Homemade cookies are a tasty and inexpensive alternative to purchased sweets. In addition, home baking is much more useful, because you can definitely control the quality of the ingredients that you add to it. Cookies can be baked in just half an hour, and it will retain freshness for several days.
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Delicious puff pastry is distinguished by its excellent taste. An interesting combination of fresh fat dough and golden sugar crust will interest even gourmets. At the same time, cookies are cooked very quickly. Its only drawback is high calorie content.
Grate 200 g of butter or margarine on a coarse grater or chop finely with a knife. Sift 1.5 cups of flour with a slide, put oil on it, add 0.5 cups of sour cream. Knead a smooth, homogeneous dough and place it in the cold for 1 hour. Then roll the dough on a board into a layer and cut a round cookie with a small recess. Collect the dough scraps and roll them again. When all the pieces are cut, beat the egg, pour sugar into a flat plate. Dip cookies in egg mixture and then sugar. Lay it on a baking sheet and place in an oven heated to 200 ° C. Bake cookies until golden brown. Remove it from the pan immediately and refrigerate on the board.
Cookie dough can be prepared in advance and stored in the refrigerator.
Chocolate and apricot cookies are also interesting. Pound 175 g of softened butter with 125 g of icing sugar. Add 1 egg, 1 tbsp. teaspoon of cocoa powder, a pinch of salt, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and grated zest of half a lemon. Pour 125 g of sifted flour and knead uncooked dough. Collect it in a ball, wrap in cling film and put in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Roll out the dough on a board sprinkled with flour. Cut cookies in the form of stars or flowers and place it on a baking sheet. Bake in an oven preheated to 200 ° C. Remove the items from the pan and refrigerate. 100 g of dark chocolate warm in a water bath with 2 tbsp. spoons of cream. On each cookie, apply a thin layer of apricot marmalade, top with chocolate icing. To make the cookies even more elegant, sprinkle them with colored sugar beads. Let the glaze harden and serve a treat for tea.
Such cookies will be a great gift. Pack it in a beautiful box and tape it
Children really like a funny cookie in the form of balls sprinkled with nuts. Mix 0.5 cups of milk with 9 tbsp. tablespoons melted butter, 1 teaspoon of sugar, 0.5 teaspoon of soda. Pour 1 cup flour and knead soft dough. Roll small balls out of it and roll them in chopped walnuts. Spread the balls on a greased baking sheet and bake at 180 ° C until golden brown.
A tasty and healthy option is cookies with cottage cheese and oatmeal. Pour 2 cups of cereal with a glass of hot milk, mix and leave to swell. When the mass has cooled, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of potato starch, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of flour, 1 egg, 5 tbsp. tablespoons of cocoa powder, 2 tbsp. sugar, 200 g of cottage cheese and 100 g of softened margarine. Mix well, add 1 teaspoon of soda. Beat the dough thoroughly and pour it onto a greased baking sheet. Bake the cake in the oven, heated to 180 ° C. When it takes on a beautiful golden hue, remove the pan. Cut the hot cake into small strips or rhombuses and put on a dish, pouring with powdered sugar.