Airy, delicate, tasty and crispy cookies actually cook quickly and easily. You can knead the dough for it with your own hands or purchase finished layers in the store. It may or may not be yeast, but the main ingredients are butter and flour. From this test it is better to bake small products with various fillings, sweet and not only.

Cookies Puff Pastry Options

The dough can be made at home on your own. The main thing is the presence of flour, butter and a small amount of salt. Of course, a lot of time will be spent on mixing it, but the result will definitely not disappoint. True, there are many “quick” recipes when beer, yeast, water, sour cream or cottage cheese are added to the batch.

Yeast-free

To make cookies from yeast-free dough, you need flour (about half a kilogram), butter (350 g), water (250 g), salt (0.5 tsp).

Mixing is performed in the following order:

  • Pour salt into the flour, stir (leave a little flour for sprinkling).
  • Pour in water and softened oil (seventh).
  • Make the dough, kneading it for about a minute.
  • Put in polyethylene and refrigerate for an hour.
  • From the remaining oil, make a plate about 1 cm thick.
  • Roll the ball from the dough, cut it crosswise in the middle, open the "petals", roll them out.
  • Put the oil plate in the center, cover it with “petals” so that there are no gaps.
  • Sprinkle with flour, beat off slightly with a rolling pin and carefully roll out so that the dough does not tear.
  • Fold the rolled sheet three times, wrap it with polyethylene and send it again in the refrigerator for an hour.
  • The rolling and folding procedure is repeated three more times, not forgetting after putting the dough in a cold place.

Yeast

To make it, you will need fresh (70 g) or dry (about 25 g) yeast.In addition, for 250 g of flour: a pack of margarine, 50 g of sour cream, 25 g of sugar, yolk, 0.5 tsp. salt and a quarter cup of milk.

How to knead:

  • Dilute yeast and sugar in heated milk, stir in a spoonful of flour. Put fermented in a warm place.
  • Combine the flour with salt, add chopped margarine and knead until crumbs form.
  • Separately mix the yolks and sour cream, pour them into crumbs, mix thoroughly.
  • Pour in fermented yeast and knead the dough.

On beer

Delicate homemade cookies can be obtained from dough mixed in beer. This recipe involves mixing flour with hot oil. At 8 tbsp. flour take half a kilogram of margarine and a glass of light beer.

Making such a dough is easy:

  • Melt margarine and immediately pour into flour. Stir.
  • Pour in beer and knead the dough.
  • Wrap it in foil and put in the freezer.

To prepare cookies, the dough is thawed, thinly rolled, folded in several layers and rolled again. Next, cut out various figures, place them on a baking sheet and bake until golden brown.

Ready Puff Pastry

It can be purchased at the store to bake a quick and tasty dessert for relatives. As they say, little cost - a lot of fun. You can make cookies from yeast dough or choose a yeast-free option. It is usually sold in packs of half a kilogram. This is convenient in the sense that it is enough for baking dessert for dinner, and there is a guarantee that nothing will be lost.

Cookies with various fillings

 

Puff pastry can be cooked with various fillings and without it. It all depends on the preferences of a particular cook. What is puff pastry baked with?

With cottage cheese

 

To prepare biscuits with curd filling, a pound of dough will need 125 g of cottage cheese, rubbed through a sieve, a little raisins (2 tablespoons), a couple of eggs, 2 tablespoons. granulated sugar and powder for sprinkling.

How to do:

  • Mix cottage cheese, eggs, sugar and raisins - this is the filling.
  • Roll out the dough and divide into small squares.
  • Put 1 tsp in the center of the squares. mix, collect the corners, press.
  • Each puff is laid out on a baking sheet (pre-grease) and smeared with a beaten egg.
  • Bake a third of an hour at a temperature of 200 ° C.

After cooling, rouge cookies with cottage cheese to sprinkle with powder.

With jam

 

You can bake the original “Windmills” cookies with jam (150 g per half a kilogram of dough).

Make it easy:

  • Roll out the dough (about 5 mm thick).
  • Divide it into squares (the side of the square is about 8 cm).
  • Put a teaspoon of jam in the middle.
  • Cut the corners of the squares in half to the core of the jam. You should get a kind of flower with four triangular petals.
  • Bend the corners to the center in one: we get cookies in the form of a weather vane.
  • Spread the resulting cookies on a baking sheet, if desired, grease with a yolk mass.
  • We bake for 18 minutes at a temperature of 190 °.

With jam

To make cookies with jam, half a kilogram of dough will need 300 ml of jam and a yolk to lubricate the surface (optional).

What we do next:

  • Roll out the dough, having previously thawed it.
  • Lubricate with jam, try to do it carefully so as not to drain.
  • We turn the dough into a tube, cut obliquely from left to right and right to left alternately: we get pieces of a trapezoidal shape.
  • We lay them on a baking sheet wide side down.
  • Separately, beat the yolk, grease the surface with it.
  • We put in the oven, heated to 180 °, for half an hour.

Sweet with sugar

A sugar puff pastry cookie recipe is as follows:

  • Prepare products: for 250 g of puff pastry take 1 egg and about 3 tablespoons. Sahara.
  • Thawed dough is rolled out (0.4 cm thick). At the same time, the oven is turned on to heat up.
  • Beat the eggs, grease the dough with the resulting mass and sprinkle with sugar.
  • Cookies are squeezed out with cookie cutters and laid out on a baking sheet sprinkled with water.
  • Bake for 20 minutes at a temperature of 230 °.

