Easy Homemade Shortbread Cookies with Margarine

Simple, fast and very tasty, made from ordinary products! Anyone, even a novice cook, can make homemade shortbread cookies with margarine. This requires available ingredients and a little of your time. You can diversify the finished baked goods using additives, for example, jam, marmalade or dried fruits.
cook time: 1h
Freya Ashford
Easy Homemade Shortbread Cookies with Margarine

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

433
Calories
19g
Fat
55g
Carbs
7g
Protein

Ingredients (6 portions)

Basic:

Sugar 150 g
Wheat flour 350 g
Vanillin 2 g
Baking powder 0.5 tsp
Chicken eggs 1 pc
Margarine 150 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to bake homemade shortbread cookies with margarine? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. All foods stored in the refrigerator must be at room temperature, so they must be removed from it in advance. If there is no time for natural heating, then the margarine can be melted a little in the microwave or in a water bath. Place softened margarine in a bowl, add sugar and beat in a chicken egg. Read about shortcrust pastry in the article below the steps.

Step 2

Step 2
Using a mixer, blender or hand whisk, mix the ingredients until the mixture is homogeneous in consistency. To add a pleasant aroma to baked goods and eliminate the specific taste of margarine, add a pinch of vanillin and mix again. Pour the flour, sifted through a sieve, combined with baking powder into the bowl with the mixture. Instead of baking powder, you can use baking soda slaked with table vinegar, taken in equal parts — half a teaspoon each.

Step 3

Step 3
Stir the mixture. Shortbread cookie dough made with margarine should be smooth and elastic. Mix the dough with a spoon first, then continue kneading with your hands. You may need less or more flour. Read about the properties of flour in the article at the end of the recipe. However, you cannot knead the shortbread dough for a long time, otherwise it will become hard and dense; the main task is to gather the dough into a ball. Wrap the dough ball in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Step 4

Step 4
After the specified time, remove the dough from the refrigerator. On a floured surface, roll it out into a layer no more than one centimeter high. Use special shaped molds or a glass to squeeze out the dough for future cookies.

Step 5

Step 5
Grease a baking tray with butter or line it with baking paper. Place the cookie dough on a baking sheet and place in an oven preheated to 180°C to bake for about 12-17 minutes. The times indicated are approximate; be guided by the operating characteristics of your oven. Read about ovens in the article at the end of this recipe. Cookies can first be sprinkled with sugar or sesame seeds.

Step 6

Step 6
Remove the cookies from the oven, remove from the baking sheet, let cool slightly and serve with tea, coffee, cocoa or milk. Enjoy your tea!

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