Simple and delicious shortbread cookie recipes

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 17:37

• Category:

  bakery

• Cooking time:

  45 minutes

Ingredients

• flour
• sugar
• butter
• eggs
• baking powder
• vanillin
• salt

Cookies are loved by both children and adults, especially if they are made with their own hands at home. Shortbread cookies are easy enough to cook, simple and tasty recipes that any housewife can handle will help.

Heart shaped shortbread cookies

One of the simplest and most delicious recipes with which you can make shortbread cookies quickly enough. Cooking at home will take about half an hour, and the pleasure will last for a whole day, or maybe even a few.

Children will especially like such sweets, because they have the shape of a heart.

Ingredients:

• flour - 450 g;
• sugar - 120 g;
• butter - 250 g;
• egg yolks - 3 pcs.;
• baking powder - 1.5 tsp;
• vanillin - to taste;
• salt - a pinch.

Preparation:

First of all, you need to sift the flour and put it in a deep bowl, add salt and baking powder. Stir this mixture until smooth. If you don't have baking powder, you can use slaked soda. To do this, add vinegar or lemon juice to a teaspoon of baking soda

In advance, you need to get the butter out of the refrigerator, wait until it becomes soft. Then break the eggs and separate the whites from the yolks. Put the yolks in a bowl in which the dough will be kneaded. Add sugar and vanillin. The resulting mass must be whipped until the moment, until it becomes homogeneous

• Add butter to a mixture consisting of eggs and sugar, then beat everything well until a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
• Next, you need to gradually add the flour mixture. It is best to knead with a spoon initially and then with your hands. After the dough turns into crumbs, put it on the table and continue stirring. Finally, fold it into a lump to make a smooth workpiece.

The resulting dough must be wrapped in cling film or a plastic bag, refrigerated for 20 minutes. During this time, the workpiece will "rest" and will be convenient to prepare

When time has passed, the dough should be laid out on the table, pre-oiled (preferably). You need to roll out a sheet with a thickness of 5 to 7 millimeters. Next, squeeze out the cookies with a heart-shaped shape. The dough remaining at the edges should be combined into one lump and the layer should be rolled out again, repeating the previous steps

If there is no shape in the form of a heart, you can use a glass, then the cookies will turn out to be round. Inventors and creatives alike can craft a mold from a tin

Next, you need to put the blanks on a baking sheet and place them in an oven preheated to 180-190 ° C. Cookies are baked for 15-20 minutes

At this stage, the cookies need to be removed from the oven, sprinkled with sugar or powdered sugar. It is recommended to wait until it cools down. It is better not to eat hot

Simple and delicious shortbread cookies

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Ingredients:

• butter (room temperature) - 60 g
• egg - 1 pc.;
• milk - 2 tbsp. l.;
• flour - 150 g;
• powdered sugar - 80 g;
• vanillin or vanilla sugar to taste.

Preparation:

In advance, you need to put the butter in a room with room temperature, wait until it softens. Then mix it with powdered sugar

Then add eggs, vanillin or vanilla sugar and milk. The mixture should be constantly stirred until smooth

After that, sift the flour and add it to the mixture, mix everything thoroughly. The dough should be thick

• At this stage, the dough should be placed in a pastry bag with any attachment.
• Cover a baking sheet with parchment for baking, put the cookie blanks from a pastry bag on it. Cookies can be of any shape.

Put the baking sheet in a preheated oven, bake at 210 degrees for 15 minutes

The process of making cookies is over - very simple and quick, and most importantly delicious.

Shortbread cookies with chocolate dragees

To make not only delicious shortbread cookies, but also interesting ones, you can use this simple recipe. At home, you will get incredibly beautiful and unusual cookies.

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Ingredients:

• brown sugar (small cane sugar) - 100 g;
• butter - 200 g;
• wheat flour / Flour - 300 g;
• salt (pinch);
• dark chocolate (for decoration) - 50 g;
• dragee (M & M's, packs of 45 g. 2 bags per dough, 1 - for decoration) - 3 bags.

