To make delicious homemade chocolate cookies with cocoa. You will need a modest set of products and 45 minutes of free time.

Various recipes for quick homemade baking have always been and will be popular among housewives. This express recipe significantly saves the time of eternally busy women and, as a rule, does not require large financial outlays. Homemade chocolate cookies can be prepared in a variety of variations - from shortbread to soft biscuit. This option is rather closer to biscuit cookies. Another advantage of the recipe is that the ingredients do not contain chocolate, but only cocoa. Agree that more often housewives have cocoa powder in stock than unclaimed chocolate.

Recipe information

Cooking method: baking in the oven.

Total cooking time: 45 min.

Number of servings: 15-17 .

Ingredients:

• premium wheat flour – 2 cups
• granulated sugar – 1 cup
• cocoa powder – 3 tbsp. l. with a slide
• baking powder for dough – 1 tsp.
• butter – 100 g
• eggs – 2 pcs. medium size
• a pinch of vanillin or 1 tsp. vanilla sugar
• powdered sugar – 4 tbsp. l.

Step-by-step cooking recipe

1. 
   Pour flour, baking powder, cocoa, sugar and vanillin into a deep bowl.
2. Mix everything.
3. 
   Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance so that the product comes to room temperature. Divide the softened butter into pieces and add to the dry mixture. Use a spoon or your hands to bring the mixture into fine crumbs. Break the eggs into the resulting crumbs.
4. 
   First, use a spoon, and then simply knead the dough into a homogeneous dough with your hands.
5. 
   Cover the dough with cling film or simply close the cup with a lid and refrigerate for 10-15 minutes.
6. 
   You must immediately turn on the oven so that the temperature in it warms up to 200 degrees.
   Remove the dough from the refrigerator. Using your hands, pinch off small pieces of dough and form into balls. It is important to ensure that all the balls are the same size, otherwise the cookies will bake unevenly. Carefully roll each ball in powdered sugar poured into a cup.
7. 
   And place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Leave a small distance between the balls.
8. 
   Place the tray with the balls into the hot oven. Cookies bake very quickly - 10 minutes is enough, maximum 15, depending on the oven. It is absolutely forbidden to leave cookies in the oven! Otherwise, the cookies will turn out burnt and just stone.
   And these wonderful cracks should form on the finished baked goods.
9. Chocolate cookies with cocoa are ready!
   Let it cool for literally 5-7 minutes and you can start tasting. The thin crust on top will have a pleasant crunch, and the inside of the cookies will remain soft, moderately sweet, with a pronounced chocolate taste.
   You can safely involve children from three years old in the cooking process; they will be happy to help roll the dough balls and roll them in powdered sugar. Yes, there will be more chaos in the kitchen, but you will have fun and useful time together.

Note to the owner:

• Chocolate cookies with cocoa will taste better if you add 10 finely chopped nuts to the dough (walnuts, peanuts, hazelnuts, hazelnuts, almonds are suitable).

Prepared by Anastasia Dvornikova (Honeybuny).

I offer a simple recipe for very tasty, crispy cookies. It can be made in any shape, for example, in the form of snowflakes, animals or people. You can decorate cookies with sugar or egg white glaze. Here you can turn on your imagination, attract children and get a lot of positive emotions. Although it tastes great even without decoration. On the eve of the New Year, you can bake cookies in the shape of people. These cookies can even be hung on a Christmas tree. Delicious, crispy cookies with the aroma of chocolate will not leave anyone indifferent.

Ingredients

To make simple chocolate cookies we will need:

400 g wheat flour;

200 g butter or margarine;

150 g sugar;

50 g cocoa;

2 tsp. instant coffee + 50 ml water;

a pinch of salt.

Cooking steps

Place in a preheated oven and bake for 15 minutes at 180 degrees. Cool the finished chocolate cookies.

Very tasty chocolate cookies prepared according to this simple recipe can be eaten without decorating with icing, but I decided to give them a beautiful appearance and decorated them with icing. You can use the glaze to your taste, I used commercial glaze in tubes.

