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6 servings
1 hour 30 min your 40 min

The shortbread recipe is based on a combination of butter, margarine or other fat, eggs and flour. The proportions of the products may vary, sour cream or other dairy products may be added to them, but the basis remains unchanged.

Wheat flour - 300 g, Sugar - 100 g, Butter - 200 g, Eggs - 2 pcs., Sour cream - 1 tbsp. spoon, Vanilla - at the tip of a knife, or Lemon zest - 0.25 tsp, Rum - 1 tbsp. spoon, Walnut - 50-100 g

How to make shortbread: Sift the flour. Add sugar, grated lemon crust or vanillin to the sifted flour.

Put the butter in the flour. Cut the flour with butter with a knife.

Make a hole, pour sour cream, rum, egg (1 pc. ) Into there and mix everything.

Then cut the mass with a knife until it falls into a lump. Quickly mix the homogeneous dough, put it for 30 minutes in a cold place (in the freezer).

Finely chop the nuts.

Whisk the remaining egg in a cup. Turn on the oven.

Then roll the dough into a 5 mm thick formation, cut into a square dough wheel. Put on the sheet. The dough can be squeezed out with various molds.

Coat with beaten egg, sprinkle with crushed nuts. Bake shortbread cookies until light brown (20 minutes at 190 degrees).

Shortbread cookies are ready. Enjoy your meal!

Ready-made cookies can be molded in two along with apricot jam, the top can be glazed. This shortbread recipe can be used for nut cookies. In this case, press the dough into special molds (halves of "nuts") with a thin layer, put on a sheet, bake in a hot oven until light brown. Fill the cooled halves with condensed milk and combine them two at a time, forming "nuts. " A jar of condensed milk must be cooked in water for 2-3 hours. You can make shortbread "nuts" cookies from salted shortbread, in which case they are filled with cheese cream.