A weekend evening ... I immediately remember a family tea party, and on the table in a vase there are homemade shortbread cookies. Crispy and crumbly, creamy and tender - its taste will touch anyone's soul. The biggest fans of homemade cookies are, of course, kids. Shortbread recipes are distinguished by a large number of cooking options, filling, configuration. Unlike other types of dough, you can cut out figures of all kinds of shapes from shortcrust pastry - stars, flowers, animals and others. The delight of the kids is guaranteed to you. Consider the most common recipes for baking shortbread cookies at home.

Recipes for homemade shortbread cookies are very diverse, but there are general principles, observing which the preparation of baked goods will be very quick, not laborious, and the result will be impeccable. In order for sand products to turn out to be fragile, delicate, crumbly, you need to follow a few simple rules when choosing products:

1. Sift the flour. This will help enrich it with oxygen, get rid of impurities. For this type of dough, it is better to use flour with low or medium gluten. Sometimes starch is added to it instead of part of the flour.
2. Use butter as the fat base. In the recipe, sometimes butter is replaced with margarine, but if you take into account its harm to the body, it is better to still use butter.
3. The eggs are the glue, and if you beat in eggs with a bright yolk, the dough will turn out to be golden brown.
4. Baking is prepared with sugar, sometimes powdered sugar is used instead. In this case, the consistency of the dough changes, the cookies will be softer.
5. Sometimes mayonnaise or sour cream is added to the dough as fat. Mayonnaise needs fatty, 67% fat and more. In this case, it is not necessary to put salt in the dough.
6. Nuts are not required in the dough, but they give the dough a special flavor and piquancy. Cookies come out very refined with the addition of almonds, pre-chopped in a blender.
7. To improve the aroma of baking, vanilla is used, and if you wish, you can add jam, cottage cheese, dried fruits, zest, coconut flakes, drops of chocolate.

We reviewed the rules for preparing food for the test. There are also technological conditions that must be observed, regardless of which recipe you will use to prepare the dough:

1. Try to follow the recipe as closely as possible. If possible, it is better to weigh all products, or use measuring cups.
2. All products must be stored in the refrigerator, removed immediately before kneading the dough. It is better to cool the kitchen utensils intended for kneading. The kitchen should be cool.
3. Dry dough components (flour, sugar, salt, nuts) are mixed before starting work.
4. You need to knead very vigorously so that the dough does not have time to heat up.
5. After that, the dough is wrapped in plastic and placed in the cold, for at least half an hour, preferably an hour. Divide a large lump of dough into pieces for faster cooling.

Traditional

This recipe does not contain any unnecessary ingredients and can be served warm. Let's take the right products.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups wheat flour;
• 100-150 grams of sugar or powdered sugar;
• 300 grams of butter, can be replaced with margarine;
• 2-3 eggs, their size must be taken into account;
• a bag of baking powder or half a teaspoon of baking soda, slaked with vinegar or citric acid.

Let's start baking. Cooking method:

1. We mix dry ingredients, flour. Add granulated sugar and soda.
2. Add butter to the mixed mass, after crushing it, and drive in the eggs.
3. While the oven is warming up, we cut our dough. We form small cakes from it, place them on our baking sheet, covered with parchment.
4. Let stand in the oven until our pastries are browned.

Honey

And you can also try to cook a shortbread product, tasty and aromatic, with a light honey note. The set of products for shortbread honey cookies is quite traditional, you have all of them at home.

Ingredients:

• 1.5-2 tablespoons of liquid honey;
• 2-3 glasses of flour;
• 100-150 grams of butter or margarine;
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• salt;
• 2-3 tablespoons of powdered sugar.

Cooking method:

1. Grind butter or margarine. You can chop it with a knife, you can grate it. Do not forget to freeze the oil beforehand, you will not have any problems with grinding it.
2. Put eggs and honey in the grated butter, add salt. We add powdered sugar to our mixture. You can use both baking powder and baking soda. Everything is thorough and
3. mix very quickly. If you knead the shortcrust pastry for too long, it will become tough.
4. We make several lumps from the dough so that they cool faster in the refrigerator. Place in the cold for 40-60 minutes.
5. We roll out our chilled blanks. At our discretion, we give our liver any shape. You can simply cut it into rhombuses, cut out mugs with a glass, use special curly shapes - stars, animals, flowers.
6. We send our cookies on a greased baking sheet in the oven, stand for about 15-20 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius.
7. After cooling, the cookies can be sprinkled with a mixture of powdered sugar with cocoa, coconut flakes.