Bon appetit!

Cooking instructions

1 hour 20 minutes Print

1. Mix dry ingredients - sift flour with cocoa powder, add baking powder, salt. Flour seeder tool Flour must be sifted even if you grind it yourself and guarantee the absence of lumps and pellets. Waking up through the sieve, the flour is loosened, saturated with oxygen, the dough rises better and then has a better texture. You can sift using any fine sieve or, for example, a special OXO seeder, which works on the principle of a meditative rocking chair.

2. Beat eggs with sugar until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add room temperature butter. Add vanilla. Beat well.
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3. Gradually stir in dry ingredients. Cover the resulting dough with film and refrigerate for 1 hour.

4. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Tool Oven thermometer How the oven actually heats up, even if you set a specific temperature, can only be understood with experience. It is better to have a small thermometer on hand that is placed in the oven or simply hung on the grill. And it is better that it shows degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit simultaneously and accurately - like a Swiss watch. A thermometer is important when you need to strictly observe the temperature regime: for example, in the case of baking.

5. Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place small cookies by the teaspoon.
Tool Baking paper For even baking, it is better to place open pies and quiches in the oven on a wire rack, and to prevent the sauce boiling from the heat from dripping between the rods, baking paper will help. For example, the Finns produce a good one - it is quite dense and is already divided into sheets that are easy to get out of the box. And nothing more is required from paper.

Every housewife has her own recipe for pies in her arsenal, because quite often relatives and friends demand to please them with delicious pastries. And today we offer you a couple more recipes from which you can learn how to easily and quickly prepare dough for kefir pies.

If you use a kefir dough recipe to make pies, the result will be an incredibly tasty pastry with an unforgettable aroma. Moreover, using this dairy product it will be possible to prepare both yeast-free and yeast dough.

When your family asks you to please them with pies, and you don’t have enough time and ingredients, use the suggested recipe and prepare the dough with kefir. It is suitable for both fried pies and baking in the oven. Baking with kefir always turns out golden brown and tender. In addition, the products look very appetizing.

Among homemade baked goods lovers, kefir dough is becoming increasingly popular. It is easier to prepare than yeast, and there is no need to wait several hours until it “fits.” Once you combine the ingredients, you can get started right away.

A few secrets to a successful test

To start preparing the base, you should know a few secrets to successful baking:

• It is recommended to use premium flour for preparing homemade baked goods. Then the products will turn out lush and tasty.
• Before adding flour to the rest of the ingredients, it is better to sift it through a sieve. This procedure will allow you to get the most airy dough.
• In the absence of good quality flour, you can add a little starch to what you have before combining it with other ingredients.
• To prepare fried or oven-baked pies, kefir must be heated to room temperature. It is not recommended to use this dairy product straight from the refrigerator.
• You can replace kefir with sour milk. It is advisable that it is not purchased.
• There is no need to quench the baking soda for these recipes.

Cooking options

There are quite a lot of recipes on how to make dough for kefir pies. However, the “standard” set that forms the basis is always the same. This:

• Kefir;
• Flour;
• Table soda.

Recipe No. 1 - without yeast

According to this recipe, in addition to the main products, you will also need eggs and vegetable oil. So, you should prepare:

• 0.5 l of kefir;
• 0.5 kg flour;
• 1 egg;
• 1 tsp. soda;
• 1.5 tsp. salt;
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.

The step-by-step process of preparing kefir dough is as follows:

Now you can start forming the cakes, filling them and baking them in the oven or frying.

Kefir dough is unique in that you can use both sweet foods (fruits, jam) and salty ones as a filling.

Products with stewed cabbage inside or liver are especially tasty.

Recipe No. 2 – with yeast

Using this recipe, you will get kefir-based yeast dough for pies in the oven. Household members will be delighted with the aromatic pastries prepared according to this recipe. The ingredients you need to take are:

• 300 ml fat kefir;
• 0.5-0.6 kg flour;
• 2 tsp. dry yeast (or 50 grams raw);
• 1.5 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• 1.5 tsp. salt;
• 100 ml. milk;
• 2 eggs;
• 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.

