Milk Cookies, GOST Recipe - Just Like Childhood

Milk cookies, just like in childhood - yes, that exact flavor. A GOST recipe, quite popular around cooking sites: a great snack for school or breakfast. Comes together quickly and cheaply - I recommend baking these and judging for yourself!

Milk Cookies, GOST Recipe

Those very milk cookies from childhood, made to the classic GOST recipe: buttery, milk-enriched dough with a golden egg-wash finish.

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Prep Time 25 minutes mins

Cook Time 12 minutes mins

Total Time 37 minutes mins

Servings: 12 cookies

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

  

• 400 g flour plus a little for dusting
• 95 g butter
• 200 g sugar
• 75 ml milk
• 1 egg half in the dough, half for brushing
• 2 g baking soda
• 4 g baking powder
• 5 g vanilla sugar
• 0.5 tsp lemon juice for the baking soda

Method

 

1. Beat the butter with the sugar. Pour in the milk and half of the beaten egg (the other half is for brushing).
2. Add the baking soda and baking powder, activated with the lemon juice. Gradually adding the flour, knead the dough.
3. Turn the dough out onto a floured counter and roll into a sheet 5 mm thick. Cut out cookies about 8 cm across.
4. Transfer the cookies to a parchment-lined baking sheet and brush the tops with the remaining egg.
5. Bake in a preheated 200°C oven for 10-12 minutes. Let the finished cookies cool on a rack - and enjoy!