Shortbread cookies with cocoa: recipes

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• How to make shortbread dough for cookies
• Chocolate cookies – recipe with photo
• On margarine
• Chocolate
• Cinnamon
• With cocoa and nuts
• On kefir
• With coconut
• Bicolor
• Sugarless
• On sour cream
• Hastily
• Cocoa pastries – cooking secrets

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Almost everyone likes creamy crumbly, slightly crispy dough. Especially tasty are products prepared at home with the addition of various components: coconut, jam, pieces of milk chocolate, etc..

How to make shortbread dough for cookies

This question is asked by many novice cooks. Knowing how to make cookie dough, even inexperienced bakers will be able to feed all members of the family and guests with excellent sand products. In addition to mixing butter with eggs, sugar, sour cream and flour, you need to know a few more rules:

1. Shortcrust dough before forming cookies is recommended to cool in the freezer for about 20 minutes.
2. It is not worth kneading the workpiece for a long time, otherwise the baking will be stiff.
3. It is not recommended to roll the dough too thin, so that the products do not burn or dry.
4. The form on which the cookies will be baked must be greased or covered with parchment.

Chocolate cookies – recipe with photo

There are many ways to make this tea treat. For example, a classic recipe for shortbread cookies with cocoa will be appreciated by everyone, because the products are excellent. The dough is made with butter, but if it is not, then margarine can well replace it. Find out the different options that you need to mix to bake shortbread cookies.

On margarine

• Cooking time: 55 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 9 Persons.
• Calorie dishes: 448 kcal.
• Purpose: for dessert.
• Cuisine: Slavic.
• Difficulty: easy.

Some make pastries, putting butter in the dough, while others prefer margarine, because with it the products are no less excellent. This step-by-step recipe for shortbread cookies with margarine can be mastered even by an inexperienced hostess. There is one secret that makes such pastries more fragrant – in the process of kneading shortcrust pastry, you need to add ground coffee.

Ingredients:

• cocoa – 2 tbsp. l .;
• flour – 3 tbsp .;
• ground coffee – 1 tsp;
• egg – 1 pc.;
• margarine – 200 g;
• sugar – 1 tbsp.

Cooking method:

1. Cut a piece of margarine into slices, melt in a pan.
2. Add sugar to the mass, stir until crystals are dissolved, then pour coffee and cocoa. Break another egg to the products.
3. Without stopping stirring, add a little flour to the mixture to thicken.
4. Batter the dough for 15 minutes in the cold.
5. Roll out a not too thick layer on a table crushed by flour, using molds, squeeze out products of any shape.
6. Place the billets on parchment, then send to bake for 20 minutes in the equipment, previously heated to 200 degrees.

Chocolate

• Cooking time: 35 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 6 Persons.
• Calorie content: 456 kcal.
• Purpose: for dessert.
• Cuisine: European.
• Difficulty: easy.

Cooking pastries according to this recipe will work even for housewives who are just starting to get acquainted with the intricacies of culinary art. Cocoa cookies have a unique taste and aroma, in addition, all sweet tooths will like it very much: chocolate cookies covered with melted chocolate will not leave indifferent any connoisseur of sweets.

Ingredients:

• sugar – 0.25 st .;
• cocoa – 0.25 st .;
• flour – 1 tbsp .;
• milk chocolate – 50 g;
• margarine – 100 g.

Cooking method:

1. Knead the softened butter with a spoon, adding more sugar. Try not to stop 10 minutes.
2. Add flour, cocoa to the components, knead the dough so that in the end it turns out to be elastic and does not blur.
3. Tear off a piece, rolling balls.
4. Place the blanks on a baking sheet, placing them at a distance. Flatten each ball slightly with a fork..
5. Bake at the optimum temperature for 20 minutes, after heating the equipment.
6. Prepare the chocolate by building a water bath.
7. Pour the cooled products with chocolate mass, then send them to the cold so that it does not drain.
8. After 10 minutes, serve shortbread cookies with chocolate to households.

