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

[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.