Tired of store-bought pastries? Looking for delicious snacks recipes for New Year 2019, Year of the Pig? Make delicious sandblasted baskets with any filling. How to bake them, read the step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Sand baskets are a sweetness familiar from childhood. In stores and pastry shops, they are usually sold with two types of cream: with protein and oil. To be able to make baskets with custard or curd cream, jelly or panna cotta, jam or jam, fresh or caramelized fruits, mushroom julienne, appetizers with salads and red caviar … you can buy empty blanks. However, their taste will differ significantly from those prepared at home. Hand-made sand baskets are much tastier and better than their industrial counterparts. Shortbread dough simply melts in your mouth, no one will remain indifferent to such an appetizer and dessert.
Since the new year 2019, the year of the Pig, is already close, it's time to think about the festive menu. All guests will surely be delighted with warm baskets with a salty snack, and they will also be a great end to the evening in the form of a sweet treat. You have the right to choose the filling for them yourself. Although they can even serve the usual Olivier salad, a classic New Year's dish.
See also how to make shortbread dough.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 498 kcal.
- Servings - 20
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Butter - 150 g
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Sugar - a pinch
- Salt - a pinch
- Flour - 350 g
Step-by-step preparation of shortcrust pastry baskets for snacks and desserts for the New Year 2019, recipe with photo:
1. Remove the butter from the refrigerator, cut into slices and place in a food processor, in which place the "slicing knife" attachment. The oil should be from the refrigerator, not frozen or at room temperature.
2. Add eggs to the processor.
3. Add a pinch of salt.
4. Then season with sugar.
5. Then add flour, which is desirable to sift through a fine sieve, so that it is enriched with oxygen. This will make the dough more tender and crumbly.
6. Knead the dough for 1 minute. Shortcrust pastry does not like long kneading, keep this in mind if you cook it with your hands. The heat of the hands or the combine heats up and melts the oil, which negatively affects the structure of the dough.
7. Form the finished dough into a lump, wrap with cling film or plastic bag and send to the refrigerator for half an hour or freezer for 15 minutes.
8. Use a rolling pin to roll the chilled dough into a thin layer about 5 mm thick.
9. Match a round shape to the diameter of your basket baking dish and cut out the dough.
10. Place the round dough in a baking dish. The mold can be silicone or iron. None of them need to be greased with oil, since the dough is quite fat and the baskets will not stick.
11. Line the dough well and cut off any excess.
12. Complete all forms with the test.
13. Heat the oven to 180 degrees and send shortcrust pastry baskets for snacks and desserts to bake for 15 minutes for the New Year 2019, the Year of the Pig. When they turn golden, remove them from the oven, cool and remove from the mold. Then use for any dessert or snack. They can be stored at room temperature for about 10 days.
See also a video recipe on how to make shortbread baskets.
