14:21, 18 Jun 2024, author: Ermakova M.

Almond Shortbread Cookies "Sheep"

Name: Almond Shortbread Cookies \"Sheep\"
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: European
Ingredients: Butter - 100 grams;; Powdered sugar - 100 grams + 0.5 tsp for sprinkling;; Wheat flour - 200 grams;; Chicken egg - 1 pc;; Almond flour with skin - 20 grams (about 2 tbsp);; Cocoa powder - 1 tsp.

The idea of forming almond shortbread cookies into cute funny sheep from dough balls is the embodiment of my fantasy

Photo source: https://ru.123rf.com/profile_asmasoma

Such cookies, for the New Year 2015, the year of the Goat (Sheep) - this is a wonderful table decoration and a treat for guests, and especially for children! And sheep cookies can also be used as souvenirs for the upcoming holidays! I am sure that every child would like to receive such a sheep for the New Year! Make your friends and family delicious gifts, I am sure - they will be very pleased, and from this you will be pleased too. Let's get started! Prepare butter, powdered sugar, flour, egg, almond flour with skin, cocoa powder.

Almond Shortbread Cookies "Sheep"

Кухня: European, десерт, калории: 416, время приготовления: 01:10

Ингредиенты

Butter - 100 grams;

Powdered sugar - 100 grams + 0.5 tsp for sprinkling;

Wheat flour - 200 grams;

Chicken egg - 1 pc;

Almond flour with skin - 20 grams (about 2 tbsp);

Cocoa powder - 1 tsp.

Рецепт

1. Combine soft butter at room temperature with powdered sugar.

2. Mix the butter with the powdered sugar with a fork and break the chicken egg into the resulting mass, mix until the mass is smooth.

3. Pour regular and almond flour into the mixture of butter, powdered sugar and egg. If you are preparing the almond flour yourself, you need to heat the nuts in the oven and then grind them in a blender or coffee grinder.

4. Knead the dough with a fork, quickly gather it into a lump with your hand, divide it into two parts, 2/3 and 1/3. Mix cocoa powder into the smaller part. Wrap both the light and dark dough separately in film or a bag and keep in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.

5. Then take out the dough and start shaping the sheep. To make it easier for you to understand how to mold them, pay attention to the photo: make balls from the light dough (pinch off a little dough from the lump with your fingers and roll the balls with your palms) and use them to decorate the body of the sheep. And from the cocoa dough, mold the head, ears and legs, use a toothpick to make eyes and grooves on the ears and hooves. There will be 5 sheep in total, which in finished form will be the size of a palm - one such sheep per person is quite enough

6. Bake the cookies in the oven for 15 minutes, temperature 180 degrees. The light balls will spread a little, come together in one fur coat, the sheep will become fluffier and plumper. Sprinkle them (the light part) with powder when the cookies cool down.

7. That's it - cute sheep are ready to give you a holiday and make the New Year unforgettable!

8. Enjoy your meal!!!