Loose shortbread dough can be the basis for delicious homemade cookies. Top it off with thick jam or marmalade, as well as frosting, fondant, or streusel. The dessert turns out to be quite high in calories, so try to limit the amount of cookies when tasting.
Try making some pretty chocolate-covered cookies. Use a different color for your baked goods. For example, orange or lemon jam biscuits can be garnished with orange-flavored chocolate, and strawberry jam can be covered with pink strawberry-flavored icing. Classic dark, milk and white chocolates go well with any jam or marmalade.
Mix 200 g butter, 0.5 cups sugar and 2 eggs into a homogeneous mass. Pour in the sifted flour in portions (you need a little more than 2 glasses). Knead the dough with your hands and place in the refrigerator for half an hour.
If desired, the dough can be flavored by adding vanilla sugar, lemon zest, grated toasted nuts, or cinnamon.
Roll out the finished dough on a floured board into a 4 mm thick layer. Cut out the cookie cutters with a curly notch. Collect the dough scraps, knead and roll out again. Spread the cakes on a greased baking sheet, make several punctures on each with a fork. Bake the products in an oven preheated to 220 ° C until golden brown. Remove the cookies from the baking sheet and refrigerate on the board.
Covering with jam, glue the cookies in pairs. Heat two types of chocolate in a water bath, such as milk and white. Cover the surface of the cookie with icing. It is convenient to do this with a teaspoon or a silicone spatula. Let the coating harden, and then apply random strokes of chocolate of a different shade to the surface of the products. Use a plastic bag with a cut corner or a cornet folded from parchment paper.
Try another shortbread variation. Mash 150 g of butter with 1 cup of white sugar. Add the egg and 6 tablespoons of sour cream. Sift 3 cups of flour and add it in portions, kneading a plastic homogeneous dough. Cool it down and roll it into a layer 3-4 mm thick. Pick up 3 slots of different sizes: stars, circles, or flowers. Cut out cookie cutters, place them on a baking sheet and bake at 230 ° C. Cool the blanks, coat them with thick jam and stack them on top of each other in the form of a pyramid. Sprinkle the caster sugar over the cookies.
The dough can be kneaded not only with sour cream, but also with kefir or yogurt.
Cookies decorated with streusel - small butter crumbs - turn out to be very tasty. Knead a dough of 2 eggs, 200 g butter and 0.5 cups granulated sugar. Add 2 cups wheat flour. Place the dough in the cold and cook the streusel. 2 tbsp. mash flour with 40 g of butter, 2 egg yolks and 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar. Knead the mixture until it starts to crumble. If crumbs do not form, refrigerate the mixture and add some more flour to it.
Roll out the finished dough into a layer about 5 mm thick. Lubricate it with jam, spread the streusel on top. Place the dough in the cold and wait for the dough and streusel to harden. Using a sharp knife, cut the layer into diamonds or strips and place the cookies on a baking sheet. Bake the products in an oven preheated to 240 ° C until the streusel is golden brown. Remove the biscuits from the baking sheet, refrigerate and place on a platter.
