Beer cookies
I remember my mother making these cookies from my childhood. I’m not sure if I liked them as a kid, but somehow I remember them. Mother made them using Žigul beer, the most famous beer in Soviet-era Estonia, which was the brand of light beer at the time.
I used Corona beer for my cookies that a beer-loving friend left for me at home. Should the cookies be renamed after him? The internet is full of recipes for these cookies, I used a recipe I found in my mother’s old cookbook and used it almost unchanged. I did replace the margarine of that time with farm butter.
Preparation time: 1.5 hours
Level: Easy
Quantity: 5 pans of cookies
Ingredients:
400 g of butter
600 g wheat flour
200 ml light beer
A little sea salt
Granulated sugar and ground cinnamon for dusting on the cookies
Preparation:
- Mix flour, beer butter and salt. Knead it into a smooth dough. Do not knead the dough for too long, it is enough when it has become uniform. There is no need to make the gluten network dense.
- The dough is relatively soft, place it in the refrigerator to cool for at least 30 minutes.
- Sprinkle flour on the work surface, roll out a piece of dough about 3 mm thick, brush with water until slightly wet, and sprinkle with sugar liberally. Sprinkle cinnamon on top and cut the cookies into squares of the desired size with a dough cutter.
- Use a cake spatula to place the cookies on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and bake at 180 degrees for 12 minutes.
- Store cookies in an airtight container for a short time.
Ready!!
