Shakar-Lokum
2 hours 30 min. Recipe Yield:
55-60 pcs Difficulty:
Simple recipe
Shakar-lokum is a recipe of Azerbaijani cuisine, shortbread cookies with cognac, based not on sugar, but on powdered sugar. Instead of cognac, you can pour vodka into the dough. The beauty of the liver is given by small cracks that appear during baking. To make shakar lokum even more beautiful and look like flowers, you can apply a little trick. Roll the dough into small balls, let them stand for 5 minutes, during which time the dough will become a little weathered, and then flatten. The edges of the dough will tear, giving the cookie the shape of a flower.
Recipe Ingredients
Cooking Recipe
To cook the Azerbaijani recipe shakar-lokum, grind the yolk with powdered sugar until white. Also grind the butter to white and combine with the pounded yolks. Dilute saffron in cognac and pour into yolks with butter. Mix everything well and add flour in parts.
Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead. Then wrap the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 7-10 minutes.
Roll the balls with a diameter of 2.5-3 cm from the prepared dough, press lightly and put on a baking sheet. Bake shakar-lokum at 180°С (355°F) for 10 minutes.