Sweet sugar cookies will cheer you up any day and hour. You can bake this dessert on cottage cheese or shortcrust pastry. Fans of Italian cuisine will like the famous Svoyardi biscuit dessert.
Pick your recipe
You will need
- For sugar curd cookies:
- - 200 g of flour;
- - 200 g margarine;
- - 1 egg;
- - 200 g of cottage cheese;
- - 2 glasses of sugar;
- - a pinch of soda.
- For shortcrust sugar cookies:
- - 2.5 cups flour;
- - 200 g of butter;
- - 0.5 tsp baking powder;
- - 1 egg;
- - 1.5 cups of sugar;
- - a bag of vanilla sugar.
- For Svoyardi:
- - 100 g of sugar;
- - 90 g flour;
- - 3 eggs;
- - 20 g of butter;
- - a pinch of salt;
- - 30 g of powdered sugar.
Instruction manual
1
Bake sugar cookies by making curd dough. Pour the flour into a bowl, put in it a piece of frozen margarine, chop it with a knife. Pour flour onto the margarine periodically, so it will be easier to chop it into small square pieces. After that, dip the flour in the palm of your hand, grind the mass until it turns into butter crumbs. Put the cottage cheese, beat in the egg, pour in baking soda, mix the dough to a homogeneous consistency.
2
Form a sausage from it, place it for 20 minutes in the freezer. Then take out the dough. Dip the knife in flour, cut the sausage into 1 cm thick circles. Roll them on the table. Pour sugar into a plate, dip in it mugs on one side. To sugar stick well, do not sprinkle flour when rolling on these round balls.
3
Now roll this little pancake in half so that the sugar is inside. Dip a half in sugar, fold the crescent horns with the sweet side to each other. As a result, you have left the fourth part of the circle. Dip its top in sugar, put cookies on the oil pan with the sugar side up. Design the rest of the products in the same way. Place them in the oven, bake for 25 minutes at 180 ° C.
4
Make quick sugar shortcrust pastry. Remove oil from the refrigerator in advance. It softened, beat it with sugar. Add the remaining ingredients, mix the mass. Take the dough with a teaspoon, roll the balls out of it, slightly flatten them, lay on a dry baking sheet. Keep the distance between the cookies so that they do not stick together during baking. Place the pan in the oven, bake for 10 minutes at 190 ° C.
5
To keep the cookies soft after baking, put them in a pan, cover with a towel, and cover with a lid on top. Let stand in this form for 10 minutes, after which you can set the table for tea.
6
Make the famous Svoyardi sugar cookies out of biscuit dough, it is also called ladies' fingers. Separate the yolks from the proteins. Beat the yellow portion with 75 g of sugar, add softened butter, flour, move well. Add salt to chilled proteins, whisk them in a steep foam. Put 2 tbsp. white air mass in yolk, mix, put all the protein, mix gently.
7
Put a mass of 1.5 cm high on the oiled glassine with which the baking sheet is laid. Mix the sugar with the powder, sprinkle the biscuit and immediately put it in the oven preheated to 170 ° C. Bake for 20 minutes. Remove the cake, cut it into cookies 2x10 cm.