Kurabie was once the most popular shortbread biscuit, and now it is on store shelves. But the taste is not the same. That is why it is better to prepare a delicacy at home. There is a huge number of recipes with a variety of additives, here are the best options.
Kurabe at home - general principles of cooking
Kurabie is always prepared from shortbread dough, that is, with fats. Cookies are crumbly, high-calorie, tasty and there are many different types. The basis most often used butter or margarine. Fats never melt, but only soften for better beating. The dough is used immediately after mixing, it should not stand.
What else goes into the dough for kurabie:
· Sugar or powder;
· Eggs;
· Flour.
For squeezing kurab 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 fat-based, you can not lubricate the sheet, it is better to lightly flour or just lay a piece of parchment.
In the center of each cookie is laid out the "middle" of the flower of jam. You can use any jam at your discretion. If suddenly the product is watery, then a little starch is added to it, then nothing will spread. Bake kurabe always in the oven. Temperature 200-220, in time it will take from 10 to 15 minutes, depending on the test, size and possibilities of the oven.
Baku kurabie at home
This is Gostovsky recipe for Baku cookies. It was sold in cookery, it pleased the taste, beautiful look and delicious jam in the center of the flower. Products take all at room temperature. It is especially important to remove the butter beforehand, using only the softened product.
Ingredients
· 160 g of flour;
· 2 spoons of jam;
· 100 g of oil; · 40 g of powder;
· 1 protein;
· 0.5 tsp. starch;
· Vanillin.
Method of preparation
1. Send softened butter to bowl. You can replace it with quality margarine. Immerse the mixer, beat until white. Immediately you need to turn on the 220 oven.
2. Add powder and vanilla, continuing to beat. At the end we introduce egg white at room temperature, and then wheat flour. Quickly knead. Sand dough does not like long work, it only makes it worse.
3. We shift the dough in a bag with a nozzle. Squeeze the flowers on the 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. Spread a small droplet on each cookie. You can squeeze the bag or just do it with a small spoon.
5. Formed flowers are immediately sent to the oven, which is already warmed up, the blanks should not stand. Bake until tender.
Kuraby at home with milk
Improvised recipe kurabe at home. The dough is kneaded with cow's milk. A feature of this cookie is low cost and high yield. From this amount you get about half a kilogram.
Ingredients
· 50 g jam or jam;
· 50 g of milk;
· 0.5 tsp. ripper;
· 0.5 Art. sugar (about 80g);
· Egg
· A spoon of butter;
· 50 g butter;
· 1.5 Art. flour;
· Vanilla.
Method of preparation
1. Mix the softened butter with sugar. You can replace it with powder. Beat until smooth. If powder was used, then everything will dissolve very quickly.
2. Add an egg, add it a little bit, continuing to whisk the oil.
3. As soon as the first mixture reaches homogeneity, pour in milk. It is very important that it be at room temperature, otherwise the fat will simply begin to exfoliate. We introduce milk in a thin stream. Fall asleep for the flavor of vanillin.
4. Mix the flour and ripper, add to the whipped mass. Now knead the dough with your hands, do not need to knead it for a long time, just bring to homogeneity. 5. Send the dough into the bag, squeeze the cookies through the nozzle onto a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil. We leave the place, as the dough with a ripper and slightly increase.
6. Thick jam first carefully mne with a spoon or fork in a bowl, then spread on cookies. If the mass is initially normal, then use immediately. Fold the filling.
7. This kurabi is baked at 200 degrees for 14-15 minutes.
Kurabe at home with condensed milk
For the preparation of such cookies, you can use thermostable condensed boiled milk, it is purchased in the confectionery, but not always found in the free market. Therefore, we take a simple boiled condensed milk, and we will fill the finished kurabe.
Ingredients
· pack of oil;
· 80 g of powder;
· egg white;
· Boiled condensed milk;
· 2 tbsp. flour.
Method of preparation
1. Cut butter into small cubes and leave to warm for an hour. Then add to it the icing sugar and whip to a good pomp.
2. Egg white is just loose with a fork and add to mass. Beat again.
3. Fill the flour, but immediately add only one and a half cups. Then sprinkle parts, seeking the need for consistency. If you want to get a softer cookie, then throw a pinch of baking powder.
