Everyone knows that homemade pastries are much more delicious than even the finest store analogues. With love, cooked cake, waffles or the simplest pancakes will certainly please your family, and on holidays a sweet table will decorate. Try to make a Viennese cookie, the recipe of which is not too complicated, but you can make it with jam or cottage cheese. Choose the type of cooking that is more to your liking. The description of how to make both kinds of this baking, you will find in our article.
We prepare the Viennese cookies: the recipe for shortbread
This quite economical variant of baking does not take in preparation and hours. Moreover, products from which make a delicacy, are accessible and inexpensive. For a large portion you will need:
- 50 g of granulated sugar;
- 100 g of butter (cream) of good quality. Pay attention to the packaging - the oil should be free from vegetable fats;
- 1 yolk;
- 150 g of sifted wheat flour;
- any ground nuts (add to the dough), jam or jam (cherry, strawberry and so on). It is better to choose an acidic filler option so that your cookies do not turn out to be too cloying;
- A little vanilla and powdered sugar.
To prepare the dough, combine the flour, sugar, butter, yolk and salt, add a little vanilla. The mass must be carefully mixed until uniform. Now the resulting piece for the biscuit needs to be divided into two equal parts - the first to clean in the refrigerator, and the second to put in the freezer for about an hour. After the required time, from the cooled part of the dough (the one that was in the fridge), form small items, top with jam. By the way, you can take several types at once, then you will get an interesting and varied filling. The second part of the test should be rubbed on a large grater and put on top. Bake the biscuits for about 15-20 minutes in a preheated oven. Viennese cookies with jam just like all the members of your family, and, given the simplicity of cooking and the availability of necessary products, you can please the family and guests with delicious homemade cakes for tea every day.
Curd cheese biscuit "Viennese": recipe with photos
Here is another way to prepare a treat, but this time in the dough you need to add more and cottage cheese. Get a very delicious soft cookies. This option is also not so sweet. For him, take:
- 1 egg yolk;
- 100 g of soft and high-quality butter;
- 100 g of granulated sugar or powder;
- 150 g of flour;
- 125-150 grams of cottage cheese, but not fatty, but dry, previously rubbed through a sieve;
- half a lemon (only zest will be needed);
- a little any jam, egg white for lubrication.
Next, you need to knead the dough for Viennese cookies, the recipe of which is given above. Together with the other ingredients, you also need to add cottage cheese. In this version, the dough should not be frozen, it is enough to clean it for 30 minutes in the refrigerator. Then you need to cut the blanks, circles, and half should be completely round, and the other half should be made with a hole in the middle (like a ring). Next, you need to lubricate the first billet with protein, put the one that comes out with the hole, grease it with protein again, decorate, for example, with almond leaves (if desired) or sprinkle with sugar powder. Bake cookies need from 15 to 20 minutes in a preheated oven (190-200 degrees is enough). After the cookies are ready, immediately put in the middle of your favorite jam. Now you know how to bake Viennese cookies, the recipe of which is quite simple.