Recipe: Sheep Melt-in-Mouth German Cookies

Every year, I will receive suggestions from various people to make some desserts for CNY or bake some cookies. This year, I decided to try a new melt-in-mouth German cookies recipe from smallsmallbaker.blogspot.sg. It is so cute that I think no one can resist it!

Here's how it looks like:

Little Sheep Cookies Melts (or Melt-In-Your-Mouth) was made for this lunar new year! Wishing everyone a great year ahead! 新年快樂，羊年行大運！ #weecancook

A photo posted by Wee Liang (@jar.wee) on Feb 20, 2015 at 7:46am PST

I am glad that it has been pretty well received! Okay, maybe there are some comments that the cookies are a little dry or too soft, but I guess that is what Melt-in-Mouth cookies are. Right?

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Sheep Melt-in-Mouth German cookies

Prep time: 10-20 mins
Cook time: 15 mins (per tray)

Ingredients

• 125g butter, soften (room temperature)
• 40g icing sugar, sifted
• 125g potato starch, sifted
• 80g plain flour, sifted

For decorations

• Chocolate chips (for horn)
• Chocolate rice (for eyes)

Method:

1. Beat butter and icing sugar till fluffy and lighter in colour.
2. Sift in potato starch and plain flour, mix to form a soft dough. 
3. Divide the dough into two portions, wrap and chill for at least 15 minutes.
4. Roll the body of the sheep 8g each. Roll two smaller balls and place on the head (just estimate roughly same size or bigger than the chocolate chips). 
5. Press a line on each ball (I use back of knife). Place 2 chocolate chips as ears. Place two chocolate rice as eyes. 
6. Bake in preheated oven at 170 deg C for 15 mins, upper rack (need not bake till cookies turn brown)
7. Leave the cookies to cool before removing them from the tray.

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Note:

1. The cookies are firm on the outside but very fragile, so handle with care.
2. Lightly hit the tray against the table before removing the cookies may be a good idea for most.