Shortbread cookies are a delicacy that delight not only children, but also many adults. Shortcrust biscuits differ from other varieties of cookies in their pleasant friability and delicate taste. Its calorie content is due to the fact that according to the recipe it always contains a lot of sugar, eggs and fats. Now everyone can afford this delicacy, but shortbread cookies prepared according to home recipes will remain fresh and crumbly for a long time. There are millions of recipes for such cookies, but they are united by one - the proportion of products should always be perfect.
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You will need
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- For the test:
- flour - 4 tbsp;
- margarine - 400 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs;
- sugar - 1 tbsp;
- starch - 2 tbsp;
- salt - 0.5 tsp;
- soda - 0.5 tsp;
- sunflower oil.
- For glaze:
- egg white - 2 pcs;
- sugar - 3 tsp
Instruction manual
1
Take the margarine out of the refrigerator an hour before starting to cook the cookies. Leave it at room temperature to make it slightly soft. Sift the flour in a sieve in advance one or more times and put it in a deep bowl in which you will prepare the cookie dough. After that, put the thawed margarine there and mix it well with flour until you get a greasy grain. Remember to keep the proportion. Mix exactly four hundred grams of margarine and four cups of flour, this is very important.
2
Now take another container and mix eggs, sugar, starch, salt and soda in it. Beat it with a mixer for five to ten minutes. Then connect both parts and mix everything. Look, if the dough turned out to be liquid, then add a few more teaspoons of flour to it. After this, be sure to put the dough for twenty to thirty minutes in the refrigerator or in the freezer.
3
After the time has passed, remove the dough from the refrigerator. Divide it into five to six parts. Then roll each part to a thickness of no more than three to four millimeters. After that, take the curly molds and use them to cut out the cookies. If you do not have such molds, use the service of a regular glass or glass with thin edges. Then your cookies will turn round. Beat sugar with several proteins in advance and grease them with cookies. Sprinkle it with sugar or powdered sugar on top.
4
Lubricate the cooked pan with sunflower oil and put cookies on it. Now it is completely ready to go to the oven. Bake cookies at a temperature of one hundred eighty degrees Celsius for ten to fifteen minutes. Cookies are very tasty, crumbly and just melt in your mouth.
5
For the beauty of cookies, you can glue in pairs with jam, cream or jam.
Useful advice
Before you put the dough in the refrigerator, it can be divided into two parts and add cocoa to one of them. Then you get two different types of cookies.
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