If guests suddenly come or family members ask for something tasty, but you have neither the strength nor the time to cook something intricate, you will always be helped out by a quick cookie.
It can be made with a variety of ingredients, from sweet, served with tea or coffee, to salty, as an alternative to chips. People have different tastes, but you can always find something for yourself among the many options. In any case, any hostess simply needs to have several recipes for such pastries in her culinary arsenal.
Homemade cookies in a hurry are quickly and simply made from shortcrust pastry.
Ingredients:
- flour 2.5 cups
- granulated sugar 0.5 cups
- butter or margarine 150g
- egg 1pc. (+1 for lubrication)
- salt to taste, about a pinch
- soda 0.25 tsp or baking powder
- powdered sugar 2 teaspoons
- almonds or nuts for sprinkling 2 teaspoons
Grind sugar with egg and butter until whitening, you can add vanillin or vanilla sugar, salt. Pour flour with soda or baking powder into a bowl, knead a soft dough. Roll it out on a table dusted with flour to a thickness of 2-3 mm, cut it out with a cookie cutter, lay it on a baking sheet covered with parchment. Brush cookies with egg and sprinkle with chopped nuts or almonds. Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 220 degrees for about 10 minutes until they are golden brown.
Meringue cookies are baked very quickly, for the preparation of which flour is not needed.
You can cook an unusual meringue with sunflower or pumpkin seeds.
Ingredients:
- eggs 5 pcs. (proteins)
- granulated sugar 1-1.5 cups
- vanillin to taste
- sunflower kernel 1 glass
Proteins are separated into a saucepan, sugar is poured out and beaten for 5 minutes with a whisk in a water bath.
After removing from the stove, beat for another 10-15 minutes until the foam becomes stable.
If you have a mixer, the process will speed up considerably.
The baking sheet is lightly greased with oil using a brush or cloth, sunflower seeds are laid out on it in small heaps and small meringues are deposited on them with the help of a pastry bag or just a spoon.
Sunflowers are best lightly roasted. You can immediately knead it into the dough.
Cookies should be small, otherwise they will not bake well inside.
Bake at a temperature of 100-110 degrees for about 25-30 minutes.
Ready cookies are easily separated from the sheet when tapped.
Homemade cookies in a hurry in the form of biscuits
Ingredients:
- flour 3.5 cups
- granulated sugar 1 cup
- margarine or butter 100-125 g
- egg 1 pc.
- sour milk (kefir, fermented baked milk, curdled milk) 0.5 cup
- soda 0.5 teaspoon
- vanillin or lemon zest to taste
- sugar for sprinkling 1.5 tablespoons
Combine sugar, soda, vanillin, break an egg and grind with sugar.
Add margarine, grind until white. Pour in the sour milk and stir.
Sprinkle flour with baking soda and knead a soft dough.
Roll out the dough on the table into a layer about a finger thick and sprinkle it evenly with sugar.
Let's take a rolling pin and roll it out again to a thickness of 0.5 mm.
Cut out with a cookie cutter or glass and place on a greased sheet.
Bake in a hot oven at 200-220 degrees until browned.
Ingredients:
- 2 eggs
- vodka 0.5 cup
- heavy cream 2 tbsp. spoons
- granulated sugar 1 cup
- butter or margarine 100-125 g
- vanillin to taste
- soda 0.25 teaspoon or half a bag of baking powder
- premium flour 3 cups
Add soda, vanillin and eggs to sugar, grind until bright.
Pour in vodka, put cream, add softened butter or margarine.
Stir, then add flour with soda and knead the dough.
Roll out the dough with flagella the thickness of the little finger in length on a sheet.
Lay them at a distance of 2-3 cm from each other and cut into pieces 7-8 cm.
Lubricate the cookies with yolk, you can sprinkle with poppy seeds or sesame seeds and bake at a temperature of 20-230 degrees. Thin cookies can be glued in pairs with jam.
Cookies in haste, the photo of which you see below, can be made without an oven.