Lean with cinnamon

For Orthodox Christians who adhere to the tradition of Great Lent, there is a very successful recipe for lean cookies. You can make cinnamon and ginger shortbread cookies. To prepare it, take the following set of products.

Ingredients for cinnamon shortbread cookies:

• 2-2.5 cups whole grain wheat flour
• 120 grams of refined vegetable oil;
• 100-120 grams of sugar;
• 1-2 bananas;
• a handful of orange peel;
• 0.5 tablespoons of baking soda with vinegar;
• 15 grams of ground cinnamon;
• 20 grams of chopped ginger;
• some salt.

Cooking method

1. The banana should be peeled and mashed with a fork.
2. Granulated sugar must be added to vegetable oil, thoroughly mixed with a whisk or mixer.
3. Carefully sift the flour and add to the butter, add banana puree, zest, salt and spices. Knead a not too steep dough.
4. Bring the heat in the oven to 200 degrees. Place parchment on a baking sheet or brush with oil.
5. Form small balls from the dough, slightly flatten, give them the desired shape.
6. Soak the items in the oven for 10 minutes.

Sandy curd

Shortbread pastries taste delicious, but their calorie content is quite large. To a lesser extent, this disadvantage is possessed by cottage cheese shortbread cookies, and there is no need to talk about the benefits of cottage cheese. By the way, shortbread dough with cottage cheese can be used for pastries and cakes. It is convenient to combine it with all kinds of fruit fillings and cream.

Ingredients for shortbread and curd biscuits:

• 500 grams of flour, one fourth can be substituted with starch for a more crumbly dough;
• 200 grams of butter, you can use margarine or spread;
• 2-3 eggs;
• 100-150 grams of regular cottage cheese;
• 1 cup granulated sugar;
• 0.5 teaspoon salt;
• 0.5 teaspoon of baking soda;
• vanillin package.

Let's start creating our fragrant delicacy. Cooking method:

1. Flour must be mixed with baking powder, grind with butter until crumbs are obtained. The easiest way to do this is simply by hand. Do not pour all the flour at once, there is a risk of getting a very tough dough. After all, the quality of the flour, the size of the eggs, the moisture content of the curd are always different. Make sure your dough remains pliable.
2. Mix eggs, sugar and salt into a single mass. Check if the sugar grains have dissolved.
3. Add cottage cheese to the egg mass, grind with a mixer until smooth.
4. Combine all the products, mix quickly, mold into a ball. If your dough comes out slightly damp, add a few tablespoons of flour.
5. Roll out into a sheet 5 - 7 mm thick, cut into diamonds, squeeze the circles out with a glass, use curly notches - turn on your imagination and design cookies to your taste.
6. It is necessary to bake cookies at a temperature of 200-200 degrees, but the time depends on the thickness of the rolling. The average baking time is 15-20 minutes, sometimes 10 minutes is enough.

With curd filling

Let's consider how else you can make shortbread cookies with cottage cheese, in this case, cottage cheese will be the filling for our dessert.

Ingredients for shortbread dough with curd filling:

• wheat flour -350-400 grams;
• sugar-100 grams;
• egg -1 piece;
• butter (or margarine) -200 grams;
• baking powder for dough - 1 level teaspoon.

Ingredients for the filling:

• cottage cheese (preferably homemade) -300 grams;
• granulated sugar or powder, 100 grams;
• egg-1 piece.

Cooking method:

1. Stir flour, sugar, baking powder, chopped butter. We quickly chop everything with a knife into small crumbs. We roll this crumb into a ball.
2. We separate from this ball about a third.
3. Put a larger piece of dough in a greased form, flatten it, press it lightly.
4. For the filling, combine cottage cheese, eggs and sugar, beat with a blender into a smooth homogeneous mass.
5. We transfer our filling to the dough.
6. Pour the remaining crumbs on top, you should not crush the dough.
7. We keep in the oven for 40 minutes at 200 degrees.
8. We cool our pastries, cut into diamonds and triangles, serve.