The preparation process will take a few minutes, but the result will definitely exceed expectations. To make yeast dough, you must first slightly warm the milk. Then add sugar to it and mix thoroughly until completely dissolved. After which you can add yeast by mixing it with milk. Then cover the container with the resulting mixture with a clean towel and place it in a warm place for 10-15 minutes. This will be the base (dough).

At the same time, you need to mix kefir with vegetable oil. Be sure to make sure it is not cold. Beat the eggs into the resulting mixture, add salt and mix everything well. Then pour the dough into the egg-milk mixture and, having mixed the ingredients, begin to add flour. After kneading is completed, the mass must be lowered back into the container and covered with a towel.

Just like the dough, the finished yeast dough should be kept in a warm place for about 15 minutes, but more is possible.

After this time, the finished mass can be taken out and prepared to form pies.

How to bake pies?

After the kefir dough (yeast or non-yeast) for pies is ready, it should be divided into 2-3 parts. This is necessary to make it more convenient to deal with it. From each part you need to form a cake, inside which you put the filling. As previously mentioned, you can use both sweet and salty (meat) foods as fillings.

As a filling for kefir pies, you can use: finely chopped fresh apples, pears, jam, mashed potatoes with or without mushrooms, minced meat, rice with egg, liver with fried onions, stewed cabbage. In this case, the last option is most appropriate for this type of product. They can not only be baked in the oven, but also fried in a frying pan.

After wrapping the edges, the products should be placed on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil. If you prepared yeast dough for your products, then it is advisable to set the baking sheet with a large number of pies aside for 10-15 minutes. During this period of time they will rise, after which they can be greased with an egg beaten until foamy and put in the oven.

To do this, it is better to preheat the oven temperature to 200 degrees, and after the products are placed in it, increase it to 220 degrees if desired. In this mode, baking in the oven usually lasts from 20 to 30 minutes, depending on the type and power of the oven.

In general, the dough for kefir pies is very easy to prepare. By spending very little time and a small amount of available ingredients, you will get a fragrant culinary masterpiece in the form of ruddy and fluffy pies.

Kefir dough recipes are considered one of the fastest and most accessible. In addition, they are simple and accessible for beginner cooks. Often such recipes are accompanied by headings in the style of “Country Pies” or “Grandma’s Secrets.” And it's hard to argue with that.

Surely almost anyone can remember a picture from childhood - in a matter of minutes, and on grandma’s table there is already a bowl with a mountain of steaming, crispy, incredibly tasty pies. And when did grandma have time?

In fact, everything is quite simple like... kefir dough. It is largely the secret of making quick and tasty baked goods.

Quick dough with kefir - general principles of preparation

Quick kefir dough is an economical option for any baking and not only for it. To prepare it, you need a minimum inexpensive set of products that are always available at home. The main advantages of such a dough are that it does not require long kneading or proofing time.

There are many cooking methods and each depends on what exactly it will be used for. Quick kefir dough is kneaded to make dumplings, dumplings, and manti. It is used to fry or bake pies and large pies. There are many recipes suitable for pizza.

In terms of its consistency, it can be liquid, quite dense, or not very dense.

It is kneaded only with kefir and flour or certain ingredients are added depending on the recipe.

You can add eggs, sour cream, mayonnaise, high-quality vegetable or butter to the quick kefir dough. For splendor, baking soda is added to it, which is often quenched with vinegar. Yeast can be added to dough intended for pies and pizza. They do not need to be diluted additionally; just mix with kefir.

To ensure that the quick dough made with kefir always turns out fluffy, soft and airy, you should take low-fat kefir and be sure to warm it up slightly before kneading.

Yeast quick dough with kefir for pies, in the oven

Ingredients:

Half a glass of vegetable oil;

Sugar – 1 large, full spoon;

Full, 250 gr., a glass of medium-fat kefir;

Powdered yeast – 11 g;

Three glasses of high-quality wheat flour.

