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Who doesn't love fragrant, tender, tasty, shortbread crumbly cookies? It literally melts in your mouth, it goes perfectly with a cup of coffee. There are interesting recipes for shortbread cookies - with and without filling, of various shapes, sizes, colors, with the addition of chocolate, cocoa. It leaves no one indifferent, because absolutely everyone will like this recipe. Probably every housewife has her own favorite [...]

Who doesn't love fragrant, tender, tasty, shortbread crumbly cookies? It literally melts in your mouth, it goes well with a cup of coffee. There are interesting recipes for shortbread cookies - with and without filling, of various shapes, sizes, colors, with the addition of chocolate, cocoa. It leaves no one indifferent, because absolutely everyone will like this recipe.

Probably, every housewife has her own favorite recipe for a successful shortcrust pastry cookie. For example, "Zolotaya Niva" can easily replace a cake on a festive table, it is perfect for a children's party.

And those who follow the figure can pay attention to the recipes for cottage cheese cookies, where there are fewer calories, but the taste has not suffered from this. Shortcrust pastry is very pliable and is usually obtained even by novice housewives, and children will help to form cookies.

Looking through the recipes for making shortbread dough, you can see that in some it is recommended to add softened butter, while in others it is recommended to whip cold butter along with flour.

And if you look through the Internet, you can see that for the same recipe, different chefs offer different cooking technologies. As a result, the baked goods are the same or different?

Let's try to deal with this issue. A few tips will be helpful for those who decide to treat themselves to delicious shortbread cookies:

1. All ingredients must be pre-chilled.
2. Be sure to sift the flour. And if you add potato starch instead of flour (replace it with about a third of the flour), then the cookies will turn out to be especially tender and crumbly.
3. The best friend of shortcrust pastry is cold, which allows you to prepare it for future use and use it as needed.
4. It is most convenient to roll out the dough on the table, which is sprinkled with flour or powdered sugar. You can do this between two sheets of baking paper.
5. The dough turns out to be quite greasy, so it is not necessary to grease the baking dishes with oil.

Despite the simplicity of the shortbread dough technology, often housewives, especially beginners, do not get cookies.

The most common mistakes are:

• the dough does not hold its shape during rolling, it crumbles strongly. Warm products were used to knead the dough, which does not have the best effect on the quality of the product;
• the dough turned out to be lingering, shrinks when rolling. Little oil, but a lot of liquid and flour;
• after baking, the products crumble strongly and turn out to be rough. The dough was warm;
• the cookies turned out to be very brittle and crumble a lot. Either a lot of oil, or only the yolk is used, and not a whole chicken egg;
• the products turned out to be very tough, like glass. A lot of sugar or only egg whites were used.

And now we propose to consider several of the most popular recipes, following which you can bake delicious crumbly cookies at home.

The recipe for the simplest shortbread dough (always obtained)

This recipe is suitable for those who do not know how to make shortbread dough, that is, they are faced with it for the first time. Everything is simple in it: 1 part sugar, 2 parts fat and 3 parts flour. You can add anything - vanillin, nuts, cocoa, seeds, make cookies of any shape.

Ingredients:

• oil - 100 g;
• sugar - 50 g;
• wheat flour - 150 g;
• a pinch of salt.

Preparation:

1. Oil at room temperature (no need to melt), beat with sugar and a pinch of salt. Add flour gradually. Knead the dough.
2. If you plan to add cocoa, then you need to reduce the amount of flour.
3. Bake in an oven heated to 180-200 degrees for 15-20 minutes, until golden brown.
4. Allow to cool and decorate as you wish.

Cooking time - 10 minutes.

Difficulty - for beginners.

Purpose: for dinner, for a children's party, for dessert, for an afternoon snack, baby food.

Cookies Zolotaya Niva

These cookies turn out to be insanely tender, they melt in your mouth. It can be supplemented with chopped nuts, cherries, chocolate icing and waffle chips will be a decoration and a delicious addition.

Ingredients:

• oil - 200 g for the dough, 150 g for the glaze;
• sour cream - 120 g;
• chicken egg - 4 pcs.;
• flour - 450 g;
• sugar - 200 g;
• milk - 100 g;
• cocoa powder - 20 g;
• soda - 1 tsp. (slaked with vinegar);
• nuts, waffles.

Preparation

1. Boil the eggs. Grate the yolks, add softened butter, sour cream and soda slaked with vinegar to them. To mix everything.
2. Add flour and knead the dough.
3. Divide the dough into 2 parts and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Then roll out the dough 3-4 mm thick and cut out the round cookies. Bake in the oven until golden brown.
4. Prepare the icing: mix milk, cocoa, butter and sugar. Cook over medium heat until sugar dissolves.
5. Dip the cooled cookies in the finished icing, then roll them in waffle crumbs, you can use crushed nuts for this.

Difficulty - medium.

Purpose: for breakfast, for children, for a holiday, for an afternoon snack.

Cottage cheese biscuits "Shells"

These crumbly shortbread cookies are a treasure trove of usefulness, because they contain healthy calcium. It is moderately sweet, will appeal to children and those who follow the figure.

Ingredients:

• cottage cheese (preferably homemade) - 250 g;
• butter (substitution for margarine is possible, but not desirable) - 100 g;
• flour - 250 g;
• baking powder (soda with citric acid) - 10 g;
• sugar.

Preparation:

1. Grind cottage cheese with softened butter.
2. Mix flour with baking powder. Make the dough smooth and homogeneous, then refrigerate for 30 minutes.
3. Roll out into a thin layer, cut out circles (an ordinary glass will help to cope with this task).
4. Pour sugar on a plate, dip a circle, fold with the "sugar" side inward, roll on both sides. And so to do with each circle.
5. Send the biscuits to the oven (200 degrees) The baking time is approximately 20 minutes, the product itself should acquire a golden color. You can add cinnamon, cocoa to sugar.

Cooking time - 30 minutes.

Difficulty - for beginners.

Purpose: diet food, baby food, for a festive table, for dessert.

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