The variety of butter cookies that are offered for sale in our stores can hardly be called real and safe for a child’s health. What baked goods do not contain: harmful and dangerous palm oil, preservatives, artificial colors, substitutes and flavors. It's time to start making delicious, aromatic, natural, and most importantly, safe cookies yourself.
Moreover, the baking process is completely simple and will bring a lot of positive emotions, especially to the baby. Depending on the taste, you can make almond, salted, shortbread, oatmeal or chocolate butter cookies. The recipe is completely simple, and now you will see it. So, we present to your attention several options for preparing crispy sweet pastries.
Yeast dough
Recipes for pastry dough for cookies involve the use of straight and sponge methods. In our case there will be a sponge option. This recipe is perfect for baking Easter cakes, sweet pies, buns, donuts and cookies. Flour must be taken only of the highest grade and sifted. To give it a pleasant yellow color, we recommend adding eight drops of saffron tincture diluted in a dessert spoon of water directly to the dough. For taste, add dried fruits, poppy seeds,
Products:
A kilogram of flour;
Six eggs;
One and a half glasses of milk;
Three hundred grams of butter;
A glass of granulated sugar;
Be sure to heat the milk, but do not boil it. Add yeast and ½ part of the flour to it, stir thoroughly with a whisk (break up any lumps). The mixture should have the consistency of thick sour cream - put our dough in a warm place until it rises (for 1.5-2 hours). Cover the bowl with a towel.
When the dough “fits” (doubles in size), add vanillin, a little salt, softened butter and mashed yolks with sugar. Mix well and carefully add the protein foam and the rest of the flour in a thin stream. Cover the dough again with a cloth and set aside for a couple of hours.
As soon as you see that the dough has risen, you can start shaping cookies into any shape. Use jam or preserves as filling. Place the dough on a greased baking sheet and bake for about 10 minutes. For sweetness, sprinkle with sugar, you will get a beautiful and fragrant butter cookie. The recipe is suitable for making any confectionery products.
Homemade shortbread cookies made from butter dough
Contains the following ingredients:
A glass of flour;
Two yolks;
Heavy cream (50 ml);
Baking powder (half a dessert spoon);
(can be dried or frozen) - one hundred grams.
To bake sweets you don’t need to be a chef, follow our recipe - and you will succeed. In a deep container, use a whisk to mix sugar, salt, flour and then add a cooled piece of butter and manually turn it into a crumbly state. After this, lay out the black currants.
In a separate container, beat the egg yolks with cream and add to the flour mixture. Form a layer of dough on the table, take special molds and cut out cookies. Place on a baking sheet (be sure to grease with butter), pour over cream and sprinkle with sugar. Place in a hot oven (200C) and bake for 15 minutes. Serve the shortbread cookies chilled. The recipe will delight you with great taste - enjoy!
Butter coconut cookies
Compound: two eggs, one hundred grams of flour, two hundred grams of coconut, the same amount of granulated sugar, baking powder (one gram).
Beat eggs with granulated sugar in a blender, add shavings, baking powder and flour. Mix the mixture well and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour. Make figures, sprinkle with sugar and bake for 10-15 minutes (at 180C). An excellent treat for tea.
Healthy buttery oatmeal cookies
Components: a glass of oatmeal, ½ glass of honey (less possible), a glass of flour, a chicken egg, sour cream (half a glass), one hundred grams of butter, a little soda, sugar to taste.
Sift ½ part of the flour, add soda. Grind the sugar and butter until white, then little by little add honey, sour cream and egg - mix. Add the flakes and the second part of the flour (sifted). Roll out the finished dough and cut out funny shapes. Place in a baking tray and bake for no more than ten minutes (at 200C). The oatmeal butter cookies turned out to be nutritious and aromatic.
The recipe is amazing and very simple. Such a healthy product will never compare with store-bought sweets either in taste or in terms of beneficial properties. This is a good start to a new day!
Crumbly cookies are an ideal treat for tea that will melt in your mouth. Treat yourself to one of 10 recipes.
- 150 g softened butter (room temperature)
- 80 g powdered sugar
- 3 tbsp. spoons of starch
- 50 ml odorless vegetable oil
- 300-350 g of wheat flour (or how much the dough will take)
Beat softened butter with powdered sugar and vegetable oil.
