Shortbread dough pies: recipes with photos

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Good, affordable, and most importantly, tasty and easy-to-prepare recipes for shortcrust pastry pies will delight all sweet tooth gourmets! The filling can be made very different: from cottage cheese, berries, fruit puree, lemon and so on.

And our recipes and recommendations will help you prepare real culinary masterpieces for loved ones.

About shortbread pies

Baking from shortbread dough has become so firmly integrated into the diet of a modern person that it is simply impossible to imagine life without shortbread cookies, baskets with cream, as well as crumbly and fragrant pies with filling.

Children and the female half of the population are especially fond of such products. But among men there are also real sweet tooth, who not only love to feast on ready-made products, but cook them themselves and share their recipes.

The whole secret is that the composition of shortcrust pastry is quite simple, the process of kneading it takes a minimum amount of time, and baking takes only 20-40 minutes.

Well, the taste of finishedpies or other desserts are very tender, soft, savory, and they are easy for the body to digest.

A little about shortcrust pastry

The classic version, which is also called a breeze, is a dense batch, in which 3 main components: margarine (fat, butter), sugar and flour. Moreover, when cooking, the components are taken in the following proportions: 1 part of sugar, 2 - margarine (or other fat), 3 - flour.

But there are also shortcrust pastry recipes that include chicken eggs, water, baking powder, spices and other ingredients.

To get a quality batch, you need to follow some recommendations:

1. In the kitchen space, when kneading dough, a reduced temperature is needed.
2. It is important to cool the ingredients before cooking.
3. When connecting the components together and directly kneading, a minimum touch of the hands on the dough is recommended (then the finished products will be the softest and most tender).
4. You can experiment with the fat component of the recipe - combine butter and margarine, you can also add animal fats (goose, pork and others).
5. Constantly moistening the dough - with a spray bottle and a bottle of ice water.
6. Before making pies (and other confectionery products), the dough (wrapped in foil or polyethylene) can be put in the refrigerator (for 20-30 minutes), then the rolling process will be absolutely easy and fast.
7. To avoid sticking to the work surface, you can sprinkle it with flour.
8. If the dough is torn, it is necessary to moistenthis place with water and "glue".
9. Excluded stretching when laid out in a form.
10. For better results, you can use glass or metal forms (matte) - with high sides.

Delicious apple pie

There are no troubles in this shortcrust pastry pie recipe (with photo), and the finished dish will already appear on the table in 60 minutes, which is very handy if guests unexpectedly come or you just want to pamper your family with something sweet.

Ingredients and preparation:

• Pass wheat flour (400 grams) through a sieve.
• Add soda (3 grams), citric acid (3 grams), sugar (150 grams), butter (160 grams), sour cream (100 grams), yolk (1 piece).
• Knead the dough in high-speed mode so that the fat component does not have time to melt.
• Divide the finished batch into 2 koloboks, put in a container and cover with polyethylene, put in a cold place for 60 minutes.

• Put parchment paper greased with vegetable oil (10 milliliters) into the form.
• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
• Lay the buns alternately on the surface with flour and roll them out.

• Place the first cake, apply the filling (apple puree with cinnamon) and top with the second cake, securing the edges.
• Pour whipped protein with vanilla sugar (10 grams) on top.
• Bake 30-45 minutes (until golden brown).

Amazing Jam Cake

A crumbly and delicious dessert with which tea drinking turns into a real family or friendly holiday.

The shortbread pie according to the recipe can be cooked open or closed. As a filling, any jam with a thick consistency will do.

Components and cooking steps:

1. Pour 500 grams of flour, 150 grams of sugar, 5 grams of vanillin, 4 grams of soda, 6 grams of s alt into a mixing container, mix.
2. Add 200 grams of butter or margarine, chopped into pieces, grind with flour.
3. Add eggs (2 pieces).
4. Knead a homogeneous dough, minimally touching it with your hands.
5. Make 2 blanks: put the big one in the fridge, and the small one in the freezer, pre-wrapped in polyethylene, for 30 minutes.
6. Roll out most of the dough on a work surface dusted with a thin layer of flour.
7. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil (5 milliliters), align the edges.
8. Ready-made jam (200 grams) spread evenly on the cake.
9. Grate a smaller piece of dough on top.
10. Bake the cake in a preheated oven (up to 200 degrees) for 25 minutes.

Simple shortbread pie with berries

This is an easy dessert recipe with cherries and strawberries. Moreover, this shortcrust pastry pie with berries is low-calorie, which will especially please lovers of diet sweets.

