Recipe for Autumn Leaves Cookies: description, cooking features.

What can you do to make the kids want to go to school? For example, have a Candy Fair! And what to bake for the fair at school? Cookies are perfect! No cream, but very tasty, easy to make, and comes out a lot! Also, the cookies are portioned - you don't have to cut them up like a pie. In general, that's what you need for children! And we'll tell you the recipes. Because you can bake such original cookies... with or without molds! This week we bake cookies and treat everyone:)

Autumn is a time of inspiration. The warm days of early fall are filled with sunshine, and the evening chill of September
and you want to wake up, throw off the sleepiness after summer siesta and create, create inspired by the impressions accumulated during the summer! Some of us write poems, some of us draw, and we will be baking with you!  The summer heat is over and we can turn on the oven again! On an autumn evening it's great to get together in a warm kitchen for tea with fresh homemade baked goods!

And we will bake amazingly beautiful and at the same time amazing simple shortbread cookies in the form of autumn leaves! Very tasty, crumbly and original.
The cookie recipe isn't complicated at all - you'd be surprised, but you don't need any special kitchen tools to create these marbled patterns and carved shapes. After finding a recipe for Autumn Leaves cookies on one of the cooking sites, I was going to bake them for almost a year because I didn't have a mold in the shape of an oak leaf. But after watching the video recipe carefully and completely, I was surprised to find that molds weren't even necessary! Cookies in the form of leaves can be made with a paper template. Of course, if you have molds it will be easier and faster, but - if you have the desire, and everything is possible!

These cute autumn cookies are an ideal option for the Fair of sweets at school or kindergarten: they are easy to make, and are very good for storage and transportation (in contrast to the cakes, and you can not bring cakes with cream to school)).
And for a home tea party, it's great to bake such beautiful cookies to treat your family and friends. Give everyone a flavorful edible leaf - in fact, you give not just cookies, but attention.

Ingridients:

For 35 pieces, approximately (depending on cookie size):
200 g butter;
150g powdered sugar;
3 egg yolks;
Vanillin on the tip of a teaspoon;
A pinch of salt;
350 grams of flour;
2 tablespoons of cocoa powder;
2 tablespoons sour cream;
50g chocolate.

How to bake:

Let the butter soften well - just leave it in the kitchen on the table, and after half an hour you can prepare the dough. Pour the powdered sugar into a bowl with the softened butter and knead with a spoon.

Then add the yolks and knead some more. The egg whites can be used to make meringue. Now sift the flour, add vanilla and salt.

The resulting crumb divided in half. In half of the dough add two spoonfuls of cocoa powder and a spoonful of sour cream, in the other half add a couple of spoonfuls of flour and also a spoonful of sour cream.

Knead a soft dough. If it is very crumbly - you can add half a spoon of sour cream. If, on the contrary, it is sticky - add a little flour.

Now begins the fun part! We don't need a rolling pin. We take the light dough and simply knead it with our hands on a table with a little flour. We put two layers together and roll. Cut this roll in half, put two halves of the roll together and again knead into a crust about 1.5 cm thick. Roll again, cut in half, fold, knead and form a layer 4-5 cm thick.

We wrap it in a sandwich bag and put in the fridge for 30 minutes. Thanks to all this folding and unrolling, you get beautiful marble patterns on cookies.

Line a baking tray with pastry parchment, and preheat the oven to 180-190C.
In the original recipe, the chilled dough was cut into slices, which were lightly rolled out and the cookies were cut out of them.

I tried this, and then another, simpler way - to roll out half of the dough into one 5-6 mm thick crust and cut out many cookies at once, instead of one at a time. There is no difference in the result, but the second way is faster.
I have a homemade tin mold in the form of a maple leaf, and the oak leaves are made with a paper template.

Spread the cookies out on a baking tray and put them in the oven, just above medium-high.

Bake for 12-15 minutes, up to 20 minutes, depending on your oven and the type of cookies. When they become golden - that's enough, you should not make them too dry, because they will not be hard, but crumbly.

We put the ready sheets on the table, and while the cookies are cooling, melt chocolate in a water bath. We decorate the leaves with chocolate veins from a bag with a cut off corner.

Have a cozy and warm autumn for you! 🍂
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