Kurabye was once the most popular shortbread cookie, and now it is on store shelves. But the taste is not the same. That is why it is better to cook a treat at home. There are a huge number of recipes with a variety of additives, here are the best options.
Kurabye at home - general principles of preparation
Kurabye is always prepared from shortcrust pastry, that is, with fats. The cookies are friable, high-calorie, tasty and there are many different types. As a basis, butter or margarine is most often used. Fats never melt, but only soften for better whipping. The dough is used immediately after kneading, it should not stand.
What else goes into the dough for curabier:
Sugar or powder;
Eggs
· Flour.
To extrude curabier, you need a pastry bag with a special nozzle in the form of an asterisk. You can use a large syringe designed for cream and filling eclairs. Cookies are deposited on a baking sheet. Since it is on a fat basis, you can not lubricate the sheet, it is better to sprinkle lightly with flour or just cover it with a piece of parchment.
In the center of each cookie is laid out the "middle" flower of jam. You can use any jam at your discretion. If suddenly the product is liquid, then a little starch is added to it, then nothing will spread. Kurabye is always baked in the oven. The temperature is 200-220, in time it will take from 10 to 15 minutes, depending on the test, the size and capabilities of the furnace.
Baku kurabye at home
This is the GOST recipe for Baku cookies. It was he who was sold in culinary, it delighted with taste, beautiful view and mouth-watering jam in the center of the flower. Products take all room temperature. It is especially important to remove the butter in advance, we use only a softened product.
Ingredients
· 160 g of flour;
· 2 tablespoons of jam;
100 g of oil;
40 g of powder;
· 1 protein;
0.5 tsp starch;
Vanillin
Cooking method
1. Send softened butter to the bowl. You can replace it with high-quality margarine. Immerse the mixer, whisk until white. Immediately you need to turn on the 220 oven.
2. Add the powder and vanilla, continuing to whisk. At the end we introduce the egg white at room temperature, and then the wheat flour. Knead quickly. Shortbread dough does not like long work; it only makes it worse.
3. Transfer the dough into a bag with a nozzle. Squeeze cookies in the form of flowers on a baking sheet. Be sure to leave a small distance between them so that everything is evenly baked.
4. Jam mix with starch. If it is thick, then you can not do this. We lay out a small drop on each cookie. You can squeeze a bag or just do it with a small spoon.
5. Formed flowers immediately sent to the oven, which has already been warmed up, should not stand blanks. Bake until cooked.
Kurabye at home in milk
Improvised curabier recipe at home. The dough is kneaded in cow's milk. A feature of such cookies is low cost and high yield. About half a kilogram will be obtained from this amount.
Ingredients
50 g of jam or jam;
50 g of milk;
0.5 tsp cultivator;
· 0.5 tbsp. sugar (about 80g);
Egg
· A spoonful of oil;
50 g butter;
· 1.5 tbsp. flour;
Vanilla
Cooking method
1. Softened butter is combined with granulated sugar. You can replace it with powder. Beat until smooth. If powder was used, then everything would dissolve very quickly.
2. Add the egg, introduce it a little bit while continuing to beat the butter.
3. as soon as the first mixture reaches uniformity, pour in the milk. It is very important that it has room temperature, otherwise the fat will simply begin to exfoliate. Introduce milk in a thin stream. We fall asleep for vanillin aroma.
4. Mix the flour and cultivator, add to the whipped mass. Now we knead the dough with your hands, you do not need to knead it for a long time, just bring it to homogeneity.
5. Send the dough into the bag, squeeze the cookie through the nozzle onto a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil. We leave a place, since the dough with a ripper will increase slightly.
6. Thick jam first carefully mash with a spoon or fork in a bowl, then spread on cookies. If the mass is initially normal, then use immediately. We lay out the filling.
7. Such kurabye is baked at 200 degrees for 14-15 minutes.
Kurabye at home with condensed milk
To prepare such cookies, you can use thermostable condensed boiled milk, it is bought in a candy store, but not always found in the free market. Therefore, we take a simple boiled condensed milk, and we will start the finished kurabye.
Ingredients
· pack of oil;
80 g of powder;
· egg white;
Boiled condensed milk;
· 2 tbsp. flour.
Cooking method
1. Cut the butter into small cubes and leave it warm for an hour. Then add the icing sugar to it and beat until good splendor.
