Mishka cookies with a new year's eve baby bump

8 servings
30 min

Prepare all the ingredients. Buy butter with a fat content of 72% or higher. Before using, be sure to sift the flour to remove all the weeds or saturate it with oxygen. Take a small egg. Chocolate is suitable for milk or black.

Remove the butter from the fridge, but not from the freezer. It should not be very firm. Cut it into small pieces and move it to a deep whipping dish. This process can be done in a food processor or pastry if you have such a technique. I will do everything with a hand mixer, although I can with my hands.

Pour in the granulated sugar.

Whisk together the contents of the bowl until whitened and full of butter. It took me 7-8 minutes, as my technique is not very powerful (550 W). You focus on your technique. You may need more or less time to get the result you want.

Drive an egg to the whipped oil. Continue to work with the mixer until smooth. In my case, it took 3-4 minutes.

Pour in the prepared flour. Stir with a mixer until smooth. You don't need to beat for a long time, the main thing is that there are no flour lumps.

As a result, you should get sticky shortbread dough. You don't need to pour flour if you want the pastry to be crumbly

Move the dough with a spatula onto the cling film. Wrap in it and send to the refrigerator for 1-2 hours, you can leave in the refrigerator for the night. The dough will become denser.

Divide the dough into two halves for convenience. While working with one part, send the second to the refrigerator. Take two sheets of parchment. Sprinkle a little with flour. Place a piece of dough and roll between two sheets of parchment into a thin layer.

To give you a shape, we need to cut down the bear. Molds can be bought in online confectionery stores or in supermarkets in confectionery departments. To prevent the dough from sticking to the mold, dip it into the flour and cut out the figure.

Squeeze out your eyes with a skewer or other suitable item. Give each bear a nut. Fix the almonds with your hands. This will be our bump. Transfer the parchment with the blanks to a baking tray and send to a hot oven for 8-15 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. The baking time depends on the oven power. Focus on your technique. The specified time may vary up or down.

Cool the finished cookies to room temperature.

Take a slice of chocolate. Place it in a small disposable pastry bag. Dip in the boiling water several times to melt the chocolate. Cut off a small hole at the bottom and make chocolate eyes. So all the cookies "Bear with a bump" are ready.

Bears are coming to you! Have a nice tea party!