Preparation:

To get the perfect shortbread dough, you should remember the proportions - for one part of sugar, take two parts of butter, as well as three parts of flour, and finally add a pinch of salt

• Take fine cane sugar (100 grams), it is imperative to prepare fine sugar, large sugar will not work. You also need to prepare 200 grams of butter (softened). Thanks to cane sugar, the cookies will have a very beautiful color and taste like caramel.
• Take a deep bowl, beat the sugar and butter in it until the sugar is completely dissolved. This usually takes 7 minutes.
• Then take three parts of flour, in this recipe - 300 grams. Sift half the flour, add a pinch of salt. Stir everything with a spatula, pour in two packs of dragees, then add the rest of the flour.

• Initially, the dough must be kneaded with a spatula, and then with your hands. Do not stir it for too long, otherwise it will become very tough.
• After the ingredients are completely mixed, the dough will not crumble, it must be put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
• If the dough is still crumbling, you can add 2 teaspoons of cold water to it.
• When the dough has cooled, it must be laid out in the form of a rectangle, placed between two sheets of parchment or cling film. It should be rolled into a layer 1 centimeter thick.

Then the film must be removed, and the dough layer must be cut into ten rectangles. Put cookies on a baking sheet, bake in a preheated oven to 190 degrees for 20 minutes

Cocoa cookies

Another simple recipe, thanks to which you can prepare delicious homemade shortbread cookies, and spending a minimum of time and effort. Even children can help in this matter, if desired. This method of baking will be within the power of even novice cooks.

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 cup flour
• 100 grams of margarine, or butter (margarine is used in the recipe);
• 1/4 cup cocoa
• some powdered sugar for dusting the cookies, if you wish, you can replace the powdered sugar with melted chocolate.

Preparation:

Prepare a deep bowl, put pre-softened margarine in it

Add sugar

Mix everything thoroughly until the sugar is completely dissolved in the margarine

• Then add flour to the mixture.
• Add cocoa.

At this stage, you need to knead the dough. It is recommended to do this with your hands

• Next, the dough must be divided into small pieces, about the size of a walnut.
• Using a curly knife or fork, lightly press down the ball so that small depressions are formed in the workpiece.

• Put the prepared crumpled balls on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper for baking. It is important to keep the distance between the cookies.
• Place the baking sheet in a preheated oven to 180 degrees and bake for 20-25 minutes.
• After the time runs out, the baking sheet with cookies must be removed from the oven and put to cool. When it's cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar on top.

You can also use another option for decorating the cookies - pour chocolate. To do this, you need 50 grams of milk chocolate or white chocolate without any additives. Melt the chocolate in a water bath.

After the cookies have completely cooled, they should be poured with melted chocolate and placed in the refrigerator for half an hour. Serve and eat such sweetness already when the chocolate is completely frozen.

Shortbread cookies with sour cream with almonds

A fairly simple and quick recipe for making delicious shortbread cookies at home. Perfect for women who have small children, and with them it is rare to find time for cooking. The cookies are very tender, crumbly and fragrant.

Ingredients:

• flour - 280 g;
• icing sugar - 80 g;
• butter - 150 g;
• sour cream 20% - 100 g;
• vanillin - 1 g;
• salt - 3 g;
• almonds - 50 g;
• egg yolks - 1 pc.

Preparation:

• Combine flour, icing sugar, salt and vanillin. Then add the softened butter. Grind into crumbs with your fingers.
• Then you need to form a hole in the sand crumbs and add sour cream. Knead the dough gently until it becomes soft and elastic. After that, the dough must be placed in the refrigerator for 60 minutes.

Take a small piece of dough, mold it into a ball, then press down a little. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper

Cover the cookies with whipped egg yolk

Put almonds in the center of the cookies, and put the baking sheet in a preheated oven up to 200 ° C. Bake for 15-20 minutes

The cookies are ready, you just have to make tea or coffee

Shortbread cookies are one of the simplest options for tea or coffee biscuits. There are many simple and delicious recipes that make it easy to make baked goods at home.