Shortbread

Shortbread cookies are very simple, tasty and literally melt in your mouth. There are very simple cookies, without any additives, but in addition to them you can make cookies with various fillings. Below you can find 10 simple and delicious recipes for shortbread cookies at home with step-by-step photos. If you've been wanting to learn how to bake cookies, these recipes are just for you.

A simple recipe for homemade shortbread cookies with butter

This recipe makes the perfect easy, delicious homemade cookies. You can give the cookies a variety of shapes, make sprinkles and act as you wish. This recipe will teach you how to make basic cookies that will perfectly complement tea or coffee.

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   How to make delicious shortbread cookies at home? Take fresh butter and cut it into cubes using a sharp knife. Place the butter in a convenient container and set it aside to let it melt. This will take you about half an hour.
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   Then start beating the eggs and granulated sugar. You need to beat until a fluffy foam forms, then gradually start adding cubes of melted butter and continue beating.
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   Combine the sifted flour with baking powder and salt, mix.
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   Then begin sifting the flour mixture using a sieve into the bowl containing the dough base. Mix the mixture thoroughly, but not for very long, using a special hook attachment on the mixer.
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   Form the resulting dough into a ball and wrap it in cling film. If the dough sticks to your hands, add a little more flour. Place the dough in the refrigerator for half an hour so that it matures and is easier to roll out.
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   Dust your work surface with flour and place the dough there.
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   Roll out the dough with a rolling pin to a thickness of five millimeters. You will get a uniform layer of shortcrust pastry.
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   Cut out cookies from the prepared shortbread dough using different molds or cups. After this, spread baking paper on a baking sheet and place the cookies on it.
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   Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
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    In an already preheated oven, on the middle tier, place a baking sheet with cookies and bake them for fifteen minutes. Then remove the pan and allow the cookies to cool completely before serving.

Delicious shortbread cookies made with margarine

Cookies prepared with margarine are no different from cookies prepared with butter. Delicious cookies will be cheaper due to the use of margarine.Be sure to try replacing butter with margarine and you will be pleasantly surprised by the results.

Ingredients:

• Chicken egg – 2 pcs.
• Premium wheat flour – 450 gr.
• Creamy margarine – 250 gr.
• Granulated sugar – 60 gr.
• Vanilla sugar – ½ sachet
• Cinnamon – ½ tsp.
• Baking powder for dough – 1 tsp.
• Table salt – a pinch

Cooking process:

Step 1. Cut fresh creamy margarine into cubes using a sharp knife. Place the margarine cubes in a container convenient for you and put it in a warm place so that the margarine melts.

Step 2. Combine chicken eggs with granulated sugar, vanilla sugar and beat until fluffy foam forms, and then gradually add melted margarine cubes and continue beating the mixture of ingredients.

Step 3. Combine high-quality flour with salt, baking powder and cinnamon, and then mix. Begin using a sieve to sift the dry ingredient mixture into the bowl containing the dough base. Gently and thoroughly knead the smooth shortbread dough with your hands in a bowl.

Step 4. Form the resulting dough into a ball, which you then wrap in cling film. Place the shortcrust pastry ball in the refrigerator for about twenty minutes to half an hour so that the dough matures and is easier to roll out.

Step 5: Lightly flour your work area and place the dough there. Roll out the shortbread dough with a rolling pin to a thickness of five millimeters.

Step 6. Cut out cookies from the prepared shortbread dough using different cutters or cups. You can also simply pinch off equal pieces of dough instead of cutting.

Step 7. After this, spread baking paper on a baking sheet and place the cookies on it.

Step 8. Turn on the oven to heat up to 180 degrees.

Step 9. Place the baking sheet with cookies in the already hot oven and bake for fifteen minutes.Then remove the pan and allow the cookies to cool completely before serving.

Classic shortbread with jam and crumbs

Very sweet and tender crumbly cookies filled with jam and crumbs - just lovely. These cookies are great for any tea party and kids really like them. These cookies can be found in the store, but the homemade version will be many times tastier.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour – 2 tbsp.
• Butter/margarine – 100 gr.
• Vanillin - a pinch
• Chicken egg – 1-2 pcs.
• Granulated sugar - ½ tbsp.
• Baking soda – ½ tsp.
• Vinegar – ½ tbsp.
• Thick jam – ½ tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Remove butter or margarine from the refrigerator in advance and cut into pieces. Leave the ingredient to thaw a little, but not melt. There is no need to heat the oil, just leave it at room temperature.

