Crumbly shortcrust pastry biscuits with a lot of butter are very tender and tasty. It can be decorated with glaze or jam, cocoa, candied fruits and other ingredients can be added to the dough. It is important not to eat too many treats - these cookies are very high in calories.
Oil stars
This liver just melts in your mouth. With a pastry syringe, you can shape your baked goods into stars, flowers, or curls.
You will need:
- 250 g butter;
- 250 g of wheat flour;
- 100 g of cane sugar;
- 1 egg yolk;
- 2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar.
Whisk the softened butter with granulated sugar and vanilla sugar until smooth. Add the yolk and continue beating. Sift the flour and add it to the mixture. Knead a soft dough. Place it in a piping bag or star syringe.
Line a baking sheet with baking paper. Syringe the cookies in the form of flowers. If you don't have a syringe, roll small lumps of dough into balls, place them on a baking sheet and press lightly with your fingers or a fork. Place the cookies in an oven preheated to 190 ° C. Bake for 12 minutes, then chill on a wire rack and serve.
Cherry cookies
Butter dough can be used to bake crumbly cookies with a pleasant cherry aroma. Add ground cinnamon and ginger to the dough for extra piquancy.
You will need:
- 125 g butter;
- 1 egg;
- 220 g of wheat flour;
- 100 g of icing sugar;
- 90 g candied or dried cherries;
- 0.5 teaspoons of ground cinnamon;
- 0.5 teaspoons of ginger powder.
Mash butter with sugar. Separate the yolk from the white and add to the butter. Sift flour, mix with ginger and cinnamon. Combine the flour mixture with the butter mixture, add the cherries and mix the dough thoroughly. Knead it out with your hands, but don't wrinkle it too much. If the dough is too soft, place it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Roll out the dough on a floured board, and then cut out the cookies with a metal mold. Place it on a greased baking sheet. Place the products in an oven preheated to 200 ° C and bake for 10 minutes.
Beat the egg white until firm. Remove the cookies from the oven, brush the surface with protein and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Return the baking sheet to the oven again. Cook the cookies until golden brown, which will take about 5 minutes.
Chocolate chip cookies
Cocoa butter cookies can be decorated with chocolate icing. Use white chocolate for variety, the dessert is very unusual.
You will need:
- 250 g of wheat flour;
- 140 g butter;
- 120 g of sugar;
- 1 egg yolk;
- 100 g of white chocolate without additives;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of cocoa powder;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of cream or milk.
Mash sugar and softened butter until white. Add egg yolk and cocoa powder, then add sifted flour in portions. Knead a soft dough and use a pastry syringe to place the cookies in the form of strips or verbs on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
Preheat oven to 200 ° C and bake cookies in it until golden brown. Remove it from the baking sheet and cool on the board. Heat white chocolate with cream in a saucepan, stir it. Take a cookie and dip it halfway into melted chocolate. Then place the items on a greased plate. When the frosting has set, transfer the pastries to a platter and serve.