Add starch and beat again with a mixer until smooth.
Now add about a glass of flour, mix, then gradually a second glass - mix again, and if necessary, add more flour. The main thing here is not to overdo it; the dough should turn out soft and crumbly, but should form a lump.
Cut it into three parts and roll each into a sausage. Cut each sausage into 1.5 cm thick discs.
Place the pucks on a baking sheet.
Bake shortbread cookies at 160 degrees in a preheated oven for 30-40 minutes until browned.
When the cookies have cooled a little, sprinkle them with powdered sugar, because... it doesn't turn out very sweet.
Recipe 2: crumbly cookies (step by step photos)
- wheat flour – 200 g;
- butter – 100 g;
- granulated sugar – 100 g;
- eggs – 3 pieces;
- powdered sugar for sprinkling;
- vanilla to taste.
Open one hard-boiled egg, to do this, put the egg in a ladle with cold water, put it on the fire and after boiling, cook the egg for at least 10 minutes.
Cool by pouring cold water. Peel the egg, separate the yolk, and remove the white; it won’t be needed for making cookies.
Place the yolk in a deep cup, mash it with a fork, add two more raw yolks.
Add softened butter to eggs, sugar, mix.
Sift flour into this mixture.
Knead the dough until it is dense and soft and does not stick to your hands.
Divide the dough into equal pieces and roll them into balls.
Whisk the egg whites in a bowl. Place powdered sugar or sugar on a flat plate. Dip each dough ball first into the egg white and then roll in powdered sugar (sugar).
Place the cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Let the cookies bake for about 20-30 minutes. It all depends on your oven.
It is better to store ready-made crumbly shortbread cookies in a plastic bag, as they remain crumbly for longer.
Recipe 3: crumbly cookies with mayonnaise
- margarine - 90 gr
- mayonnaise - 90 gr
- sugar - 100 gr
- wheat flour - 1.5 cups
- vanilla sugar, salt
- baking powder - ½ tsp.
Knead the dough in the following sequence; it is better to use a mixer bowl to prepare shortcrust pastry. Cut the creamy margarine into pieces before adding to the bowl. Immediately add granulated sugar to the margarine. Turn on the mixer to mix these products. Then add a pinch of salt and vanilla sugar. Mix again. Next, place the mayonnaise in the bowl and turn on the mixer again. All that remains is to add baking powder and flour in portions. When you knead the dough, you need to transfer it to cling film and keep it in the cold for 30 minutes.
Roll out the dough into a layer.
Use cookie cutters or a regular shot glass to cut out cookies.
Place the cookies on a baking sheet to bake at 190 degrees in the oven.
Bake cookies for 15-17 minutes. Turn on the oven in advance. Delicious crumbly mayonnaise cookies are ready.
Recipe 4: crumbly soft kefir cookies
- 2 cups wheat flour;
- 120 gr. Kefir (1% fat);
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 130 gr. Melted butter or margarine;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 0.5 tsp salt;
- 1 tsp baking powder (baking powder);
- If desired, add: vanillin, cinnamon and toppings.
Break chicken eggs into a deep, large bowl, measure out sugar and baking powder; we also added 1 tsp for flavor. cinnamon and a packet of vanillin.
The ingredients must be lightly whisked until a light foam forms, and then pour in kefir at room temperature. Important: the sugar must be completely dissolved.
Melt the butter and pour it into our mixture. Don't overheat the oil: you don't want it to start boiling. Otherwise the cookies will fail.
To make the cookies more airy, the flour must be sifted using a sieve.
Carefully add the sifted flour into the dough, piece by piece: make sure there are no lumps and knead the dough.
Since our dough contains melted butter, it needs to be put in a bag and in the refrigerator. At this stage the dough should be slightly viscous, but not sticky.
The dough should lie in a cold place for about 15-20 minutes. Then we take it out and roll it into layers. To achieve crispy but soft kefir shortbread cookies, make cookies about 1 cm thick.
Place the cookies on a baking sheet, greased and sprinkled with wheat flour. We sprinkled a small amount of sunflower seeds on top to give the homemade cookies some extra flavor.
