Mushroom cookies

Many confectionery products not only have excellent taste qualities, but also have a very attractive appearance. That is why such treats are customary not only to eat directly with drinks, but also to use them as an excellent decoration of ready-made sweet dishes.

Mushroom cookies combine taste and attractiveness, which is why they have been loved by many people for more than a decade. Remember, for example, what many caring mothers prepared for their children in kindergarten for the holidays? Of course, cookies are mushroom or nuts, because they are so tasty and also pleasing to the eye.

Today, mushroom cookies can be purchased without any problems in the nearest store in the department with sweets and flour products, as well as cooking. However, there are still quite a few true connoisseurs of home cooking who do not stop pampering their loved ones with self-made cookies of mushroom or other insanely delicious treats.

Well, who can resist these wonderful mushroom-shaped cookies. . . Crumbly pastry, sweet white glaze with crispy poppy grains and chocolate hats! Sometimes, with just one look at this delicacy, appetite wakes up and a good mood appears. Agree, mushroom cookies are so beautiful that it often becomes a pity to eat them.

Meanwhile, making mushroom cookies at home is not particularly difficult - unless for people who have a distant relationship to the pastry business. The main ingredients, due to which the calorie content of mushroom cookies becomes quite high, are products with considerable nutritional value. For example, wheat flour, sour cream, butter, granulated sugar, chicken eggs and slaked baking soda are used for dough.

In addition, for an attractive and appetising appearance, as well as greater similarity with real gifts of nature, ready-made mushroom cookies need design. For these purposes, egg white, dark chocolate, poppy and white confectionery glaze are usually used.

So, a rather dense sweet mass is kneaded from the dough products, thanks to the elastic consistency of which, working with the dough is a pleasure. In the presence of a special form, the workpieces of the mushroom halves are baked, which are subsequently glued together with whipped protein or even boiled condensed milk.

Almost-finished mushroom cookies are dipped in a white glaze with a leg, and then in a poppy, thereby imitating the soil in which mushrooms grow in nature. Hats are wrapped in melted chocolate, so the result is mushroom cookies, which, if you don't really peek, are difficult to distinguish from real fresh mushrooms. The calorie content of the mushroom biscuits is approximately 367 kcal per hundred grams of finished product.