Indulge in the tantalizing flavors of Austrian Raspberry-Blueberry Shortbread, a delectable treat that harmonizes the vibrant tartness of raspberries and the sweet juiciness of blueberries, encased in a buttery, crumbly shortbread crust. This delightful confection embodies the essence of Austrian baking, blending traditional techniques with a burst of fruity delight. Our comprehensive guide presents two enticing variations of this classic recipe, catering to diverse preferences and skill levels.
The first recipe, "Easy Austrian Raspberry-Blueberry Shortbread," is a beginner-friendly delight that yields tender shortbread cookies adorned with a vibrant raspberry-blueberry compote. With step-by-step instructions and readily available ingredients, this recipe ensures a hassle-free baking experience.
For those seeking a more elaborate indulgence, the "Austrian Raspberry-Blueberry Shortbread Bars" offer a sophisticated twist. Layers of buttery shortbread, luscious raspberry jam, and velvety blueberry cream cheese filling create a symphony of flavors and textures. Detailed instructions and helpful tips guide you through the process of crafting this exquisite dessert.
Both recipes promise a delightful culinary journey, offering a taste of Austrian tradition and a burst of fruity goodness. Whether you're a seasoned baker or a novice in the kitchen, these Austrian Raspberry-Blueberry Shortbread variations will undoubtedly captivate your taste buds and leave you craving more.
RASPBERRY SHORTBREAD
The most amazing shortbread cookies I have ever made!!! The secret is the grated, frozen dough - and the raspberry filling really sends it over the top.
Provided by evelynathens
Categories Bar Cookie
Time 55m
Yield 12-16 bars or wedges
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- In a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or using a hand mixer), cream the butter until soft and fluffy.
- Add the egg yolks and mix well.
- In a medium bowl, stir together the granulated sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Add to the butter/egg yolk mixture and mix just until incorporated and the dough starts to come together.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured work surface and form into 2 balls.
- Wrap each ball in plastic wrap and freeze at least 2 hours or overnight, or for as long as a month.
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Remove 1 ball of dough from the freezer and coarsely grate the frozen dough into the bottom of a 9 by 13 inch baking pan or a 10 inch tart pan with a removable bottom.
- Make sure the surface is covered evenly with shreds of dough; gently press down on dough to compact slightly.
- With a spoon or spatula, spread the jam over the surface, to within 1/2-inch of the edge all the way around.
- Remove the remaining dough from the freezer and coarsely grate it over the entire surface.
- Bake until light golden brown, 30 to 40 minutes.
- As soon as the shortbread comes out of the oven, dust with confectioners sugar.
- Cool on a wire rack, then cut in the pan with a serrated knife.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 662.3, Fat 32.5, SaturatedFat 20, Cholesterol 136.7, Sodium 391.3, Carbohydrate 88.9, Fiber 1.4, Sugar 51.2, Protein 5.5
BLUEBERRY SHORTBREAD BARS
You can use any summer fruit in these bars, as long as you don't use too much and it's not too wet. I hope you give this a try soon. Enjoy!
Provided by Chef John
Categories Desserts Fruit Dessert Recipes Blueberry Dessert Recipes
Time 1h
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Place butter cubes in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- Whisk together flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder in a large bowl. Sprinkle in Chinese five-spice powder.
- Cut in frozen butter using a pastry cutter until the butter pieces are about the size of peas. Mix in egg yolk and continue cutting in until thoroughly combined. Drizzle in ice water and stir to combine. The dough should just come together when pinched between your fingers.
- Pour about 3/4 of the crumb mixture into an ungreased 9x9-inch baking dish. Press the mixture down firmly using the back of a spoon. Spread blueberries in one layer and sprinkle with remaining crumbly dough.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the top is golden and sides are crisp and browned, 30 to 35 minutes. Cool completely before serving.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 166.7 calories, Carbohydrate 21.7 g, Cholesterol 37.4 mg, Fat 8.2 g, Fiber 0.6 g, Protein 2 g, SaturatedFat 5 g, Sodium 162.6 mg, Sugar 9.3 g
AUSTRIAN RASPBERRY SHORTBREAD
One of my favorite flavors is raspberry yum! Rich delicious cookies! *times don't reflect freezing time.*
Provided by Midwest Maven
Categories Bar Cookie
Time 50m
Yield 16 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Cream the butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer until soft and fluffy.
