It's quite a common practice for home-bakers to bake cow or bull design butter cookies to usher the Lunar Year of Ox (2021). I joined the fun after seeing so many cute and wonderful cow or bull design butter cookies shared by my FB and IG friends. However, this is the most time consuming design I have done to date - just 17 cookies took me more than two hours to handle. Owing to my inconsistency, all the cookies have different expressions π
Yield: 17 x 3⌀cm cookies
Ingredients
50g unsalted butter, softened
20g icing sugar
a little salt
48g Plain flour plus/plain flour
38g potato starch
4g milk powder
some bamboo charcoal powder
some cocoa powder
red food dye
some black sesame seeds as eyes
Directions
1. Mix plain flour plus, potato starch, milk powder in a small bowl. Sieve before use.
Take about 29g of the original dough to mix with a little bamboo charcoal powder to become the black dough.
Take about 10g of original dough to mix with a little red food dye to become the pink dough.
Take about 3g of original dough to mix with a little cocoa powder to become the brown dough.
Let the dough rest for about 15 minutes before shaping.
4. Transfer the remaining original dough to a small sandwich bag. Roll into a flat dough.
Break the black dough in a small bowl into small crumbs using a fork.
Cut the plastic bag to expose the original dough. Spread about 80% of the black dough crumb over the top of the original dough. Keep the remaining 20% black dough for shaping the ears later.
Does german butter cookies taste like butter cookies? I have tried once many years ago and it turned out tasteless. Maybe I did not do it well
ReplyDeleteHi Honey Bee, German cookies tasted like butter cookies with a melt-in-mouth soft texture. For cookies to smell and taste nice, the pastry has to be baked till the base becomes caramelised. Hope you’ll like German cookies one day π
DeleteThey look lovely! so much effort!
ReplyDeleteThank you for appreciating my efforts πππ
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