So, Schäfchenkekse...

[wiseheart]

I've promised a photo and a recipe, haven't I? And since I'm back on my trusted old (and I mean really old) desktop PC, I thought we should celebrate the event properly.

So, here's the photo:



And here is the recipe. It's really very simple.

Ingredients:
150 gr white flour
100 gr butter or margarine
50 gr white sugar
1 eggyolk

grated lemon peel or vanilla extract, if you like it

For the decoration:
Almond halves
Chocolate drops
Coloured sugar pearls
White chocolate

How to make it:

* Preheat oven to 200°C
* Mix all ingredients well
* Let the dough chill in the fridge for 30 minutes
* Roll out the dough 3 mm thin; cut out an equal number of small and larger circles for head and body; put the smaller circles on the larger ones like on the picture (I glued them together with eggwhite, but it isn't strictly necessary)
* Cover baking thin with baking papaer and lay the lambs onto it; stick the almond halves to the heads for ears; make eyes from the chocolate drops and mouths from the red sugar pearls.
* Bake them roughly 10 minutes, depending on your oven.
* In the meantime, melt the white chocolate over boiling water.
* Let the biscuits cool a bit and then decorate them with the white chocolate.

The original recipe asks for 250 grams of icing sugar mixed with the remaining eggwhite and using it for decoration, but I don't like it; it's stone hard within the day and way too sweet. So I used white chocolate.

Comments

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Gosh those are cute! they'd be perfect for Easter. How do they taste? Most of the flavor must come from the decoration.

The PC may be old, but it seems to be doing the job.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I used a few drops of vanilla extract, so they have a light vanilla flavour, but next time I might use grated lemon peals to make them taste fresher. This way, they are a bit sweet, but not overly so. Your general, run-of-the-mill Mürbeplätzchen halt.

They are very easy to make. I spent the most time with cutting the almonds in halves and picking out the red Zuckerstreusel pieces for the mouths.

[sammydragoncat]

They are adorable!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

They are, aren't they? And so easy to make!