Every housewife loves to pamper her family with tasty and interesting dishes, whether it be salads, pastries, aromatic hot dishes or desserts. There are many interesting recipes. Most of them do not require large cash outlays and do not take much time (this plays a very important role). An excellent option for a delicious dessert for tea is a sour cream from shortcrust pastry. It will also look good on the festive table. In the article we will present a detailed recipe for sour cream from shortcrust pastry.
Curious facts
In Russia, a large number of lovers of this delicious, simply melting in the mouth dessert. This is a good option if you want to impress your guests. Sour cream is traditionally considered Russian pastries, although its various options are prepared in other countries of the world. He is in Germany (called "Schmandkuchen"), in Kazakhstan, and other parts of the world. Traditionally, the main component of the cake is sour cream, but there are also recipes with chocolate cream (this sour cream is incredibly tasty).
Now let's talk about how to serve the sour cream to the table. The finished treat should be allowed to cool slightly (when hot it is not so tasty). It is best to take a large round dish, cover it with a beautiful napkin and serve on it a sour cream to the table. No need to cut it in portions in advance. The finished product can be sprinkled with powdered sugar or grated milk chocolate.
Essential Ingredients
To prepare this wonderful fragrant dessert, many products are not required. And those that are needed are always at hand in any kitchen. Even beginners in the field of cooking do not have difficulties making sour cream from shortcrust pastry. So you will need:
For the test:
- Butter - a pack. It should not be very soft. Therefore, before cooking, briefly place it in the freezer.
- Eggs - 2 pcs. Use only chicken, other varieties can ruin the taste of the dough.
- Wheat flour - 1 cup. Take the highest grade.
- Sugar - half a glass. If you follow the figure, then add a little less.
- Baking powder - 2 tsp. Without it, the dough will not work out lush and tender.
For filling:
- Sour cream - 500 g. The main product, you need to take good quality and not to save.
- Eggs - 4 pcs. Here you can use both chicken and quail.
- Sugar - 4 tbsp. l
- Vanillin - 1 pack. It will give a unique flavor to your pastries.
Sour cream with shortcrust pastry: recipe with photo
When all the necessary products are prepared, you can begin the cooking process.
- Take the oil and rub it on a coarse grater. To make it more convenient and faster, do not forget that the oil should be a little solid. After that add sugar. And mix well.
- Beat the chicken egg thoroughly. It should make a lush white foam. In order not to waste a lot of time, we recommend using a blender. Add the sifted flour and baking powder to it (it can be replaced with soda, extinguished with vinegar, but then the sour cream will smell a little to it). Mix everything and add sugar and oil to the resulting mixture.
- Knead the dough. We make a large ball and leave it to lie down a bit.
- Take a cake pan and grease it with butter.
- Gently roll out the dough in the shape of a circle and put it in a baking dish.
- We make high edges so that the filling does not leak out during cooking.
- What do we do next? That's right, we are doing stuffing.
- In a deep saucepan, mix the eggs with sugar and begin to beat with a mixer. Gradually add vanillin and sour cream.
- When the filling is ready, put it on the dough.
- Turn on the oven and let it heat.
- We put there a vanilla sour cream from shortcrust pastry.
- Cooking time - 40-50 minutes.
Enjoy your meal!
Tips from experienced housewives
If you want your pastries to be the most delicious, then take note of a few recommendations:
- Before cooking, oil must be removed to the freezer.
- You can add a small amount of any nuts to the filling. Do not forget to grind them beforehand in a blender.
- During cooking, do not open the oven door, otherwise the dessert will not work out high and tender. Simply put, he will “fall off”.
- After cooking, the sour cream should be removed for a while in the refrigerator. This is done so that the soft filling takes a more solid form.
- A delicious pie is best served slightly chilled.
- A great addition to it will be a fragrant cup of coffee or a mug of tea.
Shortcrust Banana Sour Cream
Let's try to prepare another option. Products for the test we need the same as in the previous recipe. Only to the filling you will need to add a few bananas. Peel the fruit, cut it into pieces and beat them with a mixer until a mushy condition. Then we do everything, as we have already said. Only on the dough, first you need to lay out the banana puree. and only then sour cream filling. This cake is also very tasty. It will be with great pleasure that all your household will regale themselves.