Shortbread - simple recipes

Homemade biscuits - perfect dessert to the tea party, which will bring together at one table for the entire family. Today, when many sweets we often buy, than prepare yourself, thinking that cooking will take too much time, these recipes will help you to make for loved ones a little magic! Preparing homemade shortbread on the most simple recipes.

Why shortbread is it called? Where is the sand? Everything is explained very simply: the fact that it, like other products from the dough, literally disintegrates in the mouth into many small pieces like sand figures, if you take them in your hands and squeeze. With the right preparation shortbread becomes tender delicacy, but to make it, observing all the nuances that are the key to success, keeps the following tips.

• Better to make dough at a temperature of 15-20 degrees, otherwise the oil will soften too much and will start to separate from other products. In this case, the dough during rolling will crumble and biscuits will be tough.
• Hold before rolling the dough hands in cold water.
• The dough after rolling need on 30min put into the refrigerator.
• Before baking the cookies need to cover: either beaten egg or egg yolk or milk or even plain cold water.

In this article we have collected the most simple and the best recipes shortbread cookies, easy to learn for any chef.

Recipe for shortbread cookies with nuts and raisins

Ingredients:

300g flour
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100g sugar and butter
1 egg and a handful of raisins and nuts to taste
? tsp. soda

Method of preparation:

How to make shortbread cookies with nuts and raisins. Pour the raisins with boiling water. Sugar beat egg and combine with melted butter. Add in the weight of slaked vinegar soda, then gradually add the sifted flour - the dough should be soft, elastic: flour, you may need to do this a little more or less, watch it, adding it. With raisins, drain the water, dry it, grind nuts, add these products in the dough, knead it so they are evenly it was distributed. Remove the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes, into the reservoir roll it, molds or knife to cut out the figures, sprinkle the pan with flour, put the biscuits and place in a preheated 230 degree oven. Bake shortbread cookie with nuts to a beautiful Golden color.

The recipe is very simple peanut butter shortbread cookies

Ingredients:

220g flour
at 110g sugar and butter cubes
60g peanut butter

Method of preparation:

How to cook peanut shortbread. Sift the flour into a large bowl, add sugar, add peanut oil and butter, use your fingertips to RUB until the consistency of bread crumbs, then mix from this mass of homogeneous dough. Round shape about 20cm in diameter grease, lay the parchment, put the dough to flatten it and to stamp it with a spoon (reverse side), prick with a fork on top, bake cookies in a preheated 150 degree oven for 45-50min. On the warm cake on top to draw diagonal lines to make 10 triangles, shaped to give the cake to cool, and when cool, cut it these lines into 10 biscuits, sprinkle each with sugar.

The shortbread recipe-chocolate chip cookies

Ingredients:

250g wheat flour
in 125g of chocolate chips, butter and sugar
? tsp. soda
a few drops of hot water in which dissolved vanilla

Method of preparation:

How to make shortbread with chocolate. Softened beat butter with sugar using a mixer on medium speed, pour vanillic water, again whisking, add the sifted flour, add salt and on low speed, beat until smooth. Pour in the dough chocolate, stir with a spoon, divide the mixture in half, put each half in a blur-free butter a round shape, compact, smooth and bake each cake at 190 degrees for about Ben until tender. To give the cakes to cool slightly, cut them with a sharp knife into biscuits desired shape triangular, square, rectangular, etc. When cakes are completely cool, break them on the cuts.

Recipe spicy shortbread cookies

Ingredients:

G flour
150g butter cubes
100g brown sugar
2tbsp.l. honey transparent
for 1H.l. baking powder, ground ginger and cinnamon
powdered sugar

Method of preparation:

How to cook spicy shortbread. To rent a low split round shape about 20cm in diameter, grease it with oil and cover with parchment paper, oven put up to 160 degrees. Mix the flour with the baking powder, ginger and cinnamon, then sift into a bowl, put the cubes of chilled butter, use your fingers to RUB all crumbs, or use a food processor. Mix honey and sugar with the test-chip, mixed homogeneous dough, put it into a form that is compact, bake for 45 min. Hot cake to cut, shaping the cookies, allow to cool for another 20 minutes, then remove from the form and break or cut the notches. Sprinkle cookies with sugar.

So simple, easy and quick to cook delicious shortbread cookie, treat them home! Another version of this cookie - videoretsept.

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