Shortbread biscuits beautiful shape. Shortbread dough for cookies

Homemade biscuits are used to decorate each table. Everyone loves him. But remember that it is high-calorie, fatty and contains a lot of sugar and eggs.

Shortbread Dough Recipes

Ingredients: 250g margarine (you can take butter), 1 cup of sugar, 2 cups of flour, 1 chicken egg, soda on the edge of a knife and a pinch of salt.

Thoroughly rub the butter with sugar until smooth, beat the egg and rub with sugar. Then add soda, extinguishing it with a drop of lemon juice (it can be replaced with apple vinegar). To improve the taste, you can add vanilla, lemon slices, cinnamon. Add flour to the prepared mass and knead the dough.

If you did everything correctly, the shortbread dough for cookies will turn out gentle and easy. It perfectly takes any form. From it all kinds of figurines are well molded.

Sprinkle the table with flour, spread out the dough in the shape of a rectangle and evenly roll it from the middle to the edges. For cookies, the dough thickness should be no more than 4-6mm, for cakes - 8-10mm. There are various molds for biscuits or metal grooves.

Baking

Sand products are baked in the oven with a temperature of 180-200 degrees Celsius for 20-25 minutes. Time depends on the thickness of the test. Before baking, cookies can be sprinkled with poppy seeds, nuts, or cinnamon.

Shortbread cookies "Rolls".  Such cookies can be both light and dark (if you add 2-3 spoons of cocoa). Roll out 2 rectangles of the same size, brush them with an egg and place them on top of each other. Then wrap and refrigerate for an hour.

Cut them into thin pieces with a thin knife, put them on a sheet and place them in the oven.

Shortbread Icing Recipes

Glazes are made from powdered sugar by adding egg white. To get colored glaze, use cocoa, syrup and spices. Frosting should be moderately thick and fluid. You can adjust this by adding powdered sugar or liquid. To prevent pastry coated with glaze from becoming matte, cover the surface with a thin layer of fruit filling before icing.

Chocolate glaze.  Mix 150 g sugar, 3 tbsp. spoons of water (water should be hot), 2 tbsp. spoons of cocoa and the same amount of butter (melted).

Mix the cocoa powder and sugar thoroughly so that no lumps appear, add hot water, melted butter and mix until smooth.

Berry glaze.Mix 200 g sugar, 4 spoons of berry juice and 2 tbsp. spoons of water (water must be hot).

Sift sugar powder through a sieve, add berry juice and hot water. Spread everything until smooth.

White glaze.  Mix 1 egg white and half a cup of caster sugar or sugar.

Pour the egg white into the container, whisk it, adding sifted icing sugar. In a glaze, add a couple of drops of lemon juice.

You can decide the butter to apply - creamy, creamy vegetable, spread or margarine. Better experiment and try all kinds.

The question of adding soda is controversial. Someone does not add it, someone - on the contrary. Soda should be added to mashed sugar with eggs and butter before adding flour.

It is better to knead the dough with your hands, with intense and sharp movements. The main thing is not to overdo it - it should turn out soft and plastic. Preparation of shortcrust pastry, as a rule, does not exceed 10 minutes.

Many housewives are happy to pamper their households gourmet pastries. We took most of the recipes from our mothers and grandmothers. Sand cakes, cakes and biscuits come from our childhood. Knowing some of the features, you can easily prepare shortbread dough for cookies, the recipes of which you will find in our article.

How to make shortbread dough for biscuits: cooking tips

Many housewives do not particularly like to prepare sand baking. This is primarily due to the fact that the dough does not always acquire the desired consistency. In addition, if you mix the dough incorrectly and bake the confection, it can become hard and lose its friability.

To make sand cakes tender, tasty, fragrant and unique, read the advice of professional pastry chefs:

• foods and cooking utensils used to make dough should be chilled, but there are recipes according to which you can add ingredients at room temperature;
• in order for the shortbread dough to acquire the necessary crumblyness, the crumbs must be carefully rubbed with their hands;
• the tenderness of the dough and its crumbly structure directly depend on the amount of fat, so do not feel sorry for butter or margarine;
• before baking, pies or other pastries should be pierced evenly with a fork or toothpick;
• the form does not need to be greased with grease, but you can use baking paper;
• shortbread dough goes well with curd mass, fruit, berry, caramel and other fillings;
• optimum temperature for baking - 150-200 °;
• baking pans should be placed in an oven that has already been heated to the desired temperature point;
• baking time can vary from half an hour to 50 minutes;
• shortbread dough should be kneaded very quickly, otherwise it will turn out to be tight and tough.

