Cookies are the basis of home baking. There are many different recipes for this treat, but the easiest to cook and recognizable by taste are the products from shortcrust pastry. To make it right and very quickly will not be difficult if you know how. This will help the recipe for shortcrust pastry for cookies.

Classic shortbread dough for cookies

A popular version of baking is based on using a minimum of ingredients and the right foundation. To make a shortbread dough according to the classic recipe, you need only 15-20 minutes.

Essential Ingredients:

  • flour - 150 g;
  • sugar - 50 g;
  • butter - 100 g;
  • salt - a pinch;
  • vanilla sugar - 1 sachet.

Work Stages:

  1. Mix in a deep container soft butter of high fat content with regular and vanilla sugar. By the way, for those who prefer to monitor their own weight, you can use olive oil.
  2. When the sugar has completely dissolved, add salt and begin to pour the sifted flour in parts. At this time, actively mix the components of the dough.
  3. Knead the elastic base, roll it into a ball and wrap it in cling film. Put in the refrigerator for 30-60 minutes.
  4. After the specified time, we take out the workpiece, roll it out with a 0.5 cm thick layer.
  5. It remains only to cut out cookies from the prepared dough and bake it at high temperature for 10-15 minutes.

Important! Shortbread dough does not like freezing, and therefore it should be used on the day of preparation.

Cooking on kefir

Conventional shortbread hardens very quickly and becomes inedible. You can correct the situation if during the preparation of the baking test add a little kefir. This will make the treats softer and tastier.

Structure:

  • flour - 2 tbsp .;
  • kefir - 130 ml;
  • butter or margarine - 130 g;
  • eggs - 2 pcs.;
  • sugar - 1 tbsp .;
  • vanilla sugar - 1 sachet;
  • salt - ½ tsp;
  • cinnamon - 1 tsp;
  • baking soda or baking powder - 1 tsp.

 

Work Stages:

  1. Beat the eggs, add the baking powder, regular sugar and vanilla, salt, and cinnamon.
  2. We mix the components, beat until foam, then combine with slightly warmed kefir.
  3. Melt the butter in a water bath or in the microwave, pour into the main composition.
  4. Sift the flour, partly introduce to the other components, while kneading the dough. Knead the resulting composition well to remove all the lumps.
  5. We shift the dough into a food bag, put it in the refrigerator for several hours.
  6. We get the workpiece, divide it into parts. We roll out each layer with a small thickness, sprinkle flour on top so that future cookies do not stick together.
  7. It remains to cut out sand products, bake them in the oven and decorate according to personal preference.

Sour cream based option

Homemade sour cream will help make shortbread dough even more tender and supple for making fragrant cookies.

Necessary components:

  • flour - 400 g;
  • sugar - 200 g;
  • sour cream - 220 ml;
  • butter - 150 g;
  • eggs - 2 pcs.;
  • vanilla sugar - 1 tbsp. l .;
  • baking powder - 1.5 tsp;
  • salt - ½ tsp

Work Stages:

  1. Sift the flour on the table with the baking powder.
  2. Beat butter with a vanilla and regular sugar mixer. In the process, add salt and eggs.
  3. Pour sour cream, combine the ingredients into a homogeneous mixture.
  4. Pour dry components in parts, mix, reaching the consistency of soft dough.
  5. We wrap the resulting workpiece in a cling film or a regular bag, remove for a few hours, and even better at night, in the refrigerator.
  6. Roll out the cooled dough with a thick layer, sprinkle with flour, and begin to squeeze out cookies with the help of small molds.
  7. We bake it in the oven, and after it cools down, serve it to the table.

Important! Roll out the dough should be just a thick layer, otherwise after cooling the cookies will harden very quickly.

How to make without eggs

Most often, eggs are added to the baking dough so that future products acquire a beautiful color and are malleable during their preparation. It turns out that you can quickly and tasty make an excellent shortcrust pastry without this component. Let's check.

Essential Ingredients:

  • flour - 2.5 tbsp .;
  • sour cream - 150 ml;
  • sugar - 1 tbsp .;
  • butter - 200 g;
  • salt - a pinch;
  • vanilla, nutmeg, cinnamon, anise - ½ tsp each.

Work Stages:

  1. We take out the oil from the refrigerator an hour before making the dough, so that it becomes soft. After we knead the ingredient with a fork or whisk, then mix it with sugar. Grind both components.
  2. Pour salt and flour. Add the spices indicated in the composition. Stir the mixture until smooth, until fragrant crumbs are obtained.
  3. Pour the sour cream, begin to knead the dough with your hands.
  4. Wrap the finished composition in a food bag and remove for several hours in the cold. For cookies, 2 hours in the refrigerator will be enough, while for a grated pie it is better to stand the workpiece for 40 minutes in the freezer.
  5. It remains to make cookies out of shortcrust pastry, bake it in the oven, and after cooling, transfer to a beautiful basket and serve with tea to the table.

Cottage Cheese Recipe

If you add a little cottage cheese to the shortcrust pastry, you will get an excellent preparation for tasty and healthy homemade cakes. To achieve what you want, you have to knead the shortbread dough on margarine.

  • fat cottage cheese - 220 g;
  • sugar - 1 tbsp .;
  • margarine - 220 g;
  • flour - 2 tbsp .;
  • eggs - 2 pcs.;
  • vanillin - ½ tsp;
  • baking powder - 1 tsp;
  • salt - ½ tsp

Work Stages:

  1. First you have to grind the cottage cheese through a fine sieve or knock down a food processor to a homogeneous consistency.
  2. Sift the flour and let it warm up a little.
  3. Melt margarine in the microwave to make it liquid.
  4. Beat the whisk with sugar. In the process, add vanillin and salt. A persistent foam should be achieved.
  5. Pour the melted and slightly cooled oil, continue to whisk.We introduce cottage cheese, mix the ingredients, after parts pour the flour and baking powder. Knead the soft dough, wrap it with foil, put it in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours to cool the workpiece.
  6. We roll out the resulting base with a cake of small thickness, using special molds we squeeze out cookies or cut it out at our own discretion.
  7. We send products to the oven for 15 minutes at maximum temperature.

Cookies made from shortcrust pastry are even tastier if you add chocolate icing or sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Soft and crumbly shortcrust pastry

Having a recipe for a good dough in stock, in a few hours you can make amazing cookies that children especially like. The result of simple work will be soft, but still friable pastries with an original taste and delicate aroma.

Structure:

  • flour - 460 g;
  • butter - 230 g;
  • sugar - 200 g;
  • eggs - 2 pcs.;
  • sour cream - 150 ml;
  • lemon peel - 1 tbsp. l .;
  • vanillin - ½ tsp;
  • walnuts - a handful;
  • baking powder - 3 tsp;
  • salt - ½ tsp

Work Stages:

  1. Sift flour together with baking powder. We give time to warm up - 12-15 minutes.
  2. In a deep container, beat the eggs with sugar using a mixer. We lay soft butter, continue to whisk. We drive vanillin, lemon zest and a handful of salt.
  3. After that we add sour cream and nuts, brought to the state of crumbs in a food processor.
  4. Gradually drive the flour along with the baking powder, knead the dough. When the base becomes elastic, wrap it with a film and remove it in the cold.
  5. After 1 hour, we roll out the dough with a 1 cm layer, squeeze out cookie cutters with cookie cutters, send them to the oven for 20 minutes.

As you can see, making an excellent treat on your own is quite easy if you have a few good shortcake recipes in stock. Experiment, easily create fragrant goodies and enjoy your meal!

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