Sand cookie recipe

Courabier cookies have their own origin story, bordering on legend. A resourceful servant of the Persian sultan invented sweetness by chance. One day, detractors stole food from the sultan’s house, from which traditional oriental sweets were made.

Then the cook simply used flour, which was always in abundance in the house, eggs, sugar and some butter. In addition, he ennobled the taste of cookies with a note of saffron, and the appearance with a light layer of powdered sugar. Thus was baked the first curabier - a simple, but at the same time became incredibly beloved and widespread oriental sweetness.

Classic Arabic kurabje cookies are made in the form of a flower with jam or jam in the middle. It must be spicy. Taste gives spices: saffron, cinnamon, cloves and vanilla.





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• 100g butter or spread
• 4 tbsp powdered sugar
• 1 egg white
• 180g flour
• vanillin
• 3 tbsp any jam for decoration /li>

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Preparation

1. To bake. cookies at homeMix powdered sugar with softened butter or spread. Hit the blender to get a homogeneous lush mass. Then add the protein and stir the whole mass.
   
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2. Gradually sift and add to the mass of flour in small portions so that there are no lumps. When you mix the dough, add vanillin.
   
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3. Put the dough in a pastry bag or a regular cellophane bag with a cut corner.
   
   
   
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4. Cover the pan with parchment paper, oil it. Squeeze the dough on the pot in small portions so that stars or flowers are obtained. Put a drop of jam in the center of the figures. Bake in the oven heated to 200 ° C for 20 minutes.
   
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Sand cookies curabier will turn out very soft, tender, crumbly, will melt in the mouth, differ in a delicate creamy taste, soft texture and a subtle aroma of added spices.