Easy shortbread recipes

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

Delicious and crumbly, tender and fragrant, melting in your mouth. Surely you immediately guessed what kind of dessert we are talking about. Of course, shortbread cookies! At home economics lessons for girls, which were held in every school in Soviet times, they were first introduced to recipes for shortbread cookies. However, even today, future hostesses are beginning to learn the basics of cooking, trying to cook pastries from this type of dough. Despite the fact that the classic dough recipe is one, you can create products that are completely different from each other. We want to present an overview of such baking.

Recipe from James Trevor "Jamie" Oliver

Before you start baking, you need to knead the dough. The classic recipe does not include any other ingredients other than the following: butter (margarine), eggs, sugar and flour. Today we offer you to get acquainted with the old family recipe of James Trevor Oliver, a famous English chef, restaurateur and TV presenter who popularizes homemade and he althy food. It is known that such a dough was used by his great-grandmother. ByAccording to Oliver, to achieve the perfect result, you should take only the best and freshest products and strictly follow the technology of cooking and rolling.

Shortbread dough

For kneading dough, flour should be taken only of the highest grade, butter must be softened, and unrefined sugar is better. According to the recipe for a very tasty shortbread cookie you will need:

• flour - 500 g (+ a little for dusting, on the table);
• sl. butter (softened margarine) - 250 g;
• powder - 100 g;
• lemon zest (optional)
• eggs (chicken) - 2 pcs.;
• some milk.

Preparing dough

Sift the flour into a deep bowl, then add the butter to it. Great-grandmother Jamie had a golden rule: take flour and fat for shortcrust pastry in a 2: 1 ratio. Sift the powdered sugar into the flour and butter mixture. We rub the ingredients very quickly with our hands until uniform golden lumps. In the mass, you need to make a small depression, pour in the eggs and gently, with your fingers, mix the yolk with the protein. Shortcrust pastry should not be kneaded too long, as it can drag on, products from it will be heavy and will not bake well. Roll up a ball from the finished mass, wrap it on all sides with cling film and place in the refrigerator for half an hour.

The most suitable method for rolling out is to spread a sheet of parchment on the table, place shortcrust pastry on it and cover with another sheet of parchment. Rolled out this way, it will have a smoother surface.

Kurabie: shortbread cookie recipe step by step

This cookie is known to a huge number of consumers. It was sold in shop windows in the Soviet Union and is still being sold. Homemade cookies are especially tasty. For him, take:

• sl. butter - 200 g;
• egg white - 2 pcs.;
• a little s alt;
• powdered sugar - 80g;
• one pinch of vanillin;
• flour - 320 g;
• thick jam - 3 tbsp. spoons.

We offer step by step to get acquainted with this recipe for delicious shortbread cookies. We recommend that you follow the cooking technology strictly.

1. Add powdered sugar to butter and bring to a creamy state by mixing, you can use a mixer for this purpose.
2. Add vanillin with proteins to the mass and beat again. After that, gradually add flour, combined with s alt and knead the dough of a very soft consistency. We will squeeze onto a baking sheet from a pastry bag.
3. We put on the star nozzle on the bag, fill it with dough and deposit small cookies.
4. In the center of each we make a small depression and release a small amount of jam into it.
5. Bake in 220°C oven for 9-12 minutes until golden brown.
6. Take the cookies out of the oven, cool them down a bit and serve.

The oven for shortbread cookies, the recipes of which we consider in this material, must be preheated tothe required temperature and only then put the products in it. Otherwise, the baked goods may not turn out as embossed as intended, but more vague.

Cookie Marmalade

A feature of cookies is that the dough is kneaded without sugar, thanks to its filling it is already very sweet. We offer you to cook delicious shortbread cookies according to this recipe at home. We will need:

• 500 g flour;
• 150g thick jam or jam;
• 200g margarine (butter);
• ½ tsp sea s alt;
• 3 large eggs;
• 50 g powder.

Add s alt to the softened margarine, mix, break eggs into the mass. Then gradually introduce the sifted flour and knead an elastic, non-sticky dough. Sometimes it takes a little more flour to knead, it depends on its quality.

