Sour cream cookies with nuts and raisins
5 servings
90 minutes
Sour cream cookies with nuts and raisins are a cozy treat from Russian home cooking. Its history traces back to the traditions of using sour cream in baking, creating a soft, tender texture with a slight tanginess. By adding aromatic vanilla, nuts, and sweet raisins to the dough, an amazing combination of flavors emerges: creamy tenderness, nutty crunch, and fruity sweetness. These cookies are perfect with tea or coffee, and their roll shape makes them convenient for serving. It's important to follow the preparation steps—chilling the dough gives the products ideal density while whipped egg whites create airiness. Baked to a golden color, they fill the home with warmth and coziness. Such cookies are not just a sweet treat but a piece of home comfort that evokes pleasant memories and creates a special mood.
1
Pour flour into a bowl and grate cold, hard butter into it.
- Wheat flour: 2 glasss
- Butter: 200 g
2
Mix baking soda with sour cream and pour it into a bowl with flour and butter.
- Baking soda: 0.5 teaspoon
- Sour cream: 200 g
3
Add 3 yolks (put the whites in the fridge).
- Chicken egg: 3 pieces
4
Add vanillin.
- Vanillin: pinch
5
Mix the entire mass by hand until it stops sticking (otherwise, add a little more flour).
- Wheat flour: 2 glasss
6
Divide the dough into 3 parts, roll into balls, and place in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
7
At this time, prepare the filling. Take the egg whites, beat them until white, add sugar, beat again, and place in the refrigerator.
- Chicken egg: 3 pieces
- Sugar: 2 glasss
8
Take crushed nuts and raisins, mix them.
- Crushed walnuts: 250 g
- Seedless raisins: 40 g
9
Take a ball of dough, roll it out. Spread 1/3 of the white mass on the dough, then evenly sprinkle 1/3 of the nuts with raisins on top (also spreading evenly, slightly not reaching the edges of the rolled-out dough).
10
Wrap into a roll. Cut like bread, and place the cut pieces on a baking sheet.
11
Do the same with the second and third dough balls.
12
Bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees.
