Gourmet treats - cookie boxes decorated with colorful dragees will look harmonious both on the Easter table and are perfect for a garden party, tea party or any spring holiday.
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You will need
- For the test:
- - 3 cups flour;
- - 1 egg;
- - 1 cup of sugar;
- - 1 teaspoon of baking powder;
- - 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter;
- - 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
- For royal glaze:
- - 4 tablespoons of meringue powder;
- - 100 g of warm water;
- - 560 g of powdered sugar.
- For royal glaze (made from protein):
- - 2 egg whites;
- - 2 teaspoons of lemon juice;
- - 330 g of powdered sugar.
Instruction manual
1
In a medium bowl, stir the flour and baking powder together. In a mixer, beat the softened butter with sugar, using the oars, to a state of lightness and splendor. The procedure should take about 3 minutes.
2
Add the egg and vanilla to the oily mass, whisk for another minute. Next, add portioned flour mixture, constantly mixing the dough with a mixer until smooth until it starts to move away from the edges of the bowl.
3
After removing the dough from a bowl, place it on a piece of parchment paper. Place the dough with your hands. Having placed the dough in a large plastic bag or covered with cling film, send it to the freezer for 20-30 minutes. You can store it in the refrigerator for about 2 days.
4
Preheat the oven to 350 ° C degrees. Set aside about half the chilled dough. Put parchment paper on top of it, which will allow you to process the dough without additional dusting with flour.
5
Roll into a formation approximately 10 mm thick. Using a mold (2.5 cm in diameter), cut the workpieces. For each finished box, 4 cookies are required. One batch of dough will be about 5 finished boxes.
6
Bake the whole cookie without cutting out the center portion. After the cookies are baked, while they are still hot, cut out the central part using a mold with a diameter of 1.75 cm, but do not remove it.
7
Let the pastries cool for a minute or two on a baking sheet. Then, using a spatula, carefully transfer the cookies along with the pristine cutout to the chilled racks. Once the cookies have cooled completely, remove the inner circle.
8
Prepare the royal icing, mixing all the ingredients to splendor. Add dyes as desired. Fluids should be added as much until you reach the desired consistency.
9
The glaze should be dense enough so that it does not run off the edges, but the layer should be thin enough. Collect the boxes. First, put a whole cookie (without a notch), which will serve as a bottom, then - 2 rings, and on top cover with a whole disk - a cover.
10
Decorate cookies. Paint the outline of the disk with light blue glaze, and then fill the entire surface with blue (or a color of your choice) with the glaze. Allow to dry completely for at least 4-8 hours.
eleven
Prepare jelly-coated sweets to decorate the top of the “boxes” by cutting them lengthwise (for leaves) or across (for flowers) depending on the pattern.
12
Glue a drop of glaze on each “petal” and “leaf” on the glazed surface of the cookie. To complete the image, draw a dotted line along the edge of the circle with white glaze.