Cinnamon

• Cooking time: 60 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 11 Persons.
• Calorie dishes: 397 kcal.
• Purpose: for dessert.
• Cuisine: Slavic.
• Difficulty: easy.

If you want to bake a delicious aromatic dessert for a children’s holiday or simply as an addition to tea drinking, then do not disregard this method. Chocolate cookies with cinnamon are crumbly, and the dough is so tender that it melts directly on the lips. You can make cookies of any shape that you or your children will like: balls, sausages, cut Christmas trees, butterflies, etc..

Ingredients:

• cinnamon – 2 tsp;
• sugar – 0.5 tbsp .;
• egg – 1 pc.;
• baking powder – 1 tsp;
• flour – 2 tbsp .;
• honey – 2 tbsp. l .;
• oil (plum.) – 100 g;
• cocoa – 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

1. Melt honey and butter in a dipper, add sugar and cinnamon to the mixture, mix.
2. Break the egg into the cooled mixture, mix everything thoroughly again.
3. Pour the remaining bulk products into the dough. Pour flour so much that the workpiece can be collected in a ball, it was elastic. Put the shortbread dough in the cold.
4. After half an hour, roll out a workpiece, the thickness of which will be 5 mm, cut out products of any shape as desired.
5. Transfer cookies to a paper-closed form and put in the oven for 15 minutes.
6. Shortbread cookies with cocoa baked at optimal temperature.

With cocoa and nuts

• Cooking time: 30 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 11 Persons.
• Calorie dishes: 407 kcal.
• Purpose: for dessert.
• Cuisine: Slavic.
• Difficulty: easy.

If you want to put in front of the household a dish with delicious products, as in the photo, then be sure to use this recipe. Cookies with cocoa and walnuts are made simply simple, because the proposed method is a quick option to bake an excellent treat. It takes time to mix the ingredients, and cookies will be prepared in just 12 minutes.

Ingredients:

• brown sugar – 1 tbsp .;
• oil (plum.) – 200 g;
• eggs – 2 pcs.;
• white sugar – 1 tbsp .;
• cocoa – 3 tbsp. l .;
• chocolate, nuts – to taste;
• baking powder, salt – 1 tsp;
• flour – 2 tbsp .;
• vanilla sugar – 1 pack.

Cooking method:

1. Beat the melted butter with two kinds of sugar to make the mass airy. Beat the eggs separately, then pour them into the same dishes, pour the vanilla.
2. Mix flour with chocolate powder, salt the mixture, pour the baking powder.
3. Pour the flour mixture slowly to the egg-sugar mass, mixing everything with a mixer set at low speed.
4. Finely chop the chocolate, chop the nuts with a knife, mix this crumb with the dough.
5. Spread chocolate shortbread cookies on a baking sheet covered with special paper using a spoon.
6. Bake sand products literally up to 10 minutes, preheating the equipment to 210 degrees.

On kefir

• Cooking time: 35 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 9 Persons.
• Calorie dishes: 397 kcal.
• Purpose: for dessert.
• Cuisine: Slavic.
• Difficulty: easy.

Following the sequence of steps that this step-by-step recipe suggests, you will prepare an original dessert that will appeal to every member of your family. Kefir cookies with cocoa are also called Snail, because the dough is made of different colors, rolled up, and then cut into pieces, which will resemble a spiral on the “house” of the animal.

Ingredients:

• margarine – 200 g;
• salt, vanillin – to taste;
• kefir (yogurt) – 0.5 tbsp .;
• eggs – 2 pcs.;
• flour – about 2 tbsp .;
• soda – 0.5 tsp;
• cocoa – 3 tbsp. l .;
• vinegar – 0.5 tsp.

