In stores now sell a variety of sweets, but sometimes want to treat the family home-made cakes, which included certain. And even if you ever do not bake yourself, we suggest you start your journey from the eastern pastry cookies kurabe. It consists of simple ingredients, it is very easy to prepare, and the kids just love it. But first we will tell the story of its origin, is very similar to the one of the fairy tales "1000 and 1 night."
So, once upon a time the robbers climbed into the palace of the Sultan of Persia, and carried out all the food reserves. The pantry is practically did not have any food, and not because of what it was to cook sweets, so beloved by the Sultan. Fearing the wrath of the ruler, the chef baked cookies from all that was found in the storeroom: a little flour, a handful of sugar, a couple of eggs and a drop of oil. And to cookies had good taste, he added a pinch of saffron and sprinkled with powdered sugar sweetness. Refreshments Sultan had liked and was frequently appear on his desk. By the way, "kurabe" in Arabic means "sweetness".
We offer you to cook and is a gentle, soft and crumbly cookie that melts in your mouth, different creamy taste, soft texture and delicate aroma of oriental spices.
• Butter - 100 g
• Powdered sugar - 4 tbsp. l.
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Flour - 180 g
• vanilla, saffron, cinnamon or any other spices to taste
• jam or marmalade
PREPARATION Step by step
1. Softened butter, beat with a mixer thoroughly with powdered sugar.
2. Separating the proteins from egg yolks. If the egg is big enough one, if small - take two.
3. Lightly whisk the protein, add it to the sugar-oil mixture and whisk thoroughly.
4. Add in a lot of small portions of the sifted flour and spices, knead dough hands.
5. We shift the dough into a pastry bag or a bag with a cut corner and squeezing its small portions on the laid parchment paper baking sheet so that the distance between the biscuits was not less than 1 cm.
6. Put in the center of each cookie a little jam or marmalade.
7. Bake at a temperature of 160-220 ° C for up to 20 minutes until golden brown. Ready give liver to cool on the baking sheet and then we shift into a bowl. Kurabe top you can sprinkle with coconut, nuts, powdered sugar, and any sweet powder. Bon Appetit!
5 Secrets from experienced HOZYAEK
• kurabe dough kneading of the products to be room temperature, and the butter should be soft.
• The dough can be kneaded both hands, and a mixer - the taste is not affected.
• Flour must be introduced gradually, otherwise lumps may appear.
• Sometimes the flour may need a little more or less. Need to be guided on the state of the dough - it should be both soft and elastic.
• classical Arabic kurabe performed in the form of a flower with jam in the middle.
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