You can bake simple tea cookies in a hurry. Or you can fuss over the shape and decoration and make holiday or themed cookies. The main thing is to use your imagination and stock up on patience. The cookies are coated with icing and decorated with all sorts of confectionery sprinkles. Homemade cookies are a quick and inexpensive dessert option. And their flavor is nothing like the store-bought kind. Baked goods you make yourself are safe for children, since they don't contain the mysterious ingredients listed in abundance on the packaging of store products. For aroma and flavor variety, vanilla, cocoa, ginger, or lemon or orange zest is added to the dough. For decoration, they're sprinkled with sugar, nuts, coconut flakes and so on.
The five most commonly used ingredients in these recipes:
| Product | Calories per 100g | Protein g per 100g | Fats g per 100g | Carbohydrates g per 100g |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar | 398 | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Butter | 734 | 0.5 | 82.5 | 0.8 |
| Flour | 325 | 12 | 1 | 67 |
| Eggs | 157 | 12.7 | 10.9 | 0.7 |
| Wheat flour | 325 | 12 | 1 | 67 |
The cookies can be given absolutely any shape: rounds, diamonds, hearts, tubes, strips. The dough can be shortcrust, puff, rich or cottage-cheese based. Some homemade cookie recipes are so simple that even a schoolkid could follow them. And shaping and cutting out figures with molds will be fun for kindergarten-age children.
The five fastest recipes:
| Name of the dish | Cooking time | Calories per 100g | User Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microwave cookies with milk and butter | 10 min | 396 | +4 |
| Microwaved cookies in 10 minutes | 10 min | 406 | +10 |
| Simple cookies | 15 min | 466 | +88 |
| Quick egg-yolk cookies (Dotterbusserln) | 15 min | 436 | +68 |
| Tomato brine cookies | 15 min | 407 | +79 |