- Add the egg yolks and mix well.
- In a another bowl mix the sugar, flour, baking powder and salt together.
- Add the dry ingredients to the butter/egg mixture and mix until just blended and the dough starts to come together.
- Turn out the dough onto a floured work surface and form into 2 balls.
- Wrap each ball in plastic wrap and freeze at least 2 hours or overnight.
- Heat your oven to 350 degrees F.
- Remove one ball of dough from the freezer and coarsely grate it into the bottom of a 9x13 inch pan. Make sure the surface is covered evenly with shreds of dough.
- With the back of a spoon or flexible spatula spread the jam over top, to within 1/2 inch of the edge all the way around.
- Remove the remaining dough ball from the freezer and coarsely grate it over the entire surface.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes or until light golden brown.
- Dust with the powdered sugar as soon as it comes out of the oven.
- Cool on a wire rack and then cut in the pan with a serrated knife.
LYDIA'S AUSTRIAN RASPBERRY SHORTBREAD
Provided by Gale Gand
Categories Cookies Dessert Bake Fall Winter Kidney Friendly Vegetarian Pescatarian Peanut Free Tree Nut Free Soy Free Kosher
Yield Makes 12 to 16 large bars
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Cream the butter in a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or using a hand mixer) until soft and fluffy. Add the egg yolks and mix well.
- Mix the granulated sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt together. Add to the butter and egg yolk mixture and mix just until incorporated and the dough starts to come together. Turn the dough out onto a floured work surface and form into two balls. Wrap each ball in plastic wrap and freeze at least 2 hours or overnight (or as long as a month, if you like).
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Remove one ball of dough from the freezer and coarsely grate it by hand or with the grating disk in a food processor into the bottom of a 9x13-inch baking pan or a 10-inch tart pan with a removable bottom. Make sure the surface is covered evenly with shreds of dough.
- With the back of a spoon or a flexible spatula, spread the jam over the surface, to within 1/2 inch of the edge all the way around. Remove the remaining dough from the freezer and coarsely grate it over the entire surface.
- Bake until lightly golden brown, 30 to 40 minutes. As soon as the shortbread comes out of the oven, dust with confectioners' sugar. Cool on a wire rack, then cut in the pan with a serrated knife.
LYDIA'S AUSTRIAN RASPBERRY SHORTBREAD
Steps:
- In a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or using a hand mixer), cream the butter until soft and fluffy. Add the egg yolks and mix well.
- In a medium bowl, stir together the granulated sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt. Add to the butter/egg yolk mixture and mix just until incorporated and the dough starts to come together. Turn the dough out onto a floured work surface and form into 2 balls. Wrap each ball in plastic wrap and freeze at least 2 hours or overnight, or as long as a month.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Remove 1 ball of dough from the freezer and coarsely grate the frozen dough into the bottom of a 9 by 12-inch baking pan or a 10-inch tart pan with a removable bottom. Make sure the surface is covered evenly with shreds of dough. With a spoon or spatula, spread the jam over the surface, to within 1/2-inch of the edge all the way around. Remove the remaining dough from the freezer and coarsely grate it over the entire surface. Bake until light golden brown, 30 to 40 minutes. As soon as the shortbread comes out of the oven, dust with confectioners' sugar. Cool on a wire rack, then cut in the pan with a serrated knife.
AUSTRIAN RASPBERRY/BLUEBERRY SHORTBREAD
I actually first saw their Austrian Shortbread recipe years ago in Gourmet Magazine. I was intrigued with the interesting yet simple technique involved in achieving an extremely light textured shortbread (see recipe). I originally made it just as the recipe specifies layering raspberry jam between the two layers, but recently decided to try a less sweet and simpler version, using fresh fruit mixed with a bit of sugar, flour and lemon. Both versions are delicious but with fresh fruit so abundant and beautiful at the moment, I opted for this blueberry/raspberry rendition today...and no one seemed to complain!!
