Shortbread

It's good when the family has its own traditions. For example, an evening tea party, which, of course, is not complete without something sweet. Along with a variety of candy and other confectionery, someone prefers to enjoy a cup of hot tea with a slice of air biscuit, while someone likes a crisp and delicate shortbread that just melts in their mouth.

In general, cookies are small confectionery made from various types of dough. So, from sand dough and it turns out crumbly shortbread cookies. In shape, it can be in the form of squares, circles, tubes or sprockets, that is, it all depends on the preferences of the pastry chef. Sometimes shortbread cookies are filled with chocolate, raisins, condensed milk, cream, or this filling can be located between two cookies.

Today it will not be difficult to buy shortbread cookies in the store, the problem can arise only when choosing it, since the assortment of this product is truly huge. In addition, many self-respecting hostesses generally do perfectly well without purchased cookies, baking it on their own. The shortbread is very pliable, tender and easy to handle. However, despite this, some culinary experts still have difficulties preparing it. Although it is enough to know only a few tricks to make homemade shortbread cookies, which will be in no way inferior to the store version, and sometimes surpass it.

A feature of the dough from which this confectionery is prepared is a very high fat content in its composition (therefore, the calorie content of shortbread cookies is rather large) and a fairly fast process of baking products. Finished cookies are very crumbly, which is why the name is so.

In addition, you need to know that shortbread loves cold, so you need to work with it before cooling your hands and room. The best option for a fat base is considered to be the proportional ratio of butter and animal fat. In addition, if the flour in the dough is too much, then the finished shortbread cookies will turn out to be tasteless and can burn.

Interestingly, shortbread cookies can be consumed not only as an independent confectionery. Many hostesses have come up with a lot of all kinds of ways to prepare a variety of desserts and other sweet dishes, where shortbread cookies act as the main component. Take, for example, a chocolate sausage, which in the Soviet years was almost the only delicacy of the children of that time. In addition, shortbread cookies are also used in the preparation of numerous cheesecakes, so popular today.

Due to the fact that the calorie content of shortbread cookies is quite high and amounts to 407 kcal per 100 grams, you should not get carried away with it, since this can lead not only to the appearance of extra pounds, but also to the exacerbation of some chronic diseases.