Tasty and crumbly, tender and aromatic, melting in the mouth. Surely you immediately guessed what kind of dessert in question. Of course, about shortbread cookies! At the home economics lessons for girls that were held in each school in Soviet times, they were introduced primarily to shortbread recipes. However, today, future hostesses begin to comprehend the basics of cooking, trying to cook baked goods from this type of dough. Despite the fact that there is only one classic recipe for the test, you can create products that are completely different from each other. We want to present you an overview of such pastries.
Recipe from James Trevor "Jamie" Oliver
Before baking, knead the dough. The classic recipe does not include any other ingredients besides the following: butter (margarine), eggs, sugar and flour. Today we offer you to get acquainted with the old family recipe of James Trevor Oliver, a famous English chef, restaurateur and TV presenter who popularizes homemade and healthy food. It is known that such a dough was used by his great-grandmother. According to Oliver, in order to achieve an ideal result, you should take only the best and freshest products and strictly observe the technology of preparation and rolling.
Shortbread dough
To knead the dough, flour should be taken only in the highest grade, the butter is necessarily softened, and sugar is better unrefined. According to the recipe for a delicious shortbread cookie you will need:
- flour - 500 g (+ a little for dusting, on the table);
- next oil (softened margarine) - 250 g;
- powder - 100 g;
- lemon zest (optional)
- eggs (chicken) - 2 pcs.;
- some milk.
Cooking dough
Sift flour into a deep container, then add butter to it. Great-grandmother Jamie had a golden rule: take flour and fat for shortcrust pastry in a 2: 1 ratio. Sift sugar powder into a mixture of flour and oil. Very quickly, we rub the ingredients with our hands to homogeneous golden lumps. In the mass, you need to make a small deepening, pour the eggs in there and gently, with your fingers, mix the yolk with the protein. Shortcrust pastry should not be kneaded for too long, as it may be delayed, products made of it will be heavy and will bake poorly. Roll the ball from the finished mass, wrap it on all sides with cling film and place in the refrigerator for half an hour.
The most suitable rolling method: spread a sheet of parchment on a table, put shortcrust pastry on it and cover it with another sheet of parchment. Rolled out in this way, it will have a smoother surface.
Curabier: shortbread recipe step by step
These cookies are known to a huge number of consumers. It was sold in storefronts in the Soviet Union and is now for sale. Cookies made at home are especially delicious. For him, take:
- next oil - 200 g;
- egg white - 2 pcs.;
- some salt;
- icing sugar - 80 g;
- one pinch of vanillin;
- flour - 320 g;
- thick jam - 3 tbsp. spoons.
We suggest step by step to familiarize yourself with this recipe for delicious shortbread cookies. We recommend the preparation technology to be carried out strictly.
- We add sugar powder to the oil and by mixing we bring it to a creamy state, you can use a mixer for this purpose.
- Add vanillin with proteins to the mass and whisk again. After this, gradually pour the flour combined with salt and knead the dough of a very soft consistency. We will squeeze onto a baking sheet from a pastry bag.
- We put an asterisk nozzle on the bag, fill it with dough and plant small cookies.
- In the center of each, we make a small depression and release a small amount of jam into it.
- We bake in the oven with a temperature of 220 ° C for 9-12 minutes, until the products acquire a golden hue.
- We take out the cookies from the oven, cool it a little and serve it to the table.
The oven for shortbread cookies, the recipes of which are considered in this material, must first be heated to the required temperature and only then put the products in it. Otherwise, baking may not be as embossed as intended, but more vague.
Cookies "Marmalade"
A feature of cookies is that the dough is kneaded without sugar, thanks to its filling it is already very sweet. We suggest making delicious shortbread cookies at home using this recipe. We will need:
- 500 g flour;
- 150 g of thick jam or jam;
- 200 g margarine (butter);
- ½ tsp sea salt;
- 3 large eggs;
- 50 g of powder.
In the softened margarine, add salt, mix, break into the egg mass. Then we gradually introduce the sifted flour and knead an elastic, non-sticky dough. Sometimes flour kneading takes a little more, it depends on its quality.