Place the cookies in a preheated oven (180 degrees C) and bake until golden brown.
Soft kefir shortbread cookies are ready. It turned out perfect: the cookies were soft and crumbly.
Recipe 5: crumbly margarine cookies
- Margarine for baking – 150 grams;
- Granulated sugar – 150 grams;
- Wheat flour – 350 grams;
- 1 egg;
- A teaspoon of soda.
Melt the margarine in a water bath, in the microwave, or over very low heat. To make this faster, take soft margarine and cut it into cubes.
When the margarine is the desired consistency, add the entire stated amount of granulated sugar to it. Mix the introduced ingredients thoroughly. Do this using a regular fork or a hand whisk.
The result was an oily sweet mass. Break one chicken egg into it. Mix the ingredients thoroughly in the bowl again.
Start sifting the wheat flour into the resulting mixture. Do not ignore the sifting process, this will saturate the flour with oxygen, and this will only improve the taste of the shortbread cookies. Add flour in parts, stirring immediately.
Quench the soda with acetic acid and add it to the dough along with the flour.
When you knead the dough, roll it into a ball, wrap it in film and put it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
Roll out the chilled dough on a floured surface into a layer about a centimeter thick. Cut out cookies using special cutters or a glass.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Lay out the cookie dough. There is no need to lubricate the parchment with anything; margarine-based cookies will not stick.
Bake shortbread cookies for no more than 15 minutes at an oven temperature of 180 degrees.
Homemade crumbly shortbread cookies with margarine are ready! Enjoy your tea!
Recipe 6: tender crumbly cookies (step by step with photo)
- 180g butter
- 330g flour
- 1 egg + 1 yolk for brushing
- 60ml orange juice
- 115g sugar
- 1 tsp. with a heap of baking powder
- ½ tsp. soda
Beat soft butter with sugar.
Add egg, soda and baking powder. Whisk.
Pour out the juice.
And pour out the remaining flour. Mix everything thoroughly.
The dough turns out thick, homogeneous, but not tough. At first glance, it seems that it is sticky and it is impossible to mold something out of it.
Let's start forming the cookies. To do this, pinch off a small piece the size of a walnut.
Sprinkle the work surface with flour. Roll out the dough into a “sausage” approximately 15 cm long and 1 cm thick.
Roll it into a circle, pinch the ends and place it on a baking sheet lined with parchment or a silicone mat. It’s more convenient for me to place the “sausage” on a baking sheet and then give it shape there.
You can make “bagels” and “hearts”.
Lubricate them with yolk mixed with two tsp. water.
We bake our cookies until golden brown. Depending on how long you leave in the oven, the cookies will either be soft and crumbly, or they will become brittle and crispy. Both options are good in their own way. Bon appetit!
Recipe 7: Delicious crumbly oatmeal cookies
- dark raisins – 150 gr
- margarine – 225 gr
- oat flakes – 300 gr
- vanilla sugar - 1 tsp.
- soda - 1 tsp.
- eggs - 2 pcs
- ground cinnamon - 1 tsp.
- wheat flour - 210 gr
- sugar - 150 gr
- brown sugar - 190 gr
- salt - 5 g
Recipe 8: lean crumbly cookies (step by step with photo)
- Flour - 1 Cup
- Sugar - 50 grams (+ a couple of teaspoons of brown sugar, if available)
- Vegetable fat - 150 grams (vegetable oil can be used)
- Salt - 1 pinch
- Baking powder - 1 pinch
- Molasses - 2 tbsp. spoons
- Spices - 1 teaspoon (cardamom, vanilla, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, etc.)
It is prepared in palm fat with a huge amount of flavorings and preservatives, using heat-stable jams and artificial chocolate. Which means it’s time to start making delicious and natural homemade baked goods! Moreover, preparing cookies is quick, simple and brings maximum positive emotions.
