Many people around the world love the traditional Christian holiday of Christmas. At Christmas they prepare not only dishes traditional for their region, but also try delicacies from the great abundance of dishes from other countries.
The Germans, world-famous for their Christmas traditions, for example, often prepare vanilla cookies called “vanillekipferl” for Christmas. These cookies are always a success, so make them too!
Ingredients for 80 cookies
For the test:
- 200 g soft butter or margarine,
- 75 g sugar,
- 2 tsp vanilla sugar,
- 1 egg,
- 180 g wheat flour,
- 200 g ground almonds,
- grated zest of one lemon,
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice.
In addition, 2 teaspoons vanilla, 50 g sugar, 125 g icing sugar for sprinkling.
Cookie recipe
- Mix the butter, softened at room temperature, with sugar and vanilla, beat well.
- Add the egg, continuing to beat.
- Mix flour and ground almonds and knead the dough.
- Add lemon zest and lemon juice and stir quickly (about 1 minute).
- On a well-floured work surface, form the dough into a log, knead it with your hands into a flat cake and wrap it in a roll, wrap it in food foil and leave it in a cool place for about 30 minutes.
- We cut the rolls into slices 1 cm thick. We form cookies from each piece up to 7 cm long, with pointed edges in the form of crescents.
- Place future cookies on a lightly sprinkled baking sheet. Bake in a preheated oven at 190°C for about 10-15 minutes, bake on the middle rack.
- Mix vanilla, sugar and powder. Remove the cookies from the oven and dip them while still hot in the sugar mixture. Roll in carefully; the cookies are tender and fragile. If desired, sprinkle with vanilla cocoa powder. Cool cookies on a wire rack.
Delicious vanilla cookies, especially good when chilled :) Bon appetit!
Homemade baked goods have always been rated higher than store-bought products. One of these delicacies that is popular during tea drinking is homemade shortbread. Preparing the dough is incredibly simple; moreover, the products bake quickly, which is important in case of unexpected guests. A simple recipe for shortbread cookies, as well as several options for changing it, are given below.
For simple shortbread cookies you will need products that can be found in the kitchen of any housewife.
- millet flour - 250 gr;
- drain butter - 180 gr;
- yolks - 2 units;
- sugar - 100 g;
- salt - a pinch.
Making shortbread cookie dough is easy: the process starts with butter, salt and sugar - you need to grind them. To make it easier to grind, it is recommended to remove the oil from the refrigerator in advance - at least 20 minutes in advance.
When you get a more or less homogeneous mass, add flour in small portions, kneading the dough. Roll the finished dough into a ball and place in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Roll out the chilled dough into a sheet 5 mm thick. With the help of special curly molds or a simple glass, cut out the cookies, place them on a baking sheet with parchment paper and bake for a quarter of an hour at 180 degrees.
How to cook with jam?
Children especially love filled cookies. Instead of jam, you can use jam or fruit jam.
- egg;
- ½ cup Sahara;
- 1 tsp. baking soda slaked with vinegar;
- 200 g margarine;
- 3 stacks sifted flour;
- 200 grams of thick berry jam.
Beat the egg and sugar into a homogeneous mass.
Grind margarine and flour separately. Combine both masses, add soda. Knead the dough into a homogeneous dough, wrap it in film or put it in a bag, and cool it in the refrigerator for about half an hour.
Divide the dough into larger and smaller parts. Roll out the larger part and place it on a baking sheet, spread the jam evenly over the dough and grate the smaller part on a coarse grater. Bake at 220 degrees. within 20-25 minutes. Immediately after removal, cut into squares or diamonds and leave to cool.
With sour cream
Delicate sour cream cookies go well with milk, tea, juice, and herbal infusions. Before serving, you can sprinkle with powdered sugar, or cover with glaze and melted chocolate.
