Butter-Free Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies

Tender, soft, very tasty — just what you need for tea! There is no need to deny yourself baking cookies if there is no butter in the house. Cookies without butter and margarine are not only no less tasty, but even more tender and softer than regular shortbread.
cook time: 45 min
Chloe Benton
Butter-Free Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

307
Calories
10g
Fat
42g
Carbs
8g
Protein

Ingredients (8 portions)

Basic:

Sugar 100 g
Wheat flour 350 g
Butter (for greasing baking pans) 10 g
Vanillin 2 g
Sour cream 1 cup
Chicken eggs 2 pc
Soda 0.5 tsp
Poppy food 20 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to bake cookies without butter and margarine? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. You can use sour cream that is not very fresh; sour cream with sourness will make the dough even richer and softer. The cookies, naturally, will turn out richer and softer if you use rustic natural sour cream, but regular sour cream with any percentage of fat content will do, the cookies will just turn out harder and drier if the sour cream is liquid and not very fatty.

Step 2

Step 2
Turn the oven on 180 degrees. Beat the eggs into a bowl, add sugar and a pinch of vanilla. It is better to beat in the eggs one at a time, beating the mixture each time with a whisk or mixer. Vanillin can be replaced with vanilla sugar. Read about how to do this correctly in a separate article at the link at the end of the recipe.

Step 3

Step 3
Beat the ingredients with a mixer or hand whisk until a homogeneous mixture forms, foam forms on the surface and slightly thickens.

Step 4

Step 4
Add sour cream and soda to the bowl with the egg mixture and stir.

Step 5

Step 5
Add sifted wheat flour. It must be sifted to saturate it with oxygen; this also affects the softness of the cookies. There is no need to immediately pour the entire measured amount of flour into the bowl with the liquid mixture. Some flour will be needed to prepare the dough a little more, some less. Add flour in parts, quickly stirring the dough. Read more about the properties of flour in the article at the link at the end of the recipe.

Step 6

Step 6
The dough should be soft and manageable. You don’t need to knead it with your hands for a long time, otherwise the cookies will turn out hard. The dough is ready for baking cookies; it is not necessary to cool it in the refrigerator. You can simply roll it into a sausage and cut it into pieces, or roll it into a layer about 1 centimeter thick and cut out figures and mugs using molds or a glass.

Step 7

Step 7
Place the cookie dough on a greased baking sheet. You can sprinkle sugar, poppy seeds or sesame seeds on top, whatever you like. Place the cookies in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for about 20 minutes. The exact time depends on your oven. Read about the operating features of various ovens in the article at the link at the end of the recipe. The cookies should be slightly browned; you should not keep them in the oven for a long time so that they do not become hard.

Step 8

Step 8
Remove the baking sheet from the oven, remove the cookies from the baking sheet, let cool and serve. Enjoy your tea!

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