Oatmeal, shortbread, almond, sugar, chocolate, salty, with spices and herbs - there are so many types of cookies in the world! First (almost simultaneously with bread) unsweetened crispy pastries appeared, then humanity learned to obtain sugar, and cookies became dessert cookies. Later, confectioners added aromatic spices, nuts and dried fruits to them, learned to glaze and fill them, and around the 17th century, treats most similar to modern ones appeared. By the way, world wars, the seizure of new territories and geographical discoveries only contributed to the exchange of recipes and the development of the cookie business. The fact is that cakes, pastries, muffins and other sweets quickly spoiled on long journeys, so travelers took cookies with them on the road, which remained fresh for a long time. So you can stock up on more tasty and crispy homemade baked goods, so that you have something to please guests and loved ones during a tea party, or put it in your child’s backpack as a school snack.
Cookies for tea and coffee
Cookies are small portioned baked goods that can be made from absolutely any dough - sponge cake, shortbread, puff pastry, custard, puff pastry or meringue-based. What’s nice is that this type of culinary creativity is accessible even to novice confectioners, so feel free to get to work and involve the little members of your family in the process - children usually happily cut out various figures from dough with molds and then devour their own creations with no less delight. The main thing is to strictly follow the recipe and use only high-quality products: the freshest eggs and nuts, the best flour and classic butter with a fat content of at least 70% (margarine and spread contain transgenic and palm fats, so confectioners do not use them).
Juicy shortbread
The most popular homemade cookies are made from shortcrust pastry using a large amount of butter - it is this that makes the dense crust crumbly and tender. To achieve maximum success, you need to know a few secrets. Firstly, you can’t throw the ingredients into one pile; you must follow the order of the ingredients. For classic shortbread cookies, first beat 250 g of softened butter with 125 g of sugar. Then add 1 egg to the mixture and only after that add 375 g of sifted flour. Secondly, shortbread cookies do not like to be kneaded for a long time, so as soon as you have formed a plastic fat ball, the dough is ready. Thirdly, it must be cooled before baking. To do this, wrap the ball in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for at least half an hour. After this, the dough can be rolled out into a layer 0.5-0.7 cm thick and different figures can be cut out of it. The shortbread is baked for only 5-10 minutes at +200° C.
Kurabye
The famous oriental sweet kurabiye is very similar in composition to shortbread cookies. However, the dough for the delicacy turns out to be fattier and waterier, so it is squeezed out of a pastry syringe and made into the shape of flowers. Here is the classic recipe for kurabiye: beat 300 g of softened butter with 200 g of sugar until it is completely dissolved. Then add 3 eggs and at the end 750 g of flour. Place the resulting dough into a pastry bag with a star tip and onto a baking sheet lined with parchment and pipe the flowers. Then bake the cookies at +180° C for about 10 minutes and decorate their tops (when cool) with any thick jam.
Oatmeal with raisins
If we were to rank cookies, oatmeal would definitely be the healthiest. To prepare it, it is better to use coarse oatmeal, which is rich in fiber. First, sift 360 g of flour into one bowl and mix it with 5 g of baking powder, 0.5 teaspoon of soda, 1 teaspoon of salt, 5 g of ground cloves, 2 g of ground cinnamon and 1 g of ground allspice. Separately, grind 225 g of softened butter with 340 g of refined and 60 g of brown sugar. After this, add 3 eggs one at a time. Now you need to add prepared flour with spices, 225 g of oatmeal and 115 g of pre-soaked and dried raisins into the dough. Divide the dough in half, roll each half into a log about 3 cm in diameter, wrap in cling film and put in the refrigerator for an hour. When the mass has cooled, cut it into “patchlets” and bake at +170° C for about 15 minutes.
"Crow's feet" on cottage cheese
Another famous and healthy cookie is “Crow's feet”, which are prepared using cottage cheese. They are incredibly easy to make. 200 g of softened butter should be mixed with the same amount of cottage cheese rubbed through a sieve. Then add to the mixture 250 g of sifted flour, 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder, 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar and 2-3 tbsp. spoons of regular refined. Place the kneaded dough in the refrigerator for an hour, then roll it out and cut out circles with a glass. After that, sprinkle each piece with sugar, fold it in half with sugar grains inward and then in half again. You should end up with a triangle, which you need to roll in sugar on one side again and make a dent on top with a fork so that future cookies look like crow's feet. These delicacies are baked at +200° C for about 20-25 minutes.