Shortbread cookies with cottage cheese are exactly what will bring the whole family together for evening tea.

It's hard for me to adequately talk about this cookie. I learned how to bake it when I was in the 6th grade - in a labor lesson. Since then, the recipe is not just my favorite, this cookie has become my signature dish, and everyone around me is sure that it is extremely difficult to bake, it takes a lot of time and effort. And I am even ashamed sometimes to admit that it is simply not easier to come up with a recipe!

If you are still thinking about, choose this recipe - you get incredibly tasty homemade cookies, crumbly, light creamy, melting in your mouth. In general, shortbread cookies are always delicious, but sometimes miracles happen, and you get not just delicious pastries, but absolutely mind-blowing, delicious and stunningly amazing pastries. This is about mine for years proven recipe for homemade shortbread cookies.

Shortbread cookies are so named thanks to the dough on the basis of which they are prepared. Shortcrust pastry is a dense mass, kneaded on the basis of butter (margarine) and flour. An egg or water is added as a binder. A small amount of sour cream, lard and other fatty foods are allowed. Shortbread dough can be sweet and unsweetened (with and without sugar, respectively), in addition, spices, various seeds, and nuts can be added to it. Traditionally, shortbread dough is used to make quiches, tarts, open pies, and pastries.

Well, and before moving on to the recipe, I want to mention one more point. I always cook these cookies in butter and never use margarine as a substitute (I'm talking about this particular shortbread cookie recipe). Yes, it is more expensive, but it is also much tastier! Creamy biscuits with a bright, creamy taste will only come out with the use of butter.

How to make delicious shortbread cookies? Photorecept

Ingredients:

200 g butter;

2.5 cups flour (about 300 g);

1 cup of sugar;

1/3 tsp soda;

1/3 tsp salt.

Still, again, the biggest secret is choosing the right butter. The better the product is in your hands, the tastier the cookies will be. Take the butter out of the refrigerator, let it sit on the table for a couple of hours, soften and acquire the right consistency to turn almost into a cream.

Add the egg, sugar, salt and soda to the butter, stir, gradually add flour. When I’m completely lazy, I just throw all the food into the food processor and in a couple of minutes I have the finished dough. When I am in the mood, I knead it by hand - I transfer the charge of my positive emotions to the dough.

Adjust the amount of flour based on the characteristics of your products - sometimes 280 grams will be enough, sometimes a spoon is literally not enough. Be guided by the fact that the dough to which you press your clean, dry palm should not stick to your hands. If you are kneading shortcrust pastry in a food processor, pay attention to the sides of the bowl - they should not bear evidence of shortcrust pastry arrival.

In general, that's all. The original recipe, given to us by the labor teacher, argued that it would not be bad to put the dough in the refrigerator for half an hour, but I ignore this rule, and everything rolls out fine with me. Bake at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes - until beautiful golden brown.

Tasty if you add a little poppy to the dough. Having fried together with cookies, it acquires an absolutely amazing taste - aromatic, bright. Nice with nuts, sesame seeds, caramel crumbs.

Sometimes I play with dried apricots - dried, they are extremely tasty! Prunes, raisins, kumquat, kiwi - any dried fruits and candied fruits will be appropriate.

When there is time, I divide the egg into yolk and white. I grease some of the cookies with yolk - a beautiful glossy crust is obtained. I beat the protein into a froth, smear it on cookies, sprinkle it with sugar - and you get an amazing mass!

Well, and the last idea - make small round holes in the raw biscuits, into which you then thread beautiful ribbons.

A Christmas tree decorated with these cookies will look great!

In my photo, it is true, a pine tree, but alive and with real snow - tell me, isn't it beautiful?

Incredibly delicious shortbread cookies!

Cookies are a favorite treat for both adults and children. Despite the fact that the store offers a huge variety of various sweets, many housewives continue to cook them at home.

