A few weeks ago I received a surprise Lékué: tin tuc24h Animal puzzle kit cookie. It is a kit desig

A few weeks ago I received a surprise Lékué: tin tuc24h Animal puzzle kit cookie. It is a kit designed for children, containing a cookie cutter mold (rigid and shaped puzzle) and a template or a poster with a landscape of nature, which serves as a gaming platform.
With this mold can produce up to 15 animal crackers in a baked one. It's a good opportunity to introduce the smallest tin tuc24h in the kitchen and make cooking fun. Once baked cookies, will be the protagonists of their game, being able to imagine a different story in each baked recreate habitat coloring it or revive tin tuc24h comfortable with custom cookies.
Last week we started to work with my young daughter, and premiered this mold with which we made these cookies so rich. I can assure tin tuc24h you that she's cut with cutter, even deeded with great care in the baking without any problem. Throughout the process had a smile on from ear to ear as he found a super easy and loved having participated in the kitchen.
The recipe for the mass of these cookies is a recipe adapted to my taste, tin tuc24h and as you said the title, these cookies can be enjoyed as is the snack time with a glass of milk or tea, or can decorate with royal icing, fondant or chocolate (if dough is working correctly you can get a smooth, flat cookies, perfect for decoration). At this point I think you I can not bring anything new about butter cookies to decorate, as there are many bloggers on the net that discuss these cookies and each brings its particular recipe, although all similar and with varying ingredients very little.
Only I can say that with my recipe crispy and not doughy biscuits are achieved thanks to the amount and type of fat they carry. You will see that the recipe is made with butter and Crisco (it is an ingredient that today can be easily tin tuc24h achieved, for example in supermarkets veden the English tin tuc24h Court). It is a vegetable fat partly replacing butter in the recipe and for my taste softens much cookie dough and gives them the crunch that I love.
Even then influence many things if they are to maintain crisp or be converted into soft, but not mushy. Influences as we will retain and treatment tin tuc24h will be given when decorating, if that decorate.
Sieve, two rods electric mixer or food processor, food scale, roll, greaseproof paper, cookie cutters (I cookie cutter Animal tin tuc24h puzzle Lékué) and baking trays.
In a bowl sift flour. Book. Cream butter and Crisco along with the icing sugar until the mixture is smooth and creamy, but not fluffy. If we beat too much butter or eggs were created as bubbles in the dough and baking time is we can snort (inflate) cookies. And instead of a smooth, flat cookie would get a rough and bufadas cookies, unfit to decorate. Add the egg yolk and vanilla (the chosen essence) and beat with mixer until well blended (without going to the batter). Add the flour gradually and continue beating on medium speed until all the dough has integrated well and has been uniform. If we have robot we can add the flour and knead the dough by hand. If we see that the dough has been too dry we will add a splash of milk (2-3 tablespoons). This depends on the flour and the moisture in the atmosphere. Make a ball with the dough and divide it into three equal portions. Take a portion of dough and stretch it on two sheets of paper sheet with the aid of a roller with interchangeable out the biscuits rings with the same thickness. If you do not have this type of roller at home we can help with guides of wood. My cookies have a thickness of 5 mm, this would be for me the perfect thickness of these cookies. Once stretched dough, do the same with the other two portions and leave in the fridge overnight or for at least 4-5 hours. Thus butter (fat) will have hardened, the mass will have settled and it will be easier to cut the cookies with cutters (or