Decorative Butter Cookies

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Decorative Butter Cookies
Decorative Butter Cookies

Video: Decorative Butter Cookies

Video: Decorative Butter Cookies
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Delicious crumbly biscuits are a classic addition to your dessert. It goes well not only with tea, but also with ice cream and fruit salads. There are two types of biscuits that can be prepared: "Creamy tortillas" and "Domino" biscuits.

Decorative Butter Cookies
Decorative Butter Cookies

It is necessary

  • For creamy tortillas:
  • - 250 g flour;
  • - a pinch of salt;
  • - 2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar;
  • - 1 egg;
  • - 75 g of sugar;
  • - 125 g butter.
  • For decoration:
  • - 2 tablespoons of lemon juice;
  • - 2 tablespoons of white rum;
  • - 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder;
  • - 25 g of candied lemon peels;
  • - 150 g of icing sugar, 2 tablespoons of icing sugar.
  • For Domino cookies:
  • - 400 g flour;
  • - 150 g icing sugar;
  • - 2 eggs, 2 egg whites;
  • - 2 tablespoons of rum;
  • - 200 g butter;
  • - 2 pinches of salt;
  • - 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder.

Instructions

Step 1

Mix egg with sugar, softened butter, salt, vanillin, add flour. Knead the dough quickly. Form a ball out of the dough and, covering it, put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Grease a baking sheet with butter. Roll out the dough in pieces into a 3 mm thick layer and cut any shapes out of it. Place the tortillas on a baking sheet and bake on a medium level in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for 10 minutes until golden brown.

Step 2

Prepare the icing. Divide the sifted icing sugar into 2 parts, mix one with lemon juice, and the other with cocoa and rum. Stir well to form a thick frosting. Brush half of the finished, chilled tortillas with lemon icing and half with chocolate. Sprinkle the icing sugar on the chocolate-coated tortillas and the white lemon-glazed tortillas with finely chopped lemon peel.

Step 3

For Domino cookies, divide the flour and powdered sugar into two equal portions. Add one egg, one tablespoon of rum, 100 g softened butter (flakes) and a pinch of salt to each part. Add cocoa powder to one part flour. Mix all ingredients well. Roll 1 ball and 1 rope of 3 * 3 cm from each part of the dough.

Step 4

You should get: 2 plaits (dark and light) and 2 balls (light and dark). Refrigerate the dough.

Grease a baking sheet with butter. Roll out the balls of dough into layers 0.5 cm thick. Brush with beaten egg white. Lay on top of each other, wrap in a straw and place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Step 5

Cut the roll of dough into 0.5 cm slices. Place them on a baking sheet and bake on a medium oven level at 200 ° C for 12 minutes. Take chilled harnesses of dough. Cut 1/5 part (lengthwise) from the light dough rope, roll it into a thin wide strip, brush it with protein. Cut the remaining light rope lengthwise into 4, and the dark one into 5 equal pieces and roll into pencil-thick sausages.

Step 6

Brush the whole dough with protein. Place all sausages in a checkerboard pattern on a wide strip of light dough and wrap in a roll. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Cut the resulting roll into slices (0.5 cm). Place the cookies on a greased baking sheet and bake for 12 minutes.

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