Loose biscuits are liked by many for their delicate structure, lightness and taste. It remains only to learn how to cook it correctly.

Loose shortbread cookies

It is difficult to meet a person who would not like such a treat for its taste and delicate texture. Dessert is perfect with milk, tea and other drinks. Children can take it with them to school for a snack. It is also impossible not to note the speed of preparation.

To make delicate cookies, prepare the following set of ingredients: 155 g of butter and granulated sugar, 330 g of flour, a couple of pinches of salt, a little vanilla, an egg and 3 tbsp. spoons of milk.

• it is worth starting with sifting the flour, which will remove the existing lumps, as well as saturate the flour with oxygen. Take a large container and mix flour, salt, granulated sugar, vanilla and vanilla sugar in it. Mix everything well;
• Remove the butter from the refrigerator, cut it into small pieces and add it to the other ingredients. The next step is to start grinding the mass with your hands, so that you end up with something like bread crumbs. Secret - your hands should be constantly cold, for which you periodically dip them into cold water;
• add the egg, and then stir everything well again so that nothing gets hot. It remains only to pour in the milk and combine everything into a homogeneous mass. You do not need to knead the dough too much, since it will not be crumbly and tender. When the mass is easy to separate from the bowl, it is considered ready. It is important that the butter does not have time to melt, which will be evidenced by the dullness of the surface, otherwise put the lump in the refrigerator. Wrap the formed kolobok with cling film and send it to the refrigerator for an hour;
• after the time has elapsed, remove the ball from the refrigerator and divide it into 4 parts, each of which must be rolled out so that the layer is 1 cm thick.Using an ordinary glass or molds, squeeze out the blanks for future cookies. Put them on a baking sheet lined with parchment, and then send them to the oven, which should be heated to 170-180 degrees. Everything will be baked for 15 minutes. Repeat the same with the other parts of the dough, by the way, it is better to keep it in the refrigerator for now.

Creamy Margarine Loose Cookies Recipe

You can also prepare a treat with a filling, for example, with a very tasty cream. First of all, it will delight children who are very fond of sweets.

To do this, take the following foods: 225 g of flour, butter and margarine, an egg, 100 g of corn flour, 300 g of icing sugar, 35 g of cocoa, 5 g of baking powder, 45 g of poppy seeds, 200 ml of milk and 5 g of vanillin.

Cooking scheme:

• Let's start with the dough, for which, in a bowl, grind softened margarine with 100 g of powdered sugar. A plug can be used for this purpose. Then add the pre-sifted flour, yolk, baking powder and corn flour. Mix everything and knead a homogeneous dough that should not stick to your hands. Divide the resulting ball into 2 parts, and then put the previously washed poppy in one, and cocoa in the other. Knead the dough well;
• then divide each half into 10-15 pieces. Roll up the balls, place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment, and lightly press down on top with your hand so that the future crumbly cookies have a flat bottom. Send the baking sheet to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, and leave for 15 minutes;
• now we turn to the cream, for which it is necessary to put the remaining powdered sugar in boiled milk at room temperature, and also add vanillin and soft butter there. Using a mixer, beat everything well to get a homogeneous mass. It is recommended not to use high speeds;
• it remains only to cool the cookies, and then put 0.5 teaspoons of cream on one and cover with the second. You can use one half of the poppy and the other half of the cocoa.

Soft and crumbly honey cookie recipe

Thanks to the use of honey, baked goods are not only tasty and sweet, but also very aromatic. Ideal to complement tea or a glass of milk. Children will be delighted with such a treat. We will cook in silicone molds. The prepared amount of ingredients is enough for 18 pieces.

This recipe includes the following products: 200 g butter, 100 g sugar, a couple of eggs, 1 tbsp. flour and a bag of vanillin, 1.5 tbsp. tablespoons of liquid honey, 1/3 teaspoon of salt. For decoration, you can use 25 g of dark chocolate.

