This Easter cookie is cooked in a sliced way when the dough rolls into a cylinder and cut into slices. You will not need special molds. Just tint the dough yellow roll into an oval or ovoid log, cut and inward insert a long orange dough rope so that all chickens there was a beak. You can carefully cut the dough without damaging the shape, only after it freezes well in the freezer. Ready decorate cookies with chocolate mini granules – these will be eyes chickens. And draw the eggshell with royal icing. Hand out bags with colored glaze for children to decorate the shell. Good mood from the whole process to you обеспечено!By делиться с друзьями: 
Time: 4 час. Complexity: easy Quantity: 24 curly cookies Recipes used volumetric containers: one cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
- 2 and 1/4 Art. premium flour + extra for work
- 0.5 tsp baking powder
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 165 gr. butter, room temperature
- 2/3 Art. granulated sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 large egg of category CO
- Orange gel food coloring, for dough
- Yellow gel food coloring, for dough
- 450 gr powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp. l dry egg white
- Pastel gel food colors in 3 different colors, for decoration
- 48 chocolate mini granules
- Colored sprinkling (optional)
- Pastel decorative sugar (optional)
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Recipe preparation:
- Bake cookies by mixing flour in a medium-sized bowl, baking powder and salt. In a large bowl with an electric mixer on moderately high speed beat butter with sugar until getting light fluffy mass, 3-5 minutes. Then mix the vanilla and egg. Reduce the mixer speed to a minimum and add the flour mixture, mixing to just distribute the ingredients.
- Transfer 1 tbsp. l dough in a small bowl and add 1 drop orange food coloring. Stir with a spoon to it turned out a bright orange color. Add 0.5 tsp. yellow food dye in the remaining dough in a large bowl and mix on low mixer speed to make it bright yellow. Lay out both tests on a baking sheet and place, without covering, in the refrigerator for about 20 minutes to freeze.
- Roll the yellow dough into a cylinder 20 cm long, about 4 wide see Lightly press the top of the cylinder to shape it ovals or eggs on a cut. Roll a rope from orange dough 20 cm long. Give it a triangular shape, smoothing the sides (this easy to make a ruler). Put both types of dough on a baking sheet and put without covering in the freezer for about 20 minutes, so that it hardens.
- Cut longitudinally the yellow log by cutting the upper third so that it turned out on the cut 2 semicircles, one more and one less. Поmake a small log in the center of the flat side 0.3 cm deep cut. Carefully insert one of the pointed sides of the orange dough into the slot, trying not to flatten the triangle. Lay a smaller log on top and press to seal, and again form an ovoid log in a section. Put in freezer for about 1 hour to harden the dough.
- Place the grills in the upper and lower third of the oven and preheat the oven to 175 ° C. Cover 2 baking sheets with parchment.
- Cut a very sharp knife 0.5 cm. From each end of the log. Cut the cylinder into 24 cookies, each about 0.8 cm thick. Spread slices on prepared baking sheets in the distance approximately 2.5 cm apart. Bake by swapping pans in the middle of baking, until the cookies begin to darken from below, 10-12 minutes. Cool cookies on a baking sheet for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to allow it to cool completely.
- Prepare the icing by mixing sugar in a large bowl powder with dry protein. Add 5 tbsp. l water and whisk with a mixer on moderately high speed until soft glossy peaks form, if necessary, adding another 1 tbsp. l water. Cover the bowl with damp paper towel and plastic wrap until ready for use to prevent it from drying out. approximately 2 and 1/4 Art.
- When you are ready to decorate cookies, shift about 0.5 tbsp. glaze in a sealed plastic bag and cut a small hole in the corner. Squeeze out the icing, drawing thin the border around the bottom half of each cookie and the cracked outline eggshell approximately in the middle of the cookie. Let it freeze in for a few minutes.
- Dilute the remaining glaze with a few drops of water until syrup consistency. Transfer about 1 tbsp. liquid glaze in sealed plastic bag. Remaining liquid glaze put in 3 small bowls and color each with pastel food coloring. Put each color in a separate sealed bag.
- Cut the corner of the bag with white icing and deposit it by filling the space inside the eggshell. Spread the icing small spatula or back of the spoon. With white glaze attach 2 chocolate granules to each liver to the eyes turned out.
- Cut the corner of each bag with tinted icing and decorate different colors of the shell. Sprinkle with decorative sugar if desired or colored sprinkles. Wait until the glaze hardens completely. about 30 minutes and serve.
