Many housewives indulge loved ones with exquisite delicacies and fresh homemade cakes, revealing the real wonders of culinary art. And the most frequent guests in the house are delicate and crumbly cookies. As the basis for homemade cookies, you can take biscuit, shortbread, cottage cheese, sour cream or any other dough, adding various aromatic spices, nuts, raisins, flakes or candied fruits to it, if desired.
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Very easy to recipe cookies based on shortcrust pastry. As a rule, the list of ingredients for this type of baking is quite traditional: flour, sugar, butter and salt. So, to make a simple cookie you will need:
- 180 g butter;
- 0.5 cups of sugar;
- 2 cups of flour;
- 1/4 tsp salt.
For any cookies made on a sand-based basis, the butter should be melted in advance and allowed to cool slightly.
Beat butter with sugar, gradually adding sifted flour and salt. Next, roll out the resulting mass and give the liver the desired shape using various contours in the form of berries, animals or geometric shapes. For cookies to work out, cook them in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for no more than 5-7 minutes. You can include poppy seeds, sesame seeds, vanilla or any other spice to your taste.
If you want to treat yourself to cheese biscuits, you will need the following:
- 150 g of softened oil;
- 150-200 g of hard cheese;
- 200 g of flour;
- salt and spices to taste.
Mix the listed components with each other and put the finished mass for half an hour in the refrigerator. Then roll out the dough and cut out the molds from it. Bake until golden amber, and for a richer flavor, sprinkle the finished product with grated cheese.
Cookies can also be made from dough, the main components of which are sour cream or cottage cheese. At the same time, soda or baking powder are often added to such recipes to get a light dough, a bit like puff. Fragrant, as well as light in calories, you get cookies, in the recipe of which there are the following components:
- 200 g of fine-grained cottage cheese (better - 5%);
- 150 g margarine (oil can be);
- 230 g flour;
- 2 tbsp. l milk;
- ½ tsp extinguished soda;
- sugar - for powder;
- one egg - for lubrication.
Finely chopped margarine with the cottage cheese and leave a little "breathe". Then add the sifted flour, milk and quenched soda.
Soda can be put out not only with vinegar, but also with kefir, fermented baked milk or a small amount of sour cream.
From the resulting dough, form one sausage, and then cut it into pieces and press, as if forming a circle with a diameter of about two centimeters. Sprinkle a rolled piece of dough with sugar and, curled in half once, sprinkle with sugar again. Then turn again - you get a small triangle, and brush with a beaten egg.
If desired, you can sprinkle the resulting cookies with sugar, as well as cinnamon or vanilla, which go well with the curd base. Cook the curd cookies in the oven at 175 ° C for about 15 minutes (until a delicate golden crust appears).
Homemade liver can also be cooked on cucumber pickle. For this recipe you will need:
- 1 cup of brine;
- 0.5 cups of sunflower refined oil;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 3-4 glasses of flour;
- slightly less tsp slaked soda.
Mix the ingredients indicated in the recipe in a deep cup, and then spread the resulting dough onto a baking sheet in small portions (after about 2 cm) with a tablespoon. Cookies should be baked at 180 ° C for approximately 20 minutes.