Brushwood is boiled in boiling oil, so you will need a deep frying pan or a small saucepan to cook it. The dough can be prepared according to the following recipes:
Ingredients:
- eggs 2 pcs
- sugar 1 tbsp. spoon
- milk 1st. spoon
- about a pinch of salt
- premium flour 1 cup
- oil for frying about 1.5 cups
- powdered sugar for sprinkling
Ingredients:
- eggs 6 pcs
- milk 6 tbsp. spoons
- cream 6 tbsp. spoons
- vodka 6 tbsp. spoons
- flour 4.5 cups
- vegetable oil for frying
- powdered sugar for sprinkling
Mix the egg with sugar and milk, for the second recipe add vodka and cream, add flour and knead the dough. Roll it out thinly and cut into strips. Form brushwood in the form of knots, curls and fry in boiling oil until golden brown. The oil must not burn. Spread the finished brushwood on a sieve or paper towels to drain excess fat. When cool, sprinkle it with powdered sugar through a strainer.
Simple cookies in haste can be made from ready-made puff pastry.
Preferably a yeast-free puff. Such cookies can be both sweet and salty, depending on the filling. For example, you can cook cookies with sesame or cumin for beer: roll out the defrosted dough to a thickness of 0.5-0.7 cm, cut it into elongated pieces or squares with a knife, or better with a special wheel, as you like, brush it with a beaten egg or a mixture of eggs and milk and sprinkle on top with zira or sesame seeds mixed with coarse salt. Bake for 10-15 minutes in an oven preheated to 180-200 degrees. If the dough is sprinkled with sugar on top, then you will get puffs for tea.
Cottage cheese dough cookies are also suitable for tea and beer.
It all depends on what additives to put in the dough.
Ingredients:
- a glass of flour
- 150 g butter or margarine
- 250 g cottage cheese
- 170-180 g of hard cheese
- 1 tsp baking powder
- less than a teaspoon of salt
As additives, you can take chopped garlic, finely chopped greens, paprika by itself or with a small addition of hot pepper, cumin, poppy seeds, sunflower, nuts, sesame seeds, etc.
Mix softened butter with cottage cheese, grated cheese on a coarse grater until smooth. Salt if necessary. After that, you can divide the mass into several parts, if you want to put different additives and divide the flour into portions accordingly. Put the flour with baking powder and additives into the curd mass and knead the dough. Put it in the refrigerator for half an hour, then roll it into a layer, wrapping it first in cling film. If you have all the additives in the test. Spread out with a layer a little less than a centimeter. If you want to make a topping, roll out the dough a little thicker, sprinkle with poppy seeds, sesame seeds or cumin and roll the topping with a rolling pin. Cut the cookies into strips, best with a special wheel to make the edge jagged, put on a greased sheet and bake at a temperature of 200-220 degrees for about half an hour. Cottage cheese for cooking needs dry.
Delicious quick biscuits.
Ingredients:
- butter 125 g
- sour milk 2 cups
- sugar 1 cup
- potato starch 2 cups
- wheat flour 2 cups
- soda incomplete teaspoon
- vanillin to taste
Rub the butter until white with sugar, adding vanillin. Put flour mixed with starch and soda,
knead soft dough. Roll it into a layer half a centimeter thick and cut the cookies in the form of a crescent with a glass. Bake in a non-hot oven (160-170 degrees) on a dry sheet.
The color of the finished cookie is light golden.
When we whip up shortbread cookies, sour cream added to the dough greatly improves its taste.
It doesn't take long to make shortbread chocolate cookies.
To prepare it, we need:
- flour 1.5 cups
- cocoa 2 tbsp. spoons
- potato starch 1 tbsp. spoon
- granulated sugar 0.5 cups
- eggs 1 pc.
- sour milk, sour cream or cream 1 tablespoon
- margarine or butter 150 g
- vanillin to taste
- soda 0.25 teaspoon
Stir the sugar with the egg until white, put the vanillin, add sour milk or sour cream, stir again. Add butter or margarine and grind until a creamy mass is formed, then pour in a mixture of flour, cocoa, starch and soda. Knead in a cool place not very steep dough and cut into cookies. Bake at a temperature of 180-200 degrees. you can decorate cookies with jam berries, nuts or candied fruits.
