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You can prepare these cookies together with your children – the process is pleasant and exciting.
I found the recipe on Instagram*. I tried to repeat it — it was delicious. Since then, I bake only like this, sometimes adding cocoa or vanilla with mint. The dough turns out fragrant and soft, like plasticine — it’s pleasant to work with, and the stamps are printed perfectly.
Difficulty: easy 👌
Cooking time: 2 hours, of which 40 minutes are active work
Ingredients for shortbread cookies – for 4 baking sheets
| Flour | 370 g |
| Butter | 250 g |
| Powdered sugar | 130 g |
| Eggs | 1 pc. |
| Cornstarch | 40 g |
| Vanillin | Pinch |
| Salt | Pinch |
Before cooking
The dough can be stored in the refrigerator for two to three days or frozen.
You can experiment with the taste of the cookies: add lemon or orange zest for a New Year’s aroma, replace regular vanilla with mint to get mint cookies. You can also make them chocolate if you replace 20 g of flour with cocoa powder.
The inventory you will need is a rolling pin, cling film, baking parchment and cookie cutters. You can replace them with a glass or a jam jar to make circles.
To prepare the dough, I use a food processor with a blade attachment – it’s easier and faster. But you can also knead it by hand.
The molds and stamps I use. They are small, so with the given amount of ingredients I got about 100 cookies.
Step by step cooking method
Step 1. Cut the cold butter into cubes and mix in a bowl with the remaining ingredients. The dough should be homogeneous and come together into a smooth lump.
Step 2. Divide the dough into two equal parts, wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
Step 3. Take one part of the dough out of the fridge. Sprinkle the surface with flour and roll out a layer about 5 mm thick: cookies that are too thin will burn, and cookies that are too thick will take a long time to bake.
Step 4: Cut out cookies using cookie cutters or a glass and place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Gather the dough scraps into a ball and roll them out again.
Step 5: Bake the cookies for 15 minutes at 160°C.
While the first batch is baking, take out the second batch of dough and prepare the remaining cookies.