Step-by-step cooking instructions:

• to make soft cookies, it is necessary to grind the butter with sugar and yolks until smooth. Add flour and vanillin there. Mix everything well. Beat the whites separately until a dense foam is formed, and then, without stopping mixing in a thin stream, pour in the honey. Gently combine the two prepared masses until smooth;
• fill the molds with dough, but put no more than 2 teaspoons. Place them on a baking sheet and send them to the oven preheated to 180 degrees. Baking time - 15 minutes. For decoration, you can melt chocolate in a water bath and dip the tops of the biscuits in it.

The recipe for making crumbly cookies in a meat grinder

One of the most popular treats during the Soviet era. This cooking option allows you to save time and end up with beautiful-looking cookies, which can be of different shapes. You can use a regular meat grinder, but remove the knives from it, and there are also special attachments.

For this crumbly cookie recipe, you should take the following products: 3 tbsp. flour, a couple of eggs, 225 g butter, 1 tbsp. granulated sugar, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder and a bag of vanillin.

Step-by-step cooking instructions:

• at the first stage, eggs must be mixed with granulated sugar, add loosened and vanillin. Soften the butter and add it to the egg mixture. It remains only to put flour and knead a homogeneous dough;
• take a baking sheet, line it with parchment paper, and then separate a piece of dough and scroll it through a meat grinder. It is worth saying that the shape of the cookies can be different, the simplest one - you can leave the shape of "noodles" or form a heart out of noodles or make a flower. So that nothing sticks together, you can grind everything on top with flour;
• it remains only to put the baking sheet in the oven, which should be preheated to 200 degrees in advance. Everything will be baked within 20 minutes.

Loose nut cookies with sour cream

Due to the fact that sour cream is taken as a basis, the baked goods are soft and fluffy, but at the same time crumbly. We suggest preparing a treat with walnuts, but you can use other fillers if you wish.

To make cookies with sour cream, take the following products: 5 eggs, 390 g flour, 350 g fat sour cream, 25 ml vegetable oil, 175 g each granulated sugar and margarine, and another 180 g walnuts.

Thinking about what delicious and sweet things to bake at home to please your family, you start going through the recipes. After all, I want it to be fast, inexpensive and always tasty.

Therefore, today we will tell you how to make shortbread cookies (homemade). Every housewife has a recipe (on margarine) for such baking, it's another matter that they rarely pay attention to it. Like, everything is too simple, not original. But in vain!

What are shortbread cookies?

Speaking about how to do it, I would like to tell that it received such a name thanks to the dough from which it is prepared. It is a dense mass that is kneaded in butter (margarine) and flour. Eggs or water is used as a connecting component.

The use of a small amount of sour cream or other fats is allowed. can be prepared both sweet and savory. You can add nuts, seeds, cinnamon, vanilla to it. On its basis, pies and pastries are prepared.

Homemade cookies

Do you like cookies? Shortbread, homemade ... Butter recipe is what you need! Before moving on to cooking, I would like to mention that such a delicacy is best cooked in oil. Of course, margarine is a good substitute, but you can't get a wonderful creamy taste when using it. It is worth paying a little more, but the result will be much tastier!

So, how to make homemade shortbread cookies? The recipe for butter involves the use of the following set of products:

1. Sugar - one glass.
2. Butter - one package.
3. Flour - about 300 g (2.5 cups).
4. The egg is one piece.
5. Salt, soda - one third of a teaspoon each.

Shortbread cookie recipe step by step

Again, the biggest secret is using butter, not margarine. The higher quality product we buy, the tastier our cookies will be.

Remove the oil from the refrigerator, let it sit for several hours at room temperature. It will become softer, this consistency is more suitable for us. You need to add soda to it, as well as an egg. Mix all this thoroughly, gradually adding flour. To speed up the process, you can knead the dough using a food processor, and if you wish, knead it by hand, transferring your positive energy.

Adjust the amount of flour yourself. Sometimes not enough, and sometimes you need to add. It all depends on the products themselves. Focus on the consistency of the dough. If you press a clean palm against it, then it will not stick. When using the food processor, there should be no dough residues on the sides of the bowl. The resulting batch must be put in the refrigerator for a while. But if you are in a hurry, then this moment can be neglected.

Next, you need to roll out the dough and cut out individual cookies from it. We put them on a baking sheet covered with parchment and bake at 180 degrees. Fifteen minutes is enough. The baked goods should acquire a beautiful golden color.