We form the dough into a ball and send it to the refrigerator for one hour. Next, we divide it into two parts, which we roll out with a thickness of 2-3 centimeters. From the first, cut out the circles with the help of a round recess and lay the jam in the middle, departing from the edge of 5 millimeters. From the second part we make circles of the same diameter, and cut out the middle in a figured shape, we lay this workpiece on top on a cake with jam. The edges of both are pressed together using a fork. According to the recipe, shortbread in the oven is baked for about a quarter of an hour at 180 ° C.
Marble Cookies
The cookies are very tender, aromatic and, despite the fact that the dough is shortbread, is very soft. This is due to the large number of yolks, in this recipe they are used only, and not the whole egg. For marble cookies, you will need two types of dough: with and without cocoa. About 60 products are obtained from the amount of ingredients listed below. For shortbread cookies (recipe in butter) we need:
For a light test
- powder - 150 g;
- oil cl. (softened) - 300 g;
- yolks - 5 pcs.;
- vanilla essence - 5 ml;
- some salt;
- orange peel - 0.5 tsp;
- flour - 400 g.
For dark dough
- next oil - 160 g;
- powder - 75;
- zest 1/3 tsp;
- salt;
- Cocoa - 30 g;
- vanilla essence 5 ml;
- yolks (chicken) - 2 pcs.;
- flour - 200 g.
First, prepare the dough without cocoa. Combine the butter, zest and icing sugar and mix with a mixer. Add the essence and yolks, whipping after each subsequent application of products. Lastly, put salt and flour. Knead the dough. Divide it into four equal parts, roll each into layers of 10 x 15 centimeters, wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator.
We prepare chocolate dough in a similar way. Divided into two parts, rolled into layers of the same size as light, and also removed in the cold. We are waiting for our dough pieces to “freeze” a little and roll out well. We take out three light and two chocolate layers from the refrigerator. Roll them into rectangles 3 mm thick.
According to the recipe, stack the shortcrust pastry one by one: starting and ending with light layers. We twist into a roll, press down a little. Fold it again in half and crush again. We give the roll the shape of logs. We take out the remaining layer of light color from the refrigerator, roll it out with a rectangle and wrap our log in it. We wrap it in film and put it in the freezer so that it freezes a little and cut easier.
From chilled dough we cut medallions 5 mm thick. We lay them on a sheet covered with baking paper. By the way, you can use a silicone mat. Bake for 10-12 minutes at 180 ° C, let cool slightly and invite loved ones to tea.
Portuguese cookies
For home-made shortbread recipe, you will need the most common products, and the process itself will take no more than 30 minutes. The cookies are fragile, very tender and tasty. To cook it, you must:
- 100 g room temperature oils;
- the yolk of one egg;
- 4 tbsp. l cane sugar (2 in the dough, 2 for decoration);
- 170 g - flour.
We let the butter lie down at room temperature for twenty minutes, then we start kneading the dough: rub the butter with yolk and sugar with our hands. Enter the flour and knead a homogeneous mass. From it we roll long, not too thick cubes of arbitrary length (it can be different). Bread them well in sugar and lay on a sheet greased with oil and covered with parchment. According to the recipe, shortbread cookies are not baked until they are rosy, but left pale. Finished products are allowed to cool on the sheet. It should be noted that Portuguese cookies are very fragile.
Truffle Cookies
We recommend a recipe for homemade shortbread cookies based on boiled yolks. Ready-made baking is sweet and crumbly, and in appearance it resembles the same name sweets.
Ingredients:
- 4 yolks;
- 150 g of oil;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 250 g of flour;
- 2 tbsp. l icing and cocoa.
Shortbread recipe: chopped boiled yolks into small crumbs, add soft butter, sugar to them. Grind everything well. We add flour, knead the dough and roll it into a ball. Nipping off small pieces, roll up balls 2 cm in diameter, cookies can be left in this shape, or you can make it cone-shaped. When all the products are ready, we remove them in the freezer for 10 minutes, we do this so that they fix their shape. Then put them on a silicone mat or baking sheet and bake at 180 ° C for about 30 minutes. Bake still warm cookies in a mixture of powdered sugar and cocoa and cool.
Asterisk cookies
We recommend baking shortbread cookies at home with a recipe, the taste of which is familiar to everyone since childhood. At a relatively low cost, you will get a large amount of frizzy baked goods with vanilla flavor.