Almond-coconut with filling
Almond-coconut pastries with a creamy filling made on a meringue base are incredibly delicious. To create it, beat 10 egg whites with 140 g of sugar until thick foam. Separately combine 220 g of coconut flakes, 50 g of almond flour and 200 g of powdered sugar. Then mix this mass with the whipped egg white, put it into a pastry bag and squeeze it through a tube onto a baking sheet covered with parchment - make a tight row to row so that you get an even layer about 0.7 cm thick. Bake the dough at +170° C for about 15 minutes during which to make the filling. For it, bring 100 g of lemon juice and 100 g of butter to a boil. Separately, beat 300 g of sugar, 3 whole eggs and 5 yolks and mix them with the slightly cooled lemon-cream mixture. Then boil the cream to the consistency of thick sour cream, pour it onto a layer of cooled dough and cover with a second layer of dough. After this, the workpiece should be put in the refrigerator, kept there for about an hour and cut into cookies of any shape. Before serving, it is advisable to sprinkle the masterpiece with powdered sugar.
Italian biscotti
In Italy, there are several names that identify different forms of baked goods. The most popular, of course, are amaretti and biscotti. The latter are translated as “twice baked” - first they are baked in the form of a loaf, then it is cut into slices and then put into the oven again. Historians believe that the first Italian biscotti were prepared back in the 13th century in the city of Prato (Tuscany). According to legend, it was these cookies that Christopher Columbus took with him on his campaigns.
If you want to surprise your loved ones with real biscotti, mix 250 g of flour and sugar and 1 teaspoon of baking powder in a large bowl. Then add 3 beaten eggs in several portions and mix the mixture thoroughly each time. After this, add chopped dried fruits and nuts to it: 100 g of dried apricots, 50 g of dates, 70 g of pistachios, 50 g of blanched almonds, 50 g of hazelnuts and the zest of 1 lemon. Then divide the resulting dough into 6 parts, roll them into sausages with a diameter of 3 cm and place them on a baking sheet at least 6 cm from each other (so that the dough does not stick to your hands, wet them). Flatten the bars slightly and bake for 20-30 minutes until golden brown. Then remove the sausages from the oven and leave for 10 minutes to cool slightly and firm up. After this, cut the biscotti into 5 mm thick slices at an angle, place on baking sheets and bake for about 10 minutes on each side.
Provencal “boats”-navettes
From traditional Provencal cuisine you can borrow classic cookies - navettes. They differ from their counterparts in their bizarre boat-shaped shape. Sift 500 g of flour, add a pinch of salt, 250 g of sugar and mix. Make a well in the center and pour 3 eggs and 80 g of melted butter into it. Then gradually pour in 100 ml of water and knead into a smooth, elastic dough. Transfer it to a table sprinkled with flour and knead until the mass stops sticking to your hands. Place the dough in the refrigerator for an hour. After this, divide the dough into small balls with a diameter of about 3 cm, roll each into an oval cake, fold the longitudinal edges inward, giving them the shape of the sides of a boat, and make a shallow cut in the middle. Place the resulting boats on a baking sheet covered with parchment and leave for an hour. Then brush the cookies with yolk whipped with milk and bake for 15 minutes at +180º C. To give the cookies a charming aroma, you can take orange zest, boil it in 100 ml of water, add 1-2 tbsp. spoons of orange liqueur and grease the finished cookies with this mixture.
Not just crackers
Cookies can be not only sweet, but also salty. Our housewives don’t particularly like it, but Europeans bake it quite often and serve it as an appetizer with wine or beer, as a light snack with cheese and vegetables, or instead of traditional bread. You can prepare unsweetened cookies with any spices - Provençal herbs, Indian spices, poppy seeds, sesame seeds and other additives. Salty pastries are stored even better than dessert ones - in a closed box they can easily lie for up to a month.
Crispy cheese
Very tasty unsweetened crispy cookies are made from shortcrust pastry and Gouda cheese. To prepare it, take 200 g of flour and pour it in a heap on the table. Then grate 200 g of cheese on top, put butter (200 g), cut into pieces, 1 egg and add a couple of pinches of cumin and allspice (you can experiment with spices). Knead a thick shortbread dough with your hands, make a ball out of it, wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for an hour. Then roll out the mass to a thickness of 0.5 mm, cut out figures of any shape from it and brush each cookie with an egg beaten with a little milk and sprinkle with sesame seeds, cumin and poppy seeds. Bake unsweetened cookies for about 15 minutes at +200º C.
