Many housewives pamper loved ones with exquisite delicacies and fresh homemade cakes, presenting real wonders of the culinary art. And the most frequent guests in the house are tender and crumbly cookies. As a basis for homemade cookies, you can take biscuit, shortbread, cottage cheese, sour cream or any other dough, adding, if desired, various aromatic spices, nuts, raisins, flakes or candied fruits.
Quite simple in the recipe for cookies based on shortbread dough. As a rule, the list of ingredients for this type of baking is quite traditional: flour, sugar, butter and salt. So, to make simple cookies you will need:
- 180 g butter;
- 0.5 cups of sugar;
- 2 cups of flour;
- 1/4 tsp salt.
For any shortbread cookie, the butter should be melted beforehand and allowed to cool slightly.
Whisk the butter and sugar, gradually adding the sifted flour and salt. Next, roll the resulting mass and give the cookies the desired shape using various contours in the form of berries, animals or geometric shapes. To make the cookies work, cook them in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for no more than 5-7 minutes. You can include poppy seeds, sesame seeds, vanilla or any other spice in the recipe to taste.
If you want to indulge yourself with cheese cookies, you will need the following:
- 150 g softened butter;
- 150-200 g of hard cheese;
- 200 g flour;
- salt and spices to taste.
Mix the listed components together and put the finished mass in the refrigerator for half an hour. Then roll out the dough and cut the molds out of it. Bake until golden amber, and sprinkle with grated cheese for a richer flavor.
Cookies can also be made from dough, the main components of which are sour cream or cottage cheese. At the same time, soda or baking powder is often added to such recipes to get a light dough, a bit like a puff. Fragrant, as well as light in calorie content, you get a cookie, the recipe of which contains the following components:
- 200 g of fine-grained cottage cheese (better - 5%);
- 150 g margarine (butter can be used);
- 230 g flour;
- 2 tbsp. l. milk;
- ½ tsp. slaked soda;
- sugar - for dusting;
- one egg - for greasing.
Grind finely chopped margarine with cottage cheese and leave to "breathe" a little. Then add sifted flour, milk and quenched soda.
Soda can be quenched not only with vinegar, but also with kefir, fermented baked milk or a little sour cream.
Form one sausage from the resulting dough, and then cut it into pieces and press, as if forming a circle with a diameter of about two centimeters. Sprinkle the rolled out piece of dough with sugar and, once folded in half, sprinkle with sugar again. Then roll up again - you get a small triangle, and brush with a beaten egg.
If desired, you can sprinkle the resulting cookies with sugar, as well as cinnamon or vanilla, which go well with the curd base. Cook the cottage cheese biscuits in the oven at 175 ° C for about 15 minutes (until a delicate golden crust appears).
Homemade livers can also be cooked in cucumber pickle. For this recipe you will need:
- 1 glass of brine;
- 0.5 cups of refined sunflower oil;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 3-4 glasses of flour;
- a little less than a tsp. slaked soda.
Stir the ingredients indicated in the recipe in a deep cup, and then with a tablespoon in small portions (after about 2 cm), spread the resulting dough on a baking sheet. Cookies should be baked at 180 ° C for about 20 minutes.