Cooking method:

1. Dilute the vegetable oil well in kefir and warm it slightly. Add salt, add all the sugar and stir until it is completely dissolved.

2. In a wide bowl, stir the sifted flour with the instant yeast. Pour in the prepared mixture and knead the dough. Then cover the bowl with a cloth and remove while preparing the filling.

3. Place the pies made from this kefir dough on a roasting pan covered with parchment paper and be sure to brush the tops with beaten egg.

4. Cook at 200 degrees until deep brown.

Unleavened quick kefir dough for pies fried in a frying pan

Ingredients:

Approximately 1 kg of flour (how much dough will take);

A liter of medium-fat kefir;

Two tsp. soda (full without a slide).

Cooking method:

1. At least an hour before cooking, remove the container with kefir from the refrigerator and leave to warm up. You can heat the product in the microwave; in this case, make sure that it does not overheat, otherwise it will curdle.

2. Pour warm kefir into a bowl, stir baking soda in it well and leave the mixture to stand for three minutes.

3. Add salt; if the filling for the pies is sweet, add a little sugar, about half a tablespoon. Add a third of the flour and mix well. Continue until the flour is evenly distributed throughout the kefir and there are no lumps left in the still liquid dough.

4. Then, without stopping stirring and adding the remaining flour in small portions, knead a slightly sticky dough.

5. Cut it on a lightly floured table. The filling can be either sweet - jam, berries or fruits, or more filling - mashed potatoes, meat, cabbage, etc.

Thin quick kefir dough for pizza

Ingredients:

Two glasses of high-gluten wheat flour;

Fresh eggs – 2 pcs.;

Vinegar and soda for extinguishing;

200 ml high-calorie kefir.

Cooking method:

1. Melt the margarine in a small saucepan over low heat. Cool it slightly and mix with warm kefir.

2. Pour baking soda into a large spoon and add table vinegar to it. Stir the mixture well with the point of a knife and wait until it stops bubbling. Then pour the slaked soda into a bowl with the rest of the ingredients and stir thoroughly with a spoon.

3. Add flour, add salt and knead thoroughly with your hands.

4. Place the thinly rolled pizza crust only on a baking sheet well greased with margarine.

Quick kefir dough for pizza

Ingredients:

One and a half cups of flour;

A glass of low-calorie kefir;

Soda and vinegar for extinguishing

Two eggs.

Cooking method:

1. Using a thin sieve, sift the flour into a deep wide bowl, pour all the kefir into it at once, add a spoonful of sugar, three pinches of salt and stir with a mixer. You can use a whisk if you prefer. The main thing is to achieve homogeneity of the mass so that there is no flour clumped in it.

2. Extinguish 1/4 tsp. spoons of soda with table vinegar and add the sizzling foamy “cap” to the dough and stir well again.

3. The kefir-based pizza dough is ready. Now moisten the mold with oil or line it with parchment, pour the future cake of the desired thickness into it and place it in a hot oven for five minutes.

4. Then put the filling on it and return it to the oven for 15 minutes.

5. Baking temperature is not lower than 200 degrees.

6. According to this recipe, pizza can also be baked in a frying pan on the stove.

Quick kefir dough for pizza (with mayonnaise)

Ingredients:

Medium calorie kefir – 300 ml;

One fresh egg;

Half a tsp. boiled salt and baking soda;

Two tablespoons of low-fat mayonnaise;

Two glasses of high-quality flour.

Cooking method:

1. Mix the egg well with soda and salt. Do not beat, just shake lightly with a fork.

2. Add kefir, add mayonnaise. Mixing the resulting mixture well with a large spoon, add sifted flour little by little.

3. The peculiarity of this recipe is that you should knead only with a spoon or special attachments for dough on a mixer. The mass is not steep, a little thicker than for pancakes.

4. Once the dough is kneaded, place it on a lightly floured pizza pan. Distribute it evenly along the bottom so that there are no unevenness on the surface, and only then spread the filling.