Step 2. When the butter melts, add sugar, vanillin and using a mixer, beat the butter into a creamy mixture.

Step 3. After this, add chicken eggs to the base and beat again with a mixer.

Step 4. After this, quench the soda with vinegar and pour into the mixture of oil and eggs. Mix well.

Step 5. Measure the flour and sift it using a sieve, then set about a third of a glass of flour aside.

Step 6. Add the rest of the flour to the base and knead the dough with your hands or a spiral mixer attachment.

Step 7. The dough must be divided into two parts in a ratio of 3:4. You need to add wheat flour to the smaller part, knead the dough again and put it in the refrigerator or freezer so that it freezes.

Step 8. Take a baking sheet and line it with baking paper.

Step 9. You can dust the paper a little with flour, and roll out the dough on it into a uniform thin layer, no more than one and a half centimeters in height.You can trim the edges of the dough into a circle or square to keep the whole cookie neat.

Step 10. When the dough is rolled out on a baking sheet, open the jar of thick jam and spread the dough in an even layer. The jam layer should be quite dense, don’t skimp on it.

Step 11. Remove the second part of the dough from the refrigerator/freezer and grate it on a coarse grater. Sprinkle the cookie base evenly with shortbread crumbs and you can start baking the cookies.

Step 12. Heat the oven to 200 degrees and place the baking sheet with semi-finished cookies there for 20-25 minutes until fully cooked. Cool the finished cookies, cut into equal squares or diamonds and serve.

How to bake crumbly cookies with sugar in the oven?

Delicious and simple shortbread cookies with sugar are very easy to prepare in your kitchen without buying this delicacy in the store. You won’t need a lot of time and effort to bake this dessert for tea, because there is nothing simpler than shortbread.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour – 2-2.5 tbsp.
• Cream margarine – 150 gr.
• Powdered sugar – 0.5 tbsp.
• Chicken egg – 3 pcs.
• Vanilla sugar – 1 sachet
• Full-fat sour cream – 1 tbsp.
• Sugar - for dusting
• Baking powder – 1 tsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Sift flour with vanilla sugar and baking powder into a bowl, add powdered sugar and mix.

Step 2. Then you need to take the creamy margarine out of the refrigerator, chop it into pieces and wait for it to soften.

Step 3. Add softened margarine to the sifted flour, and then separate the egg whites from the yolks and add the yolks to the flour and margarine.

Step 4. Add a spoonful of sour cream to the mixture of ingredients.

Step 5. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl with your hands into a dough that should be homogeneous and smooth.

Step 6.Form the dough into a ball and place it under film in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes.

Step 7. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, and while the oven is heating up, roll out the dough into a uniform thin layer and cut out cookies from it using cutters.

Step 8. Spread baking paper on a baking sheet and place the cookie blanks on it, sprinkle the cookies with sugar and put them in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, bake until fully cooked. This will take about fifteen minutes.

Step 9. Remove the finished cookies from the oven and remove from the baking sheet, let them cool. Then you can serve the cookies to the table or store them in a paper bag.

Delicious cookies through a meat grinder in a hurry

The shortbread itself is very simple and delicious. But you can prepare it even faster and easier by grinding it through a meat grinder. These cookies will look quite beautiful, despite their simplicity, and will definitely appeal to your household and guests.

Ingredients:

• Whole grain wheat flour – 2.5 tbsp.
• Granulated sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Chicken egg – 3 pcs.
• Butter or margarine – 250 gr.
• Baking powder for dough – 1 tsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. To begin, remove the margarine/butter from the freezer or refrigerator in advance and chop it into pieces. Let the butter melt well, then start preparing the dough.

Step 2. Place eggs and granulated sugar in a bowl, take a mixer and thoroughly beat the mixture of ingredients.

Step 3. Combine flour with baking powder and sift into a bowl with butter and sugar.

Step 4. Knead the dough first with a spoon, and then knead with your hands. You need to achieve a homogeneous, smooth and dense consistency.If the dough sticks too much to your hands, you can add more flour. The dough that goes into the meat grinder should be thicker than the one that is cut out with molds.

