You probably remember the awesome granny cookies from your childhood. It was then baked in bulky Soviet forms, and they were all standard - stars, hearts, bears. And today there is the same opportunity to please yourself and your loved ones with traditional and delicious cookies. Only the forms can now be bought as your heart desires. There are many homemade cookie recipes, but the main secrets of such baking remain unchanged.
Regardless of whether you still have a rare Soviet cookie cutter, or you just bought a new one, it is important to properly prepare it for use. New molds or molds that have not been used for a long time, as well as molds with traces of burning, soot should be thoroughly cleaned. To do this, use cleaning gels.
It is not recommended to use powders and iron sponges for cleaning molds.
After cleaning, boil the mold in water for about an hour. Before baking, the form must be thoroughly greased with butter or vegetable oil and heated, since the dough is laid out only in hot molds. There are two types of cookie cutters: gas and oven baking. As a rule, bulky, thick-walled baking dishes are used for gas baking. Thinner forms are placed on a baking sheet in the oven.
It is also important to strictly follow the recipe. There are quite a few options for making homemade cookies in the form. The main thing is to strictly observe all proportions. The consistency of your biscuits - crisp, biscuity or crumbly - depends on how and in what quantities the butter is mixed with sugar and flour.
It is very important to properly prepare the oil. For baking, some recipes use butter, and some use margarine. Do not melt them on the stove, otherwise the cookies will turn out too oily to the touch.
The oil used should be thawed at room temperature until it becomes a thick cream. To do this, remove the oil from the refrigerator and let it sit for 2 hours. If you want it to melt faster, cut it into small cubes.
You can use a traditional recipe to make homemade biscuits in tins.
You will need the following ingredients:
- 3 glasses of flour;
- 1 glass of granulated sugar;
- margarine 1 pack - 250 g;
- sour cream 15% fat - 200 g;
- 3 eggs (the whites must be separated from the yolks);
- salt (on the tip of a knife);
- tea soda (half a teaspoon);
- vinegar (1 teaspoon);
- vanillin, raisins to taste.
Whisk the egg whites, mix the yolks with sugar, and mix the margarine thoroughly with flour. Then combine everything, add vanillin, raisins to taste, knead the dough until a homogeneous creamy mass. In preheated forms, you need to put the dough in a thin layer and cut off the excess around the edges, otherwise the excess will burn.
The baking time depends on which baking dish you have. If the cookies are baked on gas, then the mold should be thoroughly warmed up on both sides until the butter boils, then lay out the dough, and the baking time on each side should be from 1 to 3 minutes. Again, it all depends on how thick the mold is and what material it is made of. In any case, it is best to prevent scorching. Gas cookies bake very quickly, so check carefully several times.
If the form is thin and the cookies are baked in the oven on a baking sheet, then the baking should take 10-15 minutes. Ovens are also different, so control is important here.
Another secret of delicious cookies in molds is to cool them correctly. Hot biscuits should be placed on baking paper sprinkled with granulated sugar. Cover with a thin linen cloth on top.
Compliance with these simple rules will help you easily and quickly bake delicious, delicate cookies in molds, please your loved ones and loved ones with a delicacy. Sugar animals and figures for toddlers are especially attractive.
