Shortbread cookies on sour cream

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make shortbread cookies? Prepare the necessary ingredients. The butter should be at room temperature, so take it out of the refrigerator in advance (I take it out in the evening so that in the morning it thaws completely both outside and inside). Sour cream can be taken with a fat content of 20% or higher. The main thing is that it is thick enough, not like water. Use flour of the highest grade.

2. Step 2:

   

   Put the soft butter at room temperature in a bowl and add sour cream. Beat everything together with a mixer.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add sugar and whisk everything again.

4. Step 4:

   

   Sift flour and gradually add to the dough. Flour may need more or less. It depends on the quality of the flour itself and on the moisture content of the sour cream.

5. Step 5:

   

   Knead a soft slightly sticky elastic dough. If the dough turns out to be too thin, add a little more flour. I had to add 2 more tablespoons of flour.

6. Step 6:

   

   Form a ball from the dough, wrap it in a film or cover it with a cellophane bag so that it does not wind up, and send it to the refrigerator for 1 hour.

8. Step 7:

   

   Place the cooled dough on a floured table and roll out into a layer about 5-7 mm thick. Using a cookie cutter, cut out the cookie blanks from the dough. But you can cut the dough with a regular or curly knife.

9. Step 8:

   

   Carefully place the blanks on a baking sheet lined with parchment. During baking, the cookie rises slightly and becomes higher, but it does not spread out to the sides and retains a perfectly even shape.

10. Step 9:

    

    To decorate the top of the cookies, we need 1 egg and 3-4 tablespoons of sugar.

11. Step 10:

    

    Beat the egg until smooth.

12. Step 11:

    

    Thoroughly lubricate the surface of the cookie with beaten egg, trying not to let it flow out of the dough, otherwise the egg will burn on the baking sheet. Sprinkle the blanks generously with sugar on top. Bake puff pastry in preheated to 200°In the oven for 15-20 minutes until golden brown.

13. Step 12:

    

    Cool the finished cookies and serve them to the table. Bon appetit!