Shape the dough into a ball and refrigerate for one hour. Next, divide it into two parts, which we roll out 2-3 centimeters thick. From the first we cut out mugs with the help of a round notch and put jam on the middle, stepping back from the edge of 5 millimeters. From the second part we make circles of the same diameter, and cut out the middle in a curly shape, put this blank on top of the cake with jam. We press the edges of both to each other with a fork. According to the recipe, shortbread cookies are baked in the oven for about a quarter of an hour at 180 ° C.

Marble cookies

The cookies are very tender, fragrant and, despite the fact that the dough is shortbread, -very soft. This is due to the large number of yolks, in this recipe only they are used, and not the whole egg. For marble cookies, you will need two types of dough: with and without cocoa. About 60 products are obtained from the number of ingredients indicated below. For shortbread cookies (butter recipe) we need:

For light dough

• powder - 150 g;
• oil sl. (softened) - 300 g;
• yolks - 5 pcs;
• vanilla essence - 5 ml;
• a little s alt;
• orange zest - 0.5 tsp;
• flour - 400g

For dark dough

• sl. butter - 160 g;
• powder – 75;
• zest 1/3 tsp;
• s alt;
• cocoa - 30 g;
• vanilla essence 5 ml;
• yolks (chicken) - 2 pcs.;
• flour - 200g

First, prepare the dough without cocoa. Combine butter, zest and powdered sugar and mix with a mixer. Add essence and yolks, beating after each addition of products. Lastly, add s alt and flour. Knead the dough. We divide it into four equal parts, roll each into layers measuring 10 x 15 centimeters, wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator.

Chocolate dough is prepared in a similar way. We divide it into two parts, roll it into layers of the same size as the light ones, and also remove it in the cold. We are waiting for our dough pieces to “freeze” a little and roll out well. We take out three light and two chocolate layers from the refrigerator. We roll them intorectangles 3mm thick.

According to the recipe, shortbread dough is laid alternately: starting and ending with light layers. We twist into a roll, press down a little. Fold it in half again and press down again. We give the roll the shape of a log. We take out the remaining light-colored layer from the refrigerator, roll it into a rectangle and wrap our logs in it. We wrap it in a film and put it in the freezer so that it freezes a little and is easier to cut.

Cut 5 mm thick medallions from chilled dough. Place them on a sheet lined with parchment paper. By the way, you can use a silicone mat. Bake for 10-12 minutes at 180 ° C, let cool a little and invite loved ones to tea.

Portuguese cookies

To make shortbread cookies at home, you will need the most common products, and the process itself will take no more than 30 minutes. The cookies are crispy, very tender and tasty. To prepare it, you need:

• 100 g – sl. room temperature oils;
• one egg yolk;
• 4 tbsp. l. cane sugar (2 for dough, 2 for decoration);
• 170 g - flour.

Let the butter lie down at room temperature for twenty minutes, then start kneading the dough: rub the butter with yolk and sugar with your hands. We introduce flour and knead a homogeneous mass. From it we roll up long, not too thick bars of arbitrary length (it can be different). Roll them well in sugar and lay them on a sheet,oiled and lined with parchment. According to the recipe, shortbread cookies are not baked to a ruddy color, but left pale. Finished products are allowed to cool on the sheet. It should be noted that Portuguese cookies are very fragile.

Truffle Cookies

We recommend a recipe for homemade shortbread cookies made from boiled egg yolks. Ready-made pastries are sweet and crumbly, and in appearance resemble candies of the same name.

Ingredients:

• 4 yolks;
• 150g butter;
• 100g sugar;
• 250 g flour;
• 2 tbsp. l. powder and cocoa.

Shortbread recipe: grind boiled yolks into small crumbs, add soft butter and sugar to them. All rub well. We add flour, knead the dough and roll it into a ball. Pinch off small pieces, roll up balls 2 cm in diameter, cookies can be left in this shape, or you can make it cone-shaped. When all the products are ready, we put them in the freezer for 10 minutes, we do this so that they fix their shape. Then put them on a silicone mat or baking sheet and bake at 180 ° C for about 30 minutes. While still warm, roll the cookies in a mixture of powdered sugar and cocoa and refrigerate.

Star Cookies

We advise you to bake shortbread cookies at home according to the recipe, the taste of which is familiar to everyone since childhood. For a relatively small cost, you will get a large amount of crumbly vanilla-flavored pastries.

