Shortbread cake with cranberries

Quick cake with shortbread cranberries. Shortbread makes wonderful pies - quick and easy to prepare and very tasty. In addition to cranberries, such a pie can be prepared with any other berries. And in early autumn, cranberries are also suitable for filling. You can also mix cranberries with cranberries.

Maria

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Dough:

Flour

300

Butter

150

Sugar

120

Baking powder

Vanillin

0.25

Filling:

Lingonberry

200

Sugar

100

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 6 % 4 g

Fats 22 % 15 g

Carbohydrates 72 % 50 g

348 kcal

GI: 4 / 0 / 96

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h

Step 1:
Dough. To prepare a shortbread dough for a pie, we will need: flour, cold butter (preferably put it in the freezer for 20-30 minutes); sugar; baking powder and vanilla.
Step 2:
Cut cold butter into cubes.
Step 3:
Put flour, butter, sugar, baking powder and vanilla in a blender bowl.
Step 4:
Beat everything into fine crumbs. If there is no blender, then you can grind the dough with your hands or chop the butter with flour with a knife.
Step 5:
Filling. To prepare the filling, we will need: lingonberries and sugar.
Step 6:
Sort out the lingonberries, remove the tails. Wash and dry the berries. Combine the lingonberries with sugar and mix.
Step 7:
At the bottom of a rectangular baking dish lined with parchment, pour most (2/3) of the sand crumbs. Smooth it out.
Step 8:
Lay out the cranberries on top with an even layer.
Step 9:
Sprinkle the berries with the remaining crumbs. Bake the pie for about 40 minutes at 180 ° C. The top of the pie should be slightly browned.
Step 10:
Cool the pie and cut into pieces. Bon appetit!

In Russia, cranberries are called tsar-berry, miracle berry, berry of immortality for its beneficial properties and pleasant taste qualities.

There is a very beautiful legend associated with the appearance of cranberries. The kind swallow took drops of living water into her mouth, dreaming of sprinkling all mankind with this water to give him immortality. At the moment when the swallow was flying, it was stung by an evil wasp, who did not wish good to people. The bird was in pain, and she opened her mouth to cry out in pain. Water, of course, spilled. People did not become immortal, but when drops fell to the ground from the sky, they fell on cedar, spruce, pine and cranberries, thanks to which these plants became evergreen.

The value of cranberry berries cannot be overestimated, it contains: beta-carotene, vitamin C, E, potassium and manganese, iron and phosphorus malic, citric, oxalic, benzoic acids tannins, pectin, fiber Cranberry leaf is rich in arbutin — natural antiseptic and anti-inflammatory agent. Various acids, tannin and hydroquinone, also contained in the leaves in a unique combination, determine its medicinal properties.