Another simple cookie in haste:
sour cream 0.5 cups,
flour 2 cups
oil 100-125 g,
sugar 1 cup,
soda 0.5 teaspoon,
salt 0.5 teaspoon - optional,
vanilla sugar 1 pack.
Grind sugar with softened butter, add sour cream, vanilla sugar and mix.
Add flour mixed with soda and quickly knead the dough.
Blind it into a thick pancake, wrap it in cling film and put it in the freezer for a few minutes. Roll out the chilled dough on a table dusted with flour into a sheet about a centimeter thick and cut out the figures with molds. The rest of the dough can simply be rolled into balls and flattened.
Alternatively, simply lay the rolled out dough around the rolling pin on a greased sheet and divide with a knife or a special wheel into squares.
When baking, the dough sheet will be solid, but the lines of the squares will remain, and it will be easy to simply break the cookies into portions along them. Prick the prepared cookies with a fork.
Bake at 180-200 degrees.
Instead of vanillin, you can use grated lemon zest, raisins also do not hurt.
These cookies can be baked even from flour with not very high gluten.
This recipe has been known to me for 30 years, and it helped me a lot just when it was not possible to buy good flour.
honey biscuits
Fragrant, like all pastries with honey, and add cinnamon and cardamom to it, you can also put a little cloves.
Ingredients:
- flour 350 g
- honey 150 g
- butter 125 g
- cottage cheese 150 g
- yolks of two eggs
- cinnamon, cardamom to taste (0.25 tsp each)
- baking powder 1 pack
- sugar for sprinkling
If you have liquid honey, just stir it with softened butter. If it is candied, put the bowl in a water bath and stir until smooth. Grind cottage cheese with a blender or pass through a meat grinder, mix with honey and butter. Then add cottage cheese and yolks to the honey-butter mixture. Knead and add flour with baking powder. Let's knead the dough. Roll out the finished dough with a layer of 0.7-1 cm on a table dusted with flour and cut out cookies with cookie cutters. We cover the baking sheet with parchment and put the cookies on it, after dipping them in sugar with the top side. You can use a mixture of sugar and cinnamon. Bake at 200°C for about 15 minutes.
Unusual and delicious pastries, cookies in haste from such a dough are made as follows:
- 300 g margarine or butter
- 3 cups flour
- 25 g fresh yeast
- 1 tbsp. tablespoon sugar + sugar for sprinkling
- 0.75 cups of milk
Grind the flour with margarine, dilute the yeast in warm milk, putting a tablespoon of sugar in it. Let the yeast froth and pour in the flour and butter. Add a little more flour, if necessary, so that you can knead a soft dough. Divide the dough into 8 parts, roll each part into an oblong sheet, grease it with jam or just sprinkle with sugar and roll into a roll. Brush top with beaten egg and bake at about 200 degrees. Cut the finished rolls into portions.
You can quickly make cookies using detachable molds.
Cookie dough "Nuts" can be prepared according to this recipe:
- 2 eggs
- 250 g margarine
- 250 g mayonnaise
- 1 cup of sugar
- 2 cups of flour
- 1 cup starch
- 0.25 tsp soda
We combine all the products and knead the dough. We roll it out in the form of thin flagella and divide it into portions, as for dumplings. We put the pieces of dough in a preheated form and bake the nuts.
Sour cream cookies.
Ingredients:
- flour 2 cups
- sugar 0.75 cups
- butter or margarine 50 g
- egg 0.5 pcs.
- sour cream 3 tbsp. spoons
Put vanillin, soda in granulated sugar. Mashed butter or margarine. After rubbing the mixture well, put an egg into it, rub it again, add sour cream, mix, and then add flour. The prepared dough is kneaded on the table and cookies are formed. Baked at a temperature of 230-240 degrees. Cookies that are prepared for the festive table can be decorated with mastic.
