Glazed cookies are a favorite childhood treat. It suitable for any family celebration: from birthdays to the New of the year. Gingerbread cookies are often glazed, but at the heart of this Shortbread Cookies Recipe. To knead the shortbread dough correctly, Beat butter well. This step is very important when making shortbread cookies – if the butter is well beat with sugar, cookies will melt in your mouth. The coating process itself so exciting that more than one will want to repeat it раз! 
Time: 30 мин.plus solidification time Difficulty: easy Quantity: 18 cookies B recipes use measured containers with a volume of: 1 glass (tbsp.) – 240 ml 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cups (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp. l.) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
Biscuit
- 115 gr. butter at room temperature
- 1/4 Art. granulated sugar
- 1/4 Art. sifted icing sugar
- 3/4 Art. premium flour
- 2 tbsp. l cocoa powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
Royal icing
- 3 tbsp. l dry egg white
- 4 tbsp. sifted icing sugar
- 6 tbsp. l warm water
- Food coloring
Recipes with similar ingredients: premium flour, sugar cocoa powder
Recipe preparation:
- For shortcrust pastry, beat the butter and sugar and powder for about 3 minutes. Sift flour, cocoa into a separate bowl and salt. Add the flour mixture to the oil and mix until smooth. consistency. Roll the dough into a ball, flatten, wrap it in a bag and put in the cold for an hour (the dough should harden).
- Heat the oven to 160 ° C and cover the baking tray parchment paper.
- Expand the dough and knead a little to make it slightly softer and easier to roll. On a surface, sprinkled with flour, roll the dough into a layer with a thickness of 3-5 mm. Cut cookies with curly dough for dough (better to take corrugated molds of 5-6 cm.) and lay the blanks on a baking sheet. Mash and roll out the remaining dough, form biscuit.
- Bake cookies for 13-15 minutes until they are easy to remove if you pry them with a spatula. Cool cookies on a baking sheet before you file.
- For royal glaze: mix all the ingredients in stationary mixer, setting the nozzle blade, beat until dissolving for about 5 minutes. To make the icing more liquid consistency and could evenly spread on the surface of the cookie, dilute it lightly with water. You can adjust the density glaze by adding water or icing sugar as needed. Add some dye to your liking.
- Put the icing with a spoon in a pastry bag with a narrow nib or cone made of parchment paper. Draw the outline on surface of the cookie and then fill it with icing. Or draw points of different colors and a toothpick mix them. Dry for 2-3 hours to freeze the icing. In a sealed container cookies are well stored for up to 5 days. From this cookie you can pick up sandwiches.