Step 5. Take an ordinary meat grinder without a knife and put the dough in it. Pass it through a large grill and you will get a mountain of dough worms.

Step 6. Spread baking paper on a baking sheet and place the dough from the meat grinder, broken into equal pieces, on it. Set the oven to preheat to 180 degrees.

Step 7. Place the baking sheet with the cookie dough in a hot oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake the product for twenty minutes until the delicacy is completely cooked.

Step 8. Remove the cookies and cool, after which you can serve them or store them in a paper bag.

Bon appetit!

Delicate, soft shortbread cookies with sour cream

Shortbread cookies made with sour cream are very tasty, soft, crumbly and tender. These cookies have a pleasant structure, almost do not crumble and literally melt in your mouth. Be sure to try this recipe at your leisure.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour – 3 tbsp.
• Butter or margarine – 60 gr.
• Chicken egg – 2 pcs. (small)
• Granulated sugar - ½ tbsp.
• Sour cream (20%) – ½ tbsp.
• Baking soda - a pinch
• Vanilla sugar – ½ sachet

Cooking process:

Step 1. Remove the butter or margarine from the refrigerator in advance and chop it into pieces. The butter should melt at room temperature and soften.

Step 2. Combine flour and soda, add vanilla sugar.

Step 3. Add granulated sugar and chicken eggs, sour cream to the softened butter, stir and beat until more or less homogeneous.

Step 4.Sift the flour into the mixture of butter, sugar and eggs using a sieve and begin kneading a plastic, smooth dough. Wrap it in film and put it in the refrigerator for literally half an hour.

Step 5. Place the rested dough on baking paper and roll it out using a rolling pin, lightly sprinkling the layer with granulated sugar.

Step 6. Turn on the oven to heat up to 190 degrees. Cut out cookies from the dough using cookie cutters. If there are no molds, an ordinary glass will do.

Step 7. Place the paper with cookies on a baking sheet in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake the cookies until fully cooked for twenty minutes.

Step 8. Remove the finished cookies from the oven and cool before serving with tea.

Step-by-step recipe for making shortbread cookies with cottage cheese

Very tasty cookies that slightly resemble Sochniki in taste. The ingredients here are almost the same, so if you have ever made juices with cottage cheese, you can easily cope with this recipe.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour – 2 tbsp.
• Butter or margarine – 100 gr.
• Vanillin - a pinch
• Chicken egg – 1-2 pcs.
• Granulated sugar - ½ tbsp.
• Baking soda – ¼ tsp.
• Vinegar – ¼ tsp.

Filling:

• Cottage cheese – 300 gr.
• Granulated sugar – 100 gr.
• Chicken egg – 1 pc.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Remove butter or margarine from the refrigerator in advance and chop it. Leave it to thaw a little at room temperature.

Step 2. Add sugar, vanillin to the melted fat base and, using a mixer, beat it all into a homogeneous creamy mixture.

Step 3. After this, add chicken eggs into the base and beat the mixture again with a mixer.

Step 4. Quench the baking soda with vinegar and pour into the mixture of butter and eggs. Mix well.

Step 5. Measure the flour and sift it using a sieve, then set about a third of a glass of flour aside. Add the remaining flour to the bowl with other ingredients and knead the dough into a homogeneous structure.

Step 6: Divide the cookie dough into two parts in a ratio of approximately 3:4. You need to add wheat flour to the smaller part, knead the dough again and put it in the refrigerator or freezer (in a bag) so that it freezes.

Step 7. Line a baking sheet with baking paper. Roll out your dough onto it into a uniform thin layer so that it is no more than one and a half centimeters in height. Proceed with the filling.

Step 8. Combine cottage cheese with sugar and chicken egg, mix thoroughly. There is no need to make a creamy mass, just combine all the ingredients for the filling evenly.

Step 9. Thickly spread the dough rolled out onto a baking sheet with curd filling. The layer of cottage cheese should be quite dense.

Step 10. Take out the second part of the dough, which should have just frozen, and grate it on a coarse grater. Sprinkle the cookies evenly and you can start baking.

Step 11. Heat the oven to 200 degrees and place the baking sheet with semi-finished cookies there for 20-25 minutes until they are completely cooked. Cool the finished delicacy, cut into equal squares or diamonds and serve.

