Viennese cookies are the ideal recipe for cooking. It is done as quickly and simply as possible: it is a combination of shortbread cookie, which can be made by any hostess, and jam, which can be replaced with other more original products.
How to cook Viennese biscuits at home?
The Viennese cookies are home-renowned for their combination of sweet shortcake and sour jam. In addition to jam, you can take any berries, ground with sugar, jam, you can supplement with other products, such as cottage cheese, apples, even carrots.
- There are only two rules for the filling: it should be as thick and as acidic as possible.
- For the standard test, melted butter is taken, but the Viennese cookies in vegetable oil or margarine are no worse.
- If the jam is sweet and sweet, then you need to take about 25% less sugar for the dough, so as not to overdo it with sweetness.
- If you take sugar instead of sugar, the dough turns out to be more gentle.
- Instead of a baking powder, you can use soda (in proportions half as much).
- The classic recipe for Viennese shortbread cookies contains eggs, but one can make from without them (a lean variant).
Viennese cookies with jam - recipe
Classic Viennese cookies with jam are made quickly and simply. Jam for baking should be passed through a sieve, so that it is thicker. Sometimes it has to be done several times so that the filling is not too liquid. For the piquancy of taste, you should take the filling out, then there is a greater contrast between sweet and sour. If you take sugar powder instead of sugar, then the dough will be easier to beat, and the Viennese shortbread cookie will be more airy.
Ingredients:
- flour - 4 glasses;
- butter - 200-230 g;
- egg - 2 pieces;
- sugar - 1 cup;
- baking powder - 1 tsp;
- Vanillin - ½ tsp;
- jam - 200-230.
Preparation
- Eggs beat up with sugar until the latter completely dissolves.
- Add the melted butter, whisk until smooth.
- Mix the flour with a baking powder and gradually introduce a trickle into the mass, stirring continuously.
- Knead the dough. Third to clean in the freezer.
- The rest of the test roll out and put on a baking sheet.
- Lubricate abundantly with jam or jam.
- Frozen dough to get, grate and generously sprinkle the workpiece from above.
- Bake for about 25 minutes until the Viennese cookies blush.
Viennese cookies with cottage cheese - recipe
The Viennese pastry with cottage cheese is a less luscious version of the baked bread, and even less caloric, because some flour replaces the useful cottage cheese. You can decorate pastries with almond petals, lemon zest, sugar powder. If desired, you can also put a jam or jam on the top.
Ingredients:
- flour - 120-150 g;
- butter - 210-230 g;
- egg - 2 pieces;
- sugar - 1 cup;
- baking powder - 1 tsp;
- Vanillin - ½ tsp;
- cottage cheese 9% - 130-160 g;
- lemon - 1 pc.
Preparation
- Knead the short dough with the addition of cottage cheese. Put in the dough a peel of one lemon.
- Let the dough cool for 30 minutes.
- Roll out the dough layer, sprinkle it with finely grated dough.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
Vienna Shortbread Cookies
Shortcake for Viennese cookies can be done in many ways, but there is an option that even a child can cope with. If you take vegetable oil, the cookie will not be so satisfying, and the butter will not need to be melted. Very good for the acid is suitable currant jam. It needs to be smeared with a decent layer, so that the proportions of the dough and fillings are approximately one to one.
Ingredients:
- flour - 250-275 g;
- vegetable oil - 210-230 g;
- egg - 2 pieces;
- powdered sugar - 1 glass;
- soda - ½ tsp;
- Vanillin - ½ tsp;
- currant jam - 150-180 g.
Preparation
- Sugar powder and eggs whip with a mixer, add butter.
- Introduce the flour gently, whisking.
- Mix the steep dough for 30 minutes in the cold. Take one third of the test to the freezer.
- The dough is rolled out, greased with a lot of jam. Top with frozen dough.
- Put the Viennese cookies in the oven until a crust is formed.
Viennese cookies with condensed milk
The recipe for the preparation of Viennese cookies with condensed milk does not differ from the classical recipe with jam, but instead of the last one put an even layer of boiled condensed milk. Sugar in this case, you can put less, because there is no sourness, and therefore the cookie can turn out too cloying.
Ingredients:
- Shortbread - ½ kg;
- boiled condensed milk - 1 jar.
Preparation
- Knead the standard short dough, remove the third to cool for 20-30 minutes.
- Roll out the dough with a layer, put it in a mold. Top with a thin, thin layer of condensed milk.
- Grate the cooled part of the dough.