- fat sour cream - 250 g;
- honey - 2 table. l.;
- drain butter - 200 gr;
- sugar - 150 gr;
- freshly squeezed juice from 1 lemon;
- soda - ½ table. l.;
- flour - 2 cups.
Mash the butter into a paste, add honey, sour cream and mix thoroughly until smooth.
Squeeze the juice from the citrus fruit, pour into the mixture, and mix again.
Sift flour and baking soda into the mixture without stirring it out.
Knead the dough by hand. Roll out into a layer 2 cm thick, cut out circles in a stack - you will get identical lumps, roll them into balls and place on a prepared baking sheet. Bake for a quarter of an hour in a preheated oven.
Sablé - the perfect shortbread
- drain butter - 115 g;
- sah. powder - 2.5 table. l.;
- flour - 160 gr;
- egg, separated into white and yolk;
- salt - ¼ tsp;
- brown sugar - 2 tablespoons. l.
Stir the butter, which has become soft at room temperature, with a spoon until its consistency begins to resemble cream. Then sift the powder and salt into it, mix for a couple of minutes until the mass becomes homogeneous in structure.
Next, add the yolk and stir until smooth. Finally, add the flour, making sure to sift it. Mix well - the dough will become lumpy, the flour will evenly absorb moisture, being distributed throughout the entire mass.
We stretch the film on the work surface, place the dough on it and form an approximately even oblong lump. We wrap it in film and roll it around the table to form a “sausage” of uniform diameter along its entire length. Cool in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
After the allotted time, the dough will harden well, and it will be convenient to use: cut the sausage in half, put one part back in the refrigerator for a while, grease the second with whipped egg white on all sides and sprinkle with sugar. Cut the bar into rings and place on a baking sheet with parchment. We repeat the action with the second part of the test. We bake at 200 degrees. within 20 minutes.
Just a note. The dough for these cookies can be prepared in large quantities and stored in the refrigerator for up to 2 days, and in the freezer for up to 2 months. The workpiece is laid out in bags and used in portions.
Vanilla treat
Vanilla shortbread cookies are not very different in recipe - a packet of vanillin is added to the classic version. The cookies have a particularly delicate, pleasant aroma and exquisite taste.
Kurabye - step by step recipe
Kurabye refers to oriental sweets, quite popular in many countries. According to the classics, it is prepared in the form of a flower (for example, squeezed out with a pastry syringe, like meringue) with a drop of jam in the middle, or in the shape of a diamond. According to legend, a pinch of saffron is added to the dough.
And we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the basic basis of the test for kurabye:
- 150 grams of powdered sugar;
- 150 grams of melted plums. oils;
- 300 grams of flour.
First of all, beat the butter and powder - it is recommended to first work the products with a fork so that the powder does not fly apart when using the mixer. When the mass becomes homogeneous, sift the flour into it and mix again with a fork so that the flour product absorbs moisture. Afterwards you can knead it with your hands.
Separate small pieces from the overall lump and roll into sausages up to 10 cm in length and 2 cm in width. We pass it on top with a fork, pressing lightly, drawing stripes. Cut into diagonal diamonds. You can leave it like that and place it on a baking sheet, or you can combine 2 pieces so that the shape resembles 2 leaves.
We bake at 180 degrees. within 15-20 minutes.
Sugar shortbread cookies
Simple sweet homemade cookies can be prepared according to the following recipe:
- flour - 2.5 cups;
- egg;
- drain butter - 150 g;
- sugar - ½ cup;
- salt - ½ tsp;
- vanilla sugar;
- granulated sugar for decoration.
The preparation method does not differ from previous recipes - all ingredients are mixed into a homogeneous mass. The only thing is that the cookies are squeezed out of a thick layer of dough, approximately 2 cm thick. Sprinkle with sugar on top and bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
Recipe with chocolate
The chocolate treat never goes unnoticed. Little households especially love it.
