Serpentine cookies: how to cook

Serpentine biscuits are crumbly, delicious and aromatic homemade pastries that will appeal to both children and adults. The recipe for making such a treat is simple enough and does not require special expenses. Such baking is even possible for a novice cook.

Serpentine biscuits: a recipe with a photo

To prepare a dessert, you will need:

• 200 grams of butter based on animal cream or margarine;
• 2 eggs of chicken;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• 450 grams of flour;
• 100 grams of cocoa powder;
• 10 grams of baking powder.

Preparation of the dough

Serpentine cookies are usually prepared on the basis of margarine. But you can use butter based on animal cream. To knead a good dough, you should pour sugar into a deep container. Margarine is recommended to be removed from the refrigerator in advance. It should be soft. Do not heat it on fire or in a microwave. In a container with sugar, you need to put margarine, and then carefully rub it. In the resulting mixture it is necessary to drive in eggs, and then mix until uniform.

In the dough, add a baking powder, and then flour, carefully sifted through a sieve. After that, the mass should be well mixed. The result should be an elastic and easy-to-work dough.

Mass should be divided into two parts, and then enter into one of them cocoa powder. The dough should be kneaded until its color becomes homogeneous. If desired, you can add to the second part of the test not chocolate, but beet juice. The result is a white and pink cookie. You can also divide the dough into three equal parts. One mix with cocoa, the second - with the juice of beets, and the third leave without additives. As a result, the cookie will be three-color.

How to configure

Shortbread cookie "Serpentine" has an interesting drawing. To create it, you need to know how to mix two different tests correctly. This requires a polyethylene film. On it should roll out a layer of light dough. The result is a rectangle.

The same must be done with the chocolate test. After that, the film with the rectangle should be carefully lifted and turned over to a light rectangle. In conclusion, the top polyethylene can be removed. If you use a dough of three colors, then on top of the chocolate layer you need to lay out a colored layer.

Using a film placed under a light dough, it is necessary to carefully fold the roll. Such a preform should be placed in a freezer for 15 minutes. This will allow cutting it without much difficulty.

After the specified time, the roll should be taken out of the freezer. Now you need to cut it gently with rings. The thickness of one piece should not exceed 1 centimeter.

The pan should be oiled on vegetable basis. You can also use parchment for baking. On the baking sheet you need to lay out the blanks. Bake cookies are recommended in a well-heated oven at a temperature of not less than 180 ° C for 15 minutes. After this time, the Serpentine biscuits will be ready.

Cookies for those who follow a lacto-vegetarian diet

How else can you cook Serpentine cookies? The recipe includes the following products:

• 200 grams of butter on a creamy basis;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• 550 grams of flour;
• 4 large spoons of sour cream;
• 0.1 teaspoon of salt;
• 2 large spoons of cocoa in powder form;
• 10 grams of vanillin;
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon.

Stages of dough preparation

How to prepare Serpentine? The cookie, the photo of which is presented above, in this case is cooked on the basis of butter. This component should be removed from the refrigerator in advance so that it is soft. Butter should be combined with sugar and beat for 2 minutes with a mixer. The mass should become homogeneous and without crystals.

In the resulting mass should be added vanilla sugar, cinnamon and salt. Mix everything up with a mixer. In the end, the flour must be added to the resulting mixture, previously sieved. The dough should be mixed. In the end, you should get crumbs. In them, you should add sour cream, and then beat with a mixer. Long kneading dough is not recommended, as it will become stiff.

The resulting mass should be divided into two equal parts, and then add cocoa to one of them. The dough should be evenly colored.

The formation process

To make cookies "Serpentine", it is necessary to wrap the dough in polyethylene and place in the refrigerator. After 15 minutes it should be removed and rolled into layers, no more than 6 millimeters thick. It is best to make rectangles of the same size from the test.

Chocolate rolled mass should be carefully transferred to light. The dough should be carefully rolled into a roll so that there is no air between the layers. Otherwise, the cookies will fall apart. The workpiece should be wrapped in polyethylene and placed in the cold. After 15 minutes, the roll can be taken out and cut into circles with a thickness of not more than five millimeters. Of the specified number of components, a lot of cookies are obtained.

How to bake and serve

The oven is recommended to preheat to 180 ° C. The pan should be oiled with vegetable oil. If it is not near at hand, then it is possible to cover the surface with paper intended for baking. The baking tray should be carefully laid out on the baking tray. In this case, you need to ensure that it does not fall apart. Serpentine should be baked for 15 minutes. As a result, a golden shade should appear on the cookie. In this case, you need to ensure that the delicacy is not burnt.

After cooking, cookies should be put on a special grate for cooling. Serve this dessert with any drink: milk, cocoa, coffee, tea. The treat should be completely cooled down. Such cookies can be served to the festive table or treat guests in the process of tea drinking.