Universal quick kefir dough for pies (with sour cream)

Ingredients:

Two spoons of 20% sour cream;

30 ml refined oil;

2 fresh eggs;

Quicklime baking soda;

750–800 grams of white wheat flour;

Half a liter of medium-calorie kefir.

Cooking method:

1. Pour baking soda into a bowl with kefir and wait 2 minutes until it foams well.

2. Shake a little and pour in sour cream, salt, add a large spoonful of sugar and eggs, stir into a homogeneous mass.

3. Pour in the oil and mix well again. Add flour in two parts and knead a soft dough that is not too stiff, place it on the table and knead a little.

4. Next, you can make pies with various fillings. They can be fried in a frying pan in vegetable oil or baked in the oven on a baking sheet. Pies can be either sweet - with fruits, berries, cottage cheese or jam. Not sweet - with onions and eggs, cabbage, mashed potatoes or meat.

Quick kefir dough for grated shortbread pie

Ingredients:

Creamy margarine or 72% butter – 200 grams;

A third of a glass of 2.5% kefir;

A glass of sugar;

A small pinch of soda, about a third of a teaspoon;

Three full standard glasses of high-grade flour;

Two eggs.

Cooking method:

1. Place margarine or butter in an enamel container and melt slightly. There is no need to heat it too much, just enough to soften it and just bloom a little.

2. Break eggs into butter, add sour cream and sugar and mix everything thoroughly. Then, gradually adding flour, knead a soft, thick dough. Place it on the table and knead well with your hands.

3. Two-thirds of the finished shortcrust pastry is leveled onto a lightly floured baking sheet, and the remaining part is rubbed with a coarse grater over the filling.

Quick curd dough with kefir for pies

Ingredients:

One raw egg;

200 gr. non-grained 9% cottage cheese;

One glass of warm kefir;

Ripper – 1 tsp;

Three full glasses of high quality flour.

Cooking method:

1. Rub the cottage cheese through a fine sieve; there should be no grains left.

2. Add warm kefir mixed with ripening agent, a lightly beaten egg, half a tablespoon of sugar and salt to the cottage cheese. Stir, add flour in parts and, slowly, knead the dough. It will turn out a little sticky, but if you leave it on the table for at least five minutes, its structure will noticeably change.

3. Pies according to this recipe will be equally good both fried and baked.

Cheese quick dough for unsweetened bulk pie

Ingredients:

250 gr. sifted quality flour;

100 gr. cheese;

Three tablespoons of low-fat mayonnaise;

50 gr. 15% sour cream;

Four eggs;

Juice from 1/8 lemon.

Cooking method:

1. Break the eggs into a wide bowl and lightly whisk them, but do not beat them. Rub the cheese into the eggs on a coarse grater, mix and add the sifted flour.

2. Add mayonnaise mixed with sour cream and stir well.

3. Take the required (about 0.5 tsp) amount of soda into a tablespoon and quench it with lemon juice. When the mixture stops sizzling and forms a foamy head, pour it into the dough and stir into it.

4. Unsweetened pies are baked from cheese batter using kefir. Half is poured into the mold, then I spread the savory filling, which is also filled with dough, but with a smaller part of it.

An economical option for a quick kefir dough for dumplings, dumplings and manti

Ingredients:

200 gram glass of kefir;

350 gr. white flour.

Cooking method:

1. Sow all the flour into a bowl with warm kefir and, without delay, knead the dough.

2. At first it is convenient to do this with a fork and only after it has become sufficiently thick, knead it well with your hands.

Quick kefir dough - tricks and useful tips

If you are afraid that kefir may curdle when heated, heat it in water. To do this, place the container with the fermented milk product in a bowl of warm water for a while and periodically replace the cooled water with warm water.

Baked goods turn out fluffier and softer from slightly aged or slightly expired kefir.

The lower the fat content of the fermented milk product, the more airy the dough.

Before mixing, keep all products at the same temperature.

Put the dry soda into the kefir first, it should quench it well.

You can make kefir for all of the above recipes yourself. Sourdough starters for this are inexpensive and accessible, and the quality depends only on a little patience, adherence to technology and, of course, the quality of the milk.