Cookie Additives

Delicious homemade shortbread cookies will acquire an amazing taste and aroma if you add poppy seeds to the dough. Nuts, caramel chips, sesame seeds are suitable as additives. You can also put dried apricots, it becomes even tastier when dried. In general, any dried fruits will be appropriate, even candied fruits: kiwi, prunes, raisins.

You can also divide the egg into white and yolk, grease some cookies with yolk, and others with whipped protein, which is sprinkled with sugar on top.

Soft shortbread cookies can be used as Christmas tree decorations. When raw, you can cut small round holes in it, into which ribbons are threaded after baking. It looks just amazing!

Shortbread cookies with sour cream

While talking about how to make shortbread cookies, you must definitely remember the recipe for sour cream. To bring it to life, let's take the ingredients:

1. Butter - 150 g.
2. Sour cream (better homemade fat) - 200g.
3. Sugar - one glass.
4. Eggs - two pieces.
5. Vanilla.
6. Flour - 300-400 g.
7. Baking powder - a teaspoon.
8. Powdered sugar.

The flour must be sieved in advance to enrich it with oxygen. Add baking powder to it. Put the softened butter in a saucepan, add vanilla and sugar, rub it all well with a whisk. Introduce the eggs one at a time, stirring constantly. And then put in the sour cream and mix everything again.

Gradually add flour and baking powder and knead a soft dough. It will turn out to be very viscous and sticky, but this should not confuse you. You can put it in a bag and put it in the refrigerator overnight. It will be very convenient to work with him in the morning.

Roll out the cooled dough into a cake with a thickness of seven to eight millimeters. It is not worth rolling out thinly, since the finished cookies will be hard.

We will bake at one hundred and eighty degrees for no more than fifteen minutes. And don't wait until the cookie turns golden. You overexpose it and it will be very hard. Finished baked goods should be light in color.

If you follow our advice, baked goods (shortbread cookies) should turn out to be soft and tender, a little crumbly. Sprinkle with powder when finished.

Shortbread cookies with nuts

Surely many are familiar with this recipe. It's pretty straightforward. But the cookies are delicious thanks to the fried nuts. Usually they are designed in the form of rings. Remember, in our childhood, such nut rings were sold in all bakery stores.

According to the classic recipe, not until golden brown, as usual, but only until cooked. But the rings are soft, tender and melting. This is their zest, and also in the nuts that cover the surface with a thick layer: after all, the more there are, the tastier it turns out.

Nut Cookie Ingredients

To make shortbread cookies with nuts, we stock up on food:

1. Flour - 200 grams.
2. Powdered sugar - 50 grams.
3. Butter - half a pack.
4. Roasted peanuts - 40 grams.
5. Eggs - two pieces.
6. Baking powder - a third of a teaspoon.
7. Salt, vanillin.

Cooking nut rings

The oil must be taken out of the refrigerator in advance and softened. Then beat with a mixer until creamy. Next, add an egg to it, which should also be at room temperature, then our mixture will not curdle. Mix and add flour, salt, vanillin and baking powder. And mix everything again. The dough should be tender and soft. Let's send him to rest in cling film or a bag for half an hour in the refrigerator.

The rested cold dough should be rolled out, but not thinly. With the help of a round ring, and then a glass of their middle. Brush one side of the cookies with yolk. The peanuts need to be chopped. And then sprinkle them well on the rings so that more nuts stick to the yolk.

We put the cookies on a baking sheet, which does not need to be greased, since there is enough of it inside the dough itself. We will bake at one hundred and fifty degrees and fifteen minutes.

If you want a softer cookie, do not wait for the rings to brown. Ready-made rings can be kept in a closed box for two to three weeks, and it will not turn brown and will not lose its wonderful taste. This is the easiest shortbread cookie recipe that does not require a lot of effort and time. And the result speaks for itself.

Shortbread cookies with cognac

For cooking you need:

1. Butter - pack.
2. Flour - 0.3 kg.
3. Eggs - two pieces.
4. Cognac - two tablespoons.
5. Sugar - half a glass.
6. Salt - a quarter teaspoon.

