Sweet pastries are the weakness of many lovers of good food. And of course, no one will refuse tender, airy, light biscuits. True, to cook them at home, you need some culinary skills. And the availability of simple recipes.
Biscuit cookie
Choosing a
simple biscuit recipe, you can stop here on such a tasty and uncomplicated cookie based on
oatmeal. We need: margarine - 100 grams (it is better, if possible, to use butter), powdered sugar - about 75 grams (if you take 100, there will be nothing wrong). Our simple biscuit recipe involves some freedom in choosing the amount of ingredients. Then 4-5 eggs (depending on the required number of servings), vanillin, zest of half a lemon, 150 grams of flour and
coconut. For decoration, peeled and cooked for jam cherries, berries of red currant, raspberry, etc., are suitable.
Preparation: the yolks are separated from the proteins and whipped into a light foam with a little salt and vanilla. Separately, whip the whites with half the icing sugar to a foam of dense consistency. The second half is thoroughly rubbed with oil. Then everything is mixed in a deep container, the remaining ingredients are added, mixed. So our simple biscuit recipe is embodied in the test. The oven warms up to 180 degrees. Dough is placed in oiled tins or on oiled baking paper, and a berry is placed in the center of each cookie. A biscuit is baked until cooked. As you can see, this is really a very simple biscuit recipe, but also very tasty.
Sponge cake
On the Internet and cookbooks,
sweet pastries are often found with photos and detailed instructions. We also offer a kind of biscuit workshop. For example, a cake for tea. For it you will need: 125 grams of softened butter or margarine for baking, the same amount of powdered sugar, vanillin, 2 large eggs, premium flour is also 125 grams. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, and oil the baking dish well. Rub oil and vanilla thoroughly with powder, you can use a mixer to get an airy homogeneous mass. Drive eggs. Add flour, mix everything until smooth. If it turned out thickly or with lumps, you can dilute a little dough with milk. Then fill them with baking dishes and put them in the oven. Bake for about 20-25 minutes. You can check the readiness by sticking a wooden skewer into the biscuit - if it is dry, then the baking is ready. Then remove the baking sheets with the forms and let the biscuits cool well.
You can also put the forms in a water bath so that the cakes do not stick to the bottom. Each cooled cake to cut into 2 parts, between them make a layer of cream or jam. Everything, the dessert is ready! You can think about
decorating cakes yourself
, a photo can also be found and used as a sample if you wish. Any berries, pieces of fresh fruit or jam, jelly are suitable for this. You can also decorate with condensed milk, sprinkled with colored coconut crumbs on top. And send it to the refrigerator so that the cakes are saturated. For softness and better taste, the lower cake is moistened with syrup.
By the way, condensed milk can also be used instead of cream. If it is liquid, it is pre-boiled or crushed walnut, citrus zest is added to milk. For a couple of hours, the finished cake should stand in the refrigerator. Bon Appetit!