Delicious tea treat. TOP 5 recipes for fragrant crumbly butter cookies. Features and secrets of cooking Danish pastries.
Classic buttery biscuits without baking powder
In ancient times, when shops did not delight us with exquisite products for tea drinking, the hostesses baked the treats themselves. The simplest and most affordable, according to women, was butter biscuits. Many had their own household, so they used homemade oil. Now we buy it in the store. The recipe for such baking will appeal to those who cannot stand baking soda and baking powder.
Ingredients:
- Butter - 190 g
- Raw egg white - 1 piece
- Wheat flour of the highest grade - 230 g
- Powdered sugar - 80 g
- Vanilla sugar - to taste
- Salt to taste
Step by step preparation of butter cookies without baking powder:
- Soften the butter and mix with salt. Grind everything well.
- Then add powdered sugar here and wipe again.
- Add one raw egg white to this mass. Mix thoroughly. Do not be alarmed if the mixture curdles, this is the order of the day. Everything will fall into place when you add flour.
- Add flour to the mixture and knead the dough with your hands.
- Do not knead it for too long, this will negatively affect the quality of the cookie.
- Transfer the dough to a pastry bag.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Place a silicone mat or parchment paper on a cold baking sheet.
- Squeeze the dough out of the bag in any shape. These can be, for example, flattened roses. Do not place the figurines close to each other so that they do not stick together during the baking process.
- Send the cookies to the oven for 12-15 minutes.
- Brush the finished cookies with milk.
Serve cold. Cookies are stored in an open vase, right on the table. Do not worry, your guests or household members will not let him spoil, because they will quickly eat it!
Butter cookies in accordance with GOST
Such cookies were baked back in Soviet times. The recipe differs in that, in addition to the usual ingredients for this baking, it also contains nuts.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 350 g
- Granulated sugar - 130 g
- Egg (protein from it) - 1 pc.
- Salt - a pinch
- Butter - 200 g
- Baking dough - 1/2 tsp
- Walnuts (you can take peanuts) - 70-80 g
- Vanilla sugar - 1/2 sachet
Step-by-step preparation of butter cookies in accordance with GOST:
- Combine softened butter and egg. Leave a little egg to lubricate the cookie surface.
- Add salt, granulated sugar, vanillin and baking powder to the egg and butter mixture. Grind everything thoroughly.
- Try to grind the food thoroughly so that the sugar dissolves.
- Then add flour to these ingredients and knead the dough with your hands.
- Do not be afraid if it sticks to your hands. It is as it should be, do not add flour any more, follow the recipe.
- Refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes. There it will freeze, and it will be easier to handle it.
- Next, take it out of the refrigerator and roll it out on the table with a rolling pin. The layer thickness should not be more than 7-8 mm.
- Then cut out the dough pieces. For example, it can be butterflies. Lightly brush them with the raw protein left over from the dough.
- Place peanuts in the middle of each butterfly. It will serve as her torso. You can take both raw and roasted peanuts.
- If you prefer walnuts, then it is better to cut out the figures for the cookies in the form of flowers, and place the nuts in the middle. This will make the figures look more beautiful.
- Then place the cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Then send it to an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 10-12 minutes. Do not overexpose it, do not let it brown too much.
- Hot biscuits can be sprinkled with powdered sugar. Bon Appetit!
Butter Cookies with Orange Jam
In this recipe, you can put jam in the middle of each cookie. Here it will be orange to give the liver an indescribable aroma. You can take any other or apple jam, which many housewives probably have. With orange jam, the cookies won't be too sweet.
Ingredients:
- Softened butter - 150 g
- Granulated sugar - 1/2 cup
- Egg yolks - 2 pcs.
- Flour - 2 cups
- Orange jam - 1/2 cup
Step by step preparation of butter cookies with jam:
- Take a deep bowl and whip in the butter, after softening it, granulated sugar and yolks. You do not need to whip much, since this is not a biscuit. The splendor of the test does not matter here.
- Now add flour gradually and knead the dough with your hands.
- Next, roll small balls out of the dough. Their diameter should be about 3-4 cm.
- Take a dry, cold baking sheet and place the balls on it, about 7 cm apart.
- Then use the bottom of the stack or your finger to make a small indentation in each ball.
- Then put the balls in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- After cooling, put 1 teaspoon of jam in each well of the future cookies.
- Preheat the oven at this time to a temperature of 200 degrees.
- Bake the cookies for 10 minutes, until the bottom is golden brown.
- Cool it down and serve with hot tea or milk.
Butter cookies with raisins
With raisins, you can find not only crackers and curd mass, biscuits are also baked with it. You can often see oat baked goods with this dried fruit on store shelves. If you love raisins, bake shortbread cookies with them.
Ingredients:
- Wheat flour of the highest grade - 500 g
- Butter - 200 g
- Yolks - 3 pcs.
- Granulated sugar - 1/2 cup
- Raisins - 1 glass
- Vanilla sugar - 1 tablespoon
- Soda - 1/2 tsp
- Vinegar - 1 tsp
Step-by-step preparation of Butter Raisin Cookies:
- Place the butter in a deep bowl and let it sit at room temperature for about half an hour.
- Then add flour to the butter and knead this mass with a spoon.
- Next, beat the egg yolks with granulated sugar and vanilla sugar. Try to dissolve grains of sugar in this mass; for this purpose it is better to use a mixer.
- Then add the beaten egg yolks to a bowl of butter and flour.
- Sort out the raisins, get rid of impurities. Then wash it in hot water.
- Dry the raisins on a napkin or small towel and add to the dough.
- Quench the baking soda with acetic acid. To do this, simply pour it over the baking soda. Add it to the dough bowl.
- Mix everything thoroughly with your hands.
- Then mold the dough into a large ball and place it in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes. Let it cool down there.
- Remove the dough from the refrigerator and roll it out on the table. The thickness of the layer should not exceed 1 cm, but it should not be made too thin.
- Cut out arbitrary figures from the dough, you can make them round by cutting out in a pile or in a glass.
- Place them on a baking sheet. Make sure it is not hot.
- There may be parchment or a special rug at the bottom of the baking sheet, but you can not lay anything or grease the bottom with anything.
- Send the figurines to an oven preheated to 200 degrees.
- Bake the cookies for 10 minutes.
- Serve chilled. Remember hot baked goods are bad for your stomach!
So you have learned how to cook buttery shortbread cookies. May it always succeed with you to the glory and joy of loved ones!