Baking chocolate shortbread cookies at home

Delicious chocolate shortbread cookies are as easy to prepare as regular cookies. It is very tender, tasty and has a surprisingly pleasant smell of chocolate. Try it!

Ingredients:

• Chicken egg – 2 pcs.
• Premium wheat flour – 250 gr.
• Cream margarine – 150 gr.
• Granulated sugar – 80 gr.
• Vanilla sugar – ½ sachet
• Dark chocolate – 8 tbsp.
• Baking powder for dough – 1 tsp.
• Table salt – a pinch

Cooking process:

Step 1. Chop fresh creamy margarine and set the margarine cubes aside to melt at room temperature. It should become soft and pliable.

Step 2. Combine sugar, chicken eggs and vanilla sugar in a mixer bowl and beat until fluffy. Then gradually add the melted margarine cubes to the mixture and continue beating the shortcrust pastry base.

Step 3. Combine flour with salt, baking powder and chocolate and mix. This part of the ingredients must be carefully sifted into a bowl with the dough base, then carefully and thoroughly knead into a smooth shortbread dough.

Step 4. Form a ball from the resulting shortbread chocolate dough and place it in a plastic bag or cling film. Place the ball in the refrigerator for about twenty minutes - then it will be easier to roll it out.

Step 5. Roll out the dough into a thin, uniform layer, about five millimeters thick.

Step 6. Roll out the layer on baking paper or a floured cutting surface.

Step 7. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and start preparing the cookies.

Step 8: Cut out cookies from the dough using a cookie cutter or cup. Place the cookies on baking paper, which in turn place on a baking sheet in a hot oven.

Step 9. Bake the cookies at 180 degrees for twenty minutes until fully cooked, then remove the treat from the oven and cool it before serving.

Homemade shortbread without eggs

If you want to enjoy something sweet and decide to bake cookies, but there are no eggs in the refrigerator, there is no need to despair.Shortbread cookies will turn out great without eggs, the main thing is to follow the correct proportions in the recipe.

Ingredients:

• Butter/margarine – 100 gr.
• Powdered sugar – 50 gr.
• Potato starch – 1 tbsp.
• Wheat flour – 125 gr.
• Vanillin - a pinch

Cooking process:

Step 1. Butter or creamy margarine should be left at room temperature for about half an hour.

Step 2. Beat the softened fatty base with a mixer into a fluffy creamy mass.

Step 3. Then you need to add sugar and a pinch of vanillin to the butter, beat thoroughly again until fluffy.

Step 4. Combine flour with starch and sift the mixture of dry ingredients into the butter whipped with sugar, then begin kneading a homogeneous, smooth dough that should not stick to your hands.

Step 5. You can distribute the dough into a pastry syringe, or divide it into small small balls. Place the balls on baking paper and flatten the cookies to form fluffy circles.

Step 6. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and then place the cookies on baking paper on a baking sheet in a hot oven. Bake the cookies for twenty minutes until fully cooked at a constant temperature.

Quick and easy nut shortbread recipe

Fragrant, fresh cookies with nuts are a real miracle. The aroma while baking this delicacy will warm your home and fill it with comfort. Make these amazing cookies at your leisure, just in time for a homemade sweet treat on the weekend.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour – 175 gr.
• Butter – 155 gr.
• Nuts (favorite variety) – 70 gr.
• Granulated sugar – 30 gr.
• Powdered sugar – 25 gr.
• Salt - a pinch
• Baking powder – 1 tsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1.Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, and at this time begin preparing the cookie dough.

Step 2. Take the roasted nuts and grind them in a blender bowl or chop them into small pieces with a knife.

Step 3. Beat the butter, which must first be softened, with sugar until a soft, fluffy creamy mass is formed.

Step 4. After this, add a pinch of salt and baking powder to the flour and sift these ingredients through a fine sieve. Sift directly into the bowl with the oil base, then begin kneading the dough. Pour the nuts into the dough too and continue kneading until smooth.

Step 5. Take the dough into pieces of the same size, roll it into balls and form cakes from each ball. Place them on baking paper spread on a baking sheet.

Step 6. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and place a baking sheet in it. Bake the cookies until fully cooked for twenty minutes.

Step 7. Remove the hot, finished cookies from the oven, sprinkle with powdered sugar and place on a plate to cool.

Delicious!