Crumbly cookies are a type of cookie with a special texture. The crumbly
texture is achieved through a special dough recipe, which usually uses a large amount of fat (butter or margarine) and a minimum amount of liquid. As a result, the dough turns out to be drier and crumbly.
To prepare crumbly cookies use different types of flour: wheat, oat flour, corn flour and others.
Let’s tell you how to prepare delicious crumbly cookies
Ingredients for the dough:
- egg – pcs;
- butter – 100 g;
- sugar – 50 g;
- flour – 210 g;
- leavening agent – 1 tsp;
- lemon zest.
Ingredients for the filling:
- cottage cheese – 120 g;
- powdered sugar – 1 tbsp;
- lemon zest.
Preparation of crumbly cookies:
In a bowl combine soft butter with sugar and lemon zest, mix. Beat the egg into the butter and mix again.
Pour the flour and baking powder into the mixture in batches and knead into an elastic, soft dough. Leave the dough in cellophane in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
For the filling, combine cottage cheese with powdered sugar and lemon zest, mix. Pinch off pieces of dough the size of walnuts, roll them into scones
, put a teaspoon of filling in each scone, seal it inside as if in a bag.
Place the tortillas on a baking tray and bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
Before baking, you can sprinkle the cookies with a mixture of sugar and lemon zest. This way you get sugar cookies with lemon flavor.
