Almost all children love sweets. And many adults will not deny themselves the pleasure of sometimes drinking a cup of coffee, tea and pastries. Homemade confectionery is prepared with love, they have an excellent taste and smell like the aroma of fresh pastries. Shortcake baskets will leave few indifferent. And making them is pretty simple. The main thing is to put the right amount of ingredients and do everything as it is written in the recipe. You also need to buy special iron or silicone molds for cupcakes.
Shortcrust pastry baskets recipe
For the test you will need:
- 3 yolks;
- 300 grams (this is 1.5 cups) of wheat flour;
- 2 tablespoons of sour cream;
- 70 grams of margarine or butter;
- ½ cup sugar.
For cream:
- 3 squirrels;
- 150 grams of sugar;
- 150 ml of water.
Making dough for a sweet masterpiece
We make shortbread dough for baskets. To do this, sift the right amount of flour into a bowl and add frozen margarine or butter to it. Oil is placed in this bowl and chopped with a knife, constantly adding flour. We cut the piece first into vertical and then into horizontal plates. The result will be small squares of oil. Now grease the palms with flour and begin to rub the oil between them. In this case, do not forget to constantly dip them in flour. When the butter and flour become one fraction, you can add the yolks, sugar and sour cream and mix everything with a spoon, and then with your hand. So that the dough does not stick to your hands, dip them periodically into flour. It turned out a gentle shortbread dough for baskets.
Cool, mold and heat by baking
The dough should be smooth as a ball. Flatten it into a thick cake and place it in a plastic bag. We clean for 25 minutes in the freezer. Then sprinkle flour on the table, rolling pin. We take out the dough from the refrigerator and sprinkle this cake on two sides with flour. Now it can be rolled into a pancake with a thickness of 0.8-1 cm.
In the meantime, turn on the oven, let it warm up to 180 °. We get the molds. If they are iron, then you need to grease them with a piece of butter and sprinkle flour inside. We take the first mold, turn it over and press the teeth on the shortbread dough for the baskets. Turn the mold over and that round piece of dough, which is still on its surface, distribute to the entire mold. To do this, we press it first to the edges, and then carefully - to the sides and bottom. We lubricate the silicone mold with oil only if it is only brought from the store. Subsequent baking does not require this. We distribute the dough in it in the same way.
It remains to put the semi-finished products in the oven and bake for 20 minutes.
Making air cream
Very tasty are obtained with protein cream tartlets from shortcrust pastry. Moreover, we have 3 proteins left. Therefore, we make an airy, snow-white cream.
First you need to boil the syrup. To do this, dissolve sugar in water and put on fire. The syrup should cook for about 45 minutes. Readiness is determined as follows. Take a little syrup with a teaspoon and dip it in a bowl of cold water. If the drop turned into a small ball, did not dissolve, did not spread in water, then the syrup is ready. If not, then cook it a little more.
At this time, beat the chilled proteins with a pinch of salt in a steep foam. Without ceasing to beat, a thin stream pour into them still hot, but not boiling syrup. If it is boiling, then the proteins can curl up. The foam will become even stronger. The cream is ready.
We make the product
It remains to put the cream in baskets of shortcrust pastry and decorate the products. Some people like cakes to have a little acidity. Then at the bottom of the chilled baskets it would be good to first put a little sour jam (for example, plum), and then cover them with a cap of snow-white foam on top. You can put the cream directly in chilled baskets. Garnish the cakes with strawberries or cherries on top. How you can decorate baskets from shortcrust pastry, photos of which are given in this article, will tell your imagination.
If there is colored crumbly sugar crumb, then you can lightly sprinkle the product on top of it. We put the baskets on a beautiful dish and serve this treat to the table.
You can make baskets with other types of cream. Children really like butter custard. Further on how to cook it.
Butter custard for baking
With this filling, you can make not only baskets of shortcrust pastry, but also other cakes and cakes. For him you will need:
- 1 egg
- 1 cup of milk;
- 1.5 tablespoons of flour;
- 2.5 tablespoons of sugar;
- 100 grams of butter;
- ½ sachet of vanilla sugar.
First of all, we get the oil from the refrigerator, let it become soft at the kitchen temperature.
We mix all ingredients except oil with a whisk or mixer until a homogeneous consistency is obtained. We put the resulting liquid on the stove on a small fire. The cream is constantly stirred, we begin to do it especially intensely before boiling. The cream began to thicken and began to boil, so you need to immediately remove it from the heat and cool.
Beat the butter with a mixer and gradually, 1-2 tablespoons, add the cooled custard to it. You can add a tablespoon of cocoa to the milk before heating, then you get a chocolate cream. And at the end of whipping, you can pour a couple of tablespoons of chopped nuts. It will also be very tasty.
Squeeze the cream on the baskets using a pastry syringe or bag. Products must stand in the refrigerator until the cream hardens. After that, they can be enjoyed with pleasure.
Unsweetened option
If you do not add sugar to the dough for the baskets, but add a little salt to it, you get a great shape. You can fill it with almost any salad, and a great snack will come out. You can cut boiled shrimp with an egg, season them with mayonnaise and serve. This dish is suitable for a buffet table. You can often see similar basket options where food is served as a buffet. It is quite possible to make such charming snack baskets at home and treat them to your beloved family or surprise guests who have looked at the light. Although they are unlikely to give up the sweet variants of this baking.