Classic sand biscuit base: recipe with photos

Classic shortbread dough is prepared from a minimum set of products and even without the addition of chicken eggs. From this dough you can sculpt cakes, cookies, cakes of various shapes. Below there are a simple shortbread dough recipe for cookies. If you wish, butter can be replaced with margarine.

Composition:

• 3 tbsp. sifted flour;
• sour cream of any fat content - 3 tbsp. l .;
• softened butter - 210 g;
• granulated sugar - 1 tbsp .;
• ¼ tsp salt.

Cooking:

Dough through a meat grinder

This option of making shortbread is always a win-win. Baking is prepared incredibly quickly, and you can give it an original and unusual shape with the help of a conventional meat grinder. The shortbread dough recipe for cookies in the tins is almost the same. Many housewives for cutting cookies use available materials: glasses, glasses, corks, etc.

You can replace butter with margarine and add citrus zest and coke chips to taste. It is also recommended to replace the granulated sugar with powdered. In this case, the consistency of the test will not be broken, it will turn out more homogeneous and crumbly.

Composition:

• 3 egg yolks;
• 1 tbsp. sugar sand;
• softened butter - 130 g;
• sour cream of any fat content - 150 g;
• 1 tsp. baking soda;
• sifted flour - 3 tbsp .;
• vanilla essence.

Cooking:

Preparing the basis for kurabie

Few people are familiar with the Azerbaijani cuisine, but Kurabe was loved by many of us. Even as a child, we were happy to eat a star shaped cookie with a delicious berry filling. If earlier the preparation of this oriental sweetness was the prerogative of experienced pastry chefs, today any hostess can bake such tasty and delicate cookies.

You need to purchase a special pastry bag. If this is not, then you can use a dense plastic bag. The highlight of Kurab is considered a drop of jam or jam. You can use any sweet canning preserved in the back room, or you can purchase berry jam in the cooking store. It is recommended to choose only thick jam, so that under the influence of high temperature it does not spread and retains its shape. So, we present the recipe for shortbread dough for cookies with jam.

Composition:

• sifted flour - 2-2.5 st .;
• softened butter (margarine) - 200 g;
• powdered sugar - 4 tbsp. l .;
• 1 egg white;
• vanilla sugar or essence;
• any jam or jam according to your taste preferences.

Cooking:

Recipe biscuits from shortbread dough is extremely simple. That is why he is so loved by novice hostesses. The main thing is to remember the proportions - 1: 2: 3 - one part of sugar, two parts of fat and three parts of flour. Quickly knead the dough and hide it in the fridge for half an hour. And that's it! Shortbread cookies are also baked in minutes. But still you should not abuse this homemade delicacy - it is very high in calories because of its high fat content!

Recipe for Lean Shortcrust Cookie Dough

Ingredients:

• flour - 2 tbsp .;
• sugar - 100 g;
• water - 125 ml;
• sunflower oil (refined) - 125 ml;
• salt - 1/2 tsp.

Cooking

Sift flour and mix with sugar. Pour ice into the bowl of the blender! water and vegetable oil. Add salt and whip the mass into a fluffy white foam. Pour it into a dry flour mixture and knead soft, elastic dough. Perhaps the flour need a little more than specified in the recipe. We roll the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling film and hide it in the fridge. After half an hour, you can roll it, cut out figures (sweets can additionally sprinkle them with sugar) and bake.

Shortbread dough with curd for cookies

Ingredients:

• flour - 300 g;
• curd - 300 g;
• sugar - 200 g;
• butter - 150 g;
• baking powder - 1 tbsp. spoon.

Cooking

Mix cottage cheese with softened butter. Add sifted flour and baking powder. Knead the dough and hide it for half an hour in the fridge. After we roll into the layer a little more than a centimeter thick, we cut out cookies, generously sprinkle them with sugar and send them to a baking sheet made of parchment. This is baked for only half an hour at a temperature of 200 degrees.

Shortbread dough for New Year's cookies

Ingredients:

For the test:

• flour - 315 g;
• egg - 1 pc .;
• honey - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• sugar - 100 g;
• butter - 125 g;
• ginger - 2 tsp;
• cinnamon - 1 tsp;
• nutmeg - 1 tsp;
• soda - 1 tsp;
• salt - 1 pinch.