Provided by The Cafe Sucre Fari
Categories Dessert
Time 1h10m
Yield 18 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Cream the butter in a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or using a hand mixer) until soft and fluffy. Add the egg yolks and vanilla and mix well.
- Mix the granulated sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt together. Add to the butter and egg yolk mixture and mix just until incorporated and the dough starts to come together. Turn the dough out onto a floured work surface and form into two balls. Wrap each ball in plastic wrap and freeze at least 2 hours or overnight (or as long as a month, if you like).
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 8x8 or 9x9 square baking pan or a 10-inch tart pan with removable bottom. (I use Baker's Joy spray).
- Remove one ball of dough from the freezer and coarsely grate it by hand or with the grating disk in a food processor into the bottom of the greased baking pan (or tart pan). Make sure the surface is covered evenly with shreds of dough.
- Gently mix the blueberries, raspberries and the lemon juice in a medium bowl. Mix sugar, flour, lemon zest in a small bowl until combined, then add to blueberry/raspberry mixture and mix gently with your hand to coat the berries with the flour mixture.
- Cover the bottom layer of dough with the blueberry mixture as evenly as possible, gently pressing the berries into the dough. Remove the remaining dough from the freezer and coarsely grate it over the entire surface. (I grate this second ball of dough onto a piece of plastic wrap, then sprinkle over the berries.).
- Place in oven and cover lightly with foil, bake for 20 minutes, then remove foil. Continue baking until lightly golden brown and the center no longer wiggles, about 20-30 minutes longer. Remove from oven and allow to cool.
- After the shortbread is cooled, sprinkle with powdered sugar, if desired or drizzle with lemon glaze. For lemon glaze, mix 1/2 cup powdered sugar with 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Add enough milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, to thin out to thick drizzling consistency.
- Cool on a wire rack, then cut in the pan with a serrated knife. Chilling the pan in the fridge makes it a lot easier to get clean cuts.
- Adapted from Butter Sugar Flour Eggs.
RASPBERRY SHORTBREAD.
A delicious shortbread topped with jam and coconut! From an old Country Womans Association cookbook in Australia. In imperial measures as this was well before metric arrived!
Provided by JoyfulCook
Categories Dessert
Time 1h
Yield 16-20 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Line a roasting dish with foil, leaving enough room at either end so you can immediately lift it out.
- Beat butter and half of the sugar to a cream. Add 1 beaten egg; mix well, then add the flour. Knead well and cover the base of the pan with the shortbread. It is easy to take small pieces and flatten in your hand first. Spread thinly with raspberry jam.
- Mix the remaining sugar with 1 egg, adding the coconut mix together well. Carefully add all over the top, using a fork to cover properly. Bake at 150°C (300°F) for about 30 minutes. Coconut should be nicely browned.
- Lift out the shortbread as soon as its cooked - using the extra foil on both sides of the roasting dish, place on a cutting board then cut into squares immediately and leave to cool.
- PLEASE NOTE: Don't use sweetened coconut as the sugar in it melts and the syrup from it dilutes the base.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 255.4, Fat 11.6, SaturatedFat 8.4, Cholesterol 38.5, Sodium 63.3, Carbohydrate 36.7, Fiber 1.6, Sugar 26.2, Protein 2.6
Tips:
- Use fresh raspberries and blueberries for the best flavor. If they are not available, you can use frozen berries, but thaw them completely before using.
- Be sure to drain the berries well before adding them to the batter. Otherwise, the muffins will be too wet.
- Do not overmix the batter. Overmixing will result in tough muffins.
- Bake the muffins until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Let the muffins cool completely before frosting them. This will help the frosting to set properly.
Conclusion:
These Austrian Raspberry Blueberry Shortbread Cookies are a delicious and easy-to-make treat that is perfect for any occasion. The shortbread cookies are buttery and crumbly, while the raspberry and blueberry filling is sweet and tart. These cookies are sure to be a hit with everyone who tries them!
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