Danish cookies, they have a delicious butter flavor, and the most surprising thing is their crispy texture on the outside and tender on the inside. Today we are going to tell you how to make one Danish shortbread box. They are very easy to make, with only four ingredients they look perfect at any celebration. And best of all, they look great as gifts.
recipe information
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- Preparation time: 40 minutes
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- Cooking time: 12 minutes
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- total time: 52 minutes
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- rations:6
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- Category: cake shop
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- type of cuisine: danish
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- calories: 439 kcal per 100 g
Ingredients for Danish cookies for 6 people
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- 200 g all-purpose flour
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- 100 sugar
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- 125 g of softened butter
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- a pinch of salt
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- 1 egg yolk
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- 1 teaspoon vanilla
how to make danish cookies
An hour before preparing the cookie dough, remove the butter and egg from the fridge so that they are at room temperature. We weigh and measure the rest of the ingredients and once the butter is about to melt, we make the dough. Sift the flour with the salt. Beat the butter with the sugar until the mixture is creamy and has doubled in volume.
Next, we add the egg yolk.
We continue beating and when it is fully integrated we add the essence of vanilla. Finally, and without stopping beating, we are incorporating the flour little by little.
We will never do it all at once, but several times so that it integrates better. When the dough is ready, we put one part in a pastry bag with a curly nozzle.
The rest we put in the fridge for half an hour.
With the dough that we have put in the pastry bag, we will form some cookies using a curly nozzle. When they are ready, we store the tray with the cookies in the fridge.
Once the rest time of the other mass has elapsed and it has hardened, we stretch it. For this we will use a pasta roller with stops on the sides, which will help us achieve a uniform thickness. In our case it will be 7 mm.
We cut the pasta giving it different shapes.
We will gather and stretch again the dough that is left over until we have them all formed. Once we have the cookies ready, we brush them with egg white, sprinkle them with granulated sugar and store them in the fridge.
In this way we will make sure that they are completely cold when they enter the oven.
We turn on the oven at 170 °C and when it has reached the marked temperature we bake the cookies for 15 minutes or until they begin to turn golden. Baking times are approximate, as each oven is different. When they are ready, we remove them and carefully place them on a cooling rack.
When they are hot they are still soft and brittle, but once they are cold they harden.
We are placing them in a box, where they will be kept for several weeks, if they last. We can use cupcake molds to separate them and to protect them, so they won’t move and won’t break.
In addition, we will have a nice box of homemade Danish cookies ready to give as a gift or for a treat.
Easy preparation summary
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- Take the butter and the egg out of the fridge half an hour before making the dough
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- We weigh and measure the rest of the ingredients
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- Mix the flour with the salt
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- Beat the butter until creamy
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- Add the sugar and continue beating for a while longer.
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- Continuing to beat, add the egg yolk.
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- Finally we are incorporating the flour and knead until we have a homogeneous dough
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- Store the dough in the fridge for an hour
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- We turn on the oven at 175 ºC
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- With a rolling pin we stretch the dough 7 mm thick
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- Cut the cookies and place them on a baking tray.
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- We leave them half an hour in the fridge with the tray
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- Bake for 12 minutes
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- Remove them and let them cool on a wire rack.