For the glaze:

• sugar - 100 g;
• egg white - 1 pc .;
• citric acid - 1 pinch.

Cooking

We prepare sand dough for festive cookies in the evening. On the water bath, melt butter and honey. Add soda, grated ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add sugar to the sifted flour with salt and drive an egg. Knead and combine with honey-oil mass. The finished dough is wrapped in film and left in the refrigerator overnight.

Cut out templates from cardboard - circles with a diameter of 2.5, 3.5, 5, 6, 7, 8.5 cm and a carved leaflet 8 cm long. We quickly roll out the dough with a thickness of 4 mm. With a sharp knife, cut out the figures according to the template (note that you need 2 leaves for one bell). Thick handle in the center of each circle and at the end of the leaves we push holes. We bake cookies in a preheated 180 degree oven for only 10 minutes.

In the meantime, they cool, prepare the icing. Beat cold protein with sugar until strong peaks and add citric acid diluted in a teaspoon of water (you can simply take a spoonful of lemon juice). With the help of a confectionery syringe, paint the circles and leaves with icing, and when it hardens, we begin to collect the "bells".

For this, a gift ribbon (at least 70 cm long) is passed through the opening of the smallest ringlet, aligned in the middle and connect the ends of the ribbon. Now, like a pyramid, we make circles, starting from the largest. Then, through each end of the ribbon we pass through the leaf and fasten it in a beautiful bow. Everything, you can hang bells on the Christmas tree, and you can wrap in transparent paper and give to your friends for the New Year!

Simple and tasty shortbread dough for cookies

Ingredients:

Cooking

Mix the softened butter with sugar and a pinch of salt. Gradually add flour, knead the dough. For at least half an hour we send it to the cold. And the very preparation of cookies from such shortcrust pastry takes only 10-15 minutes in the oven, heated to 200 degrees. We bring to golden color and take out, it is not worth retaining it.

Sand dough is one of the most versatile pastry recipes. All versions of shortbread pastry are tender and crumbly, and the use of various fillings makes shortbread cookies one of the most popular types of sweets among children. In addition, the use of various molds, when baking cookies, makes these sweets more unusual, attracting the attention of children forms of animals, stars and flowers.

Lemon Shortbread Cookies

This recipe will allow you to make excellent shortbread cookies, in which classic cookies will be combined with lemon flavor.

Ingredients

• Flour - 350 gr.
• Oil - 280 gr.
• Sugar - 170 gr.
• Chicken Egg - 1 pc.
• Lemon - ½ pcs.

Cooking

Sift flour using a strainer. This will give the liver more crispness and tenderness.
1. Add sugar to the flour, mix and pour the mixture onto a chopping board.
2. Using a knife, you need to combine a mixture of flour and sugar with butter. To do this, put the butter in the mixture, cut it, getting flour crumb.
3. Separate the yolk from the protein, and from the half of the lemon, separate the zest, which must be ground with a grater.
4. After making a small depression in the resulting crumb of the crumb, put the egg yolk and chopped lemon peel there.
5. Next, intensively knead the dough with your hands. This is necessary so that the butter contained in the dough does not melt. Therefore, the touch of hands to the dough should be minimal.
6. Put the dough into a plastic bag and put in the fridge for half an hour.
7. Before you start rolling dough, you need to sprinkle the table with flour.
8. Roll out the dough to a thickness of half a centimeter.
9. Use the molds, give the liver the desired look.
10. Using a special paper, make a baking sheet.
11. Spread cookies on baking sheet.
12. Using a whisk, whisk the egg white and brush them with cookies.
13. It is necessary to bake cookies at an oven temperature of one hundred and eighty degrees for ten minutes.

The resulting cookies will appeal to lovers of shortbread and sweets with lemon. And his recipe is not complicated at all. You can serve it with almost any drink, but it is most harmoniously combined with hot strong tea or sweet juice.

Chocolate Shortbread Cookies

Shortbread biscuits in chocolate - this is what will make your children happy. Delicate cookies and chocolate one of the most striking culinary combinations.

Ingredients

• Flour - 250 gr.
• Margarine - 250 gr.
• Egg - 2 pcs.
• Sugar - 230 gr.
• Vinegar-soda - ¼ tsp.
• Vanilla sugar - 7 gr.
• Chocolate - 250 gr.