Products:
- 2 yolks;
- 200 g oils;
- 80 g of sugar;
- some vanilla;
- two tbsp. flour;
- 2 tbsp. l powders.
Grind the yolks with sugar using a mixer, add soft butter to the resulting mass, mix. We introduce flour with vanilla into the oily-egg mixture and knead the dough. Roll out the dough into a layer. According to the recipe, a simple shortbread cookie is called an “asterisk”, so we take a special star shape and make blanks. On a greased baking sheet, place the products and bake for about a quarter of an hour at 200 ° C. After baking, we put the cookies on a beautiful dish and decorate with icing sugar.
Tender cookies
According to this recipe, shortbread cookies are very tender, crumbly, half glazed in chocolate. The chocolate part of this product is softer. Take the following components:
- 100 g of sugar;
- ½ lemon zest;
- 150 g soft oils;
- vanilla sugar (sachet);
- 250 g of flour;
- a pinch of salt;
- 200 g of dark chocolate;
- egg;
- 7 g of baking powder.
In addition, it is necessary to prepare: baking paper, a pastry bag, as well as a nozzle for confectionery in the form of a big star. We start the dough according to the already known method, we use a mixer for this. Fill the pastry bag with dough and form small sticks, about 7 centimeters long, laying them immediately on a baking sheet covered with paper. You can make them more beautiful: giving a spiral shape. We heat the oven to 175 ° C and bake the sticks for 12 minutes. At this time, dissolve the chocolate in a water bath. Dip the finished cookie in it half and put it on parchment or baking paper to dry. For such a dessert, it is good to serve freshly brewed tea or a cup of coffee.
Chocolate Drops Cookies
A simple shortbread recipe can be varied a little if you include an interesting ingredient in it. Today we will add chocolate droplets, children from such a dessert will be delighted. Take the following components:
- 2 tbsp. (+2 tbsp. L. For working with dough) flour;
- 1 tbsp. brown (light) sugar;
- ½ tsp. sea salt and soda;
- 12 tbsp. l next oils;
- ½ tbsp Sahara;
- one egg + yolk;
- vanilla extract - 10 ml;
- chocolate droplets - 1.5 tbsp.
According to the recipe, for homemade shortbread cookies, knead the dough from the listed ingredients. Of pieces of about 2 tbsp. spoons roll the same balls. Place them on a baking sheet at a distance of 5 cm from each other. We put the products in the oven for 15-20 minutes at 160 ° C. Leave the cookies until completely cooled on the baking sheet.
Sand ring
Another dessert comes from childhood, it could be purchased at any bakery store in the country. These are delicious sand rings sprinkled with roasted, ground peanuts. We offer a shortbread recipe on margarine, but you can replace it with butter. Should be prepared:
- margarine (oil) - 220 g;
- sugar - 190 g;
- large eggs - 3 pcs. (2 to the dough + 1 for lubrication);
- salt;
- flour - 440 g (+ 40 g per dust);
- baking powder - 1 tsp;
- vanilla extract - 5 ml;
- peanuts - 150 g.
Knead the shortbread dough from the products, divide into two identical parts. We roll it between two silicone mats and in this form we put it in the refrigerator so that it freezes a little. The exposure time in a cold place should not be less than one hour. Prepare the nuts: peel the shell, fry a little and knead with a knife or rolling pin into large crumbs. We take out the dough pieces from the refrigerator, roll them up a little more so that the thickness is 8 mm. After this, we begin to cut out the rings with a special shape with a diameter of 10 cm. When everything is ready, cut out the middle with a small recess.
Lubricate several rings (all is not recommended at once) with a beaten egg and alternately turn the oiled side into a plate with chopped peanuts. At the same time, they should be pressed a little, and then laid on a baking sheet, covered with a silicone mat. To carry out the same manipulations with the rest of the workpieces. We put the products in a preheated oven to 180-190 ° C and bake for about a quarter of an hour, the time depends on the thickness of the dough and the features of the oven. The baked sand rings are slightly cooled and carefully removed from the sheet.
The recipes presented to your attention are far from the whole list of varied pastry from shortcrust pastry. Pies with various fruit and berry fillings are baked from it. Baskets with various kinds of fillers are very popular. If you bake them without sugar, you get tartlets designed to fill with cold snacks.