Sugar shortbread cookies are very easy to prepare and incredibly tasty! It can be baked in large quantities and each a day to serve with tea or coffee. Cover royal cookies icing, and it will be a great decoration for any holiday. Traditionally, it is customary to bake and decorate it for Christmas. And for fun family activities you can connect to the process of your little helpers. Share with friends: 
Time: 55 minutes Difficulty: easy. Quantity: 30 cookies. Recipes used. volumetric containers: one cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Contents
Ingredients for the recipe:
Shortbread
- 2.5 tbsp. premium flour
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp fine salt
- 3/4 Art. ultrafine sugar
- 165 gr. sliced butter at room temperature in small pieces
- 1 large egg, slightly beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Special equipment: curly molds for cookies
Royal icing
- 4 tbsp. powdered sugar
- 1/4 Art. egg white protein
- Food coloring, optional
- Decorative sugar for sprinkling, optional
- Confectionery topping, optional
Recipes with similar ingredients: shortbread cookies, flour varieties, icing sugar, vanilla extract, eggs
Recipe preparation:
- Shortcrust pastry: mix in a small bowl with a whisk flour, baking powder and salt. In a large bowl at medium speed beat with a mixer fine sugar and butter until lightly lush mass for 5 minutes Continue to beat, add the egg, then vanilla. Sprinkle the flour and reduce the speed to moderately low to everything was thoroughly mixed. Divide the dough in half and roll 2 circle 0.6 cm thick. Then wrap in cling film and remove for an hour in the refrigerator to freeze the dough.
- Place the two racks in the oven above and below. Preheat oven to 175 ° C. Cover two baking sheets with parchment.
- Remove the dough from the refrigerator and leave for a few minutes at room temperature. Roll circles one by one between two sheets of parchment to a thickness of 0.3 cm. Cut with figurines figures from the dough and place them on baking sheets at a distance of 5 cm. each from friend.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until the cookies are browned from below. Cool the finished cookies first on a baking sheet, then transfer to a wire rack to let it cool completely. roll the remaining dough into a ball and flatten it. Wrap circle into the film and put in the refrigerator for an hour. Then roll again thin layer of dough, cut out the figures and bake.
- Garnish cookies with icing, decorative sugar and sprinkles.
Royal icing
In a large bowl with a moderate speed mixer whisk powdered sugar, powdered protein and 1/3 tbsp. water to form steady peaks. Enter food coloring if using him.