Cooking method:

1. Beat eggs until thick, combining them with sugar. Pour soda to the mass, but pre-extinguish it, add soft margarine. Pour kefir or yogurt, knead everything, after which you can pour a little flour.
2. Divide the mass in half, pour cocoa into one. Knead each half of the workpiece to make two elastic soft lumps.
3. Roll out the dough, put the light part on the dark, roll both in the shape of a fist.
4. Cut the resulting sausage into small parts.
5. The future shortbread cookies with cocoa to send on a paper-laden baking sheet to the oven, which is already heated to 200 degrees.
6. After 20 minutes, put the products on a plate, cool and serve.

With coconut

• Cooking time: 30 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 9 Persons.
• Calorie dishes: 382 kcal.
• Purpose: for dessert.
• Cuisine: Slavic.
• Difficulty: easy.

If you looked at the photo, you would rather like to please the household with such delicious pastries, then proceed to cooking, because the process is not long at all. Chocolate cookies with coconut can be baked more originally by adding color instead of the classic white chips. The delicacy is done without adding eggs, so the dough is very tender.

Ingredients:

• sugar – 100 g;
• flour – 340 g;
• vanilla – 0.25 tsp;
• coconut flakes – 15 g;
• milk – 2 tbsp. l .;
• cocoa – 1.5 tbsp. l .;
• oil (plum.) – 200 g;
• baking powder – 1 tsp.

Cooking method:

1. Remove the oil from the refrigerator in advance so that it can become room temperature. Beat it with sugar for 3 minutes using a mixer.
2. Add milk to the mass.
3. Pour baking powder, vanilla, cocoa, chips and gradually add flour to knead the dough steep.
4. Form products of any shape: balls, stars, sticks, squares.
5. Put shortbread cookies on a heat-resistant surface, which is recommended to be pre-coated with baking paper.
6. Bake products from shortcrust pastry, preheating the oven to the optimum temperature, and remove them after 12 minutes.

Bicolor

• Cooking time: 1 hour 25 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 20 Persons.
• Calorie dishes: 455 kcal.
• Purpose: for dessert.
• Cuisine: Slavic.
• Difficulty: easy.

If you take a little time to bake products according to this recipe, you will get original delicious crumbly cookies. Shortbread cookies Day and night two-tone and with different tastes will surely appreciate all the sweet tooth, and the kids will also help to cut out different figures. The recipe is lightweight and does not require a variety of expensive products..

Ingredients:

• flour – 250 g;
• soda – 0.5 tsp;
• egg – 1 pc.;
• cocoa – 2 tsp;
• sugar – 150 g;
• oil (drain) – 150 g.

Cooking method:

1. Soften the oil by putting it at room temperature. Beat with 150 grams of sugar. When the mass turns into foam, break an egg to it. Add slaked soda, then mix everything.
2. Divide the mixture in half, after which cocoa powder is poured into one part. If you wish, you can add coconut shavings to another.
3. Mix both blanks with flour, dividing equally into each. Knead elastic dough.
4. Wet hands, pinch off a little from the white and chocolate mass, connect the pieces and roll into a ball. Flatten the workpieces so that their thickness is up to 1.5 cm.
5. Put future cookies on a parchment-laden form, send for 15 minutes in the oven.
6. Cook pastry from shortcrust pastry at optimal temperature.

Sugarless

• Cooking time: 25 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 6 Persons
• Calorie dishes: 387 kcal.
• Purpose: for dessert.
• Cuisine: Slavic.
• Difficulty: easy.

Almost any pastry is prepared from a “standard” set of products: eggs, flour, butter and sugar. You can do without the last harmful sweetness, because some people are strictly forbidden to use it. Try making shortbread cookies without sugar, replacing it with natural honey. Cocoa powder will give special flavoring notes to such baked goods..

Ingredients:

• honey (liquid) – 1.5 tbsp. l .;
• vanillin – 0.25 tsp;
• oil (plum.) – 70 g;
• baking powder – 1 tsp;
• egg – 1 pc.;
• cocoa – 2 tbsp. l .;
• flour – 200 g.

Cooking method:

1. Grate the oil (previously frozen), then pour vanillin to it, break the egg. Using a fork, grind the components until smooth.
2. Mix the mass with honey, grind everything together again.
3. Add a little flour, connected to the baking powder. Prepare the dough to make the lump elastic.
4. Roll the workpiece so that the layer thickness is 0.5 cm. Cut the future treat with a shape or glass.
5. Send the curly shortcrust pastry to the oven, which has already warmed up to 180 degrees, and after 15 minutes remove the finished honey treat.

On sour cream

• Cooking time: 35 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 11 Persons.
• Calorie dishes: 425 kcal.
• Purpose: for dessert.
• Cuisine: American.
• Difficulty: easy.

Agree, the products in the photo are simply mesmerizing with their mouth-watering appearance and beauty? Chocolate shortbread cookies with sour cream, cinnamon and dark chocolate taste like the famous Oreo products. This result can be obtained if you connect two cookies, and between them make a layer of cream, whipped cream or your favorite ice cream.

Ingredients:

• cocoa – 2 tbsp. l .;
• nutmeg – 1 pinch;
• salt – 0.5 tsp;
• sugar – 0.5 tbsp .;
• vanilla extract – 1 tsp;
• brown sugar – 1.25 st .;
• soda – 1 tsp;
• eggs – 2 pcs.;
• sour cream – 1 tbsp .;
• raisins – 0.5 tbsp. (optional);
• oil (drain.) – 4 tbsp. l .;
• cinnamon – 0.25 tsp;
• flour – 2.25 st .;
• dark chocolate – 60 g.

Cooking method:

1. Pour cocoa, cinnamon, flour, soda, nutmeg, salt into one container, mix.
2. Beat the butter separately, pouring sugar to it, then break the eggs, and then mix for another minute. Reduce the speed of the appliance, add vanilla extract and melted chocolate.
3. Leaving the mixer at low speed, add dry components to the mass in three arrivals, alternating them with two sour cream. Beat until the dough reaches the consistency of thick cream.
4. Put a teaspoon of shortcrust pastry on a baking sheet covered with paper. Send the workpieces to an oven heated to the optimum temperature. After 15 minutes, remove the product and put it to cool.
5. If desired, you can make sandwiches by making a layer of cream between two cookies.

Hastily

• Cooking time: 40 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 5 Persons.
• Calorie dishes: 440 kcal.
• Purpose: for dessert.
• Cuisine: Slavic.
• Difficulty: easy.

If you need a quick way and a simple recipe, how to cook a delicious treat for children, then be sure to try using this recipe. The whipped cocoa cookies shown in the photo not only look very attractive, they also have an unforgettable taste and aroma. Follow the technology of preparation and get an excellent dessert for tea.

Ingredients:

• eggs – 2 pcs.;
• sugar – 200 g;
• Cocoa – 60 g;
• salt – 5 g;
• margarine – 250 g;
• flour – 500 g.

Cooking method:

1. Take a fine sieve, pass the flour through it, then add cocoa to the same bowl.
2. Using a blender, beat the flour with a glass of sugar to make a cream-like mass.
3. Introduce the flour into the cream, then mix thoroughly with a mixer all the ingredients.
4. Squirrels with yolks are divided into separate containers. Salt the protein portion, using a mixer, make foam out of it. Combine with chocolate-flour mixture, whisk everything again – you should get a mass of jelly-like consistency.
5. Pour the future shortbread cookies into molds, bake for 15 minutes in the oven, which is already heated to a temperature equal to 180 ° C.

Cocoa pastries – cooking secrets

If you like to bake homemade cookies, but want to diversify your menu with new recipes, then be sure to try making chocolate dough. Baking with cocoa powder differs from classical sand products not only in color, but also in excellent aroma. It is worth noting that this product can even be used instead of ordinary flour at a time when you crush the table, rolling out the dough on it.