Products:

• 2 yolks;
• 200g sl. oil;
• 80g sugar;
• a little vanilla;
• two art. flour;
• 2 tbsp. l. powder.

Rub the yolks with sugar using a mixer, add soft butter to the resulting mass, mix. We introduce flour with vanilla into the oily-egg mixture and knead the dough. Roll out the dough into a layer. According to the recipe, a simple shortbread cookie is called an “asterisk”, so we take a special star shape and make blanks. We place the products on a greased baking sheet and bake for about a quarter of an hour at 200 ° C. Place the cookies after baking on a beautiful dish and decorate with powdered sugar.

Delicate cookies

According to this recipe, shortbread cookies come out very tender, crumbly, half-glazed in chocolate. The chocolate part of this product is softer. Take the following components:

• 100g sugar;
• zest of ½ lemon;
• 150g soft oil;
• vanilla sugar (sachet);
• 250 g flour;
• a pinch of s alt;
• 200g dark chocolate;
• egg;
• 7g baking powder.

In addition, you need to prepare: baking paper, a pastry bag, as well as a nozzle for confectionery in the form of a large star. We start the dough according to the already known method, we use a mixer for this. We fill the pastry bag with dough and form small sticks, about 7 centimeters long, laying them immediately on a baking sheet lined with paper. Can you make them morebeautiful: giving a spiral shape. We heat the oven to 175 ° C and bake the sticks for 12 minutes. At this time, dissolve the chocolate in a water bath. We dip the finished cookies in it halfway and put it on parchment or baking paper to dry. It is good to serve this dessert with freshly brewed tea or a cup of coffee.

Chocolate Drop Cookies

A simple shortbread cookie recipe can be slightly diversified if you include an interesting ingredient in it. Today we will add chocolate drops, the children will be delighted with such a dessert. Take the following components:

• 2st. (+2 tbsp. for working with dough) flour;
• 1 tbsp brown (light) sugar;
• ½ tsp each sea s alt and soda;
• 12 art. l. sl. oil;
• ½ art. sugar;
• one egg + yolk;
• vanilla extract - 10 ml;
• chocolate drops - 1.5 tbsp

According to the recipe, for homemade shortbread cookies, knead the dough from the listed ingredients. From pieces of about 2 tbsp. spoons roll the same balls. We place them on a baking sheet at a distance of 5 cm from each other. We put the products in the oven for 15-20 minutes at 160 ° C. Leave the cookies on the baking sheet until completely cooled.

Sand ring

Another dessert from childhood, it could be purchased at any bakery shop in the country. These are delicious shortbread rings topped with roasted chopped peanuts. We offer a recipe for shortbread cookies on margarine, but you canreplace it with butter. Should be prepared:

• margarine (butter) - 220 g;
• sugar - 190 g;
• large eggs - 3 pcs. (2 for dough + 1 for brushing);
• s alt;
• flour - 440 g (+ 40 g for dusting);
• baking powder - 1 tsp;
• vanilla extract - 5 ml;
• peanuts - 150 g.

Knead shortbread dough from products, divide into two identical parts. We roll it out between two silicone mats and put it in the refrigerator in this form so that it freezes a little. The exposure time in a cold place should not be less than one hour. Let's prepare the nuts: we clean them from the shell, fry a little and knead with a knife or a rolling pin into large crumbs. We take out dough blanks from the refrigerator, roll them up a little more so that the thickness is 8 mm. After that, with a special form with a diameter of 10 cm, we begin to cut out the rings. When everyone is ready, cut out the middle with a small notch.

Brush several rings (all at once is not recommended) with beaten egg and alternately turn the greased side into a plate with crushed peanuts. In this case, they should be pressed a little, and then laid on a baking sheet covered with a silicone mat. Perform the same manipulations with the rest of the blanks. We put the products in a preheated oven to 180-190 ° C and bake for about a quarter of an hour, the time depends on the thickness of the dough and the characteristics of the oven. Cool the baked sand rings a little and carefully remove from the sheet.

The recipes presented to your attention are far from the whole list of various shortcrust pastries. Pies with various fruit and berry fillings are baked from it. Baskets with various kinds of fillers are very popular. If baked without sugar, you get tartlets designed to be filled with cold appetizers.