Scherzkekse

These cookies are a winner. Big laughs guaranteed when making and eating them as well as giving them away as a present. I adjusted the recipe a little bit and reduced the sugar. The dough is easy to cut out for children and the cookies are crunchy and delicious.

Scherzkekse
or Funny Face Cookies

ingredients

500g all purpose flour (german 550 wheat flour)
(I often like to use 1050 wheat flour or 630 spelt flour as well)

225g butter (room temperature)
350g sugar
1tsp Vanilla extract or scraped out seeds of one vanilla pod
2 eggs

1 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp salt

Chocolate glaze (bittersweet, white, milk chocolate) and some poppy seeds for the beards

steps

Mix flour, baking powder and salt together in a mixing bowl.
In another bowl, whip your soft butter, sugar and vanilla until it light and fluffy. Add the eggs one by one and mix well.
Add the flour mixture and now use the dough hook to incorporate the flour.
Form the dough into a ball, wrap in foil and leave in the fridge for about one hour.
Roll out dough with a rolling pin and some flour. Cut out small circles (mine were 5mm thick an about 4cm big but you can also make them as big as you like). With a tooth pick, scratch two eyes, a nose and a mouth into the cookie dough.

Bake at 175 ° C for about 8-12 minutes (after desired tinting).

Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie and add some hair and moustaches to your cookies. The poppyseeds as beards look hilarious.