Shortbread

There is nothing tastier than homemade tender shortbread cookies. The taste that comes from childhood will not leave you and your loved ones indifferent. We cooked a lot in childhood: both oatmeal cookies and a variety of cakes and pastries . But most of all I loved shortbread cookies. I remember how my mother in the kitchen prepared a huge bowl of dough, and then together we rolled it out on the kitchen table and cut out various figures. What could be tastier than warm homemade cookies with milk? Today I want to tell you how to make homemade shortbread cookies in butter. My mom's recipe. Despite its simplicity, I'm sure this dessert will stay in your diet for a long time. You can easily bake such cookies at home, everything is done very simply and is suitable even for novice cooks. In addition, based on your tastes, you can change, combine, add or subtract ingredients and a real masterpiece is made from ordinary shortbread cookies that looks like gourmet baked goods.

Ingredients

• Flour 300 g
• Butter 250 g
• Eggs 2 pcs.
• Sugar 1 tbsp.
• Vanilla sugar 10 g
• Coconut flakes Taste
• Chocolate 100 g
• Salt Taste

Directions

1. Take a deep bowl so that the dough does not spatter all over the kitchen, break the eggs (if you are using only yolks, separate them from the whites first). Add softened butter , sugar, salt and vanilla sugar to them.
2. To make the dough softer and crumbly, the butter should be slightly colder than room temperature.
3. Stir the ingredients with a whisk or beat until fluffy with a mixer.
4. Cut the chocolate into small squares
5. You can also use special chocolate confectionery drops. Pour into the dough and stir well to distribute the chocolate relatively evenly.
6. Sift the flour through a sieve and add gradually, in small portions, otherwise lumps will form that we do not need at all.
7. Sprinkle the work surface with flour and place the dough on it. Form an elastic and smooth ball out of the dough, cover with cling film and refrigerate for 20-30 minutes.
8. Remove the dough and place on a work surface.
9. Use a rolling pin to roll out a layer about 1 centimeter thick .
10. If you have cookie cutters, use them to cut shapes. If not, cut the dough into small rectangles with a knife or shape the dough into walnut-sized balls.
11. Sprinkle the coconut on the blanks. To make it cling to the cookie better, you can brush it with whipped egg whites before that.
12. It should be noted that cookies greased with proteins come off worse from the baking sheet.
13. Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper or grease with oil, but do not forget that the dough will creep when baking, so place the cookies at a distance of 3-4 centimeters from each other.
14. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Bake the cookies for 10-15 minutes until cooked through.