Cooking

1. Separate the egg yolks from the whites and rub the yolks with sugar.
2. Beat the whites, using the tools at hand, until a strong foam appears.
3. Add margarine to yolks and sugar, mix.
4. Add proteins to the mixture and mix thoroughly.
5. Knead the resulting consistency in a cool dough.
6. Cover the table with flour, place the dough and roll it to a thickness of one centimeter.
7. Using molds, form the desired type of cookies.
8. Heat the oven to a temperature of two hundred and twenty degrees.
9. Use special paper, make a baking sheet, and place the resulting cookies on it.
10. Cooking cookies takes no more than fifteen minutes.
11. After the cookie is ready, let it cool.
12. Melt black or milk chocolate in a water bath and coat the top of the cookie with chocolate.

The preparation of this cookie does not take much time, but it has a truly magical taste. In the event that you or your children love chocolate, you can cover the entire surface of the cookie with chocolate. For this you need more chocolate.

Sour cream shortbread cookies

One of the modifications of the recipe for shortbread biscuits, which involves adding sour cream to the dough. This gives the taste its own characteristics, without reducing the tenderness and crispness of the product.

Ingredients

• Sour cream - 250 gr.
• Butter - 120 gr.
• Sugar - 150 gr.
• Egg - 2 pcs.
• Flour - 600 gr.
• Sugar powder - 5 gr.
• Baking powder - 1.5 tsp.

Cooking

1. For better taste, sift the flour before cooking, and mix it with baking powder.
2. Using a whisk or mixer, beat the eggs and sugar.
3. After softening the butter, add it to the eggs and sugar, mix and pour sour cream to them. Stir thoroughly.
4. Gradually add flour to the mixture and knead the dough. As a result, the dough should be soft.
5. Further, it is necessary to form balls from dough. If this fails, add more flour.
6. After receiving the balls, put them on a plate and refrigerate for a couple of hours.
7. After the dough has been sufficiently cooled, roll the balls on the table, after sprinkling flour on the table. Rolling the ball to a thickness of less than a centimeter (the best option is from four to eight millimeters) - use the molds to get the desired look.
8. Using parchment paper, make a baking sheet.
9. Put the resulting cookies on a baking sheet and, heating the oven to one hundred and ninety degrees, bake for twenty minutes.
10. Use icing sugar to sprinkle ready-made cookies.

Shortbread cookies "Immersion in the world of dreams"

Such a charming and mysterious name is a recipe for shortbread with a soft filling. For its preparation need molds in the form of baskets. Cookies made according to this recipe will decorate any holiday.

Ingredients

For the dough

• Flour - 200 gr.
• Butter - 175 gr.
• Sugar - 150 gr.
• Egg - 1 pc.

Ingredients for the preparation of the filling

• Light seedless raisins - 80 gr.
• Dark seedless raisins - 80 gr.
• Lemon - 2 pcs. (150 gr.).
• Apple - 1 pc. (100 gr.).
• Orange peel - 1 pc.
• Brown sugar - 1 tbsp. l
• Butter - 70 gr.
• Cognac or rum - 1 tbsp. l
• Cinnamon - ¼ tsp.
• Nutmeg - ¼ tsp.
• Grated ginger root - ¼ tsp.

Cooking

1. Melt the butter in a microwave, then cool it to forty degrees.
2. Add egg and sugar, using a whisk or a mixer, whisk the resulting mass until sugar is completely dissolved.
3. Add the sifted flour to the resulting mixture, and knead the dough. The dough should be soft and plastic.
4. Transfer the dough into a plastic bag and refrigerate for one hour.
5. To make the filling, wash the raisins and dry them with a towel.
6. Next, you need to remove the middle of the apple and, without peeling it from the peel, cut it into four pieces.
7. Peel the orange and one lemon.
8. Put the second lemon in the pan and boil for half an hour, after boiling.
9. Boil a lemon, cut it into four parts, remove the stones.
10. Mix together both types of raisins, apple, orange and lemon zest, lemon and, using a blender, chop.
11. Place the resulting fruit mixture in a plate and add brown sugar, nutmeg, ginger and butter. Using a tablespoon, carefully grind the resulting mixture and then add brandy. Stir.
12. Grease the baking tins with a thin layer of vegetable oil. To do this, use a special brush or gauze.
13. Taking the dough out of the fridge, sprinkle the surface of the table with a thin layer of flour, and roll the dough to a thickness of two millimeters.
14. Cut the dough in the form of circles, the diameter of which should be larger than the diameter of the molds, by two centimeters.
15. Using half the prepared circles, fill the molds.
16. Put the stuffing in the filled molds and cover them with the remaining circles.
17. The edges of the baskets should be firmly pressed, while not touching the central part of the molds.
18. Put the cookies in the tins on a baking sheet, sprinkle them with brown sugar.
19. Baking should be done at an oven temperature of one hundred and ninety degrees for fifteen minutes.
20. Remove the resulting cookies from the molds should be only after complete cooling.

