To make simple cookies, you only need 3 ingredients: flour, sugar and butter (and salt \ud83d\ude1c) the rest are additives, here I added cranberries, pistachios and lemon zest. The dough is very fragile, so be careful when cutting. If the cookies crumble, you can always glue them together. If you think the dough is too crumbly, you can add more butter or less flour.
These cookies are great! You can’t buy these in a store.
Cookies require cooling before baking, so it is worth preparing the dough even a few days in advance. If you don’t have time, put the dough in the freezer for 15-20 minutes. Thanks to cooling, the dough will maintain its shape and the cookies will be crispy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cookies that can be prepared in advance?<\/strong> What to make cookies with?<\/strong> How long to bake cookies for?<\/strong> How to decorate cookies?<\/strong> Shortcrust cookies with cranberries and pistachios are perfect for people on a vegetarian, flexitarian and pescatarian diet. Cookies contain gluten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The proportions given below make approximately 15 large cookies.
You can prepare the dough in advance and keep it in the fridge for a rainy day.
Raw dough wrapped in foil can be kept in the refrigerator for several days. Baked cookies stay crispy for several days, but they always disappear quickly. If you want to bake them in advance, store the previously cooled cookies in an airtight container.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can add your favorite additions to them, you can replace the cranberries with any dried fruit, e.g. raisins or apricots, or omit them. You can also use any nuts, e.g. almonds or walnuts. You can replace the lemon zest with orange or lime zest, or buy sugar with lemon zest. It is available in discount stores, look for it next to sugar with vanilla \ud83d\ude1c. If you don’t like citrus flavour in baked goods, you can replace it with, for example, vanilla sugar or skip flavoring the cookies altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bake the cookies at 160 \u00b0C (320 \u00b0F) for approx. 20 minutes. The baked cookies will be soft and pale, but will harden as they cool. After removing the cookies from the refrigerator, cut them immediately and place them in the preheated oven. Thanks to the fact that the cookie dough is well cooled, the cookies will come out crispy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cookies are delicious on their own, but if you want, you can cover them with icing, white or dark chocolate. To make the cookies look spectacular, dip half of the cookie in chocolate and place it on baking paper to let the chocolate harden. These cookies will look great on a table or in a cellophane bag if you want to give them to someone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the step-by-step recipe on how to prepare shortbread cookies and watch the video below the recipe.
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