With spices

 

You can sprinkle puff pastry with sesame seeds, poppy seeds and cinnamon (all at once or with just one) and make original cookies with an unforgettable taste. For 1 kg of dough you will need 2 eggs, 8 tbsp. sugar and sesame, 4 tbsp. poppy seeds and a teaspoon of cinnamon.

Having prepared all the products, we proceed to the preparation of the dessert:

  • Coat the rolled puff layer with a beaten egg.
  • Sprinkle with sugar mixed with poppy seeds and sesame seeds, squeeze a little. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
  • Cut into strips with a width of 2 cm, twist them with a spiral.
  • Biscuits - put the spirals on a baking sheet and bake until browning at 220 ° C.

Chocolate - with cocoa

To make chocolate tongues, you need 0.3 kg of flour, 0.2 kg of margarine and sour cream, 50 g of cocoa and sugar (optional).

First knead the dough:

  • Sifting the flour, knead it with pieces of margarine to a crumbly state.
  • It is mixed with sour cream, rolled into a ball and wrapped with a film, left for a couple of hours in a cold place.

After proceeding to create cookies:

  • Roll out the dough so that an elongated rectangle is obtained.
  • Sprinkle the middle with a mixture of cocoa and sugar (about a third of the plate).
  • Cover the side, the top again sprinkled with a mixture.
  • Cover with the second side and again roll out a long plate.
  • The process of sprinkling with a mixture of cocoa and sugar is repeated, after which the dough is rolled up and rolled.
  • Divide the rolled sheet into small pieces, twist them a little and lay them on a baking sheet.
  • Bake a third of an hour at a temperature of 200 ° C.

Without filling

 

It happens that the tastes of all family members are different: someone wants savory cookies, and someone more like fruit filling. You can get out of the situation by preparing cookies without filling (after all, the dough is initially unsweetened!) And serving sauce or syrup to it.

Without filling, you can make cookies of various shapes:

  • “Shapes”: cut out various shapes from the rolled dough with a knife or tins;
  • “Bows”: cut the rolled sheet into squares, fold them diagonally, make 2 cuts to the left and right of the central corner towards the middle, unfold the blank, wrap the base with cut strips, forming a bow.
  • "Ears": manufacturing technology is disclosed a little lower.
  • "Rolls": coat rolled dough with margarine, roll up with a tube and cut into pieces 4 mm thick. Bake by laying sideways on a baking sheet.

Ears with sugar

Berlin cake, it is also called "ears", in the classic recipe is covered with glaze. Kneading the dough on the cottage cheese and adding lemon juice to the icing will give the dessert sophistication and chic.

All recipes for making “ears” have the same technology for creating cookies: first, the dough is rolled into a rectangular shape, then sprinkled with filling, then rolled from opposite ends to the middle, the resulting “double” tube is divided into 4 cm pieces, laid out on a baking sheet and baked . The recipes differ in the filling or composition of the test.

Classic recipe

To make “ears” cookies from puff pastry according to a traditional recipe, you need to take 500 g of cottage cheese, butter and flour (you need the highest grade to make the cookies softer and airier), 6 tsp. baking powder, 1.5 cups of sugar, a little salt, lemon juice (you can squeeze from 2 lemons) and 0.5 l of powdered sugar. The dish is prepared for almost 2 hours, taking into account the time when the dough will be cooled in the freezer.

To knead the dough, you need:

  • Combine flour with salt and baking powder.
  • Put chopped butter, cottage cheese and knead the dough.
  • Roll it to 5 mm thick, roll in half and roll again. Perform these steps at least 8 times.
  • Place the dough for 8 hours in the refrigerator or for an hour in the freezer.

The dough is ready. You can cook cookies with a filling - sugar. They cover the baking sheet with baking paper, put cookies on it at a distance of about half the “eye” and send it for a quarter of an hour to the oven, heated to 220 °.

While the "ears" are baked, they make syrup. To do this, mix lemon juice with powder.Cookies are dipped in this syrup and enjoy the unforgettable taste of lemon-flavored air cakes.

Quick recipe

For dessert, take the finished dough (0.5 kg) and sugar (4 tablespoons).

How to cook:

  • Sprinkle the dough finely (about 4 mm) with water and sprinkle with sugar (you can add vanillin).
  • Fold the opposite sides to the middle. If the layer is wide, then you need to fold it again and slightly press down.
  • Sprinkle with sugar again and fold in half, covering the lower side of the upper, crush again.
  • Cut the resulting sausage into pieces 3 cm thick.
  • Lay on the baking sheet sideways.
  • Bake in an oven heated to 180 ° for about 12 minutes.

You can cook a puff dessert with honey: it is taken in the amount of 2 tbsp. to the same proportions of dough and sugar as in the previous recipe. The reservoir in this case is lubricated with honey, they also smear the place where the tubules close. Formed cookies sprinkle with sugar and bake until golden for 12 minutes.

Delicious flavored cookies with a milky taste will turn out if the rolled dough is first greased with heated oil mixed with milk, and then sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.

What else can you sprinkle with “ears”:

  • chopped nuts;
  • chocolate
  • various spices;
  • coconut flakes;
  • liquid caramel;
  • icing sugar.

What else do you need to know

A few truths for beginner cooks:

  • it is undesirable to twist the dough into a tube too tight, otherwise the cookies will not be as lush as we would like;
  • cottage cheese should be without lumps;
  • you can make savory pastries, stuffing it with cheese, caviar, finely chopped boiled meat or fish;
  • if you start with raw products, then the dough is most likely not to be baked;
  • you need to work with puff pastry very quickly until it is warm.

It is not necessary to use the prepared dough immediately: you can leave it in storage in the refrigerator for up to 10 days.

Related:More from the author: