Cookies have fulfilled quite a few functions throughout the history of their existence. For example, in the XVIII century, cookies were used to snack on strong drinks. Basically, this dessert was served at balls in order to snack on wine.
Later, this snack ceased to be significant for the nobility. Cookies ceased to have an elitist character in the times of the USSR.
There appeared a lot of ordinary cookies, for the people. At the same time, people continued to search for a new vision of this dish.
Let’s tell you about how to prepare Berlin cookies.
Ingredients for Berlin cookies:
- flour – 330 g;
- leavening agent – tsp;
- butter – 100 g;
- sugar – 120 g;
- salt – a pinch;
- yolks – 2 pcs;
- sour cream – 160 g;
- whites – 2 pcs;
- vanilla sugar – 2 tsp;
- nuts – 100 g;
- cranberries – 50 g.
Preparation of Berlin cookies:
Sift flour, mix with baking powder, 40 grams of granulated sugar and salt. Add cold butter to the loose products, quickly grind it into crumbs.
In the creamy crumbs make a depression, where we pour sour cream, add yolks
.
Using a spatula and then your hands knead elastic and not sticky dough.
Cover the dough with cellophane and put it in the refrigerator
.
To prepare the filling, chop nuts in a blender. In a bowl with whites pour three tablespoons of sugar, whip until the white homogeneous
mass. After pouring all the sugar into the whites, whip the mass to puffy glossy peaks
.
Roll out a thin layer of dough on the table (5 mm), place a layer of meringue on the dough
, sprinkle the meringue layer with nut crumbs and cranberries
.
Roll the dough into a roll and cut into small portions 3-4 cm thick.
Cover a baking tray with parchment and place the future cookies on the surface with the cut side up. Bake the cookies for 25 minutes at 200 degrees.
It is recommended to use walnuts for these cookies. Also candied fruits, raisins and other dried fruits are suitable as a filling.
Author of the photo and original recipe youtube.com channel: Cooking with Tanya 2.0