4. Squeeze out the flowers on a baking sheet. Or do kurabe any other form.
5. Finger in the center of each cookie make a hole for condensed milk. Size can be any, like depth.
6. Bake cookies for 10 minutes at 220 degrees. Completely cool.
7. Stir boiled condensed milk and put in a bag. Squeeze cookies into each well. You can simply impose a small spoon.
Kurabe at home with poppy
Poppy variant cookies kurabe. Here it is prepared with raisins, but it should be quite a bit, only to replace the jam. In a similar way, you can take pieces of dried apricots or prunes. Just be sure to soak the dried fruit, otherwise they will simply burn.
Ingredients
· pack of oil;
· 1.5 -2 Art. flour;
· 20 g of poppy;
· Raisins (handful);
· 75 g of powder; · Small egg.
Method of preparation
1. Soften the butter and begin to beat. As soon as the mass brightens, we introduce powder, continuing to work with a mixer. Immediately pour warm raisin water. Let it stand a little, swell.
2. As the oil increases and becomes lush, add one small egg. Or use for cooking kurab only protein. We drive it into the mass, continuing to work with a mixer.
3. Poppy combine with 1.5 cups of flour. Shift in the dough, stir. If the mass is rather weak, then add some more flour.
4. Squeeze the dough bag on a greased baking sheet.
5. Squeeze the raisins from the water, stick them in the central part of the flower. You can place 2-3 things as you like. Tasty with nuts.
6. It remains only to bake kurabe at 200 degrees until ready. We watch and do not overdo it, because raisins can burn.
Kurabe at home with walnuts (on margarine)
This recipe is fundamentally different from previous versions. The dough is kneaded with margarine and walnut. For the formation does not need to use pastry bag, but first things first.
Ingredients
· 250 g margarine;
· 1 tsp. vanilla sugar;
· The yolk;
· A glass of walnuts;
· A cup of powder;
· 5 g ripper;
· 3-3.5 st. flour.
Method of preparation
1. Sift the flour into a dry bowl, add a ripper to it. Since it is usually in a bag of 10 grams, then just pour half and immediately send back a glass of powder.
2. Keep the margarine warm for a couple of hours, then put it in a bowl, add one yolk and grind everything together with flour.
3. Walnuts chop. The size of the pieces at its discretion. Pour into dough and knead with nuts with your hands.
4. Pinch off small pieces, make balls or sticks of them, put them on a baking sheet. Leave a place for spreading cookies.
5. Send the kurabe to the oven for 15 minutes. Cooking at 200-220 degrees.
6. We take out the cookies, cool them, you can powder it on top.
Kurabe at home (coffee version)
Recipe for coffee kurabi cookies. If desired, you can decorate it additionally with jam and jam, or after baking, fill it with chocolate, it will turn out even better.
Ingredients
· 0.5 Art. corn starch;
· 1.5 Art. flour;
· 0.5 tsp. ripper;
· Egg
· 2 spoons of ground coffee;
· A spoon of cocoa;
· 125 g of oil;
· 0.5 Art. powder
Method of preparation
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.), The ripper, cocoa, coffee. It can be put a little less, if you do not need a rich aroma.
3. Combine both masses by kneading a soft dough. If necessary, then pour some more flour.
4. Put the coffee dough in a bag, squeeze the flowers through the nozzle directly to the baking sheet. Or just make round cookies. At will we decorate with droplets of thick jam or jam.
5. Bake kurabie coffee cookies at 200 degrees until ready.
Kuraby at Home - Tips and Tricks
· If there is no pastry bag, then you can squeeze the dough out of a simple thick bag with a cut corner. Another option is to just roll the balls, lay out and flatten on the baking sheet.
· If the dough is thick, then in no case add water to it. It is better to put a spoonful of sour cream, mayonnaise, a little cream. From ordinary water sand baking turns tough, suffers taste.
· You can make kurab with a large amount of filling. To do this, after squeezing the flowers, you need to make in each deep hole, fill the notch with jam.
