Mushroom cookies are a popular confectionery product, which is characterized by its original shape and pleasant taste. It represents small cookies, which are shaped like mushrooms with characteristic caps and legs.
These cookies can be made of different types of dough and have a variety of fillings and coatings.
The history of the appearance of cookies “Mushroom Glade” does not have exact data, but it can be assumed that it was created in order to please children with its appearance and taste. Today, this cookie remains one of the favorite desserts of many people.
Ingredients for the dough:
- egg – 1 pc;
- butter – 100 g;
- sour cream – 90 g;
- sugar – 110 g;
- flour – 340 g;
- leavening agent – ½ tsp;
- salt – a pinch;
- vanillin – a pinch.
Ingredients for decoration:
- chocolate – 150 g;
- poppyseed;
- vegetable oil – 1 tsp.
Cookies “Mushroom Glade” preparation:
Mix soft butter with salt and vanilla, add sugar, beat until the mass whitens. Crack an egg into the creamy mass, pour in sour cream and continue beating.
Pour some flour and baking powder into the mixture, knead the dough
.
Pour the rest of the flour into the dough and knead a soft and non-sticky dough, form a dough ball.
Make cookie
dough
: roll out balls of 15 and 25 grams
.
There should be an equal number of such balls. From the 15 gram balls roll out the legs for the mushrooms
. From the 25 gram balls form the caps for the mushrooms. Leave both caps and legs in the refrigerator under cellophane for 40 minutes.
Then put only the legs on a baking tray and bake them at 200 degrees for 10-15 minutes. At this time, put the caps back in the fridge
. Next, put the caps on a cold baking tray and bake them at 200 degrees for 15 minutes. Make indentations in the caps with a knife.
To decorate, melt the chocolate and pour a little chocolate into the hollow of each cap. Quickly insert the legs into the hollows of the caps and leave to harden.
Mix the chocolate with the vegetable oil. Dip the base of the mushroom stem into the melted chocolate and then into the poppy seeds.
Leave the chocolate on the cookies to set for 15 minutes.
Next, dip the caps into the chocolate and leave standing. Place the cookies in the refrigerator for 40 minutes.
We get sweet original cookies for tea. Such “Mushrooms” can be used as a decoration even for cakes.