This is a wonderful cookie everyone will like. You will get a slightly crunchy and crumbly top of the biscuit, a soft filling with a weak acidity and a tender, oil-soaked bottom layer.

Shortbread Cookies

If you decide to bake something delicious and economical, then this recipe is for you. Sand dough and walnut are perfectly combined, and cooking is quite simple and does not take much time.

Ingredients

• Flour - 600 gr.
• Butter - 250 gr.
• Egg - 2 pcs.
• Sugar - 180 gr.
• Walnut - 65 gr.
• Sugar powder - 20 gr.
• Salt - 1 chips.

Cooking

1. Using a knife, you must chop the butter in flour, getting a fine grains.
2. Combine two eggs and sugar in a convenient bowl. Stir and add salt.
3. Using a knife, chop the nuts to the size you need.
4. Add chopped nuts to the egg mass.
5. Combine the nut-egg mass and the mixture of flour and butter. Knead the dough from the mass. In the event that the dough is too sticky to the hands, add more flour.
6. Sprinkle the surface of the table with a small amount of flour, and roll out on it a dough about one centimeter thick.
7. Use molds to make the cookies of the desired type.
8. Put the cookies in the oven, preheated to one hundred and eighty degrees. Bake for fifteen minutes.
9. After cooling the cookies, sprinkle them with powdered sugar.

Sand Fruit Baskets

What do children like? Gentle shortbread, fruit, jelly and soft curd cream. That is why the cooks have connected all this in one culinary masterpiece. In addition, it is worth noting that this recipe contains agar-agar, which is a substitute for gelatin, thanks to which this cookie becomes not only tasty, but also useful.

Ingredients

For the dough

• Sugar - 150 gr.
• Flour - 350 gr.
• Oil - 150 gr.
• Salt - ½ tsp.
• Baking powder - 2.5 tsp.
• Vanilla sugar - 5 gr.
• Milk - 70 gr.

Ingredients for making cream

• Cottage cheese - 250 gr.
• Condensed milk - 120 gr.
• Starch - 1 tsp.

Jelly Ingredients

• Water - 200 ml.
• Agar-agar - 1 tsp.
• Sugar - 100 gr.

To make the filling, you also need fruits, the choice of which is yours. These can be kiwi, tangerine, strawberries, various grape varieties and much more.

Cooking

1. Mix all the ingredients of the dough, except milk, and knead.
2. Add milk and knead the dough. The dough should be soft. In the event that the dough is too sticky, you can add more flour.
3. Combine cottage cheese, condensed milk and starch in a separate container. Stir until smooth. Condensed milk can be used and boiled, but in this case, the filling will be more dense and brown.
4. Take molds and grease them with a small amount of vegetable oil.
5. Roll out the dough in a thin layer, and cut circles of the required diameter with which to fill the molds.
6. Next, fill out the forms with dough curd filling. Beginning should occupy a third of the volume of the entire basket.
7. Bake a tray with baskets in tins mark in the oven, preheated to two hundred degrees, and bake for fifteen to thirty minutes (cooking time depends on the size of the molds). Cooked baskets should be golden brown with a brown tint, and the filling should be covered with yellow spots.
8. Cool the baskets.
9. Mix the agar-agar, water and sugar in a metal container, put on the fire and bring to a boil. Cool to forty degrees.
10. Put the prepared fruit (washed, chopped) into cooled baskets.
11. Warm jelly fill baskets. Leave until the jelly solidifies.

• If you decide to make shortbread cookies, you must create an optimum temperature in the room. It ranges from fifteen to twenty degrees and does not depend on the specific recipe. In the event that the temperature is lower, the dough will be too thick due to freezing. At a temperature of more than twenty degrees, the butter will melt, which will lead to its separation from the rest of the dough.

If you are planning to prepare cookies with a filling, you should not add flavoring substances to the dough.

• The plasticity of the dough depends on the amount of fat in it. Therefore, it is important to closely monitor the dosage of the ingredients indicated in the recipe.