Components and cooking steps:

1. Chop margarine (butter)– 250 grams.
2. Add 1 egg, 100 grams of sugar, 6 grams of s alt, 10 grams of baking powder, 150 grams of starch - mix.
3. Pour 0.5 kilograms of wheat flour to the ingredients and knead the dough of a plastic consistency.
4. Divide the bun into 2 parts (approximately ¾ and ¼).
5. Make a cake out of the larger one by placing it in a form with parchment (leveling by hand).
6. Spread evenly 250 grams of pitted cherries (frozen, canned, fresh) and 250 grams of fresh strawberries on the dough, sprinkle the berries with 100 grams of powdered sugar.
7. Lay the pre-rolled cake on top (you can make a "mesh" of strips), securing the edges.
8. Bake in a preheated oven (200 degrees) - 20 minutes.

This recipe can also be used to make shortcrust pastry with cherries.

Curd

The original version of the preparation of shortbread and cottage cheese delicacy will not leave indifferent even the most demanding gourmet. This shortcrust pastry with cottage cheese is a bit like an American cheesecake.

Ingredients and preparation:

1. Wheat flour (250 g) pass through a sieve.
2. Spread sugar (10 g), s alt (2 g), yolk (1 piece), butter (250 g), pour water (40 milliliters).
3. Knead shortbread dough with your hands.
4. Wrap the bun in foil and refrigerate for 60 minutes (in the refrigerator).
5. Skip 750 grams of cottage cheese through a metal sieve.
6. Add yolk (3 pieces), sugar (300 grams), potato starch (50 grams), vegetable oil (50 milliliters), mix.
7. Put squirrels (4 pieces) separately into a container and beat with a blender, add to the curd filling.
8. Roll out the cake from the dough and put it in a mold (with high walls) with oiled parchment, align.
9. Spread the curd evenly.
10. Bake in the oven (preheated to 200 degrees) - 60 minutes.

You can cool the finished dish directly in the oven, but with the door open. Garnish with chocolate, berries or fruit as desired.

Delicate Lemon Cream Pie

And for those who want to bring more positive and bright colors into their daily lives, as well as into the lives of loved ones, this is a recipe for a beautiful and sunny lemon shortbread pie.

The whole process takes a little over an hour, the sequence of each step is quite simple, but the result exceeds all expectations.

Ingredients and preparation:

• Pour 8 grams of baking powder, 100 grams of powdered sugar and 300 grams of flour into a large mixing bowl, mix.
• Crush butter (150 grams) at room temperature and add to the ingredients, grind.
• Crack 1 egg into the mixture.
• Knead soft, tender and plastic dough.
• Chill for 30 minutes, wrapping the gingerbread man in polyethylene.
• For the cream, make lemon juice by squeezing it out of 1 (medium-sized) lemon.

• Heat 30 grams of butter (on low heat of the stove), pour the lemon juice passed through a clean cheesecloth.
• Pour 130 grams of powdered sugar and beat in 2 eggs, stir, cook until thick.
• Roll out ¾ of the dough and place in a parchment-lined pan.
• Sprinkle lemon cream evenly over the cake.
• ¼ grate part of the dough and sprinkle on top or lay out in “ribbons”.
• Preheat the oven (to 180 degrees).
• Bake dessert for 30 minutes.

Serve the finished lemon pie chilled.

Blueberry Shortcake

A delicious and airy dessert that combines tender dough and whipped proteins with blueberries.

Ingredients and preparation of the pie:

• Grate 2 yolks with powdered sugar (100 grams), add 1 egg and 200 grams of butter (room temperature), stir.
• Pour 400 grams of wheat flour, 100 grams of sour cream, 2 grams of vanilla and 5 grams of soda (slaked with vinegar) into the mixture.
• Knead soft dough.
• Prepare a form with parchment, lay out the cake (thickness 1 centimeter), make the edges slightly raised.

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
• Bake the cake for 25 minutes.
• Grease the chilled pie with fat sour cream (150 grams), top with 400 grams of fresh blueberries.
• Whip egg whites (2 pieces) with powdered sugar (40 grams).
• Evenly spread the air on top of the berries.
• Decorate the cake with another 100 grams of blueberries.
• Bake the dessert in a preheated oven (up to 160 degrees) for 15 minutes (until the protein mass is pinkish).

It is recommended to cool the shortcrust pastry pie on a wooden surface (flat dish, board). When serving, cut into portions.

Extra

The list of recipes is inexhaustible. And yet, in addition to sweet shortbread pies, you can cook s alty ones. Mushrooms, meat, fish and so on will go as a filling - whatever the hostess and her family wish.