Cookie Piglets

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Transfer the oil at room temperature to a deep bowl and cut it into medium-sized cubes with a knife. Butter should be taken of good quality and it is better not to replace it with margarine or spread. A truly delicious cookie will be made only from real butter.

2. Step 2:

   

   Add sugar to the butter, mix everything well and beat a little with a fork. The mass should become homogeneous and a little lush. Instead of sugar, you can use powdered sugar, bought in a store or prepared in a coffee grinder from ordinary sugar. Cookies will not come out very sweet, so you can increase the amount of sugar to your liking, but only not much so as not to break the proportions of the dough.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add two eggs and vanilla or vanilla sugar, mix intensively until a homogeneous gruel is obtained. If you add some yolks, then baking powder is not needed - this is the secret of the shortbread dough.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add flour mixed with salt and baking powder. Knead a thick shortbread dough. We form a bun from it, cover it with an ordinary small bag or food wrap and leave it to rest for 15 minutes in a cool place. The dough turns out to be pliable, it is good to work with it.

6. Step 5:

   

   We spread the rested dough on a silicone mat or other work surface, roll it out into a rectangular layer 2-3 millimeters thick. The thinner the dough, the crispier the cookies will turn out. We take a glass, a shot glass or a salad ring of the appropriate size and cut out the circles. I used a plastic glass with a diameter of 5 cm. I came out with small patches.

7. Step 6:

   

   Next, we cut out our nostrils for our piglets - I did it with a pen cap.

8. Step 7:

   

   We spread the prepared cookies on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper, which does not need to be greased with anything.

9. Step 8:

   

   Bake the piglets in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees for a very short time - about 8-10 minutes.