VIDEO: One dough, many cookies
Preparing the dough for the cookies - first steps
This recipe is for shortcrust biscuits and is therefore also suitable for baking with children. The amounts of ingredients vary from recipe to recipe, but many cookie recipes are based on a shortcrust pastry, which is also a good choice for a fruit cake.
- For the dough, put the flour in a bowl and the softened butter or margarine in small pieces.
- Then add the egg, sugar and vanilla sugar, a pinch of salt and a teaspoon of baking powder and knead everything by hand.
- Roll out the dough on baking paper and cut out cookies using any shapes.
- You can fill the many cookies with something before baking milk Brush and sprinkle with sugar, or sprinkle almond slivers and nuts on top and then bake for about 10 minutes at 180 ° C in the electric oven.
- You also have the option of baking the cookies first and then decorating them. You can create a frosting with powdered sugar, something water and a little egg whites. It becomes colored with something jam stirred in. Icing is really colorful with food coloring, but jam is the more natural way.
- chocolate is one of the most popular glazes, but you can also decorate the many cookies with silver love pearls and pre-purchased sugar flakes and sprinkles.
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Variations for many different places
if you more dough then you can first bake and decorate one or two sheets of simple biscuits from them. Then simply change the dough with one or two ingredients and get many different cookies from this one dough.
- For example, add one to two tablespoons of real cocoa powder and pieces of dark chocolate to the batter and cut out lots of chocolate cookies.
- With nut or almond chips in the batter, the chocolate cookies become nut cookies. You can add these before the chocolate or after the chocolate.
- You can for the adults z. B. also a tablespoon rum and add raisins to the batter.
- With another packet of vanilla sugar, the same batter can be made into many vanilla biscuits.
You can let your imagination run wild, the baking time always stays the same. Good succeed!
