Shortcrust pastry (recipe with pictures)

The moment has come! Now is the turn of shortcrust pastry, which was the last one in my original list. Of course, it won't be the end of my pastry recipes, because those that I have already shown are basic ones and there are many other very interesting pastry recipes out there. Tradition of recipes with pictures will continue, as well as counting calories tradition.

And now a little about Shortcrust pastry. This kind of pastry is perfect for crunchy biscuits, sweet and savory pies, tarts. One of the main ingredients of shortcrust pastry is a butter or margarine,this is why is type of pastry is a not very light. Eggs, on the other hand, that often play an important role, fade into the background.

I made this pastry to make sweet biscuits called "Cigarettes"
Here they are

I made those when I was little with my father and that was very fun! So i think that children would find "making cigarettes" amusing.

To make about 750g of sweet shortcrust pastry (that is about 35 big tasty "cigarettes") you need

Sour cream 20.0% fat (50.0 grams) (there is no sour cream in original recipe, but I put little bit - it makes pastry little more soft and I like it more this way)
1 egg (60.0 grams) Flour (375.0 grams) Sugar (150.0 grams) Margarine, 60% th fat (125.0 grams) + 2 tea spoons of cinnamon + 1 tea spoon of baking powder
How to make

It is made very easily. Just mix all ingredients except flour with a spoon or mixer

Then put the flour by portions and mix the shortcrust pastry with hands. It looks like this when it's ready.

You can make many tasty and beautiful things with this pastry, something like this


If you want to make cigarette biscuits, divide the shortcrust pastry into pieces (number of pieces depends on the number of biscuits you want to get) . I got about 35 pieces.

Roll the cigarettes, put on the oven tray

And bake for about 15-20 minutes in oven. (180C)
If you don't want your shortcrust pastry to be sweet - don't put the sugar.