How to cook shortbread cookies with jam

What kind of touching moments will be tea at the table in the circle of relatives and relatives, if you please your family by cooking something with your own hands, for example, shortbread cookies with jam or exquisite and fragrant shortbread cookies with glaze. The process of preparing a short dough is very simple and does not require high costs, which is very happy housewives.

You only need to buy the following ingredients: two packs of butter or margarine, about two glasses of sour cream, 50 g of yeast, about three glasses of flour and any favorite jam. You can use boiled condensed milk instead of jam. Prepare the molds for baking in advance.

Preparation begin with yeast - they must be dissolved in warm milk. In milk it is desirable to add a pinch of salt and sugar to taste. After, leave the yeast in a warm place for fermentation and then proceed with the preparation of the dough. It is necessary to mix the flour with the spread margarine, gradually adding sour cream. In the resulting mixture, slowly pour the diluted yeast and begin to knead the dough, until it will stick to the hands. Then dough carefully wrapped in gauze, and throw in a bucket of cold water. The dough immediately falls to the bottom, but we need to wait until it pops up, you can continue the cooking process.

When the dough pops up, place it on a cutting board, roll it into a layer, about 0.5 cm thick. Using the cut-out molds, lay out cookies of two types: one will be solid, and the other with a hole in the middle. The quantitative ratio of them should be 1/1. After obtaining the desired shape, we spread the cookies on a baking tray and bake in the oven until completely ready.

Ready cookies should only be slightly toasty, so wait 20 minutes for it to cool, and then we can lubricate it with jam or condensed milk. Lubricate only solid biscuits, but what with a hole attached from above, so that we have cute cakes that can be sprinkled with powdered sugar and served to the table. Biscuit shortbread cookies with jam will not only be a joy for sweeties, but will surprise your guests at any festive table.

Biscuit shortbread cookies with jam can be prepared in another way - without using a bucket of water and yeast. For this short-pastry recipe , butter must be carefully mixed with sugar (mixed with egg, soda, a pinch of salt, ammonium and essence, and well-sieved flour is added to the resulting mass). The dough is desirable to knead well. Then from the rolled out dough we create the same cute molds, using improvised tools and leave to bake for about 30 minutes until a ruddy shade.

As a filling, you can use not only jam or condensed milk, the popular among housewives is the recipe for protein cream, which can be mixed with any jam. For the cream will only need 3 tablespoons of sugar, water, three egg whites and vanilla powder to taste.

We beat the proteins until the volume increases by approximately 6-7 times (the foam must be stable). Do not stop whipping, pour in hot syrup and add vanilla powder (hot syrup is prepared as follows: sugar with water must be brought to a boil, removing foam and boiling until sample "medium bead"). The cream should be beaten for about 15 minutes, and then you can add the jam.

Together with the jam it is desirable to whip the cream a little more so that it has the desired look. Protein cream will be an excellent filling for your biscuits, and variety lovers can experiment by making also cookies with peanuts. Be sure that a shortbread cookie with jam or condensed milk will be a joy for children and a memorable dessert for adults. Enjoy your meal.