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75g softened butter
75g caster sugar
½ free-range organic egg (room temp.)
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
125g Zeeland flour + extra
¼ teaspoon baking powder
fondant icing+icing sugar, to dust
Glaze
150g icing sugar
3 drops of lemon juice
1-2 tablespoons water
food colouring
Animal Day is not just about pets, for us it is about all animals on earth. It is important that you care about all animals and try to ensure that they have a good, healthy life. That is also important for us, then we stay healthy too.
Moreover, our monsters love our animal of today: the Snail! That is why we are reading a very funny book to the little monsters, about Escargot the Snail, and today we are baking snail cookies to go on the side, yummy! For snail biscuits you do need a snail cookie cutter!
How to make snail cookies
Place butter and sugar in the mixer.
Mix until both are well combined and creamy.
Stir the baking powder into the flour.
Beat the egg until loose and weigh 1/4 beaten egg
Add egg and vanilla to the mixer.
Beat it together untilall is well combined.
Scrape the sides of the bowl clean and fold it in.
Sift the flour into the butter mixture in 3 parts and fold it in.
Knead the dough briefly.
Wrap the dough neatly.
Let the dough cool in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
Knead the dough and roll it to 1 cm thickness.
Cut the snails out of the dough, and use both sides.
Cover and let them cool for another 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 170°C and slide the baking tray with the biscuits in the middle of the oven
Bake the biscuits for app. 12-15 minutes.
Allow them to cool on the tray first.
Then completely on a wire rack.
While the sails are cooling completely you stir a glaze, cut out fondant icing or both
Cut snails out of fondant icing.
Cut off the shells.
Stick the snails on the biscuits.
Stir a white glaze.
Divide the glaze over 3 bowls and stir in the colour you like, we choose yellow, orange and green
Spoon a full teaspoon of icing the snail house and push it gently to the sides, let dry.
Pipe a spiral on the snail house and let the icing set properly.
If these aren't the cutetest snails and you have permission to eat them, from Escargot!
Happy National Animal Day, have fun!