Flaky Beer Cookies

Flaky beer cookies are a budget-friendly recipe with just six ingredients, where light beer combined with two kinds of fat gives a crisp, flaky shortbread texture. The dough chills for an hour, then gets rolled out thin, sprinkled with sugar, and baked for 15 minutes. Highly recommended with tea.

Flaky Beer Cookies

Crisp, flaky shortbread cookies made with light beer, butter, and vegetable oil.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Chilling 1 hour hr

Total Time 1 hour hr 30 minutes mins

Servings: 30 cookies

Course: Cookies

Cuisine: Home cooking

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

  

• 200 g flour
• 50 g butter
• 50 g vegetable oil
• 50 ml light beer
• salt pinch
• 2 tbsp sugar

Method

 

1. Melt the butter in a bowl, add the vegetable oil, beer, salt, and sugar. Stir, then add the flour in parts and knead into a dough.
   
2. Gather the dough into a ball and chill in the fridge for one hour. Then roll it out into a thin sheet, sprinkle with sugar if you like, and cut into pieces.
   
3. Arrange the cookies on a baking tray and bake for 15 minutes at 180-200°C.
   
4. Let the finished cookies cool. Enjoy!
   

Tips

• Use light beer: dark beer gives a noticeable bitterness.
• The hour in the fridge is essential - cold dough rolls out thinner and the cookies come out flakier.