2. Just whip the egg white with a fork and add to the mass. Beat again.
3. Pour the flour, but immediately add only a half cup. Then we pour in parts, achieving the need for consistency. If you want a softer cookie, then throw a pinch of baking powder.
4. Squeeze the flowers onto a baking sheet. Or we make kurabye of any other form.
5. With a finger in the central part of each cookie we make a hole for condensed milk. Size can be any, as well as depth.
6. Bake cookies for 10 minutes at 220 degrees. Cool completely.
7. Stir the boiled condensed milk and put it in a bag. Squeeze cookies into each well. You can just put a small spoon.
Curabier at home with poppy seeds
Poppy seed curabier cookies. Here it is prepared with raisins, but it is needed just a little bit, only to replace the jam. In a similar way, you can take pieces of dried apricots or prunes. Just be sure to soak dried fruits, otherwise they simply burn.
Ingredients
· pack of oil;
1.5 -2 tbsp. flour;
20 g of poppy;
Raisins (handful);
75 g of powder;
· A small egg.
Cooking method
1. Soften the oil and begin to whisk. As soon as the mass brightens, we introduce the powder, continuing to work with the mixer. Immediately pour raisins with warm water. Let it stand a little, swell.
2. As soon as the oil increases and becomes lush, add one small egg. Or we use only protein for cooking kurabye. We drive it into the mass, continuing to work as a mixer.
3. Combine poppy seeds with 1.5 cups of flour. We shift into the dough, stir. If the mass is rather weak, then add a little more flour.
4. Squeeze the dough with a bag onto a greased baking sheet.
5. We squeeze raisins from the water, stick into the central part of the flower. You can place 2-3 things as you like. Tasty with nuts.
6. It remains only to bake kurabye at 200 degrees until tender. We follow and do not overdo it, as raisins can burn.
Kurabye at home with walnut (margarine)
This recipe is fundamentally different from previous options. The dough is kneaded with margarine and walnuts. For the formation, you do not need to use a pastry bag, but first things first.
Ingredients
250 g margarine
1 tsp vanilla sugar;
Yolk
· A glass of walnuts;
A glass of powder;
· 5 g of ripper;
3-3.5 Art. flour.
Cooking method
1. Sift flour into a dry bowl, add a cultivator to it. Since it is usually 10 grams in a bag, we simply pour half and immediately send a glass of powder there.
2. Keep the margarine a couple of hours warm, then put it in a bowl, add one yolk and grind everything together with flour.
3. We chop walnuts. The size of the pieces is up to you. Pour into the dough and knead together with nuts with your hands.
4. We pluck small pieces, sculpt balls or cubes out of them, spread on a baking sheet. We leave a place for spreading cookies.
5. We send kurabye into the oven for 15 minutes. Cook at 200-220 degrees.
6. Take out cookies, cool, you can powder it on top.
Kurabye at home (coffee option)
Kurabye coffee biscuit recipe. If desired, you can further decorate it with marmalade, jam, or after baking fill with chocolate, it will turn out even better.
Ingredients
· 0.5 tbsp. corn starch;
· 1.5 tbsp. flour;
0.5 tsp cultivator;
Egg
· 2 tablespoons of ground coffee;
A spoon of cocoa;
125 g of oil;
· 0.5 tbsp. powders.
Cooking method
1. Mix oil with powder and egg. For this recipe you can not beat anything, but the mixer will simplify the work. Or just rub everything with a spoon.
2. In a separate bowl, mix the flour (until 2.5 tbsp.), Cultivator, cocoa, coffee. It can be put a little less if you do not need a rich aroma.
3. Combine both masses, kneading a soft dough. If necessary, add a little more flour.
4. Put the coffee dough into a bag, squeeze flowers through the nozzle immediately onto a baking sheet. Or just make a round cookie. If desired, decorate with droplets of thick jam or jam.
5. We bake Kurabye coffee cookies at 200 degrees until fully cooked.
Curabier at home - useful tips and tricks
· If there is no pastry bag, then you can squeeze the dough out of a simple dense bag with a cut corner. Another option is to simply roll the balls, spread and flatten on a baking sheet.
· If the dough is thick, do not add water to it at all. It is better to put a spoonful of sour cream, mayonnaise, a little cream. Shortbread is tough from ordinary water, the taste suffers.
· You can make kurabye with a lot of filling. To do this, after squeezing the flowers, you need to make a deep hole in each, fill the recess with jam.