Very simple and economical cookies are made from processed cheese. This recipe was born in Soviet times, when, except for Druzhba cheesecakes, it was difficult to buy anything in stores. However, the “stagnant” cookies made from them are so loved by housewives that they continue to bake them with pleasure. So, you need to take 50 g of processed cheese at room temperature, chop it finely and mix with softened butter (75 g), a glass of sifted flour and one egg. When the dough is kneaded, it is better to keep it in the refrigerator for about an hour, wrapped in cling film. Then you can cut it into strips or squares and bake for 15 minutes at +220º C. By the way, if you roll the pieces in sugar, you will get sweet cookies for tea.
Not a single store-bought cookie can compare with the taste and aroma of homemade butter cookies. You can involve your kids in the process of making homemade cookies, who will be very interested in preparing and cutting out their own cookies from dough in a wide variety of shapes.
So, to prepare the simplest, most delicious, homemade butter cookies, we need a set of the following products:
- 2 cups (volume 250 g) premium wheat flour;
- 1 cup granulated sugar (preferably fine grain);
- 1 glass of fat sour cream;
- 100 gr. butter;
- 1 packet of dry yeast;
- 1 sachet of aromatic vanilla;
Step-by-step recipe for making homemade cookies
We managed to prepare simple and delicious cookies that will become one of your favorite tea party desserts. Bon appetit.
Today, baking at home and preparing delicious desserts is not difficult. By visiting the Internet, you can find a huge number of simple recipes with step-by-step descriptions and images of the cooking process.
However, the most proven (by not a hundred housewives), delicious and simple cookie recipe is the recipe for making homemade butter cookies, which none of your family members will be able to resist.
What are homemade butter cookies? This is a crispy, moderately crumbly, airy, soft and aromatic pastry of golden or amber color. This dough structure is achieved by the yeast present in the cookie dough. Yes, you didn’t think so: homemade butter cookies are cookies made with yeast dough.
In addition, it is not necessary to wait 2 hours for the dough to “rise” and double in size - in our recipe for homemade cookie dough, the time to prepare the dough will take no more than 30 minutes.
Secrets to making perfect homemade cookies.
- If the recipe for making homemade cookies says that the butter should be moderately soft, then there is no need to try to heat it, for example, in a microwave oven. The butter should thaw on its own at room temperature. This will make it easier to grind and it will not lose its valuable properties during the preparation of cookies.
- It is most convenient to knead the dough by separately mixing all the bulk and liquid products contained in the recipe;
- When kneading the dough, you should remember that the recipe does not always specify the exact amount of flour and sugar required, for example, using butter may require more or less flour, and the amount of sugar used is up to each person. If you have poured flour and the dough begins to dry out, then simply pour a little water into it;
- Also, for example, if instead of regular sugar you add sugar with vanilla extract (vanilla sugar), then the cookies will be very fragrant;
- The baking time recommended in the recipe is also individual, as it largely depends on the power, properties and quality of your oven.
- Remember! Butter cookies bake very quickly, so you should not leave the oven while baking, otherwise, before you know it, your cookies will already be burnt! In addition, burnt cookies greatly spoil the real taste of baked goods.
- The baked goods can be stored in an airtight container for several weeks. Even after this period, it will surprise you with its preserved qualities.
- Anyone can improve ours or create their own ideal recipe for homemade butter cookies, just add any berries, dried fruits or chocolate to the dough, and you can bake the most delicious cookies for tea on the table.
For every housewife, her favorite recipe for homemade butter cookies often becomes the basis for imagination and the invention of her own family and signature dish. Sometimes it can be quite difficult to surprise guests with culinary ideas, despite the fact that the dishes served for dinner or lunch are incredibly tasty. But with the aroma of improved homemade cookies, you can add your own charm and nostalgia to your home and childhood to the reigning atmosphere.
Bon appetit!