- 2.5 stacks flour;
- 150 grams of sugar;
- 200 g butter drained;
- 2 eggs;
- 3 table. l. cocoa;
- 1 tsp. soda
The butter is melted, combined with sugar and cocoa, mixed so that the mass becomes a uniform shade and consistency. Let the oil cool a little, then add the eggs and beat everything together. Add flour, stir, knead into a slightly porous dough.
Just a note. Before serving, sprinkle the cookies with powdered sugar. Cookies can also be coated with topping or glaze.
On mayonnaise
The recipe for shortcrust pastry with mayonnaise is as follows:
- drain butter - 200 gr;
- high-fat mayonnaise - 200 g;
- egg;
- sugar - 1 cup;
- flour - 3.5 cups;
- salt - ½ tsp.
First, combine dry and liquid products in separate bowls. Then mix together, knead into a homogeneous dough, cool, roll out, cut out products, bake.
- 170 gr oatmeal(or ready-made oatmeal);
- 100 g sugar;
- 100 g plums. oils;
- egg;
- 1 tsp. baking powder.
Grind the flakes until floury. Add baking powder to the resulting flour and mix.
Grind the butter and sugar until smooth, add the egg and mix everything.
In one bowl, mix both parts for the dough, knead the dough, and cool.
Line a baking sheet with parchment. Using a spoon, place the dough onto the parchment. Bake for 15 minutes at 180 degrees. oven.
On margarine
Homemade cookies are made from dough not only butter, but also on margarine. This product is very often used as an analogue of butter for baking. Margarine recipe and cooking instructions shortcrust pastry based on this product, no - in any of the above methods, oil is replaced with margarine.
Just a note. You can add orange or lemon zest and a pinch of cinnamon to the dough.
Homemade cookies - serpentine
An interesting option for serving shortbread cookies is in the form of snails or serpentine. The peculiarity of this type is that it combines two doughs - chocolate and regular, sweet.
To prepare, prepare:
- margarine - 200 gr;
- sugar - 200 gr;
- eggs - 2 units;
- flour - 450 gr;
- cocoa - 4 table. l.;
- baking powder - 10 gr.
The preparation begins as usual - margarine is ground with sugar, egg, flour and baking powder. Knead regular shortbread dough.
Each dough is rolled out separately. Then the chocolate part is transferred to a light surface, for example, you can lightly sprinkle the chocolate with flour, roll it onto a rolling pin and roll it out on top of a light layer. The layers are rolled up and cut into pieces 1 cm thick. Bake for 15 minutes at 180 degrees.
The tastes of childhood remain in memory for a lifetime. So I remember the liver in the mold that my mother baked. In addition, I am the happy owner of a cookie cutter that was left to me from my mother.
Today I spoil my family with vanilla cookies.
It doesn't take long to bake these cookies. And the products used for cooking can be found in every home.
So let's get started.
Take 4 eggs and break them into a bowl.
Beat them with a mixer until foamy.
The margarine needs to be melted. I used the microwave and set it for 1 minute. You can do this in a water bath, depending on your convenience.
Let it cool a little and pour it into the eggs. Beat well again.
Add a glass of sugar (200 g)
Salt and add vanillin to taste.
Whisk everything again.
Now add flour. 300 grams will be enough. It is better to sift the flour.
Again, beat everything thoroughly so that there are no lumps. The dough has the consistency of pancakes.
Take the mold and heat it on the burner.
When the mold is warmed up, you need to grease it. vegetable oil, you can use a brush for this.
Now pour the dough onto one side of the mold. About two tablespoons
It is better to smooth the dough over the entire surface with a spoon.
Cover with the second part of the mold and bake on the burner for 2-3 minutes on each side.
Well here's ours delicious cookies ready. Brew tea or coffee. And we enjoy the taste of childhood.
The cookies become crispy when they cool. At first the cookies are very soft, so you need to cool them on a flat surface.
Bon appetit! I hope you will like my recipe.
Cooking time: PT00H30M 30 min.
Approximate cost per serving: 60 rub.