Homemade cookies are a great dessert for tea. It can be baked from the simplest set of foods. Try to make soft butter cookies, giving it the shape of men, stars, Christmas trees, animals. Finished products can be sprinkled with powdered sugar, covered with marmalade or icing, decorated with chocolate, colored beads and candied fruits.
Butter English Cookies
Decorate these cookies with sugar or chocolate icing. Try colored chocolate instead of regular dark chocolate. It not only looks unusual, but also gives baked goods a variety of flavor nuances. Finished products can not only be served for tea, but also presented as a gift.
You will need:
- 125 g butter;
- 75 g of sugar;
- 0.5 lemons;
-2 yolks;
- a pinch of vanillin;
- 200 g of wheat flour;
- 50 g of colored chocolate in tablets (strawberry, orange, mint);
- 50 g of white chocolate;
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of cream.
Mix softened butter with sugar, vanilla and grated lemon zest. Add yolks and grind everything into a homogeneous mass. Pour the sifted flour in portions, knead the dough. Wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Roll out the chilled dough on a floured board. Cut out the figures with molds. Bake them in an oven preheated to 200 ° C. Remove the finished cookies from the baking sheet and refrigerate. Arrange chocolate tablets of different colors in saucepans or bowls and melt them over low heat or in the microwave, adding a spoonful of cream to each container.
Start decorating Using a teaspoon, coat the surface of the cookie with chocolate. Choose a shade as you wish - for example, you can make the Christmas trees green by putting mint chocolate on them. Let the frosting set, then draw melted white chocolate into a pastry syringe and apply random strokes over the colored frosting. Additionally, products can be decorated with sugar beads.
Soft curd biscuits
Biscuits made from cottage cheese can be served for breakfast or afternoon tea. It turns out to be not only tasty, but also very nutritious.
You will need:
- 200 g of cottage cheese;
- 200 g thick sour cream;
- 200 g of wheat flour;
- 2 eggs;
- a pinch of vanillin;
- 0.5 cups of sugar;
- 0.5 teaspoons of soda;
- powdered sugar for sprinkling.
Mash cottage cheese with sugar and vanilla, add baking soda, beaten eggs and pre-sifted wheat flour. Knead the dough that is not steep, put it in a ball, wrap it with cling film and refrigerate for half an hour.
Roll out the dough on a floured board. The layer should not be too thin. Cut out the figures with a metal notch, place them on a greased baking sheet. Bake the cookies in an oven preheated to 180 ° C until golden brown. Remove the products from the baking sheet, refrigerate on the wire rack. Sprinkle the caster sugar over the cookies before serving.
