Shortbread bagels with cherries: a recipe for a successful dough without yeast and milk

Bagels are delicious homemade pastries that can be made with various fillings: poppy seeds, cherries, apples, jam, or chocolate, as well as different doughs: yeast, puff pastry, phyllo, or custard.

Chef Mykola Lyulko (mykola_lyulko) shared a recipe for homemade shortbread bagels with cherry filling on his Instagram page.

Ingredients:

• butter 82% - 250 g
• sour cream 30% - 250 g
• salt - 6 g
• egg yolks - 3 pcs
• baking powder - 18 g
• vanilla - 2 g
• powdered sugar - 200 g
• sugar - 150 g
• flour - 600 g
• frozen cherries - 750 g

Method of preparation:

1. To prepare the dough, mix the dry ingredients: flour, salt, baking powder, vanilla, sugar. Stir and immediately add soft butter, sour cream, and egg yolks. Knead a homogeneous dough.

2. Divide the dough into 5-6 pieces, cover with plastic wrap, and leave in the refrigerator for 30-60 minutes.

3. Meanwhile, defrost the cherries, or if using fresh ones, wash and peel them.

4. Roll the chilled dough into a circle, divide it into 8-12 pieces.

5. Form bagels with the filling.

6. Bake at 180 degrees for 15-25 minutes. Sprinkle them with powdered sugar when hot. Enjoy!