Colourful zoo animals

Name: Colourful zoo animals
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 42
Ingredients: 250 g Flour; 100 g Sugar; 1 package Vanillin sugar; 1 pinch Salt; 7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon; 1 egg (size M); 125 g cold butter; 125 g Icing sugar; 2-3 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice; 7-10 Tbsp colourful food colouring; 7-10 Tbsp Sweets; 7-10 Tbsp flourish of lettering; 7-10 Tbsp Flour; baking paper

AUTHOR
Harley Romero

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
90 mins

TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 42

250 g Flour
100 g Sugar
1 package Vanillin sugar
1 pinch Salt
7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon
1 egg (size M)
125 g cold butter
125 g Icing sugar
2-3 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice
7-10 Tbsp colourful food colouring
7-10 Tbsp Sweets
7-10 Tbsp flourish of lettering
7-10 Tbsp Flour
baking paper

Directions

1
For the dough, put flour, sugar, vanillin sugar, salt, lemon zest, egg and butter in flakes in a mixing bowl. Knead with the dough hook of the hand mixer. Then work into a smooth dough with floured hands. Cover the dough and chill for about 30 minutes. Roll out the dough on a floured work surface and cut out various animals (e.g. lions, elephants, giraffes and camels).
2
Place on three baking trays lined with baking paper. Bake the trays one after the other in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for about 10 minutes. Remove carefully from the baking tray and let it cool down on a cake rack. Pass icing sugar through a sieve and mix with lemon juice to a smooth glaze. Colour with colourful food colouring. Decorate animals with icing, sweets and sugar writing