Sift flour into a bowl, adding salt and sugar. Let's mix. After making a depression in the mixture, pour in the yolks and cognac.

Mix the mass and add the softened butter. Now we will knead the dough and then put it in the refrigerator. After thirty minutes, you can get it out. Roll it out and cut out the rings with a circle in the middle. Dip each cookie with one side in sugar. And then place the rings on a baking sheet lined with baking parchment. We will cook at two hundred degrees for no more than twenty minutes.

Shortbread cookies "Lovers"

We would also like to offer you a very original version of shortbread cookies. We hope you enjoy its unusual shape and delicate crumbly taste with the smell of cocoa and nuts. It is stored for a long time without losing its taste.

1. Granulated sugar - half a glass.
2. Egg - 1 piece.
3. Butter - 150 g.
4. Salt, baking powder.
5. Flour (premium grade) - 250 g.
6. Cocoa powder - two teaspoons.
7. Almond kernels or walnuts.

Remove the oil from the refrigerator in advance and soften. Grind the nuts in a blender. Beat one egg in a mixer bowl until stiff foam forms. Gradually add salt, sugar, vanilla and baking powder there. Then add soft butter and stir everything until creamy.

Add half of the flour gradually and beat with a mixer at low speed. Then add the rest of the flour. Knead further with your hands until the dough does not lag behind the walls of the dish.

Divide the finished dough into two parts (equal) and put them in different dishes. Pour cocoa in one part and nuts in the other. Knead everything separately.

Then pinch off a piece from each dough and roll into identical balls. You should get the same amount of brown and white. Then the balls need to be rolled into sausages.

We take two sausages: one white and the other brown. We twist them very tightly.

We will cook at a temperature of 170-180 degrees until golden brown (about 20 minutes).

Carefully remove the finished cookies from the baking sheet, remember that they are very fragile when hot.

Instead of an afterword

We have shared with you information on how to bake shortbread cookies. Homemade (recipe in butter), cooked with loving hands, it turns out to be much tastier than purchased.

Calorie content: Not specified
Cooking time: 30 minutes

Today we have a very simple recipe for shortcrust pastry for cookies, with which novice chefs begin their experiments in sweet pastries. There are some tips that I think will come in handy for inexperienced cooks. First, if you like crumbly, not very sweet cookies, then increase the amount of butter, reduce the sugar, and you can add another yolk. Secondly, if you need a strong cookie, for example, for applying glaze, you need to add more sugar, it will give the baked goods strength. Thirdly, watch out for the oven, thin shortbread pastries cannot be ignored, because baking will take only 7-8 minutes.
It will take 30 minutes to cook, from the indicated ingredients you get 500 g.
This dough can be used to make not only cookies, but also a delicious filled pie, for example.





- butter - 120 g;
- granulated sugar - 90 g;
- wheat flour - 240 g;
- egg - 1 pc .;
- salt.

Recipe with photo step by step:

Grind softened butter and a pinch of fine table salt without additives with granulated sugar. For these purposes, I advise you to use a mixer, it is much more effective than a whisk or fork.




We break the raw egg into a separate bowl, separate the yolk, the protein is not needed in this recipe. Add the yolk to the butter with sugar, mix until smooth.




Sift wheat flour into a bowl in order to get rid of lumps and foreign inclusions that happen to be found in flour in our time.




Combine sifted flour and a mixture of butter, sugar and yolk.






Knead the dough quickly. To make the cookies crumbly, the dough cannot be kneaded for a long time, 3 minutes is enough for the mass to become homogeneous and smooth.




We collect the mass in a bun, put it in a bowl. Tighten the bowl with cling film and put in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.




After 20 minutes, everything is ready and you can bake.
At your discretion - you can sprinkle the board and rolling pin with flour or grease with vegetable oil. The dough should be rolled out in a layer of about 4 millimeters or thinner. Cut the cookies with a knife or cut out with curly molds.




The baking temperature is approximately 160-170 degrees Celsius.
By the way, this dough can be frozen, it can be stored for a long time in the freezer.
And from it you can make an interesting curly