Shortbread cookie dough with margarine

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 40 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make shortbread cookie dough with margarine? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. These products will always be found in the refrigerator of caring housewives. In addition to the simplicity and speed of preparing shortcrust pastry and baking from it, it should be noted as an advantage that it is budget-friendly, because margarine is a very cheap product. Melt the creamy margarine in the microwave or in a water bath and let it cool to room temperature.

2. STEP 2

   

   Add sugar to a bowl of melted margarine and beat in a chicken egg. Using a whisk or spoon, mash the ingredients until the mixture is homogeneous in consistency. Wash the egg with baking soda first, as it may contain harmful bacteria.

3. STEP 3

   

   Gradually add sifted wheat flour mixed with baking powder into a bowl with the liquid mixture. Instead of baking powder, you can use baking soda, slaked with table vinegar, taken in equal parts (a third of a teaspoon). Please note that you may need a little less more flour, it all depends on the size of the egg and the properties of the flour itself. Focus on the consistency of the dough!

4. STEP 4

   

   Mix the ingredients and knead into an elastic, smooth dough. There is no need to knead the shortbread dough with your hands for a long time, otherwise the cookies will turn out tough and hard. The main task is to collect delicious homemade shortcrust pastry into a ball.

5. STEP 5

   

   Wrap the dough in cling film or a bag and put it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. It needs to be cooled so that the margarine contained in the dough hardens a little, and the dough becomes plastic and pliable to work with. Otherwise, it will be difficult to roll it out and make beautiful shaped shortbread cookies. Take the rested classic shortbread dough out of the refrigerator, roll it out on a floured work surface and cut out the cookie blanks with curly cutouts.

Comments on the recipe

Merlisana

12.12.2023

4.5

I like the recipe for shortcrust pastry with sour cream better.

Natalia M

12.12.2023

4.9

For baking cookies, I chose a recipe for shortbread cookie dough with margarine. This dough is very easy to knead, especially if you melt the margarine in advance. I took creamy margarine; its taste was practically not felt in the finished products. I measured all the ingredients exactly according to the recipe. I added half a teaspoon of turmeric to the dough to give it a yellow color. I added turmeric while melting the margarine. The dough easily came away from the walls of the dish and gathered into a lump. At this moment it seems that there is not enough flour. But you don’t need to add too much, otherwise the cookies will be tough. The dough rested in the refrigerator for about 40 minutes. After that, it rolled out easily. My daughter and I cut out cookies from half of them using die cutters, and from the other half I rolled into balls and put pieces of walnuts inside. Bake the cookies for 15 minutes. It turned out crumbly and tasty.

Moderator Ksenia

12.12.2023

4.9

I decided to bake something delicious for tea. I liked the recipe for shortbread cookie dough with margarine. I just had a piece of margarine (160 g). I used category C1 eggs. It took me about 360 grams of flour. The dough turned out soft, tender, but not sticky. I left the dough in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. I rolled out the dough into a layer about 1 cm thick. I cut out the cookies using shaped molds. Bake cookies for 15 minutes at 180 degrees. The cookies increased in size well, they turned out fragrant, crispy, crumbly, but not hard. Its taste is very pleasant, moderately sweet. Thank you very much for the recipe!

Sergey Matveev

12.12.2023

4.8

It turned out very soft. I had to add another 50 grams of flour. Probably because the egg is big.