- Bake for half an hour before rouge.
Viennese biscuits without eggs
Lenten Viennese cookies are made from a minimal set of products that are always at hand. Instead of butter is taken vegetable, and eggs replaces starch. Baking powder is no longer required, you do not need to add soda. The stuffing can be put any, from the classic jam to nuts, sliced finely fruits or berries. To taste, the Viennese cookies in vegetable oil without eggs are not inferior to inconsistent baking.
Ingredients:
- flour - 3 cups;
- vegetable oil - 200-230 g;
- vanillin - 1 sachet;
- starch - 70-80 g;
- sugar - 120-140 g.
Preparation
- Mix butter, sugar and vanillin together until homogeneity.
- Gradually add flour, whisking.
- Knead and roll out dough, make cookies of arbitrary shape.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes.
- Top with jam at will or sprinkle with nuts, sesame, sugar powder.
Viennese saber cookies
Vienna classic biscuits can be made even more tasty and beautiful, if you make it like a French saber. It is done with a confectionery syringe. You can decorate pastries with melted chocolate, any nut or chocolate paste ("Nutella", etc.), ground nuts, boiled condensed milk.
Ingredients:
- flour - 200 g;
- milk - 40 g;
- butter - 150 g;
- chocolate - 40-60 g;
- peanut paste - 50 g;
- sugar - 50 g.
Preparation
- Melt the butter, beat with sugar.
- Milk and peanut paste to mix and melt. Add to the sugar and butter.
- Gradually enter and flour, knead the dough.
- With the help of a pastry syringe put cookies on a baking sheet. Put in the oven for 25 minutes.
- After the readiness to dip the edges of the cookies into the melted chocolate.
Viennese cookies with apples
It is believed that the Viennese cookies were a modification of the classic Austrian strudel . Therefore it is logical that a very delicious Viennese cookie is obtained with the addition of apples. It looks like a strudel, just a short sand dough. Apples for baking need to take fresh, finely grate them with sugar, cinnamon, you can put it to the filling and starch. To test the apples it is better to take the sour.
Ingredients:
- Shortbread - ½ kg;
- apple - 3 pieces;
- sugar - ½ cup;
- cinnamon - 1 tsp;
- starch - 1 tsp.
Preparation
- Knead the short pastry, remove the part from the freezer, and roll out two thirds and lay it on the baking sheet covered with parchment.
- Apples rub, mix with sugar, cinnamon, starch. Put on the dough on top.
- Top the leftover dough. Bake a Viennese shortbread cookie for half an hour.
- If desired, sprinkle with powdered sugar, nuts.
Viennese cookies with carrots
For a children's holiday, you can also prepare a Viennese cookie - a recipe in this case is useful to supplement the useful carrots. In the test, it is completely invisible, but the benefit of this vegetable speaks for itself. One large carrot is enough. As a jam, you can use apple or apricot jam in this case.
Ingredients:
- Shortbread - ½ kg;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- apple jam - to taste.
Preparation
- Knead classic short pastry (300 g), adding to it finely grated carrots.
- Put on a baking sheet, smear with jam and sprinkle with the leftovers of the dough.
- Bake until crispy.
Vienna biscuits with lemon - recipe
Vienna biscuits with lemon - one of the most successful combinations. "Jam" of them is obtained with a pleasant sourness and successfully shades the sweetness of the short dough. In the dough, too, you can add a little zest from the lemon. You can decorate pastries with zest or sugar powder, sprinkle with nuts and candied fruits.
Ingredients:
- shortbread dough - 400 g;
- sugar - 2 cups;
- lemon - 2 pcs.
Preparation
- Knead the short pastry, put on a baking sheet 2/3, and a third to cool.
- Lemons scald with boiling water, pass through a meat grinder, mix with sugar until smooth. Put the mass on the dough.
- Grate the leftover dough on top. To send in an oven for 30 minutes.
Viennese cookies with chocolate
Standard Viennese cookies in the oven can be varied with chocolate taste. Chocolate can be added directly to the dough, then the cookies will have a pleasant brown caramel shade. And you can just add chocolate chips before you go to the oven. Then the chocolate will pleasantly melt in the mouth.
Ingredients:
- short pastry dough - ½ kg;
- chocolate - 1 tile.
Preparation
- Prepare the dough for Viennese cookies. Put the dough on a baking tray.
- Chocolate should be cooled and rubbed, sprinkled with a blank, and covered with a layer of dough on top.
- Viennese chocolate cookies bake for half an hour.