Kitchen appliances and utensils:
- oven;
- rolling pin;
- a bowl for kneading dough;
- whisk or fork;
- molds for forming a dough;
- parchment paper;
- spoon.
Ingredients
Product | amount |
Flour | 275-300 g |
Eggs | 1 PC. |
Butter (soft) | 100 g |
Cocoa powder | 5-10 g |
Vanilla sugar | 10 g |
Sugar | 100-110 g |
Salt | ¼ teaspoon |
Baking soda | 3 g |
Vinegar 9% | 1 tbsp. l |
Step cooking
- Break one egg into a bowl and add to it 100-110 grams of sugar, a pinch of salt, 10 grams of vanilla sugar.
- Grind everything with a whisk to a homogeneous mass.
- Add 100 grams of soft, slightly melted butter, 5-10 grams of cocoa powder, 3 grams of soda diluted with vinegar to the bowl.
- Knead all the ingredients with a fork to obtain a homogeneous mass.
- One spoonful of flour is added to the mixture, gradually kneading the dough.
- Knead the dough. It should not stick to your hands and fall apart.
- Roll out the finished dough with a rolling pin into a layer 1.5 mm wide.
- Use raw cookie cutters to cut out raw cookies. Shapes can be any size, but not very small.
- Prepare a baking sheet, put parchment paper on it and lay out the cookies formed in advance. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Send cookies to bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 10 minutes.
- To prevent the cookies from getting dry, check the readiness of the dough after 5 minutes after the cookies are immersed in the oven.
Ways to decorate cookies
Despite the fact that the cookies in the initial recipe look very good, it can always be made more festive, served at the table at an event or presented as a complement to a gift to friends and relatives. You just need to add some elements. To decorate cookies, you can use the following options:
- pour colored glaze;
- pour melted chocolate;
- sprinkle with powdered sugar;
- sprinkle with coconut flakes or add it to the dough during cooking;
- Serve on a beautiful transparent dish, with colored holiday napkins;
- make holes in the cookies and stretch a ribbon through them (such a decoration is suitable for a gift);
- add powder on top of icing or chocolate;
- also such cookies can be used as decor for cake or pastries.
Video recipe
If you have questions in the described recipe or you do not quite understand the cooking process, you can watch this video. In it, the girl parses this recipe in more detail and shares the secret of making delicious figured cookies. Enjoy watching!