How to bake shortbread cookies

Shortbread biscuits - treat, which delighted not only children but also many adults. Cookie dough differs from other varieties of cookies for its pleasant crispness and delicate flavor. Its calorie content is related to the fact that according to the recipe it always contains a lot of sugar, eggs and fat. Now this is a treat everyone can afford, but shortbread biscuitshomemade recipes will stay fresh and crisp for a long time. There are millions of recipes for this cookie, but one thing unites them - the proportions of products must always be perfect.

You will need

• • For the dough:
  • flour - 4 St;
  • margarine - 400 g;
  • eggs - 2 PCs;
  • sugar - 1 tbsp;
  • starch - 2 tablespoons;
  • salt - 0.5 tsp;
  • soda - 0.5 CH. l;
  • sunflower oil.
  • For the glaze:
  • egg - 2 PCs;
  • sugar - 3 tsp

Instruction

1. One hour before cooking cookies, remove from the fridge margarine. Leave it at room temperature to become slightly soft. Pre-sift the flour into the sieve one or more times and put it in a deep bowl in which you will prepare the dough for cookies. After that, put melted margarine and mix well with the flour to obtain a fatty grits. Do not forget to observe the proportion. Mix it four ounces of margarine and four cups of flour is very important.
2. Now take another container and mix in it the eggs, sugar, starch, salt and soda. Beat it with a mixer for five to ten minutes. Then connect both parts and mix. Let's see if the dough is turned out watery, then add a few teaspoons of flour. After that the dough be sure to put on twenty to thirty minutes in the refrigerator or freezer.
3. After the time remove the dough from the refrigerator. Divide it into five or six parts. Then each piece roll out with a thickness of not more than three or four millimeters. After that, take shaped cookie cutters and help cut out cookies. If you do not have such molds, take advantage of ordinary glass or of glass with thin edges. Then your cookies will turn out round. Pre-whisk the sugar with several proteins and brush over the biscuits. On top lightly sprinkle it with sugar or powdered sugar.
4. Grease the prepared baking pan with sunflower oil and spread it on the cookies. Now it is completely ready to go in the oven. Bake the cookies at a temperature of one hundred and eighty degrees Celsius for ten to fifteen minutes. Biscuits turns out very tasty, crumbly and just melts in your mouth.
5. For the beauty of the biscuit can stick together in pairs with jam, cream or jam.