. The dough should turn out soft and tender, but it should be left behind from the hands. We will divide it into five equal parts, of which we will roll up the balls and send it to the refrigerator for half an hour.
We take out the dough and roll it into layers no more than five millimeters thick. Using a glass or special cookie cutters, we cut out the blanks and lay them loosely on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Bake cookies should be in the oven, heated to two hundred degrees to a golden color. Remove and cool.
Simple cottage cheese cookies
- margarine - a pack;
- cottage cheese - a pack;
- flour - two glasses;
- soda, slaked with vinegar - half a teaspoon;
- sugar.
Soften margarine and mix with cottage cheese and flour. Add the vinegar slaked soda. We take out the meat grinder and pass the dough through it. Remove the resulting mass in the refrigerator for a short while. Then we take out the dough and roll it out with a thickness of no more than half a centimeter. Cut the cookie with a knife or cookie cutters and dip each in sugar. Put on a baking sheet, oiled, and bake until cooked.
Simple biscuit roses cookies
This cookie is not only quick to prepare, but also very effective, it will perfectly decorate the table and delight guests.
- eggs - four pieces;
- sugar - one glass;
- flour - one glass;
- vanilla.
Beat four eggs, add sugar and vanilla. Beat well until sugar is completely dissolved. Then, in portions, we begin to add flour, constantly whipping, so that no lumps appear. The dough should turn out liquid. Lubricate the pan with vegetable oil. Take a teaspoon and pour the dough in portions, making a distance of a few centimeters between them. The dough will look like puddles and will spread, but it should be so. Of the three such "puddles" we will have to make one rose.
Send the baking sheet to the oven for just a few minutes. The dough will cook very quickly. Then, as soon as the petals of future roses become golden, we remove them from the oven and, while they are hot, we will form flowers from them. Hot dough will mold well and roses will easily shape. Let’s leave the finished “roses” to cool, they will cool and dry in the form that we give them. Enjoy your meal!