Short sandwich basket. Shortbread dough for baskets

Almost all children love the sweet. And many adults will not deny themselves the pleasure of occasionally drinking a cup of coffee, tea with pastries. Home made confectionery products are prepared with love, they are distinguished by excellent taste and smell of fresh baked goods. Shortbread basket from a short dough will leave very few indifferent. And it's quite easy to do them. The main thing is to put the right amount of ingredients and do everything as it is written in the recipe. You also need to buy special iron or silicone molds for cupcakes.

Recipe for baskets from short pastry

For the test, you will need:

• 3 yolks;
• 300 grams (this is 1.5 cups) of wheat flour;
• 2 tablespoons of sour cream;
• 70 grams of margarine or butter;
• ½ cup of sugar.

For cream:

• 3 protein;
• 150 grams of sugar;
• 150 ml of water.

Cooking dough for a sweet masterpiece

We make shortbread dough for baskets. To do this, we sift into the bowl the right amount of flour and add to it necessarily frozen margarine or butter. The oil is placed in this bowl and chopped with a knife, constantly pouring in the flour. We cut the piece first into vertical, and then to horizontal plates. The result is small squares of oil. Now we grease the palms with flour and start rubbing oil between them. In doing so, do not forget to constantly douse them in flour. When butter and flour become one fraction, you can add yolks, sugar and sour cream and mix everything with a spoon and then with a hand. To dough does not stick to your hands, we dip them periodically into flour. It turned out a gentle shortbread dough for baskets.

We cool, form and heat, baking

The dough should become smooth, like a ball. Slightly flatten it into a thick cake and place it in a cellophane bag. We remove for 25 minutes in the freezer. Then pour the table, the rolling pin, with flour. We take out the dough from the refrigerator and sprinkle this cake with flour from two sides. Now it can be rolled in a pancake thickness of 0.8-1 cm.

Meanwhile, turn on the oven, let it warm up to 180 °. We take out the molds. If they are iron, you need to grease them with a piece of butter and sprinkle them with flour. We take the first mold, turn it over and press the teeth on the shortbread dough for the baskets. We turn the mold and that round piece of dough, which is still on its surface, is distributed on the whole mold. To do this, press it first to the edges, and then gently - to the sides and bottom. Silicone molds are lubricated with oil only if it is only brought from the store. Subsequent baking does not require this. We distribute the dough in the same way.

It remains to put the semi-finished products in the oven and bake for 20 minutes.

We make an air cream

Very tasty are obtained with a protein cream basket of shortcake. Especially since we have 3 proteins left. Therefore, we make an airy, white cream.

First you need to cook the syrup. To do this, we dissolve the sugar in the water and put it on the fire. The syrup should be cooked for about 45 minutes. Readiness is defined as follows. Take a little syrup with a teaspoon and dip it into a bowl with cold water. If the droplet turned into a small ball, did not dissolve, did not spread in the water, so the syrup is ready. If not, cook it a little more.

At this time, beat the chilled proteins with a pinch of salt in a steep foam. Without stopping whisking, a thin trickle pour into them another hot, but no longer boiling syrup. If it is boiling, then squirrels can curdle. The foam will become even stronger. The cream is ready.

We are preparing the product

It remains to put the cream in the basket of sand dough and decorate the products. Some like it when cakes have a bit of sourness. Then to the bottom of the cooled baskets it is good to first put a little bit of sour jam (for example, plum), and then cover them with a cap of snow-white foam. You can put the cream and directly into the cooled baskets. Decorate the cakes on top of a strawberry or cherry. How you can decorate baskets from the sand dough, photos of which are given in this article, your fantasy will tell.

If there is a colored crumbly sugar crumb, then you can sprinkle it slightly on top. We spread baskets on a beautiful dish and serve this delicacy to the table.

You can do baskets with other types of cream. Children really like the butter custard. Further on how to cook it.

Custard oil custard

With this filling, you can make not only baskets of shortcake, but also other cakes and cakes. It will require:

• 1 egg;
• 1 cup of milk;
• 1.5 tablespoons flour;
• 2.5 tablespoons of sugar;
• 100 grams of butter;
• ½ pack of vanilla sugar.

First of all, we get the oil from the refrigerator, let it become soft at the kitchen temperature.

All the ingredients, except the oil, are mixed with a whisk or mixer to a homogeneous consistency. We put the received liquid on a plate on small fire. The cream is constantly stirring, especially intensively it begins to do before boiling. The cream began to thicken and boil, so you need to immediately remove it from the heat and cool it.

We beat the butter with a mixer and gradually, 1-2 tablespoons, add the custard cooled cream to it. You can add a tablespoon of cocoa to the milk before the heating, then you will get a chocolate cream. And at the end of whipping, you can pour a couple of tablespoons of chopped nuts. Will also be very tasty.

Cream squeezes into baskets using a pastry syringe or bag. Products should stand in the refrigerator until the cream solidifies. After that they can be eaten with pleasure.

A poor option

If you do not add sugar to the batter for the baskets, but slightly add it, you will get a great shape. You can fill it with almost any salad, and there will be a wonderful snack. You can cut boiled shrimps with eggs, fill them with mayonnaise and serve. This dish is suitable for a buffet table. Often you can see such variations of baskets in places where food is offered in the form of a buffet. It is possible and at home to make such charming snackbaskets and pamper them with your favorite family or surprise guests who looked at the light. Although they are unlikely to refuse from the sweet options of this batch.